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DBWS Update

As of this morning, many people, including me, are still getting the other company's webpage when trying to access your DBWS. For now, it's safest to assume at least some of your customers cannot access your DBWS, as well. 

PLEASE REMEMBER... just because you can see your DBWS does NOT mean your customers can, and vice-versa!  Different ISPs use different servers, and until every server in the world updates and resolves away from Network Solutions' site and back to SU's, this will continue to be an issue for some.

Try accessing your DBWS from multiple devices (computer, smartphone, tablet, even your internet-connected video game systems) to see how different servers are resolving the address.  Until this issue is completely resolved (hopefully, soon), use the instructions in the post below to send your customers directly into your Online Ordering site.

If you have any questions, leave them in the Comments section below.

If You Have A DBWS, You Need To Read This NOW! (SECOND UPDATE)

SECOND UPDATE (12/10/11, 8:45 A.M.) - Please see this morning's post.

UPDATE (12:56 P.M.) - According to the WHOIS info, it looks like the domain is back in SU's hands and this issue is on its way to being resolved.  Depending on where you are, you and your customers may or may not see your DBWS for the next few hours, but it looks like everything should be back to normal soon!

 

It looks like Stampin' Up let their stampinup.net domain registration expire.  Subsequently, it looks like it was snapped up by a domain reseller.  Until this is resolved, anybody trying to go to your DBWS will see the following screen, instead:

 

This means, currently, you and your customers do not have access to your DBWS.

There is, however, a workaround you can use to continue to give them access to your online ordering site (which resides on the .com, rather than .net, site:

• Find all of your DBWS links
• Replace the DBWS URL with: http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/default.aspx?dbwsdemoid=XXXXX
• Replace XXXXX with your Demo ID

This will at least allow your customers to continue ordering product from you online.

If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below.  And please share this with every Demonstrator you know with a DBWS!

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STAMPING BUSINESS Q&A - How Do I Get Customers To Subscribe, Instead of Other Stamping Business Owners?

One of my clients recently asked me the following stamping business-building question: 

"The only people who sign up for my mailing list/blog/FB Page are other Demos. How do I minimize that and get actual customers to sign up, instead?"

ANSWER: Spend your marketing time and/or dollars in places where actual customers, rather than other Demos, hang out.

If you post a sample to Stampin' Connection, you're driving Demo traffic to your site. If you post the same sample to a forum with potential customers, you drive customer traffic to your site. Basically, you get what you ask for. Just know what you're asking for.

If you have any questions you'd like answered, just send me an e-mail.