It happens hundreds of times every day around the world, and it could happen to you!

Your credit card expires. You change your e-mail address and don’t update your domain contact information. By the time you locate and send all the required documents to the domain registrar, and wait, you’re loosing customers and revenue.

Someone close to you, someone you trusted, or a social engineer, transfers your domain name away without your permission. When the domain name goes, everything else goes, too!

One misstep and you could accidentally lose the domain name you worked so hard to get. It’s happened to the best of us, even this author. Imagine how scary when suddenly your web site and e-mail services associated with it stop working.

Blue Bayou Protected Registration is packed with the safeguards and security you need:

Domain Ownership Protection:
Expiration Protection protects you from credit card expiration, failed billing, or outdated contact information.

Deadbolt Transfer Protection:
Makes it virtually impossible for MOST transfers to occur – inadvertent, accidental, malicious or otherwise.

See how Blue Bayou Protected Registration Services can help safeguard against these hazards by clicking here.

Blue Bayou offers yet another way for you to use your domain name with Online Photo Filer, an affordable, easy-to-use method for sharing photos on the World Wide Web.  Whether you’re a shutterbug or an Internet amateur, Online Photo Filer is a cinch to use and best of all, your family, friends and colleagues can view your images without the hassle of logging in or downloading software.
 
Online Photo Filer is a photo manager that helps users store and present their images on a specialized Web site, at their own domain name.  By registering a personalized Web address, you can give your friends and family an easy-to-remember and relevant address to view your favorite photos.  Your viewers can order wallet through poster-sized prints directly from the application and have them shipped to their door.
 
The service supports single photo or bulk upload options, whereby you may add entire directories to your online collection.  Once uploaded, you can choose from a variety of editing options, all managed from the comfort of your own domain name.  Individual galleries may be password protected, kept private or shared publicly.
 
The Photo Marketing Association International (pmai.org) estimated that 20.5 million digital cameras were sold in 2005.  This drove demands for 7.7 billion digital prints; digital photography is here to stay.

“Having a convenient way to put pictures online insures that one of the most valuable assets you have are protected from fire, earthquake, theft or accidental destruction”. Says, Nick West CRO.

More information about Online Photo Filer is available at Blue Bayou by clicking here.

One of the simplest ways you can secure your visibility on the web is to register your domain name, or extend the current registration on your domain names for a minimum of 10 years.

Doing so demonstrates to the search engines, and more importantly to your customers that you intend to be in business for a long time. Confidence, or the appearance of confidence in your business translates well to all audiences, be they spider or human.

I can confidently guarantee that registering or extending your current domain registration has nothing but a positive effect on your search rank.

Don’t have a domain registrar or want to see what Blue Bayou can offer you? Click here for more information about domain name registrations and domain name transfers.

Is your market reach local, national or do you see it as International? Does your market speak a native language other than English? Reaching an International market requires, where possible that you talk to your market in their native language.

With an Internationalized Domain name you can;

* Market your products in the native languages of each of the countries where you do business.
* Strengthen global recognition of your brand by registering your domain name in different scripts.
* Search for an International Domain using “Western” characters OR Native Language character sets

Not ready to go International? You should still explore available domain names that match your brand identity, even if you don’t plan on expanding International for years. Once these domains are gone, claiming your copyright or trademark extends to these markets will be harder to substantiate.

You can find more about Internationalized Domain Names here.

Express Email Marketing shows you how to use email to your businesses advantage and stay in-touch with your customer base when you need it. Best of all, it offers all the tools built-in to comply 100% with current U.S. anti-spam laws.

* Provide prospects and customers a sign-up form for requesting emails from you. The opt-in widget offers the ability to create and manage special interest groups within your subscriber base so that you can target e-mail campaigns to specific subscribers.
* Comply with U.S. anti-spam laws. You can now upload your existing customer list without an email confirmation requirement. In addition, an opt-out link is located at the bottom of every campaign mailing, allowing subscribers to opt-out of future mailings.
* Create dazzling, eye-catching emails. Image Library includes over 1,500 images or, you can upload your own. They’re automatically resized to fit your email, finally what a time saver. No design skills necessary. View samples before mailing.
* Track the results. Easy-to-use reports tell you how many emails you have sent, how many were opened, how many people responded to your mailing and much more.
* Create and send surveys of your customer base.
* Autobounce Subscription Management, time-saver times two.

Express Email Marketing automatically adds the necessary disclaimer language to any email you send. Plus, it even includes the required link to allow your subscriber to automatically opt out.

Express Email Marketing, see everything we offer by visiting us here.

Salt Lake City, Utah (March 1st, 2009) – Blue Bayou is helping small businesses easily open and manage online stores whether they have an existing brick and mortar store or not, Blue Bayou can help anyone reach their audience online.

Quick Shopping Cart®, the online store utility, now interacts with QuickBooks® financial software. A proven technology that allows business owners to save valuable time and more effectively manage their Web store by synchronizing their most critical business data between their store and QuickBooks. Users of Quick Shopping Cart can also take advantage of a QuickBooks Merchant Services account to accept all major credit and debit cards and reconcile Quick Shopping Cart payment data directly within QuickBooks.

“There are hundreds of online shopping cart systems, we had to limit it to the best of the best and this meets many of our clients needs whether a small startup or a large already established merchant.” Say’s Nick West CRO of Blue Bayou, Llc.

Quick Shopping Cart offers an easy-to-use wizard for users to quickly develop a successful Web store. In just six steps, merchants can go from purchasing the product to having a fully developed online presence.

For more information on Quick Shopping Cart hosting plans, click here.