Freelance web programmer for hire – By project or hourly

Freelance web programmer for hire - By project or hourlyI am a web programmer, coder here at TripleROI and handle all back-end functionality of many web based software applications. Whether you are looking to hire someone to work hourly or by project I am flexible and can quote you accordingly. We are a small team of web developers working on independent projects so feel free to drop us a line about your ideas.

The programming languages I specialize are: PHP, Java, .NET. However, PHP is by far the most common and the most used by any web software such as : WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Shopping carts etc.

If you are looking to hire me as freelance web programmer I will be happy to discuss your project at anytime.

Please email me at don@tripleroi.com or call me at 617.855.5344

Choosing A Web Hosting Server – Where to Begin ?

Nowadays your web hosting company plays a critical role in your website’s economic performance. Download speed of your server is the number one reason which impacts how your web pages load. Lets say a customer comes to your website and waits almost a minute for the site to load and then after painfully waiting that long click on a second page and waits another minute. Guess what ? You just lost that customer. Well most hosting companies offer shared hosting at a reasonable price even at $3 per month but as you might have guessed its that old saying “you get what you paid for”. Choosing the right company which offers a great service, technical support and tons of memory, hardrive, bandwidth is surprisingly very difficult. Why? Because many companies try to oversell their packages to get the most out of their hosting plans and your website is paying the price for that by not having enough resources as a result experience downtown or slow loading.

There are three types of poplar hosting server plans out there:

Shared Hosting ( numerous of website into one server box )
VPS Hosting ( Not as many websites into one box )
Dedicated Hosting ( Only one website in the box )

Obviously, going with a dedicated server is the best solution but price is the only concern on this one as it tends to be on the high-end.

Also, another thing that is important to mention is that shared hosting is fully managed by the hosting company white VPS and Dedicated come either partially managed or unmanaged so you will have to worry about all the headaches that come with it such as security patches, updates, server errors etc.

Honestly, we’ve seen too many websites that suffer from being on a bad server that really impacted their online/offline revenue.

If you need help with selecting a hosting provider or just looking to transfer to a new server we can help you with the process and recommend the best solution for your business.

Cloud computing Vs CDN ( Content Delivery Network ) – Difference

Many times we get asked from users what is the difference between Cloud computing and CDN?
Which one to choose ?

The big difference is that cloud computing is a big group of servers in 1 data center building which is usually at one location. On the other hand CDN is also group of servers but distributed around the country so it allows web visitors a better and faster access to the website. For example if you’re in Boston trying to access a server in California it can be faster to be hitting a server locally in Boston for the files. The CDN is usually able to support much larger traffic volumes since the speed is calculated based on location the traffic comes from.

So which one to choose it really depends on your budget and the amount of traffic your website gets.

Cloud computing Vs CDN ( Content Delivery Network ) - Difference

Real Estate Competitor Analysis

Competitor Analysis is a very crucial part of the online marketing strategic planning process. Many real estate offices should have at least a strategic plan that outlines the main role of their competitor analysis.

Why even bother to analyze your real estate competitors?

Some real estate agents think it is best to get on with their own marketing plans and ignore the competition. Others become very obsessed with tracking the actions of competitors and try to out compete them in SEO (often using black-hat methods). Many real estate offices are happy simply to track the competition, trying to copy their moves and reacting to website changes.

Comprehensive competitor analysis have a handful of important aspects in strategic marketing:

  • To help sales/rental agents understand their competitive advantages/disadvantages relative to competitors
  • To generate understanding of competitors’ past, present (and most importantly) future web marketing strategies
  • To provide well informed data in order to develop marketing strategies to achieve competitive advantage
  • To help forecast future returns that need to be made from future investments such as: how will competitors respond to a new website strategy?

There are many more aspects to analyzing your competitors and we can provide you with a detailed and very thorough report that analyzes your direct competitors. Also, recommend an action plan on how to get up to speed with your competition and out-compete them.

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions and how we can help – sales@tripleroi.com or call 617.855.5344

Real Estate Online Marketing – Why so competitive ?

Many real estate brokers are just starting to create online marketing campaigns or just launched their new website are always faced with the big challenge. Harsh competition form other real estate offices. Why you may ask ? Well, the answer is simple. Too many brokers have invested and continue to invest in online marketing heavily because these day is the most profitable form of lead generation especially for new sales or rental leads. Why is the competition so high in this industry ? Because, most real estate brokers tend to out-compete the other broker as we all know for a potential prospect which could easily lead to a high commission. Lets say a real estate office invests in online marketing about $30,000 to 40,000 a year and they get 5 leads in the first few months which results in 5 different commissions. And these commissions could range from 10K – 50K each and remember in the first few months. You do the math, they probably pocket an additional 100K so their return on investment is about $60,0000 give or take.

