Have your homeowners insurance with State Farm? Not sure what to do now?  The State of Florida has help for people losing their State Farm homeowners insurance with an online State Farm Q&A.  Visit the state website www.fldfs.com and click on the State Farm Q&A  section.  The link to The Florida Market Assistance Program(FMAP) can help you find other companies willing to write homeowners coverage in this area.  For those folks wanting to punish State Farm by replacing all other insurance coverages including life insurance–Term Life Insurance Rates are at an all time low. You may find that you can replace your State Farm Life Insurance  with a new term policy at substantially lower rates. For more information visit  www.waynegifford.com .          Wayne Gifford

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Do you know how many types of identity theft there are?
Attend the April 7th leads group meeting and find out.

Identity Theft

When you start analyzing the hosting companies, you can keep the following points with you which not only explain what to look for but also how to ascertain its effectiveness:-
*Feature Offered. These could be:-
• Space and Bandwidth. First determine how much you need, do not fall prey to big offers just for nothing. Most of these are very simple tricks. Based on years of experience hosting companies know that an average customer does not use more than 100 Mb space and 300 MB bandwidth thus whatever bigger than that is offered is just an offer to attract customers.
• Email and Database. The number of emails per account should only affect you as per your needs, do not get over influenced by ‘unlimited” when you know you do not need more than 10 in any case. Use of mysql will be important if you need a database driven site or contents.
• Other Features These could be free scripts for guest boot, chat and web development etc. Most hosting companies do have these in their hosting panels. These make things easier for you if you are to use these. So give a plus to hosting company for that.
What kind of support they are offering ie email only, ticketing system, phone support and a toll free phone. Give an additional point for each service offered. You may need only one of few of these, but eventually it may be important to have a hosting service provider with more kind of mechanisms to be reached to.
Note the response time to your sales requests. Better host respond within 4 hours. Note that the auto responder is not to be rated as response, though that does indicate a bit effort.
Price / Cost. Not always the ones who are cheaper are good and not always ones who are expensive offer high quality services. Better is to stay away from two extremes in cost. Mostly one can think and expect that the ones asking a bit higher prices should be able to afford management of things better.
Reliability. Every web hosting service provider will have more than 99% listed on their site. But few have the courage to provide independent prove of their uptime. Ask for it. A hosting company should always have a monitoring service and should be able to provide you a report of the same.

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Many Thanks to Mike Shirley for his work in creating this blog for the Plantation Leads Group. Hopefully it will become a productive tool for current group members,  as well as an incentive for prospective new members who may consider joining our group.

The State of Florida has just recently announced details of the new Cover Florida  Healthcare Plan designed to provide Florida applicants with a guaranteed issue health insurance plan for people who have been recently unemployed ,or, who have been without health insurance for at least six months.  Although considered to be limited benefit plans, the premiums are reasonable, and coverage is available to anyone, regardless of medical history.  For more information on these plans, go to www.CoverFloridaHealthcare.com , or contact me directly with your questions.  Wayne Gifford   www.waynegifford.com

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First of all you need to know the Internet and how it really functions, this will help to make your business successful. The Internet is a highly sophisticated medium of communication and can generate great profits for your business. First you need to create a website that catches the eye of online users.

To make your website attract more attention, it should have a professional look. Secondly, you should not make the home page a general one. All your main services and products should be displayed on the main page itself.

Some people might visit your site through links, but majority will come to it directly through the search engines, so make sure you list all your products and services on the front page (or homepage). Your homepage should also have easy, visible navigation links to other parts of your site so visitors can get around easily. Remember that if your website is hard to navigate or confusing, most customers will simply give up and click away – and go to your competitor’s site.

You can also create online blogs for your website (with a link on the homepage) and provide information on issues related to your business from time to time.

Another important part of your website is the FAQ section. This section contains the questions that are frequently put to you by people who visit your website. It should contain likely answers to questions about ordering, how products work and information about product shipping and returns.

A business website is a powerful tool of communication. To utilize it fully you should include your business contact information on every page of your website (preferably at the bottom). You should also have a dedicated Contact Us page. Even if your home is your office, you can still display your residential address and contact number. It is better to have residential contact details rather than having none at all. Having complete contact information also helps to build trust with your customers. People are naturally suspicious (right or not) of a website with no contact information.

Contact www.ekovista.com with any questions or post your comments and thoughts.

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This is Plantation Leads Group blog site. All members are welcome to use it. If you do not have a log in and password please create that by clicking on the Register to the right and start blogging.  You can create your own blog and a separate category for the blog. Post a topic for your leads, opinions, articles, comments, thoughts, tips, etc. Please use this blog site responsibly.

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