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We have updated our portfolio with additional work from the last few months. Check it out at: http://advertisingsolutions.net/pages/portfolio/index.html
Advertising Solutions, Inc. is proud to announce that since the official non-beta launch of ASI:NGMFS+E nearly two months ago, ASI:NGMFS+E has stopped tons of spam junk mail from reaching the inboxes of our clients’. Since then first launch we have added several high priority spammers to our permanent ban list and many serial spammers have been stopped. We will continue to monitor network traffic and make updates to keep website contact form email as clean and legitimate as possible.
Advertising Solutions, Inc. has announced that all clients have been successfully migrated from ASI:NGMFS to ASI:NGMFS+E. We had expected this migration to take a few weeks longer but our staff worked hard to migrate each client over as quickly as possible. Let us know what you think about the new version by posting at the ASI:NGMFS+E features page at http://advertisingsolutions.net/news/2010/02/asingmfs-ext-launched/
You may have noticed that Advertising Solutions, Inc.’s website got a slight face lift today. Among the updates are several areas into which we have added additional content. While we have been offering these services for some time now, we have added more information about how we can assist you and why you should consider these new and exciting methods of marketing.
These services include:
- Analytics Review
- Blogging & Podcasting
- Email Marketing
- Search Engine Optimization
- Social Networking
- Vlogging & Viral Media
- Website Marketing
- Website Review
- Website Surveys
We have also made additional updates to our design and development sections. You can check those our here: http://advertisingsolutions.net/pages/website_design/index.html
Advertising Solutions, Inc. has finalized its testing on the new Mail Form System updates. Our previous Mail Form Software known as ASI Next Generation Mail Form System (AKA ASI:NGMFS) has been launched.
ASI:NGMFS is now known as ASI:NGMFS+Extended. This new “extended” version includes all the old features of our previous Mail Form System plus many new and exciting benefits, which are outlined below.
As of this date, all new clients will utilize the new ASI:NGMFS+Extended version. Clients using our now legacy ASI:NGMFS will be migrated over to the new system in the coming weeks. The time frame for completion of the migration spans a few months due to the number of clients effected by this change, however, clients wanting to be migrated sooner, may request so.
New Features in ASI:NGMFS+Extended:
- Updated Unlimited Number of Custom Fields. Our previous version allowed up to 20 customizable form fields on top of the standard preset fields. This new system now allows for an unlimited number of fields.
- Updated Field Mapping only shows the fields that your form uses. Previous versions used a set number of standard fields that would display on the resulting email regardless of if they were used. Now only the fields your form uses will print out.
- Updated Email Address Security now completely hides your email address from visitors, spambots and potential spammers. Our old system used a simple algorithm to make your email address hard to be found but now our updated system completely hides your email address making it impossible for anyone to steal your address.
- Updated Visual Alerts tell a user when they did not fill a field out correctly.
- New Spam Filtering automatically scans the user’s message for common spam or junk words and will stop the message from being sent greatly reducing the number of people who can use the form to send solicitations.
- New IP and Domain Blocks automatically compare our list of blacklisted senders with the current sender and will stop them from using the form. This helps prevent “serial spammers” and those who repeatably send spam through a form.
- New Block and Ban Feature will block any mail caught by the Spam Filter or IP and Domain Block and will place a temporary ban on the person for 24 hours ensuring that the person does not rephrase their spam message and try again.
- New Permanent Ban is automatically activated on repeat offenders.
- New Spam, IP and Domain Block and Ban toggle allows selected forms to escape from having the Spam, Blocking and Filtering services enabled. This prevents clients to opt-out of the Spam and Filtering services and accept all form submissions.
- New User-Friendly status feedback alerts the user when the form is loading or the message is being sent.
- New Form Styles and Colors make the forms more attractive.
- New Customizable Styles allow greater control over the colors of each individual form.
- New Colors, Styles and Layouts within the feedback email allow you to see everything you need on one printed page.
- Automatic Updates to our ASI:NGMFS+Extended core software and our SpamCatch software are applied from time to time automatically and free of charge. This ensures that every form is up to date and has the latest spam and ip address blocks.
We have created a new section of our website called the Technical & Development News. This section will allow our clients to better learn about behind the scenes updates and developments going on at Advertising Solutions, Inc. This area will include:
- New Version and Updates to Software and Web Applications;
- Updates to Servers, Hosting and other Behind-the-Scenes services;
- Products, Services and Applications current under development, in beta or undergoing testing.