This is why real estate marketing is so competitive nowadays because every one out there wants to take the big bite and especially in the luxury apartment rentals.

New strategies need to be developed to dealing with your real estate competitors in order to profit from online marketing.

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions and how we can help. sales@tripleroi.com or call 617.855.5344

SOLVED: Error loading stylesheet: An unknown error has occurred (805303f4)

Ever get this type of error after installing Google XML Sitemaps plugin. There is a very easy fix to this issues. Simply, login to your FTP account or file manager and just change the sitemap filename from sitemap.xml to example.xml or site-map.xml and Rebuild it. A very small bug can cause this problem.

Error loading stylesheet: An unknown error has occurred (805303f4)
http://www.domain.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.xsl

SOLVED: Error loading stylesheet: An unknown error has occurred (805303f4)

Or second option:

Loon in your wordpress plugin plugin folder for the file below and edit sitemap-core.php:
Full path : /wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap-core.php 

Find the following code :
function GetPluginUrl() {
//Try to use WP API if possible, introduced in WP 2.6
if (function_exists(‘plugins_url’)) return trailingslashit(plugins_url(basename(dirname(__FILE__))));
//Try to find manually… can’t work if wp-content was renamed or is redirected
$path = dirname(__FILE__);
$path = str_replace(“\”,”/”,$path);
$path = trailingslashit(get_bloginfo(‘wpurl’)) . trailingslashit(substr($path,strpos($path,”wp-content/”)));
return $path;
}

And REPLACE it with this:
function GetPluginUrl() {
//if (function_exists(‘plugins_url’)) return trailingslashit(plugins_url(basename(dirname(__FILE__))));
$path = dirname(__FILE__);
$path = str_replace(“\”,”/”,$path);
//$path = trailingslashit(get_bloginfo(‘wpurl’)) . trailingslashit(substr($path,strpos($path,”wp-content/”)));
$path = trailingslashit(substr($path,strpos($path,”wp-content/”)));
return $path;
}


This should do the trick.

iPhone Application development – Get A Quote

We offer iPhone Application development
We are a team of software developers based in Waltham, MA in greater Boston area. We have a growing portfolio of successful iPhone applications that have been developed for a diverse client base, starting from restaurants and corporates, through to young entrepreneurs around Boston. Our understanding of client need and intent is firmly backed by technical accuracy and user interface design that sells itself.

iPhone Application development - Get A Quote

So if you just had a great idea for an iPhone app and like to capitalize on it or if you are a company and looking to take your business to the next level.We can help. You know how beneficial an iPhone app would be to your company’s digital marketing and generate hight return on investment.

Feel free to email me at don@tripleroi.com or call 617.855.5344

Modern Shabby Chic Spa Website Design

Website design for Spa or salon sample. We decided to create this sample website design for a local spa business. It portrays elegance and tranquility which is exactly what people what to see when they land on your site. If like to have a similar website designed for your business feel free to send me an email at don@tripleroi.com

Modern Shabby Chic Spa Website Design

Email Marketing – Send Out Email To Your Customers

Many small business owners always get mass email from other companies or vendors about their products and services but they always wonder if they can use a similar strategy for their business. Many of them are not sure how that works so they do a search on google,yahoo etc and many email marketing companies show up who charge a monthly fee for using their email marketing technology. These fees can be pretty steep for a small business and usually they tend to limit to how many customers you can send out the mass emails. So you may ask are there any email marketing services with no monthly fees ? The answer is yes. I develop custom email marketing software that you can use directly on your website and not pay a monthly fee. I only charge labor for developing the application and after that is yours to keep. No contracts, no limits you can enjoy your freedom of use. I will even create some templates tailored for your business image. This email marketing or mailing list software can be used for any business for example restaurants can use it for keep their customers updated with new events, dishes, menus; a hair salon can send out new offers to their customers; a boutique can send monthly sales flyers through emails; a real estate agent can send out new listings, a lawyer can send out news etc. The list goes on and on. Email marketing can be a great strategy for reaching out to your customers and turn them into sales but there is no need to pay high monthly fees for this service.

Email Marketing - Send Out Email To Your Customers

If you have any questions or like to learn more about these email marketing solutions that I offer contact me at don@tripleroi.com

Plumbing/Plumber Web Design – Belmont,MA

Below is a website for a either a plumber or plumbing business. Having a website is a great way to generate more sales through the web. For example if someone is looking for a plumber, or plumbing services in Belmont,MA your website should defiantly be there or otherwise someone else from another town who has an existing website may take that lead from you.
Here is just a rough draft of a website I just came up with this afternoon for a plumber. Feel free to let me know if you like to order this one or create another one similar to this.

Plumbing/Plumber Web Design - Belmont,MA