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How to Easily Start Your Web Service Business in 2023

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1 year ago

December 24, 2022

How to Easily Start Your Web Service Business in 2023

Successful companies don’t appear out of thin air. They are built from the ground up with a lot of effort, time, and resources.

Setting the stage for a profitable web service company depends on numerous crucial tasks, such as creating an original and unique brand identity, understanding your industry and target audience, getting unique business names, and buying premium domains that perfectly represent your business.

To help you and your business flourish in the market, let’s show you a few key areas to concentrate on when establishing your business.

There are some key areas to prioritize in order to increase efficiency, reduce waste, and develop a lucrative web service business.

1. Prioritize Uniqueness and Adaptability

Launching a reputable web service business requires more than just coming up with a plan to profit from already-existing concepts without making any significant changes or bringing anything new to the table.

Many online businesses have tried to recycle or resell generic concepts, but because they were not able to distinguish themselves from other already established brands in the market, they failed.

Instead, when crafting your web service business, your goal should be to accomplish what firms like Netflix, Amazon, and Apple have done: provide innovative solutions to critical concerns in their target markets.

The goods and services these companies offer boost clients’ experience and serve as a standard for businesses in the same niche. They didn’t follow the trend; they made their own trend.

If these companies had sought to offer the same product and services as their competitors, they would have struggled to keep up and would have the success they have today.

2. Obtain Funding for Your Business

Obtaining capital is one of the most challenging issues that businesses confront. Because your company’s own resources may not always be sufficient to keep it afloat, you will usually require outside financing.

Many businesses begin with sales much lower than expected, causing cash flow challenges that eventually lead to their collapse.

And the easiest way to avoid this is to routinely review your finances and maintain contact with prospective funding sources to obtain the financing your business requires.

Look for government groups that can help you finance your business’s operations. Consider finding suitable associates for your company or seeking the assistance of nonprofit or for-profit organizations, as well as individual investors.

The Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Save Small Business Funds (SSBF) program has long been a reliable source of assistance for new businesses. Their primary purpose is to aid financially distressed enterprises, which means your business could likely.

However, if you prefer to be self-reliant and get funds directly from your customers, you can do so using the following methods:

3. Take Advantage of Pre-Orders

Most business entrepreneurs feel that marketing and working as independent consultants or freelancers are the most successful ways to begin a business on a shoestring budget.

However, many are unaware of the potential of crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and the power of preorders, which could give them more than enough funds to start a new online business.

Customers can place pre-orders for new items before they are on sale, providing your company with the capital. Pre-order marketing has been used successfully by both older corporations like Sony and more current businesses like Jeremy’s Razor.

4. Utilizing Viral Marketing

Customers encounter between 4,000 to 10,000 advertisements every day, including those from businesses, billboards, and the internet. Despite this flood of marketing, however, only around 100 businesses per day effectively capture their clients’ attention.

Every company must build its brand with a substantial company name, vibrant colors, a spectacular logo, and distinguishing catchphrases to boost its chances of recognition. Doing so will distinguish your web service business from the competition and attract its target audience.

As a result, remember that how customers perceive your company will influence how they engage with it. And also, remember that each consumer will have a unique connection with your company; therefore, your brand’s image may not be ideal for everyone. And you cannot avoid this.

However, rather than continuously adjusting your brand identity to accommodate everyone’s demands, your primary focus should be on keeping a consistent brand identity that appeals to the majority of your target demographic.

5. Create a Reputable Online Identity

A company’s success depends on gaining the respect, affection, and dedication of its online consumers, especially in the web services business. That’s why having a reputable internet presence is an integral part of your online business.

Focus on creating a strong online identity that anyone can recognize and access easily. In the present day, most customer transactions begin and conclude online. Use this to your advantage by building an excellent online footprint.

Grant Polachek is the head of branding for Squadhelp.com, 3X Inc 5000 startup and disruptive naming agency. Squadhelp has reviewed more than 1 million names and curated a collection of the best available names on the web today. We are also the world’s leading crowdsource naming platform, supporting clients from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies.

