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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11pt;">A lot of people like the Internet because of the many things you can do with it. You can contact with your friends and families through social networking sites. You can purchase and even trade products online. You can write stories and write a blog. You can search for any </span><b style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: 11pt;">conceivable subject</b><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11pt;">. But if you would like to adjoin more things to the Internet, then you can try to have your own website. At this point you may ask: Who can make me a website? The answer is pretty easy. You can make your own web site. Else you can contact a web designer in your area. i belong to multan, pakistan so if you like to find <b><a href="http://rapidsolutionspk.com/about.html">web designer in pakistan</a>, you can find affordable <a href="http://rapidsolutionspk.com/">web designer in pakistan</a> </b>my skyp is zamirzamir84 and my whatsapp is 00923014188940</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11pt;">Whether you do not know HTML, and have no thought how to build a website, you may be asking yourself, how can I create a Web site? There are lots of ways for you to build your own site. Here are a few.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11pt;">There was a time when it<b> seemed</b> that all hope was lost. But those days are over and it will be a better day. Many thanks to the technology are not necessary to put a lot of money to someone to build your website, and you do not need much time to learn. While it is difficult to create your own website with HTML and then use an application on your computer so that web sites do so easily. Applications such as <b>Adobe Dreamweaver,</b> you can easily design a website without HTML coding script. It is very simple to use, but you have to charge to $ 299 for this application.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11pt;">Technology has advanced to the point where you can type in a few lines of information and click a button and produce a great looking site that is search engine friendly and <b>monetized</b> to make you money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11pt;">You can also create a Web page to provide when signing other sites that offer free web site building. These Web sites such as weebly.com webs.com and offers many features to help you, your own website. They offer proficiently designed templates to choose for your website. They also have an editor help you, just the template can. With it you can modify the background color of the model and even add logos, if desired. Want for content that can create a simple drag and drop web editor you use to text, images, music, videos and other Web content to add. They have also promotion tools to promote your website on the search engines. If you try to make an online store, these sites also offer free services for online transactions <b>via PayPal</b> or Google Checkout. Another large part on the use of this service also offers free hosting. Web servers are those that maintain and preserve online sites. So with a free Web-hosting provider, you can have your website for free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Architects might be capable of designing stunning buildings and cities, but web design generally isn't their forte. One common mistake that architects make when building their own websites is not using a CMS, or content management system.<br /><br />A CM Sis a computer program that allows you to publish, edit, and modify content from a central interface, making the website management process more flexible and streamlined. With a CMS, you could easily edit your website from the convenience of your office or work site. Below are some of the advantages of using a CMS for your architecture firm's website.<br /><br /><b>Handle Ongoing Website Maintenance on Your Own</b><br /><br />Say goodbye to the days of paying your webmaster a steep hourly fee to upload new images to your online architecture portfolio or edit content on your website. CMSs tend to be intuitive and easy to use. No technical knowledge is required to use a CMS, so virtually anyone in your office can use it to update your site.<br /><br />Only you know exactly how you want your website to look and what you want it to say.The good news is that a CMS gives you direct control of your website and allows you to add new pages, blog posts, images, videos, etc. with greater ease. CMSs enable you to make changes practically in real-time, so you can update your website as needed and continually improve its effectiveness.<br /><br /><b>Ease of Collaboration</b><br /><br />A CMS can streamline collaboration and workflow at your architecture firm. For example,if you want several staff members to contribute blog posts to your website, you could create accounts for each of them and have them upload their posts directly to the blog. A CMS also facilitates the process of editing and approving blog content from different authors before it gets published.<br /><br /><b>Update Your Project Portfolio Whenever You Want, Wherever You Want</b><br /><br />A CMS with a built-in portfolio module enables you to easily update images, videos,and descriptions of your projects, so you're not at the mercy of your web master's schedule. Having the ability to quickly and easily update your portfolio is essential to ensuring that your site remains up-to-date. Fresh, relevant content also improves your website's search engine visibility and gives visitors a reason to come back to your website again and again.<br /><br /><b>Effective SEO</b><br /><br />SEO,or search engine optimization, is vital to the success of your architecture firm's website because it boosts your site's search engine visibility and helps you attract qualified leads. When you have a CMS with built-in SEO features, on-page SEO tasks like adding title tags and description tags and optimizing content for target keywords are a piece of cake.<br /><br />LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT CMS FOR YOUR ARCHITECTURE FIRM'S WEBSITE?