AMSOIL Dealer Websites - Empowerkit
PS, if you have questions about website stuff, please reach out. We're happy to help.
Most of you have read by now that Empowerkit the company that maintains and manages dealer website is going
away.
Option 1. Wait to see if AMSOIL finds a solution
Option 2. Make something temporary that you can direct people two.
Option 3. Creaste your own AMSOIL website.
Back before empowerkit came around, AMSOIL offered lubedealer.com website that they managed internally, they decided to stop that and go with
empowerkit and many dealers lost their web presence when those sites no longer were available.
One sure thing, a website and domain that you own and control will be able to be used no matter what. Back in 2000 there were no website offerings. I created my first AMSOIL website from scratch learning how to code in HTML by looking at others website. Here is what my website looked like back in 2001: https://web.archive.org/web/20010712144739/http://www.lube-direct.com/
In 2008 I decided upgrade to web 2.0 and use a "blog style site" that is when I created our amsoil.lube-direct.com over the years we've had several upgrades, and remakes to make the site look nicer and perform better. We've moved hosting companies 3 times, but we never lost our website.
Our recommendation would be to get serious with your online presense and create your own website. First things first. Purchase your own domain. What is a domain name? A domain name is a unique, easy-to-remember address
used to access websites, such as ‘google.com’, and ‘facebook.com’. Users can connect to websites using domain names thanks to the DNS system.
You can have a domain without making your own website. Once you purchase a domain, you can "Point it" to any website address on the internet. You could point it to a facebook page, you could point it to your listing on our AMSOIL Buy Local. You could use a free service like https://linktr.ee/ etc.
Once you have your domain (that is the easy to remember URL that you purchase.) Then in the future you can learn to create your own website or pay someone to do it.
You can purchase a domain through a variety of sites. We
like NameCheap.com https://www.namecheap.com/domains/domain-name-search/
Be sure to follow the AMSOIL guidelines in the G4000 Policies and Procedures before you purchase a domain. Do some research, think about it, how will my domain be able to help differentiate me from other AMSOIL Dealers?