Our goal with this new section is to help educate our clients and let them know what we are currently working on and developing as well as allow them to learn about new services. You can find this section at http://advertisingsolutions.net/news/technical-development-news/
A lot of potential clients have commented that they saw our portfolio but missed our Online Shopping and Video Production portfolios. We have changed our website to add our Website Design, Video Production and Online Shopping Portfolios into one place. Take a look at the new setup at http://advertisingsolutions.net/pages/portfolio/index.html.
Our clientele consist of both large and small business in a wide diversity of industries and markets. Within our portfolio, you will find a selection of web sites that we have designed for our clients. Our Portfolio will give you a good idea of the different services we offer, the industries we have served and are experienced in, our skills, and the superior quality of our work. For more information on our services or to view more web sites that we have designed, please contact us.
Advertising Solutions, Inc is celebrating our 8th year of providing professional yet affordable web design and internet advertising services. We thought it might be neat to look back on the past as see where we have come from and where we are now.
The Beginning Of Advertising Solutions, Inc.
Since 1999, Advertising Solutions, Inc. has been offering it’s clients professional website design, hosting, shopping and web based marketing and advertising services at the very affordable costs. We were founded with the vision of providing the highest quality products and services as well as supporting our clients in every aspect of their web site and advertising plans. This was our mission when we set out to start this company eight years ago and it has been the mission of our company to this day. Looking back on when we first started, we remember the horror stories that some of our first clients had told us about. Web designers overcharging, skipping town with a pocket full of cash and never even designing the site, sites that fell apart, designers that had no clue as to what makes effective advertising and worse. We knew then that we needed to be different and we needed to be there for our clients, not only because it was the right thing to do but because we were tired of seeing business after business overcharged for poor and ineffective work. Even though over 8 years have passed since then, we still unfortunately hear the same stories over and over again. To this day we still take on a large number of clients who have been cheated or burned from their previous design company. We are pleased to be able to say that after all these years, the very first clients that we started to provide services for years ago, are still with us and we enjoy the relationship that has continued to grow out of that over the years.
We Strived To Be Different:
Since day one, our prices for our services have remained at least half the price of the competition and we are happy to say that to this day, we are still up to 90% less then other designers producing the same high quality and professional work. Advertising Solutions, Inc has provided services for small mom and pop establishments all the way up to multi-million dollar corporations. We are proud of our national client base that has grown and continues to on a daily bases. Likewise we are also proud of the services that we offer our clients. Services such as website design, hosting, online shopping, database design and maintenance, programming and web applications, flash design, video production, search engine optimization (seo), website marketing, cost per click (cpc) / pay per click (ppc), local internet marketing, newsletters, blogs, and so much more!
How We Have Grown:
Advertising Solutions, Inc. now manages hundreds of domain names and hundreds of thousands of web pages as well as a extensive network of their own servers hosting anything from small websites up to large database driven applications to sites with thousands of pages to sites that go into the hundredths of Gigabytes in file size and content. Advertising Solutions, Inc. now has over 11 years active experience (that is not combined experience) in web site design and over 17 years experience in advertising and marketing. Over this time, we have acquired the skills, familiarity, and know-how to recognize what works and what doesn’t as far as web design and internet marketing goes. This is why we offer our clients the most creative and innovative web site design with supportive services and updates for their changing business needs. We know and understand that you don’t have to time to worry about your web site and its construction and maintenance. That is why we offer complete turnkey solutions for every industry and size business. Old-fashioned, professional values are brought together with 21st Century technology into unique advertising programs that put you on the leading edge of the competition.
The Present And Beyond:
Looking back over the past few years we are proud of the businesses relationships that we have made and look forward to new business relationships forming and current ones growing stronger. We are constantly striving to come up with new ideas, services and creative ways to serve our clients and help them get the most from their advertising. We are excited about the new technology that is available on the internet today and are proud that we are able to use that to our advantage to better server our clients.
Advertising Solutions, Inc. is proud to announce the launch of their new newsletter and Blog. We have replaced our old newsletter and are now using this new format and look.
It is the goal of this Blog to let our current clients know what is happening here at Advertising Solutions, Inc. We also hope to spotlight some of our newest clients and projects that we are currently working on or have completed. We also want to use this blog to improve our old newsletter and help clients more easily learn about our new services and the latest and greatest ways they can get the most out of their internet advertising and website. Feel free to post questions and comments about our products, services or articles. We will be glad to be of assistance and would enjoy hearing from you.