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Neil Saunders

Sydney, Australia

I'm a friendly technical project manager formerly from Apple with 20 years experience in domains, DNS, SSL, IP and most I.T. areas. Looking for good hosting? These guys are the best kept secret in hosting: https://www.tmzvps.com/command/aff.php?aff=249

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Entrepreneurship Social Media Web Hosting Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Domain Names DNS Domain Name Registration Apple Domain Name Disputes Apple Software

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Social Media for Business

Currently manage a few business brands on Social Media. Can advise on setup (and do setup for you) and advise on best practices for streamlining.

Hosting / SEO

Can advise on hosting setups, troubleshoot existing setups, advise on how to setup a web presence from scratch. Areas include DNS, Web, Mail, HTML and more.

Domain Names

Understand how domain registration, renewal and domain registry processes work. Experienced with lots of domain registrars. Worked with most of the country code top level domain registries.

Apple

Know most Apple products (Software/Hardware) inside out. Worked for Apple for 10 years.

DNS

Professional experience of running and troubleshooting a domain name service. Can translate the technical terminology and understand the complexities of how DNS works.

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Neil Saunders answered

What are some entrepreneur forums that provide a spot to discuss ideas and other startup topics?

Hey there, you could try the Founder Institute (www.fi.com) which is an entrepreneur training program. I've graduated from it last year. Happy to discuss more if you'd like details.

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Entrepreneur

Start-ups

Millennials

Neil Saunders answered

Which name best suites a platform in which users can seek advice from experts on a variety of life problems?

Also agree with Joseph regarding the risks of sharing names that you don't already own. For me, I'd say wisechat.co is the best. Why? It's two dictionary words, there's no ambiguity when saying it out loud, .co has become as respected as .com. The reason I'm not for crowdsage.com is that 'sage' is not a word used commonly so you could still have to explain it - and you never want to have to explain or spell your domain/email/company name. Same applies to the first two, and wisespace.me is phonetically poor with two 's'. That's IMHO anyway. Happy to discuss in detail over a call. Good luck!

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Domain Names

Name Development

Web Services

Neil Saunders answered

What sort of day job should you get as an entrepreneur trying to launch your own business?

I've been bootstrapping my own startup for about 12 months. IMO if you take a day job, you're sufficiently distracted to fail. I'm not sure how far down the entrepreneur path you are, but you'll realise that launching your own startup will take every hour you have. You'll work harder than ever - and you'll want to, because this is your idea. I sounds like you have accrued some skill and knowledge, so I would recommend consulting your expertise out to others. This let's you stay in control of your time, you pick the projects. If you can work on projects that are time flexible, then even better. If you can work in an area that also ties into your startup, then you're winning. IMO your "career progression" is what you learn from the entrepreneurial experience. To succeed, you need to put in 200% and the key is to make mistakes and make them quickly. If it all doesn't work out, then you can quickly get back to looking for a good job at a good company.

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Entrepreneurship

Career Management

Career Counseling

Neil Saunders answered

How can I best promote my solitaire game app?

Hi there,
I'd recommend having a strong social media presence. You could use Knowem.com to check availability of social media channels and they will show you the top ones you need to be on. Today you should at least have an Instagram in addition to a Facebook Page and a dedicated Twitter account. I can explain how to set all of this up and how to easily manage it too.

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Mobile applications

Web Applications

Mobile Marketing

Neil Saunders answered

Need a Hosting & IT Vendor for Referrals or Partnership with my Web Design Business

Hi there,
As a hosting expert, I can recommend the best host I have found (and use today) in my 20 years experience. They offer full control and a reseller setup if you want to do that. And their amazing support is always there if you need it. Book a call and we can discuss.
Thanks!

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Web development

Web Hosting

Managed Hosting

Neil Saunders answered

Is there ways to attain student .edu email information?

Hi there,
If I understand correctly, you want a definitive list of .edu domain names to compare users against to automatically approve them for your service?

The most authoritative list would be held by Educause - http://net.educause.edu/edudomain/index.asp but you won't necessarily be given the list. I would try dropping them an email anyway.

In the meantime, here are two other sources (but likely incomplete) that you could use.

1. https://github.com/Hipo/university-domains-list
2. http://pastebin.com/LND21t5F

If you'd like to discuss more, please schedule a call!
Best,
Neil

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Startup Consulting

Internet Entrepreneur

Email List Building

Neil Saunders answered

How to make a place in already crowded Business?

I’ve spent nearly half my career working in the hosting and ISP business. Back then it wasn’t so crowded :) Personally I believe you can deferentiate in many ways but first you must understand what the pain points are with successful hosting companies. Also what level of customer are you servicing? DigitalOcean IMHO do an amazing job but it’s not for the novice. Providing ease of use, value for money and legendary customer service are the 3 areas I would start with first. Happy to chat more if you’re keen.

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Marketing Strategy

New Business Development

Entrepreneurship

Neil Saunders answered

What is the typical SEO impact of adding Cloudflare to a Squarespace domain?

I started my 20 year career in the hosting and ISP business. I believe you are asking if there are negative consequences to adding a CDN like cloudflare to your domain. I would say there are only benefits. These days, the performance of your website is a ranking factor. Having the site responsive to requests regardless of where in the world they come from, can only be a benefit. My experience of Squarespace is that it hasn’t kept up with the innovations in CDN and the great things that Cloudflare have been doing. If you want to chat further, let me know!

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Squarespace

Reviews

Neil was responsive, smart and quick. He helped me quickly diagnose my client's DNS issues, while teaching me the ropes of domain management in the process. I'm very happy I worked with Neil--he saved my client's tail!

Jason Pelker Source: Clarity

Member since September 2015