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Aplus Case Study

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Aplus.Net 10350 Barnes Canyon Rd. San Diego, CA 92121 U.S.A.

The Challenge:

The Solutions: We identified the opportunity was specifically with their Miva shopping cart solution. Our aim was to provide custom installations and shopping cart establishment services as part of our Virtual LinkPoint gateway set up process. This would relieve their technicians of added support demand, meanwhile increase their much more valuable ecommerce client list without expanding their infrasture.

The Results: We've sold hundreds of Ecommerce enabled hosting accounts with gateway and shopping cart integrations with no added support or service demand on Aplus. To date, we have launched a turnkey website solution that allows Aplus customers to go from bricks to clicks in just a few hours.

Background:

We have partnered with Aplus to offer credit card processing to their e-commerce hosting customers. We can also persuade some of the business hosting accounts to convert to e-commerce accounts, which benefits the partner, as e-commerce accounts are more lucrative for them. Through our partnership we have been successful in signing up a consistently high number of accounts with a merchant account. We continue to market to their customer base and find creative ways to create interest in credit card processing. Aplus.Net is the Internet Services Division of Abacus America, Inc. Abacus America, Inc. is a privately held California corporation established in 1992. It provides quality Internet services nationwide. Other divisions include Rodopi Software - OSS software for the Internet Industry (www.rodopi.com)

Facilities based. We are facilities based provider. Click here for a tour of our facilities.

Experience matters. Aplus.Net is in the Internet Services since the start of the Internet. Aplus.Net owns and operates its own data center in San Diego. Click here for a tour.

Best support. Aplus.Net puts the emphasis on the quality of the customer support. We are one of the very few Internet Service Providers who still offers 24/7 TOLL FREE customer support.

One stop shopping. Aplus.Net provides variety of Internet services, so that our customers experience the convenience of having one provider. Aplus.Net offers:

• Domain name registration
• Web hosting (variety of plans)
• Dedicated servers
• Server colocation services
• Connectivity to the Internet
• E-mail services
• Photo album and file storage services
• Managed hosting
• Virtual Private Servers (VPS)
• Ecommerce
• Credit card processing gateway

Everything comes from one provider, one bill, one support phone to call.

Best prices. Part of our commitment to our customers is to provide the best prices in the industry. We have a 30 day money back guarantee for most services and we typically meet or beat competitor's prices.

Size matters. Unlike many smaller competitors and Resellers we are a solid facilities based service provider.(Click here for a quick facility tour) We employ over 100 workers and serve hundreds of thousands of customers.

Best brands of equipment. We use only the best and most reliable brands of hardware and software solutions to provide the best services to our customers. Our network runs on Cisco and our servers are based on Intel and Sun Microsystems products. Our data storage system is IBM.

Best backbone. We do not compromise on the quality of our backbone connection to the internet. We employ direct optical links (Sonnet Ring; OC-12 and OC-96) to the major backbones - WorldCom/UUNet and Sprint.

Automated operations. The key for our low prices and quality service is the complete automation of our facilities. This eliminates human errors, provides instant activation of services 24/7 and assures accurate billing with no errors.

Our people make the difference. All of our employees are highly skilled and trained. All key employees have been awarded stock options and they have vested interest in the company.

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