<br />From WordPress to Drupal, open-source CMSs abound. However, open-source CMSs aren't robust enough to meet the unique requirements of architects because they have disparate plug-ins and modules that don't work harmoniously together. That's why the web design & development pros at efelle media have created a powerful, all-in-one CMS called FusionCMS, which has complementary modules that do the following:<br /><br /><b>·Website content management<br /><br />·Services pages organized by category with built-in SEO<br /><br />·Easily searchable portfolio with images, videos, and descriptions<br /><br />·Staff bios with printable PDFs<br /><br />·Testimonials& case studies<br /><br />·Mobile-specific website<br /><br />·Display one or all locations on your site in an attractive fashion<br /><br />·Send and track branded email newsletters<br /><br />·Blog with categories, multiple users, and photo galleries</b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-5773336524581173292017-01-14T11:37:00.000-08:002017-01-14T11:37:06.308-08:00The Ideal Social Media Marketing Workflow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Social media marketing is a part of online marketing and public relations that companies can no longer ignore. Unfortunately, these efforts are time consuming and need attention to detail. It’s important to gain as much efficiency in your workflow as possible to cut the time you spend.<br /><br />The following suggested workflow comes for years of social media marketing experience. It may not suit every marketer, but it will at least help you think about ways to streamline your efforts.<br /><br />Don’t take all of these four steps on one social media site and then move to the next. You will lose insights that could be transferred among your social media outlets. Instead, do step one on each of your social media sites before moving onto step two. Consider using a social media management application to streamline your efforts.<br /><br /><b>1. Log in and Interact</b><br /><br />Logging in to your social media sites every day is the wisest course, especially if your social media goals include public relations. Only by checking updates often can you catch consumer complaints early and handle them quickly. For this reason, logging in and checking updates should be the first item on your social media marketing workflow.<br /><br /><b>2. Respond, Respond, Respond</b><br /><br />Responding directly to your customers is very important, especially if they send you a direct message. Interacting every day helps you form more connections and it keeps your finger on the pulse of your ideal consumer. Do this second on your list to prime you for sharing on topics that matter to your audience.<br /><br />Be personable, friendly and helpful in your interactions, not focused on reciting corporate policies or trying to present a professional image. The idea here is to connect on a personal level with your client base.<br /><br /><b>3. Post, Share, Stimulate</b><br /><br />Now that you know what’s on the mind of your audience, you’re ready to find and share information to help them solve every day problems or just to amuse them. While some marketing messages are okay, such as notifying consumers about your next scheduled sale, the focus should be on helping the consumer, not increasing your sales figures.<br /><br />Look for items of interest to your audience and link to them. Throw in a few comics or funny pictures for spice and keep marketing messages to a minimum. This is the best way to entertain your audience while attracting new members.<br /><br /><b>4. Target New Customers</b><br /><br />Now that you’ve tidied up your social media pages, it’s wise to hunt down users who are likely to have an interest in your business by searching users and following them. A return follow gets you a new audience member and potential customer.<br /><br />Following this workflow cuts the time you spend on social media marketing, leaving you free to follow up on your other marketing efforts. You may even save enough time that you can update your social media sites several times a day.<br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-35895173965598231422017-01-14T11:36:00.001-08:002017-01-14T11:36:15.376-08:00Improving Website Leads for Your Professional Services Firm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
LEARN HOW TO GENERATE HIGH-QUALITY LEADS FOR YOUR AEC FIRM WITH CONTENT MARKETING.<br /><br />You have a summit-law-firm-website-design.jpg well designed website for your professional services firm that is populated with high-quality content. Now it’s time to sit back, relax, and watch the traffic and sales roll in, right? Wrong! Just because you have a website doesn’t mean that people are going to find it right away or eagerly buy your services. You must develop a strong content marketing strategy to ensure that your website gets found and attracts qualified leads that are likely to convert into sales.<br /><br />First, do extensive research to determine what your audience is looking for online. In online marketing, knowing what your audience wants is half the battle. Create a strategy to lead your audience to what they want and then determine what action you want them to take.<br /><br />Some people who come to your site will be ready to buy, while others will still be looking for information to help them make a purchase decision. Your website’s content and offers should communicate both to those who are ready to buy and to those who are still in the process of researching their options.<br /><br />THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTENT<br /><br />The primary factor that sets lead generation websites apart from your average business website is the format and quality of the content. Lead generation websites typically boast an extensive and varied collection of educational content. By consistently publishing value-packed articles, e-books, white papers, etc., you can position yourself as a thought leader and draw in more qualified prospects.<br /><br />Instead of going out to find prospects with marketing and advertising, allow prospects to find you via your thought leadership. Quality content acts like a magnet – prospects are likely to find it via search engines and social media websites as you publish it. Below are some different content formats you can work with:<br /><br /> Blog posts – Blog posts are relatively short and easily digestible articles that are published on a frequent basis.<br />
<br /> Guides – Guides are PDF documents that are typically between 10 and 30 pages long and focus on a specific topic. You can secure leads by having prospects provide their contact information in exchange for a guide.<br />
<br /> E-books – E-books are usually 50 pages or longer. Authoring an e-book positions you as an expert in your industry. You can sell your e-book via Amazon and your website or offer it for free in exchange for an email address to boost your lead generation efforts.<br />
<br /> Webinars – Webinars are seminars conducted over the Internet that help you generate new leads as well as nurture existing prospects. Similarly to live speaking events, webinars enhance your visibility but without the hassles of traveling to an event.<br />