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Next-gen chips, Amazon Q, and speedy S3

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5 months ago

December 1, 2023

Max

AWS re:Invent, which has been taking place from November 27 and runs to December 1, has had its usual plethora of announcements: a total of 21 at time of print.

Perhaps not surprisingly, given the huge potential impact of generative AI – ChatGPT officially turns one year old today – a lot of focus has been on the AI side for AWS’ announcements, including a major partnership inked with NVIDIA across infrastructure, software, and services.

Yet there has been plenty more announced at the Las Vegas jamboree besides. Here, CloudTech rounds up the best of the rest:

Next-generation chips

This was the other major AI-focused announcement at re:Invent: the launch of two new chips, AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2, for training and running AI and machine learning (ML) models, among other customer workloads. Graviton4 shapes up against its predecessor with 30% better compute performance, 50% more cores and 75% more memory bandwidth, while Trainium2 delivers up to four times faster training than before and will be able to be deployed in EC2 UltraClusters of up to 100,000 chips.

The EC2 UltraClusters are designed to ‘deliver the highest performance, most energy efficient AI model training infrastructure in the cloud’, as AWS puts it. With it, customers will be able to train large language models in ‘a fraction of the time’, as well as double energy efficiency.

As ever, AWS offers customers who are already utilising these tools. Databricks, Epic and SAP are among the companies cited as using the new AWS-designed chips.

Zero-ETL integrations

AWS announced new Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) for MySQL integrations with Amazon Redshift, AWS’ cloud data warehouse. The zero-ETL integrations – eliminating the need to build ETL (extract, transform, load) data pipelines – make it easier to connect and analyse transactional data across various relational and non-relational databases in Amazon Redshift.

A simple example of how zero-ETL functions can be seen is in a hypothetical company which stores transactional data – time of transaction, items bought, where the transaction occurred – in a relational database, but use another analytics tool to analyse data in a non-relational database. To connect it all up, companies would previously have to construct ETL data pipelines which are a time and money sink.

The latest integrations “build on AWS’s zero-ETL foundation… so customers can quickly and easily connect all of their data, no matter where it lives,” the company said.

Amazon S3 Express One Zone

AWS announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a new storage class purpose-built for customers’ most frequently-accessed data. Data access speed is up to 10 times faster and request costs up to 50% lower than standard S3. Companies can also opt to collocate their Amazon S3 Express One Zone data in the same availability zone as their compute resources.

Companies and partners who are using Amazon S3 Express One Zone include ChaosSearch, Cloudera, and Pinterest.

Amazon Q

A new product, and an interesting pivot, again with generative AI at its core. Amazon Q was announced as a ‘new type of generative AI-powered assistant’ which can be tailored to a customer’s business. “Customers can get fast, relevant answers to pressing questions, generate content, and take actions – all informed by a customer’s information repositories, code, and enterprise systems,” AWS added. The service also can assist companies building on AWS, as well as companies using AWS applications for business intelligence, contact centres, and supply chain management.

Customers cited as early adopters include Accenture, BMW and Wunderkind.

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HCLTech and Cisco create collaborative hybrid workplaces

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5 months ago

November 29, 2023

Max

Digital comms specialist Cisco and global tech firm HCLTech have teamed up to launch Meeting-Rooms-as-a-Service (MRaaS).

Available on a subscription model, this solution modernises legacy meeting rooms and enables users to join meetings from any meeting solution provider using Webex devices.

The MRaaS solution helps enterprises simplify the design, implementation and maintenance of integrated meeting rooms, enabling seamless collaboration for their globally distributed hybrid workforces.

Rakshit Ghura, senior VP and Global head of digital workplace services, HCLTech, said: “MRaaS combines our consulting and managed services expertise with Cisco’s proficiency in Webex devices to change the way employees conceptualise, organise and interact in a collaborative environment for a modern hybrid work model.

“The common vision of our partnership is to elevate the collaboration experience at work and drive productivity through modern meeting rooms.”

