PSPINC Official Company Blog

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. currently offers three different types of hosting services. But not because we’ve developed three different types. Two that we’ve purchased are still operating under their original name. In addition to the hosting service, we’ve developed in-house. Currently, we offer the following three hosting services:

dreamersi.com

yourhost.com

parcomweb.com

Not all of them offer the same functions and features, so understandably, they’re offered at different price points. They all have their own unique features. So you can choose the service that best suits your needs.

This will be the last newsletter for this year. Thank you to all of you. It has been a great year. We will continue to listen to your feedback and strive to improve our services in the coming year. Please feel free to contact us via phone, email, or social media for any of your domain name, hosting, website development, or general marketing needs in the coming year. We wish you a Happy New Year!

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. 1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

As we close out 2021, we would like to look back at a major project we undertook this year. We've referred to this as the “PSPINC brand consolidation” project.

Background

As an online technology company, we are constantly evolving. To do this, we're always looking for ways to optimize and level up our products, services, and websites. Mid-year, we discussed how we can continue to drive meaningful traffic to our sites and services.

At PSPINC, we offer a large number of products and services, each with its own unique name and domain. This has allowed us to cleanly separate one product from another. But it did introduce challenges we were looking to solve.

With all services being uniquely branded with a product name and domain, it made it difficult for people to identify that these services were products of PSPINC.

With so many products, our efforts to optimize our marketing and drive traffic were very challenging. We were attempting to advertise and grow so many different domains, which made it difficult to have a singular focus.

Solution

While we have many services that still operate independently (Bloguru, Japanese-Online, Denrei, ClockLink), we decided to consolidate all our public-facing product websites into web pages on pspinc.com.

This would solve both of these challenges by:

• Clearly defining PSPINC as the company, and the product beneath that. Since all product pages would have a pspinc.com domain and the PSPINC branding in the top left.


• Allowing us to focus the bulk of our marketing efforts on the domain pspinc.com. Since these product landing pages would all be on the same domain, it would make our processes much more streamlined.



How We Did It





This was a large and ambitious undertaking. We broke this down into three phases to best ensure we could iterate and release enhancements regularly.




Phase 1 - Redesign pspinc.com




Consolidating our product sites into product pages wasn’t as easy as building out new pages in the existing PSPINC website. We went completely back to the drawing board to come up with an updated sitemap, wireframes, and mockups. This allowed us to data-mine and structure this with our goals in mind.




From there, we developed all of the existing pages for pspinc.com with the new design, linking all of our products to the existing product pages. This allowed us to release the new design while leaving the existing product sites as is. Helping us mitigate very complex deployments over 14 domains.




Phase 2 - Build product pages under the new pspinc.com




The next step was to consolidate our existing product sites down to simple product pages on pspinc.com. We did all of this on our development server, building them out one at a time. This was followed by thorough testing by our Designers and QA Testers.




Phase 3 - Deploy new product pages and redirect traffic from the old websites




The last phase of the consolidation project involved deploying these new pages. Specifically, we needed to remove the old website on the original domain and redirect traffic to the new URL.




For SEO purposes, it is extremely important that you set up permanent redirects for all old pages that no longer exist. It is a way for us to tell search engines that the old page is gone, but there is a new page with the content they are looking for. That way they can update their search results and we don’t run the risk of users not being able to find the pages.




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Thanks to our team of extremely talented Designers, Developers, and QA Testers we were able to complete this major project this year.




If you have any work you need done on your website but don’t know where to begin, please let us know. We have the experience and knowledge to help not only make the changes but define an efficient and organized process to make your online dream a reality!






Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. 1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

Recently, some people seem to be doing work related to their companies using only their cell phones. Cell phones are indeed more convenient than PCs when it comes to email, chatting, and social networking. However, even if you look at the back-office functions required for business, such as accounting, many tasks cannot be done on a cell phone.

As is the case with us, we don't carry our PC with us when we go out for work unless there is a good reason or a business trip. Therefore, I believe that cell phones are a convenient and indispensable tool, but I don't feel that they are a replacement for PCs.

How do you use your cell phone? Do you use your cell phone for shopping? Is there any research that you do on your cell phone? As the functions of cell phones improve, the ways we use them will change as well. We believe that we need to target cell phones in our future development.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. 1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

To our valued customers:

We have investigated whether the Apache Log4j vulnerability was affecting our products and services. As a result, we have determined that most our products and services do not use the Log4j library. Therefore they are not impacted by this issue.
Our legacy Parcom server was utilizing an installed plugin containing this library. That plugin has been patched, and there is no impact to Parcom services.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. 1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

Does your company have a website? Is it easy to understand what your company does by looking at your homepage? Do you receive inquiries from visitors to your website? On a scale of 1 to 100, how would you rate your website? I'm sure many of you are wondering if there is something more you can do.

I think the best way to evaluate the usefulness of a website is to see if it is generating new business for the company. How many people are visiting your website? How long do they stay? Where did the visitors come from? Did they come from search engines, social networking sites, or by typing your web address into their browser directly?

What are you doing to attract people to your website? Do you use blogs, social networking sites, or post on YouTube? A website is not an advertising medium, so it is not enough to create a website to attract people. The website needs to be advertised to a large number of people in various ways.

The setup of a website also needs to be designed in such a way that it can easily attract people. A completed website is not the end of the story. The content of the website needs to be updated to attract repeat visitors. Only through these actions will people start to come to your website.

If you have any concerns about your website, please contact us at Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. We offer a full range of services from web design, production, hosting, management, updating, and marketing. If the performance of your current website is not receiving an ”A” grade in your mind, please give us a call.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. 1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

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Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. 1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

When I was in Los Angeles on a business trip recently, I visited Transcosmos. At that time, they told me that they were selling and supporting VAIO computers in the U.S. and they asked if Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. would sell them as well. We bought one and it arrived at the end of November.

When speaking of VAIO, there is an image of SONY that comes to mind. However, the current VAIO is not a product of SONY, rather, it is made by an independent company. In terms of price, I feel that it is a bit more expensive when compared to Chinese products. Though the product itself is well made and it is rare to have a laptop with a 6 CORE CPU.

Most of the parts are made in China, but the final process and quality control are done in Japan, and the product is sold as MADE IN JAPAN. The evaluation from our staff who used the VAIO computer we purchased for our company was as follows:

(1) Light
(2) Thin
(3) Loud fan noise (when processing heavy loads)
(4) The chassis is soft (surprisingly sturdy)

Needless to say, this is not a computer for engineers in development companies like us, but it looks like a good computer for executives and salespeople who travel for business. The warranty in the US is one year but can be extended. You can purchase one at us.vaio.com, but if there is a VAIO computer that you would like to purchase in the US, please contact Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. We can offer a small discount and provide setup and online maintenance services if needed. In Japan, you can purchase a VAIO computer from vaio.com.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. 1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

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Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. 1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

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Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. 1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.