<br /> Videos – A growing number of Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) firms are using online videos, as many people prefer watching videos instead of reading text. You can create videos for case studies, company overviews, service descriptions, virtual tours, etc.<br />
<br /> White papers – A white paper is a report that helps your audience understand an issue, make a decision, or solve a problem.<br />
<br /> E-newsletters – E-newsletters are typically used to provide educational content on a regular basis. You can write exclusive content for e-newsletters or simply link to your latest webinars, blog posts, videos, etc.<br /><br />The content formats you choose to publish on your site will depend on many factors, including your audience and budget. If you have limited resources, stick with blog posts and e-newsletters, which are easier and quicker to produce. If you have the time, money, and capabilities, try to produce a variety of content, including webinars, videos, guides, and e-books. <br /><br />The type of content you publish will also depend on your audience’s preferences. Determine what content formats your audience likes to consume and when. You can evaluate your audience’s wants and needs by requesting feedback and surveying them. Whatever content you choose to produce, be sure to publish a mix of short-form and long-form content. Short-form content, like blog posts, are effective at drawing traffic in, while long-form content, like e-books and guides, help you generate and convert leads.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-1664748002311041382017-01-14T11:34:00.001-08:002017-01-14T11:34:52.662-08:005 Ways to Improve Your Professional Services Firm’s Website<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>ATTENTION AEC FIRMS: IS YOUR WEBSITE WORKING FOR OR AGAINST YOU? </b><br />
<br />Online marketing Online Marketing Services by RapidSolutions has transformed the way that professional services firms do business. Most Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) firms have brochure-style websites, but as the web evolves, it has become essential to build an interactive website that is capable of attracting targeted traffic and converting visitors into leads. Below are 5 ways to improve the results of your professional services firm’s website.<br /><br /><br /><b>1. BLOG</b><br />Blogs are at the core of almost every successful content marketing strategy. While case studies and white papers still have their place, they are overwhelming for newcomers to your website. A blog allows AEC firms to generate fresh, easily digested website content that attracts and retains new visitors.<br /><br />Write on topics that are relevant to the services you provide and incorporate target keywords into your blog posts. Not only will a blog position your AEC firm as an industry authority, it will also make your website easier for prospects to find. RapidSolutions’s professional content management system (CMS), FusionCMS, includes a blog module that allows you to easily update your blog content to engage visitors and improve your website’s search engine visibility.<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>2. SOCIAL SHARING</b><br />It’s not enough to just publish website content and hope that people will find it. AEC firms must jump on the social media bandwagon in order to spread the word about their websites. FusionCMS’s blog module is integrated with social media, enabling readers to instantly share your content across social networks like Facebook and Twitter.<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>3. SEO</b><br />One of the most effective online marketing methods for AEC firms is SEO, or search engine optimization. SEO helps your website get found online. It involves identifying the keywords that potential clients are using to find sites like yours and then optimizing your website content for those keywords. RapidSolutions designs and develops AEC firm websites with SEO in mind. Our FusionCMS platform also streamlines the process of creating SEO-friendly web pages and content.<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>4. RESPONSIVE DESIGN</b><br />To ensure that your website is equipped to capture all of the leads it receives, it’s essential to create a mobile-friendly version of your website. Responsively designed websites provide an optimal viewing experience on all types of devices, from smartphones, to tablets, to desktop computers. Having a mobile-friendly website is crucial these days, considering that 24% of total website traffic came from mobile devices in the first quarter of 2013, up 78% from the same time in 2012. AEC firms that use FusionCMS are provided with a mobile website that is driven and managed by the same CMS as their desktop site, so a single edit updates both sites simultaneously. <br /><br /><br /><b>5. ENTICING CALLS-TO-ACTION</b><br />Each page of your website should feature messaging about your product or service as well as a strategic offer. The offer should be as specific to the page as possible. When crafting offers for each page, consider what the page is about and who will be reading it.<br /><br />Encourage visitors to click on a button to contact you or provide you with their email address. Your website visitors don’t want to fill out a long form or click on an offer that’s difficult to decipher, so make sure that any offer that you make is eye-catching, clear, and brief. FusionCMS’s form builder module allows you to design and generate custom forms and develop clear calls-to-action for your website in a matter of minutes to collect contact information or newsletter and offer signups.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-31316360005021562662017-01-14T11:31:00.000-08:002017-01-28T04:07:31.660-08:00Image SEO for eCommerce <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
use alt tags accurately<br /><br />many store web sites location all their electricity in growing the suitable product descriptions, preserving them brief, to the factor and rich with important key phrases. but the phrases customers don’t see are simply as crucial. the ones invisible words are inside the alt tags of your pics.<br /><br />alt tags were designed to offer descriptions of pix. because they can assist the impaired via describing what is at the display screen, google values alt tags which might be relevant and useful. websites that use them properly are rewarded with better seek engine scores. preserve your alt descriptions quick and descriptive, the use of only one keyword. google looks down on sites that abuse alt tags for seo price.<br />
