By Esther Josiah
Are you passionate as we are about web hosting, IT, or the internet in general? Do you love writing, and have an idea for an article which you’ll like to share with thousands of visitors to UK2? If you’ve answered yes to both questions, then here’s your chance!
Send your article to uk2guestblogger@uk2.net, and if we love it, we’ll publish it and even add a backlink to your website!
You’ll not only get the chance to share your expertise, but you could also be exposing your business / website to a large number of potential customers and visitors.
Email your article now, and we’ll get back to you ASAP.
By Esther Josiah
About the author:
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10 Time-Saving Tips for Article Marketing Newbie’s
Are you new to Article Marketing? I know how overwhelming it can be when you’re just learning how to market your website, and you hear all sorts of SEO jargon being thrown around and talk about stats, traffic and keywords. It can be intimidating!
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By Esther Josiah
With 200,000 people feared dead, 250,000 injured, and 1.5 million homeless, it couldn’t be clearer that the Haitians need our help, and urgently too.
UK2 has joined up with other hosting companies such as Rackspace, Go Grid and The Planet to do our part to help in the relief effort by launching a new website – HostingforHaiti.com. In partnership with the American Red Cross, we aim to provide support which may include mobilising relief workers, sending relief supplies, and providing financial resources for recovery.
With the combined effort of customers and employees of all the hosting companies involved, we are optimistic that we can make a difference. And you can too. There is no amount too small, afterall little drops of water makes a mighty ocean.
Here’s how you can help:
1) Donate to the International Response Fund. 100% of the funds will go to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development fund.
2) Spread the word. Add http://www.hostingforhaiti.com to your blog, twitter, facebook, and anywhere else you can think of.
3) Ask Others to Donate. Together we can make a difference.
Thank you.
By Esther Josiah
Setting goals at the start of a new year is the norm for quite a lot of people, but as a sole trader or small business owner it is easy to continue business as usual without pausing to review the previous year and set new targets for the year ahead.
Whilst this might work for some people, I personally think it’s definitely worth the time and effort to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and write out what you aim to achieve in the New Year. Not only will this give you a focus throughout the year, but you can always check back every quarter or every month to make sure you’re in tune with your master plan.
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By Esther Josiah
Christmas is just round the corner, and very soon we’ll be opening presents and sitting down to roast turkey and all the trimmings! 
We will like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at UK2.
The UK2 office will be closed on the following days:
24th December (Christmas Eve) - Closed from 12:30pm
25th December (Christmas Day) - Closed all hours
26th December (Boxing Day) - Closed all hours
27th December - Closed all hours
28th December - Closed all hours
1st January (New Year’s Day) - Closed all hours
But don’t forget, tickets can still be submitted at all times via our online ticket system.
Happy Holidays Everyone!
By Zoe
Hey guys,
It’s Friday again, I get to do my favourite blog posts, and as of today we’re now exactly 6 weeks away from Christmas! 
Talking of Christmas, are you guys doing anything special over the festive season? I’m yet to plan anything interesting so maybe I can get ideas from you. 
Right, let’s get back to some marketing tips. :) Please see my previous posts on Email Marketing (to link to http://www.uk2.net/blog/top-5-online-marketing-tips-for-small-businesses/), Affiliate Marketing (to link to http://www.uk2.net/blog/top-5-online-marketing-tips-for-small-businesses-contd-affiliate-marketing/), Search Marketing (to link to http://www.uk2.net/blog/top-5-online-marketing-tips-for-small-businesses-contd-search-marketing/), and Social Marketing (to link to http://www.uk2.net/blog/top-5-online-marketing-tips-for-small-businesses-cont%e2%80%99d-%e2%80%93-social-marketing/#more-1195).
Website
It is estimated that 70% of SMEs don’t have a business website, despite the fact that over 60% of high street purchases are first researched online. As a small business owner, a website is probably the singular most important thing you can own for your business. It’s not just about being in with the crowd, but owning a business website could save you £££’s whilst earning you some new ones as well.
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By Zoe
Hi guys,
It’s been like a few weeks since I did my Search Marketing blog post and I would have loved to be back earlier with my post on Social Media Marketing, but unfortunately I have been very busy with work. Anyway I’m back now so let’s get down with some Social stuff!
If you haven’t read my previous posts, you might want to check them out. There’s one on Email Marketing, Affiliate Marketing and Search Marketing.
2. Social Media Marketing
Over the past few years, social media marketing has grown to become a familiar and a somewhat vaguely understood term in the marketing industry. With Facebook boasting over 300 million users, and presidential campaigns going onto Twitter, it is understandable that marketers want to get a share of the pie, and somehow monetize this ever growing media.
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By Zoe
Hey everyone,
It’s Monday again, the weather’s looking miserable and the weekend’s four days away 
but hey you’ve got my Search Marketing blog post to look forward to! What more can you ask for.
If you’re just joining in for the first time, check out my previous posts on Email Marketing and Affiliate Marketing
Right let’s get down to some Search Marketing.
3. Search Marketing
It’s quite amazing that Google launched just over 10 years ago now accounts for a whopping 87% of searches on the internet in the UK and 68% in the US. Internet users are increasingly using search engines like Google, Yahoo, and the newly launched Bing to search for information, products and even companies online. I’ll have to admit that I’m one of those people that enter company names in Google to find their website, I simply can’t be asked to remember the website URL’s of all the companies I use regularly.
As a company, and even more important as a small business, ranking up on search engines is very important (and I stress the ‘very’). Your potential customers are looking for the products or service you offer online using search engines, and if you are not on the first few pages (I never go past page 5) of their search engine results page (SERP), you might as well kiss goodbye to getting clicked on.
Search Marketing is simply ways or strategies you can use to increase your website’s visibility and ranking on SERP.
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By Andy
Hi,
Here for your delectation is my little contribution to the masses of internet information on how to make good (and sometimes crazy) money online. I’ve split this up into a series of guides (3 in total) outlining how I think it can happen, why there’s so much internet spam surrounding this, and more importantly how people really do it!
Quite topical at the moment too as the word on the street is that many financial services types are turning their hands to setting up online businesses (I even know of one personally).
Todays nugget is a bit of a no brainer really but I hope I’ve got some tidbits in here you might not have thought of or didn’t consider, so please sit back, relax and I’ll impart my pearls of wisdom for you…
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By Zoe
Hi guys,
As promised here’s my post on Affiliate Marketing. If you are yet to read my previous post on Email Marketing, you can check it out here.
4. Affiliate Marketing
Right, so what’s affiliate marketing? Affiliate marketing is simply getting other people or businesses to promote your products or services and rewarding them for each referral or sale. Rewards are usually in the form of commissions per referral or sale.
As a small business owner, affiliate marketing is one of the cost effective ways to market your business. Your affiliate does all the work required to get you potential customers, and you simply pay them an agreed commission for it. I’ll say that sounds a lot more attractive than spending hundreds or even thousands on advertising with no guarantee of any returns.
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