Within the next several months, Drilshop will be able to offer Internet Service Provider services to the drilling population of the world. This service will be ready, once the software becomes available. Thanks for your inquiry.
As companies name are registered in the real world for protection and for reasons of a recognition. Companies register Domain in the cyber world for the same reasons. Today, there is estimated 30,000 domain are registered each day. To register a domain for your company is not a real drawn out affair. But, quite simple and requires the normal information, such as filling out a credit card application. The cost to register a domain, is $100 US for two years. After the two year period the fee is $50 US per year and payable each year. The registration fee is invoiced directly from Internic and must be paid directly to them.
Rather than going to the expense of putting your own server online. Costing thousands of dollars to setup and run each month. Another opportunity is open to the small business, a virtual server. Virtual servers are just a part of a large, most likely mainframe computer with lots of disk space. That is rented out to small business and users. With a registered domain name, the webmaster can easy setup your virtual server as if you had a large computer online yourself. You need a registered domain name to setup a virtual server. Your URL would be something like this, http://www.yourcompanyname.com.
Just because you don't want to setup a virtual server and a domain name right at this moment. Doesn't stop you from advertising on the World Wide Web. Drilshop can set your company up with space under the Drilshop domain. Your URL would be http://www.drilshop.com/yourcompanyname. This is a perfect and reasonable way for testing the Web on the commercial level. A domain can always be registered later.
Web Pages is needed to display your company's products and company's information. Web Pages are made up using hypertext markup language. Unless, you spend the time to learn the language, you will require a web page designer to do the pages for you. Drilshop can make the pages for you at a reasonable cost.
The next step is to have your site found by interested viewers. The only way this can happen is by indexing your site URL into the many search engines and directories available on the Web. Drilshop will index your site into over 300 search engines and directories. Supply a log for your records of all search engines and directories your site has been index into.
Like in everything else, sites need to be looked after and maintenance carried out on some kind of regular intervals. As television commercials get shale, so do pages. Not only for the public but for the search engines crawler also. Search engines have these so called crawlers which visits site and check to up date their own database. If pages have not been changed, they might even be dropped from the database. Slight changes has to be made, both external and internal to please the crawlers and the public. This takes some time, therefore Drilshop can do your site maintenance for you.
With and from the collection of email address we have on our database. We then can forward a simple but direct email to announce your site. To all drillers, drilling companies, technical and professional people and companies and drill and drilling equipment manufacturers and suppliers. The total email address we have now is well over four hundred with more being add each day. From a master list, we can announce your site to millions of people from the general public.
Like the Site Marketing plan, a new or special product can be announce to the drilling community by using the email software we have. The product could be a sale item at a reduced cost. Our database has over four hundred email addresses of drill related companies and people.
Your business card or cards can be displayed in the Yellow Page section of the Drilling Directory
If you are a software programmer, and have software for the drilling community. Drilshop would be interested in advertising and selling your software. Other products which could be listed and sold are paper products, brochures, business cards and drilling books. Drop us an Email with details.