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Search Engine searching your pictures in eCommerce website.<br /><br />The way pix seo strategies appear on web sites and the information protected with those snap shots play crucial parts in seo. without right photo optimization, your online retail save is lacking an opportunity to tug in extra site visitors and revel in higher seek engine rankings. If have an internet shop, the following photo optimization tips will help you beat out your opposition in the seek engine ratings:<br /><br /><br /><br />select the right picture document sorts<br /><br />document type and length play crucial roles in e-commerce net optimization. JPEG and GIF pictures are extensively smaller than popular PNG photos, but the fine of GIF pics is bad. the solution is to pick out JPEG as an alternative. most important stores which include Amazon use JPEG pix to boom the rate of the internet site's load time with out compromising image quality. This maintains site visitors from clicking away because it takes too long on your web page to load. It additionally allows because Google encourages quicker web page masses through penalizing sites that load too slowly in the search algorithm.<br /><br />Going returned thru your website’s image catalog to convert to JPEG is not any smooth venture. even as there are internet site tools that will help you limit report sizes, converting all your photographs from one layout to another is a huge task. as a substitute, begin converting to a JPEG format as you add products to your catalog.<br /><br />don't Overload Your Pages with Thumbnails<br /><br />Thumbnail pix are crucial to the fulfillment of every on-line retail store. They permit clients to glance at merchandise with out navigating to man or woman product pages for every object of hobby. Too many thumbnail images, but, will sluggish down your load times.<br /><br />make certain you have simply enough thumbnail pix to keep your customers happy. For maximum stores, the default wide variety of thumbnail photographs in a product seek is around 25, then giving clients options to see greater gadgets in keeping with page if they prefer. that is an ideal balance, letting clients to get a quick response to product searches with out limiting their options or slowing page load. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-7080947198429395962017-01-14T11:20:00.006-08:002017-01-14T11:20:58.933-08:00What to Do After Using a Website Builder<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Many people make the mistake of building a website and doing nothing else with it once it is complete. Building a website with a site builder is especially easy to do, and it can be easy to forget that there is more to a successful website than just getting it built. There are many things you need to do after your website is complete.</div>
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First, you want to make sure that your website content stays updated. Updated web pages are more likely to be listed in the search engines. It is also important to continually add content to your site, such as additional pages with informative articles. This too will help with search engine placement. If you have a shopping cart, you will need to keep your cart updated and inventory running smoothly. And, if you have a message board, you will need to monitor it closely and add in comments where necessary.</div>
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Next, you want to make sure your site gets listed in the search engines, primarily Google. Your first step is to submit your site to the search engines. A good website builder will do this for you or allow for a simple submission method that is easy to follow. Once your site is submitted, you can also submit a site map to Google to make sure that the entire site is indexed. Again, a good website builder will walk you through this process.</div>
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The next thing you want to do is promote your website. You will need to promote your website through internet marketing if you want to get listed in the search engines and drive traffic to your site. You can do this by getting links to your site through guest blogging, submitting your site to directories, and through article marketing. These are the easiest ways to use internet marketing to promote your website, and you can find a lot of information about this online.</div>
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Once you have promoted your website and gotten listed in the search engine listings, you need to monitor your site to make sure that everything you have been doing is working to your advantage. You can do this by tracking your website’s traffic. There are many tools available for you to do this. However, a good website builder will have website tracking software built in so all you have to do is look at the tracking results. The tracking data should include how many visitors you have had come to your site, how they found your site, and where they are located generally. You can then use this information to determine whether or not your site is generating the type of traffic you need in order to make it successful. If it is not, you can go back and update the content and make sure that everything is search engine optimized to improve numbers.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-40993438307798175462017-01-14T11:20:00.003-08:002017-01-14T11:20:21.968-08:00What People Love About Web Builders<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If you are just starting to consider building a website, you might be wondering what all the hype is about with web builders. If you are completely new to building websites, you may not realize why people love web builders so much. Read on to discover the truth about why web builders are so popular.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cost Effective</strong></div>
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People love website builders because they are cost effective. It is much, much cheaper to build a website in this fashion than to hire someone to build a site for you. Getting a website built professionally can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, depending on how complex the site becomes and what you want included, such as a shopping cart. On the other hand, a website builder can be very inexpensive, as low as twenty bucks a month. This is much easier for most people and new businesses to come up with than several hundred dollars at one time.</div>
