Managing Internet Design Innovations

We all have to deal with email spam. If we do not it will not only waste our valuable time as business people, but it could also lead to nasty viruses that aim to destroy our computers.. and business life!

Miditech has created a document and posted it on our support website to help our customers and to empower them with tools and methods that can help you virtually eliminate spam.

Really you say???  Yes.. really! Knowledge is power!

Check it out… http://spam.miditech.com

By following these guidelines you can do as Miditech recently did. And Miditech went from thousands of email spam messages per day to a meger 2-4 per day!

Hope it helps!

Don Gerrity - Sr Accounts Manager, Founder

November 6-11th/2008, Miditech is opening a new sales and admin office in Mississauga Ontario. We are adding new staff members over the next few months as well to better serve our customers. It has been a long time coming and with careful planning.

The Mississauga office will be our principle place of business operations and we will also start offering many more services in the months to come, though I will remain quiet on what those are for the moment (competition and all).

With this move there will be a new toll free number. We will obviously also have a billing address changes for those who submit cheque payments (the new address is on our contact page now). Once our toll free number is setup (hopefully Monday or Tuesday) we will send an email notice to our of our customers.

Miditech has been based in London Ontario for 12 years. So why the move to the GTA? Well, we are expanding and we needed a new office to accommodate new staff etc.  With 85% of our customers residing in the GTA and the other 15% across Canada and the globe the decision seemed easy and correct.

More information regarding our expansion will be released as we released new products and services. And our customers are gonna love where we are headed for them !

Don Gerrity, Sr. Accounts Manager, founder

We have added a new web server for increased disk space.

This should resolve any disk space errors some customers have been receiving when ftping to servers.

 Miditech Admin Team

Today Miditech launched our Managed Dedicated Server Options on our websites with full online ordering.

We started offering dedicated options in the spring of 2008 and it took a while to design the new options and implement online order system.  We still have some work to do on the midibuy order pages - mostly cosmetic.

Miditech has a new website that we will be developing further in the coming weeks/months called http://midibuy.com . Right now it is live to facilitate ordering of dedicated server options, but eventually there will be many Miditech services and options which can be selected and purchased for just about all your Internet web business needs.

Miditech Hosting/Design

Miditech has made a change to it’s payment methods for MONTHLY Billing Terms on MDR-1 and HSRP reseller plans:

Credit Card Merchants are getting tough on non signature transactions. They are basically forcing on businesses to move to a gateway. However, many gateways are not inexpensive, especialliy when Miditech has had no chargebacks since 1996 when our company started.. an extremely good track record. Yet they want us to switch to a gateway - their gateway. Doing so will incur higher costs for transactions and so Miditech has decided to use PayPal as our gateway provider.

There is also a need for more payment methods and using paypal as our gateway allows customers to pay the way they want. Also we can accept credit card payments via the paypal gateway, even if you do not have a paypal account. Customers/resellers do not need to be paypal members to pay us through the paypal gateway. The paypal gateway offers great security and is a firmly established business for transcations. In fact, PayPal is owned by Ebay.

Most resellers want to be setup with automatic renewals using their credit card. Miditech can still do this BUT (there is always a but right?) we need specific information regarding your credit card. We have already begun to contact resellers to obtain the needed info.

A side effect of using paypal though is that it will take 5-7 business days before Miditech will have access to the payments made. And we know that in business monthly cash flow is important. We have monthly costs to pay out as well as a business.

So we will be making a policy change effective July 24th:

MDR-1 and HSRP-1 plans with a MONTHLY billing term, with renewal dates between…

…..the 1st and the 14th of the month, will have their renewal date changed to the 1st of the month. We will automatically renew your account prior to the renewal date in an ongoing basis for those with automatic credit card renewal. (15th-31st of previous month)
…..the 15th and the 31th of the month, will have their renewal date changed to the 15th of the month. We will automatically renew your account prior to the renewal date in an ongoing basis for those with automatic credit card renewal. (1st-15th of current month)

This allows for the week delay that using the paypal gateway will cause and also help lower our costs.

If you have any question on this new policy, please contact billing.

Miditech.com Billing

Did you know…

As a Miditech hosted customer you can get a free enhanced listing at our GoShoppingCanada.com Directory (Canadian Businesses only) for FREE! Contact sales desk for details.

As a Miditech hosted customer serving the wedding marketplace you can get a FREE full page ad on our WeddingCanada.com Bridal Planner website (one of the most visible wedding sites in the search engines in Canada!) Contact sales desk for details.

As a Miditech hosted customer residing in SouthWestern Ontario, you can get a free enhanced listing at our GoShoppingLondon.com Directory (Canadian Businesses only) for FREE! Contact sales desk for details.

These are some of the initiatives we are working on to help our customers suceed online!

Miditech Sales Desk

Recently merchant companies have been tightening security for non signature transactions. We have been looking for ways to improve payment methods for customers in a secure way, while lowering costs.

In light of this and the high costs incurred by banks for this purpose Miditech is now using PayPal Gateway for all credit card transactions.

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It seems that Netscape has reached the “End Of Support” and End Of Life as it knows it.

But the good news is that it has turned into the Mozilla line of products and is today the big browser in competition with Internet Explorer.

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Miditech has been including search engine optimization in every website design package we offer since our company began. Of course, the term SEO is relatively new as a separately sold service these days.

We have been so successful in getting our customer websites in front of their intended audience(s) of customers in the major search engines that we now offer SEO as a service to the open marketplace - whether we designed your website or not.

Visit our new SEO page for details at http://miditech.com/seomarketing.html

(Also available to our reseller hosting community of customers as a resold service)

Miditech Web Design

Miditech has offered custom designed website packages since our company started in 1996. And we still highly recommend a custom and unique built website for most businesses.  Why? It is about BRAND. Brand is very important both offline and online. Establishing a brand can take time but having a custom built website can become part of your entire business brand mix. The retail store sign, the company logo, the colours etc all make for your company uniqueness to the marketplace.

That said, for Internet startups with smaller budgets a Template website design package may fit the need better.

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