Alexandra Zagury, VP of partner managed and as-a-Service Sales at Cisco, said: “Our partnership with HCLTech helps our clients transform their offices through cost-effective managed services that support the ongoing evolution of workspaces.

“As we reimagine the modern office, we are making it easier to support collaboration and productivity among workers, whether they are in the office or elsewhere.”

Cisco’s Webex collaboration devices harness the power of artificial intelligence to offer intuitive, seamless collaboration experiences, enabling meeting rooms with smart features such as meeting zones, intelligent people framing, optimised attendee audio and background noise removal, among others.

Tags: Cisco, collaboration, HCLTech, Hybrid, meetings

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Canonical releases low-touch private cloud MicroCloud

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5 months ago

November 28, 2023

Max

Canonical has announced the general availability of MicroCloud, a low-touch, open source cloud solution. MicroCloud is part of Canonical’s growing cloud infrastructure portfolio.

It is purpose-built for scalable clusters and edge deployments for all types of enterprises. It is designed with simplicity, security and automation in mind, minimising the time and effort to both deploy and maintain it. Conveniently, enterprise support for MicroCloud is offered as part of Canonical’s Ubuntu Pro subscription, with several support tiers available, and priced per node.

MicroClouds are optimised for repeatable and reliable remote deployments. A single command initiates the orchestration and clustering of various components with minimal involvement by the user, resulting in a fully functional cloud within minutes. This simplified deployment process significantly reduces the barrier to entry, putting a production-grade cloud at everyone’s fingertips.

Juan Manuel Ventura, head of architectures & technologies at Spindox, said: “Cloud computing is not only about technology, it’s the beating heart of any modern industrial transformation, driving agility and innovation. Our mission is to provide our customers with the most effective ways to innovate and bring value; having a complexity-free cloud infrastructure is one important piece of that puzzle. With MicroCloud, the focus shifts away from struggling with cloud operations to solving real business challenges” says

In addition to seamless deployment, MicroCloud prioritises security and ease of maintenance. All MicroCloud components are built with strict confinement for increased security, with over-the-air transactional updates that preserve data and roll back on errors automatically. Upgrades to newer versions are handled automatically and without downtime, with the mechanisms to hold or schedule them as needed.

With this approach, MicroCloud caters to both on-premise clouds but also edge deployments at remote locations, allowing organisations to use the same infrastructure primitives and services wherever they are needed. It is suitable for business-in-branch office locations or industrial use inside a factory, as well as distributed locations where the focus is on replicability and unattended operations.

Cedric Gegout, VP of product at Canonical, said: “As data becomes more distributed, the infrastructure has to follow. Cloud computing is now distributed, spanning across data centres, far and near edge computing appliances. MicroCloud is our answer to that.

“By packaging known infrastructure primitives in a portable and unattended way, we are delivering a simpler, more prescriptive cloud experience that makes zero-ops a reality for many Industries.“

MicroCloud’s lightweight architecture makes it usable on both commodity and high-end hardware, with several ways to further reduce its footprint depending on your workload needs. In addition to the standard Ubuntu Server or Desktop, MicroClouds can be run on Ubuntu Core – a lightweight OS optimised for the edge. With Ubuntu Core, MicroClouds are a perfect solution for far-edge locations with limited computing capabilities. Users can choose to run their workloads using Kubernetes or via system containers. System containers based on LXD behave similarly to traditional VMs but consume fewer resources while providing bare-metal performance.

Coupled with Canonical’s Ubuntu Pro + Support subscription, MicroCloud users can benefit from an enterprise-grade open source cloud solution that is fully supported and with better economics. An Ubuntu Pro subscription offers security maintenance for the broadest collection of open-source software available from a single vendor today. It covers over 30k packages with a consistent security maintenance commitment, and additional features such as kernel livepatch, systems management at scale, certified compliance and hardening profiles enabling easy adoption for enterprises. With per-node pricing and no hidden fees, customers can rest assured that their environment is secure and supported without the expensive price tag typically associated with cloud solutions.

Tags: automation, Canonical, MicroCloud, private cloud