#SMALLBIZ Deals: 20% Off Yola Silver and $20 Off Online Store

20% Off 1 Year Yola Silver and $20 Off 1 Year Online Store  Two new exciting offers: 20% off 1 Year Yola Silver and $20 off 1 year Yola Online Store.  20% off 1 year of Yola Silver (originally $99.95 - now $79.95, which is just $6.66 a month!) Coupon code: 20SILVER Available: 2/22 - 2/29 As a reminder, Yola Silver includes easy-to-use site creator, domain pointing/hosting, free advertising credits worth $100, premium phone support + more!   Get 20% Off 1 Year Yola Silver with code 20SILVER. Offer valid thru 2/29. Build your site now! $20 off 1 Year Yola Online Store $20 off 1 year of Yola Online Store (originally $100/year - now $80, which is just $6.66 a month!) Coupon code: STORE20 Run dates: 2/22 - 2/29 With advanced features like tax and shipping integration, the acceptance of over 15 payment methods, and the ability for customers save their profile into your store, Yola Online Store has all the features you need to create and run a professional store.    Get $20 Off 1 Year Yola Online Store with code STORE20. Offer valid thru 2/29. Build your site now! New Yola Silver feature: Free stock images Yola just added a new feature to the Yola Silver hosting package: access to over 3,000 quality stock images for FREE!  Yola and Fotolia handpicked these images specifically for small businesses, so this is a quick and easy way to add professional looking photos to give your website some extra shine. Yola Silver customers can access this feature now through the Sitebuilder. All they have to do is add a picture widget and click on "Find Stock Images"  or "Yola Images" to browse and add a free image. Get free advertising credits, unlimited website templates, hosting + more with Yola Silver (less than $10/month). Start Building Now! Host your site with Yola Bronze for just $4.95 a month and receive free Google ad credits worth $50! Create your site now

OfficeLive Users: The Cheap Easy Solution to Replace OfficeLive Site #smallbiz

On January 31, 2012, Microsoft announced that it will discontinue the OfficeLive free website hosting and storage service. There are a lot of the website builders out there Word Press and Yola make it incredibly fast and easy to replace your OfficeLive website.  You can buy a domain name from GoDaddy.com and be up and running in a few days. The folks at office live have also made it way easier to transition your domains to another provider. I use GoDaddy.com and they make it pretty easy to transfer a domain to them. I personally  have two sites in OfficeLive (http://pradviser.net and http://retailsecrets.net) and now I have to migrate them to another content management system. I recommend all current OfficeLive users to migrate their sites to Yola.com. I have been a Yola Silver customer for almost three years I have over seven websites in Yola and I must tell you it is far better than OfficeLive and way easier to use!

Top Benefits of Migrating to Yola from OfficeLive:

- Easy user interface                 - Html and Text WYSIWYG widgets  - Google Adsense integration
- Preview before Publishing     - Easy Navigation editing                     -  Google Analytics Integration
- Social Media Widgets            - Use flash, javascript or query and much more!

This is the actual Yola user interface. As you can see it is easier to use and there is more options to enhance pages.

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Although Yola is free for up to 5 websites with free hosting and limited file storage you are much better off buying the Yola Silver Package if you plan to launch more than one website. With the silver package you can build 25 websites, plus receive a free custom domain, 5 GB of storage, premium phone and email support, unlimited premium templates (which are usually way more customizable headers and site backgrounds) Plus, Get FREE advertising credits worth $100 with every Yola Silver purchase. Limited offer, sign up now!

Here are some of my websites in Yola today check them out:

http://glutenfreedays.com/ (using premium template in Silver Package)

http://emailmarketingfreeoffers.com/ (free template)
http://localeventplanner.com (free template)

http://enewsletterfreeoffers.com/  (free template)

http://retailsecret.com/ (free template)

One more thing: There is a downside to web-based website builders with free hosting - all sites are on the same servers so you suffer the consequences when there is server outage. But if your website is not mission critical to your business, then if you lose some up time it won't make that much of a difference.  Check out the service providers to find out what type of security is used on the servers.

It helps to know something about html. Here is some recommended Do-It-Yourself Website Reading:

*FREE*Download the Build Your Own WordPress Site Guide now, and read it on your computer today! With this free guide you will also receive daily updates on new cool websites and programs in your email for free courtesy of MakeUseOf.

The Really, Really, Really Easy Step-by-Step Guide to Building Your Own Website: For Absolute Beginners of All Ages (Really, Really, Really Easy Step-By-Step Guide To...)

Building Web Sites All-in-One For Dummies

Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML and CSS, 2nd Edition

Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual

Good luck folks!