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Online web builders are also often much less expensive than software that you purchase for the same purpose. While you can get website software free or cheap, this software usually does not come with all the features you need for your website, such as shopping carts or message boards. The software that does come with all the bells and whistles is usually almost as expensive as getting a site built for you by a professional, and the software can be difficult to learn.</div>
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It is also cheaper than taking courses to learn how to build a website yourself from scratch. It can be difficult to learn how to build a site on your own without help. There are a lot of free resources online that you can use to learn HTML, but for the most part these are complicated and hard to understand. Buying courses that teach you these skills can run in the neighborhood of fifty to a hundred dollars per course, if not more. And, several courses are generally required in order for you to successfully build a site from the ground up with nothing but code.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Easy to Use</strong></div>
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Site builders are extremely easy to use. Unlike trying to build a site from scratch, these web applications make it very easy and quick to build a website from the ground up. They are also easier to use than many software programs that do the same thing. Rather than having to go through a lot of features of a website, a good site builder uses an easy point and click system to make changes to the layout and content of your website. They also make it very easy to use to update the website once it is up and running. Not only do they make it easier to build a basic site, but they also make it easier to use great features like shopping carts and message boards.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-39237807178147687822017-01-14T11:20:00.000-08:002017-01-14T11:20:01.077-08:00Recommended Uses for Web Builders<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There are many good uses for web builders but they are not for every purpose. There are some websites that will not make good use of a website builder. However, the following list of website ideas is great for web builders.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Personal Websites</strong></div>
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There are many personal websites that will be great for using a website builder to create. You can use a site builder to create any number of personal websites, including photo albums and family newsletters. You can use the website builder to create a portfolio of your work to showcase to employers, as well as an online resume to distribute. Essentially, a personal website can include nearly anything you want it to, and a good site builder should be able to handle any ideas you come up with.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Non Profit Websites</strong></div>
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Non profits can really make use of website builders. They can appreciate the low cost of these site builders, and make good use of their features. They can allow for a message board for allowing visitors to discuss the issues behind the charity, and they can offer a PayPal donation button easily as well. They can even use the shopping cart software to offer products for sale, for which the profit goes to benefit the organization or the issue behind it. Since non profit websites are largely informative, site builders are a great option.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Small Business Websites</strong></div>
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Site builders are also a good choice for small business websites. They can often support all of the features you need a small business website to have, including a shopping cart. They will also be able to support features such as an autoresponder, newsletters, and message boards.</div>
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Just because you have a small business doesn’t mean you don’t do big business. Even if you have a lot of products to offer, the shopping cart software with some of the best website builders should be able to handle the volume. There should be no reason why you cannot use a site builder for this reason.</div>
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In addition, small business websites can make use of many payment methods easily with the shopping cart software included in the best website builders. It should be a simple matter to set up your shopping cart with payment methods such as credit cards and PayPal, especially if you already have a merchant account to connect to the site. If you don’t have a merchant account already, you will need to get one. Often website builders will recommend one to you that they have partnered with, but this may not be the best one to go with. Shop around and make sure you use the right merchant that will be compatible with your website and shopping cart software.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-14118913995219942012017-01-14T11:19:00.002-08:002017-01-14T11:19:36.146-08:00Blog and Website Editors<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">BlogJet</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>( <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://www.codingrobots.com/blogjet/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.codingrobots.com/blogjet/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) – BlogJet is another really nice blog editor for Windows. They offer a stripped-down version for free, but the full version comes at a cost.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">IllumineX Ecto</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>( <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://illuminex.com/ecto/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">illuminex.com/ecto/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) – Provides the essential word processing features that have become common in programs such as Word, but they also make it easy to integrate images, videos, maps, and more into your website.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Kompozer</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>( <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://kompozer.net/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">kompozer.net</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) – Kompozer is a website creation and editing program that WYSIWYG website editing that allows you to create an HTML website without the need to know any code. Kompozer is a completely free program that allows you to manage your files and author website content. