We quite liked this possibly little known function in Zoho Sites that allows you to use a ‘Social Network Auto Publish’ feature, so that new posts or updates to the blog page will be automatically published in the user's social networking pages like Facebook and Twitter.

This is great as previously one would have to publish the blog then go to whatever social platform or even platforms you want to announce it on and then create the tweet statement plus the link, then publish that too. Over time this can get both time consuming and tedious, something that small business owners, many of whom wear many different hats, cannot afford!

To make use of this function in Zoho Sites go to… 

1. Settings
   
2. Social Network Auto Publish
   

See the screen shot below for more details:

Select the social platform you want to integrate - right now the options are for Facebook or Twitter - then fill in the settings fields, which allow you to state whether you want to post to users profile, page, blog title and description or title only, tags, prefixes and so on.

We've started doing this ourselves and must say it saves a lot of time.

Stay tuned for more Zoho tips and tricks!

Until a few years ago building websites required a lot of HTML & CSS page building and editing technical knowledge.

Jump forward to today and there are many excellent Website Content Management Systems (WCMS) to select from that make building and publishing websites much easier.

Note the term “much easier”.

Whilst WCMS suppliers push hard that no technical expertise is required and that it is so easy to develop, or redevelop, your own company website, do you, as a small business owner, really have the time, inclination, and the design skills, to do so?

At Mangoho, the official Zoho partner for Wales, we think that your time would be better spent developing new customers and increasing the loyalty of your existing ones, and leave the development of your website to us.

Our way of thinking is that with our technical and design knowledge we can quickly, and cost effectively, develop your website more quickly and probably at a lesser cost, than you.

After your site has gone live we can then support your website, or if you want, we can provide you with a minimal amount of Zoho Sites development training so that you can maintain the site for yourself.

So exactly what is a WCMS?

A website content management system is an application manages all your website content. For example it handles all your text, images, music, video, and documents and much more.

Additionally Zoho Sites is delivered using the Cloud there is no development tool to install or maintain, and, importantly Zoho Sites is a complete website “platform” as your website is also hosted by Zoho Corp.

And, importantly, Zoho Sites has a Free edition and recently many more features were added to the Zoho Sites Free version.

Consider the following features and compare them to what other WCMS suppliers are providing:

100% ad-free website, domain hosting, unlimited pages, unlimited galleries, unlimited slideshows, blog, scheduled blog post, themes gallery, mobile site, comment box, highlight box, 10 forms, 10 dynamic content, unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, banner slideshow, favicon, custom themes, code snippet, flash banner, page specific sidebar, page specific banner, Google search box, customizable sidebar, customizable footer, customizable 404, 301 redirect, header & footer code, hidden pages, audio player and a full HTML/CSS editor.

We believe that most WCMS providers will not be able to match these features in their free versions.

You can select from an exceptionally extensive collection of website themes, which we can also edit, which means that your takes on a very personal look and feel for your company.

The website themes are divided into the following categories: 

Art / Photography, Beauty, Business, Construction, Education, Fashion, Finance, Flowers, Furniture, Gift Shop, Health / Fitness, Hosting, Hotel, Interior, Mobile, Non Profit, Portfolio, Real Estate, Restaurant, Services, Sports, Travel, Vacation, and Wedding.

Vitally, given the massive growth in the use of smart devices, Zoho Sites developed websites are mobile-ready and are automatically optimized to look superb on mobile devices, without the need for two URLs.

Zoho Sites also supports features that helps that your website obtain a better position within search engine results.

And built directly into Zoho Sites is a visitor analysis which provides access to Google Webmaster tools so that you can review the search friendliness of your website and also daily, weekly, and yearly number of visitors to your website. 

At Mangoho we have a vast amount of experience of the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques that are used to make sure your website achieves advantageous positions within search engine results. 

And we also have extensive knowledge of Google Analytics which produces comprehensive statistics about your website's traffic and sources and can also measures website “conversions”.

Our knowledge of SEO and Google Webmaster tools and Google Analytics are further reasons to have your new website developed by Mangoho using the Zoho Sites WCMS. 

Zoho Sites Testimonial  

We recently received the following testimonial from Protostar Leadership Development, a leading HR and leadership management company in the UK. 

"Protostar Leadership Development Ltd is a UK based management consultancy that has been in operation since 2007. During this time, we have developed our business purely through word of mouth and now we wish to expand and be more proactive in attracting new business. 

To that end we needed a new website, something more than outlook contacts for tracking leads and the ability to administer email campaigns. 

Zoho appeared to offer the best integrated solution and Mangoho were ideal partners in advising, designing and setting up, Zoho Sites and incorporating various online forms that feed into Zoho CRM. Zoho Campaigns will also feed in directly, giving us far more control and visibility over our pipeline. 

We were initially worried that the leap from using a basic contact database to a CRM would be too much however Mangoho were able to advise us on what features to use initially and through their support package they will continue to advise and train as we get more confident and want to use more features.

They are also providing ongoing support for our website thereby freeing us up to deliver to our clients. 

We have found Mangoho to be very cost effective providers, responsive and flexible with no “hidden surprises” regarding cost. They have also been very patient with us as this has been a very new challenge for us."

Perhaps you are considering a new Internet presence?  Perhaps a new website or portal for your SMB, not for profit organization, or your community, school, or church activities?

Mangoho can develop it using Zoho Sites’ professionally created custom themes.

Contact us now by email at info at mangoho dot com or contacting Mangoho here to discover how Zoho Sites can power your new Internet presence. 

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Zoho Sites.

Zoho Sites is an online (cloud) based CMS, or Content Management System for websites. Zoho's latest online business tool is possibly the easiest CMS we have come across and maybe the easiest on the market!

It comes with a selection of approximately 20+ templates and we're told this will be grown in the future. It has an easy to read interface and intuitive drag and drop functions. Zoho Sites allows you to create an attractive personal or business related websites in literally minutes.

We thoroughly recommend this tool for individuals or businesses looking to create simple, affordable websites that look good and perform well and that are easy to maintain.

The average small-medium business needs to factor in costs of course, so the best part is that Zoho Sites is just 39USD per year.  Yes, host your website for about 20 quid a year!

Zoho have released a couple of videos showing how to use Zoho Sites, check this one out below to see just how easy it is!

Please contact us for further details or to have your website up and running in a few days.