Replace Your E-mail with a Help Desk

TremenDesk Hosting Help Desk

When your running a small to medium sized business, you might realize you are getting more mail from customers and business associates than you can handle.  Sure, you could filter your e-mail and organize your incoming requests, however I have a better way to get the job done.  Have you ever thought about replacing your e-mail with a help desk?

A help desk, such as TremenDesk, offers both you and users alike a powerful, yet easy to use, customer service environment.  This way, you can handle all your support requests and business deals via the Web, rather than your e-mail client of choice. 

Here are a couple of example uses:

Give your clients and partners another way to access you.  Putting e-mail aside for now, your contacts could simply submit a new help desk ticket to your TremenDesk account to get in contact with you.

You could create a sales@yourdomain.com e-mail address for all your sales request information, then set that up to simply forward into a sales queue inside of your help desk.  This way, both your bases are covered and your giving your user the chance to submit a ticket via the Web or via e-mail.

With TremenDesk, you also get the ability to:

  • Assign or unassign tickets
  • Search tickets by any string of text (email, full name, etc) or unique ticket ID #
  • View all tickets from any user
  • Merge tickets
  • View ticket response times for any section on the desk.
  • Update ticket status as “awaiting user” or “awaiting tech”
  • View technician data to ensure quality control
  • Add an unlimited amount of private notes to ticket

So, if you are looking for a way to better manage your web site’s or your business’s e-mail, look no further than a help desk like TremenDesk.  It is simply the best tool for the job. 

Bonus: If you are a Lunarpages Business plan customer, you can get your own TremenDesk account for free.  Just contact support@lunarpages.com for details.

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Submit Your Web Site to Microsoft Bing

Want to know how you can get more information about how Microsoft’s new Bing search crawls your web sites?  You could easily submit your domain name to their webmaster tools section.  How do you do that?  Let me show you.

First, you will want to go to the webmaster tools page, and login using your MSN login information.  (Yes, even I forgot I had a Hotmail account!).

Once you login, here is what things look like:

bing webmaster tools

As you can see you can easily add your e-mail address, web site address and sitemap address.  Once you do that, you have several different ways you can verify your ownership of the web site you submit.  Much like Google’s and Yahoo!’s webmaster tools, you can embed some code, or download a file to upload to your web site. 

Once you get that done, then you should get a profile for your domain:

bing domain name profile and stats

They provide a lot of good information that will give you details on how your domain is being crawled by Bing.  You get your site status, crawl issues, backlinks, outbound links, a keyword tool and more.  I also look forward to seeing what else they add here to catch up with Google’s webmaster tools service – as it is the current leader of the pack. 

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Five FAQs to Help You Make Some Money!

affiliate_money Did you know that Lunarpages has an affiliate program?  The Lunarpages affiliate plan is a referral service where Lunarpages will reward you with $65, just for spreading the word about Lunarpages web hosting, and getting your friends to sign up. 

Many in the web development community get asked everyday where they should host, and we want to give back to you for recommending Lunarpages web hosting to others.  With that in mind, I wanted to go over five frequently asked questions that will help you start earning money a little quick with this fantastic offer.

Do I have to host with Lunarpages to be apart of the Lunarpages affiliate plan?

No, not at all.  We have affiliate program members that are and some that are not actively using one of our hosting plans.  So hosting with us is not a requirement, however – we would always be happy to have you aboard!

How much does it cost to join the Lunarpages affiliate plan?

Not a dime!  You can sign up right now, and get started referring your friends to Lunarpages today. 

I think I lost my affiliate plan user name and password, how can I get them back?

Sure, you can always visit this page to get your login information resent.  All you have to do is type in your e-mail address, and click on the “Get Lost Password” button.  Also, please remember that if you host with us, you might have had an affiliate account already created for you, however you may have a different user name and password (in comparison with your hosting plan). 

How much could somebody earn by referring a person to sign up for one of the Lunarpages dedicated hosting plans?

Many know we offer $65 for regular referrals, however not many know that we also offer referrals for dedicated hosting too!  We offer a whopping $180 per dedicated server sale, so if you know folks who may be interested, let us know and we can assist.

How do you track commissions?

Every affiliate is provided with an Affiliate Tracking URL (or link) upon signup.  This link has a cookie attached to it, which remembers your unique affiliate username. When a customer clicks your link, the cookie is stored in their browser and follows them all the way to the signup page. After they purchase hosting, your commission of $65 magically appears in your affiliate stats! This is an automatic and immediate process that tracks every single sale you make.

That should cover the basics.  If you have any other questions, please feel free to drop in an e-mail to affiliate@lunarpages.com or give us a call at 877-586-2772 x4.  We’d be more than happy to help you earn a little more of the green stuff, for sure.

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© Lunarpages Web Hosting – Also, don’t forget to follow @lunarpages on Twitter!

Five FAQs to Help You Make Some Money!

affiliate_money Did you know that Lunarpages has an affiliate program?  The Lunarpages affiliate plan is a referral service where Lunarpages will reward you with $65, just for spreading the word about Lunarpages web hosting, and getting your friends to sign up. 

Many in the web development community get asked everyday where they should host, and we want to give back to you for recommending Lunarpages web hosting to others.  With that in mind, I wanted to go over five frequently asked questions that will help you start earning money a little quick with this fantastic offer.

Do I have to host with Lunarpages to be apart of the Lunarpages affiliate plan?

No, not at all.  We have affiliate program members that are and some that are not actively using one of our hosting plans.  So hosting with us is not a requirement, however – we would always be happy to have you aboard!

How much does it cost to join the Lunarpages affiliate plan?

Not a dime!  You can sign up right now, and get started referring your friends to Lunarpages today. 

I think I lost my affiliate plan user name and password, how can I get them back?

Sure, you can always visit this page to get your login information resent.  All you have to do is type in your e-mail address, and click on the “Get Lost Password” button.  Also, please remember that if you host with us, you might have had an affiliate account already created for you, however you may have a different user name and password (in comparison with your hosting plan). 

How much could somebody earn by referring a person to sign up for one of the Lunarpages dedicated hosting plans?

Many know we offer $65 for regular referrals, however not many know that we also offer referrals for dedicated hosting too!  We offer a whopping $180 per dedicated server sale, so if you know folks who may be interested, let us know and we can assist.

How do you track commissions?

Every affiliate is provided with an Affiliate Tracking URL (or link) upon signup.  This link has a cookie attached to it, which remembers your unique affiliate username. When a customer clicks your link, the cookie is stored in their browser and follows them all the way to the signup page. After they purchase hosting, your commission of $65 magically appears in your affiliate stats! This is an automatic and immediate process that tracks every single sale you make.

That should cover the basics.  If you have any other questions, please feel free to drop in an e-mail to affiliate@lunarpages.com or give us a call at 877-586-2772 x4.  We’d be more than happy to help you earn a little more of the green stuff, for sure.

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