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Review: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://download.cnet.com/KompoZer/3000-10247_4-10655200.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody;1d#editorsreview" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">http://download.cnet.com/KompoZer/3000-10247_4-10655200.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody;1d#editorsreview</a></em></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MacJournal</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>( <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://www.marinersoftware.com/products/macjournal/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.marinersoftware.com/products/macjournal/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) – MacJournal is an full featured editor that has the ability to post to blogs. You can also record podcasts and videos from inside the app and attach them to your blog posts.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MarsEdit</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>( <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) – MarsEdit is great currently my personal favorite for the Mac, and what I’m currently using to type this very post. As of version 3, it now has rich text editing (aka WYSIWYG).</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MyBlogEdit</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>( <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://createlivelove.com/applications/myblogedit/myblogedit.html" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">createlivelove.com/applications/myblogedit/myblogedit.html</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) – MyBlogEdit is another editor, however you have to write your post in HTML.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">RocketPosts</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>( <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://www.anconia.com/rocketpost/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.anconia.com/rocketpost/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) – RocketPost looks to be a pretty nice editor with some pretty handy features for saving time. In several ways, it actually outshines Windows Live Writer. IT comes in at $49 for the multi-blog license, however.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Windows Live Writer</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>( <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-other-programs?T1=t5" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-other-programs?T1=t5</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) – Windows Live Writer is an offline website tool that can be used to manage the content on your website. Windows Live Writer also allows you to edit any pictures or videos that you may feature on your website. With its free price tag, it’s tough to beat WLW. The only downside is that it’s only designed for PC’s at the moment (see the Mac options). If you own a PC and run a blog, then there’s no reason to skip the convenience and power of WLW. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Review: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://techcrunch.com/2006/08/13/windows-live-writer/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">http://techcrunch.com/2006/08/13/windows-live-writer/</a></em></li>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Graphic Design Tools</strong></h3>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Graphics for Internet Marketers</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>( <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://mooshpay.com/Hop/203/2pv2mg" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Mega Graphic Pack</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) - This graphics pack for Internet marketers includes 21 modules of graphics all professionally designed. This package is VERY newbie friendly, you don’t need to be a graphic designer to use these. Training is included showing you how to edit these graphics in Sumo Paint, Gimp, or Pixler. (PhotoShop is not required)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Graphic Creator Wizard</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>( <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://www.diywebsitetools.com/graphic-creator/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">www.diywebsitetools.com/graphic-creator/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) – This is a free tool that allows anyone to create professional sales page graphics without any PhotoShop skills. The Graphic Creator Wizard gives you the following four graphic creator options: Headline Creator; Buy Now Creator; Belcher Button Creator; Guarantee Creator.</li>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Photo and Image Editing</strong></h3>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gimp.org</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>( <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://www.gimp.org/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.gimp.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) – GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Web Design Library</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>( <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://www.webdesign.org/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.webdesign.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) – Web Design Library is an internationally refereed resource that provides a platform for the dissemination of design thinking and research. It covers all theoretical and practice-oriented aspects of the effective, efficient and attractive presentation of information on-line.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Read more: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://www.webdesign.org/about.php#ixzz1mkc5KNHw" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.webdesign.org/about.php#ixzz1mkc5KNHw</a></em></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Browsershots.com</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>( <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://browsershots.org/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">browsershots.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) – This service is free and simple to use. Once you input your website url into the search box, it will return nearly 100 different screen shots showing you how others see your site. This is a very useful tool for trouble shooting problems that end users might report when coming to visit your site.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WebsiteOptimization.com</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>( <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130328111819/http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/-" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) – This tool tells you how long it takes your site to load at various speeds, it will also suggest areas you can change to improve your site loading time. Page load time is important to conversion. Pages that take longer than 10 seconds to load more often than not lose their visitor.</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-17392861725627798942017-01-14T11:17:00.003-08:002017-01-14T11:17:30.813-08:00Are You Using Your Website to Launch a Product?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A blog is an important tool that your small business can use to launch a new product or service. By engaging customers early and often with your expertise and the promise that you can solve their problems, a blog is a great way to identify new leads in order to sell your latest products to them. Here are some suggestions on how to use a blog for your product launch:</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Set Up the Expectations for a Product Launch on Your Blog</strong></h3>
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Customers should know when your product will launch and specifically when they can expect to receive opportunities to receive discounts and to share those discounts with their friends. Don’t surprise them with your offers and promotions. Give them fair warning that a special offer is coming their way so that they have a chance to build anticipation.</div>
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This is especially important because many customers won’t make a purchase the first time at your website. They will need to think over the decision and to be prompted by you to take action eventually. If they know it’s coming, they’ll be far more likely to respond to your promotions during the product launch.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Provide Ways to Keep Your Customers in the Loop</strong></h3>
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At the end of each blog post about your upcoming product launch, provide opportunities for your readers to subscribe to your blog or email list. Also offer an invite to connect with your company’s Facebook page and Twitter account. These are all simple ways to keep in touch with your customers. In the case of social media and an RSS feed, these provide softer reminders that will keep customers in the loop.</div>
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In the case of email, you’ll be able to directly write to your customers about specific service and product opportunities leading up to and including your product launch.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Segment Your Customers Into an Email List for Long Term Growth</strong></h3>
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If you’re just dumping all of your promotions and launches into one huge mailing list, you may lose subscribers and you won’t be able to write effective copy in order to reach all of your new leads effectively. Some subscribers may just want your free offers for now and will need more time to make up their minds. Others may want to make a purchase today if you can persuade them, but that requires making a very specific sales pitch that your less interested subscribers won’t want to read.</div>
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How you write to a lead as opposed to a more committed customer will be different, and that’s why you’ll need to write different kinds of posts that will attract both to your small business website and provide simple ways you can send emails directly to them both.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ask Your Readers for Feedback</strong></h3>
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If you want to be in business for long, you’re going to need to plan your next product and your next product launch. Your customers can reply to emails, leave comments, or respond via social media. However, just having these outlets isn’t enough. You need to invite them to leave comments and to enter into the conversation with you.</div>
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By providing survey forms or simple prompts to share their questions or experiences, you’ll set up a feedback system that you can use to collect information for your next product. Your latest product may not solve all of your customers’ current problems, and if they’ve already made a purchase from you, they may be willing to give your next product a shot as well.</div>
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If you’re already asking customers for their feedback, you’re going to need a way to collect and respond to their feedback. Don’t overlook the importance of training support staff or budgeting time in order to respond to social media and email queries. Your ability to care for customers personally is one of your greatest advantages as a small business. If you can’t effectively manage the feedback you receive, then you may do more harm than good when you ask for feedback, as an ignored customer will become a disgruntled customer.</div>
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However, if you can find customers willing to engage with you and to offer feedback, they may also become some of your most loyal customers. They may even help you advertise your next launch. Keep a list of every customer who provided helpful feedback, whether positive or negative, and ask them to help preview your next products before and during the launch in order to create some advance buzz.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-70119463248300909222017-01-14T11:14:00.005-08:002017-01-14T11:14:59.119-08:00How to Plan Website Landing Page Design<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Every landing page design tutorial for a small business website design will provide some basic places to start: planning steps, SEO tips, keyword suggestions, and suggestions for which design elements lead to the highest click-through rate. It can be especially overwhelming when you look at galleries of 30-50 perfect landing pages. Where does a website designer begin with planning a successful landing page?<br /><br /><b>Determine Your Landing Page Focus</b><br /><br />The place to start with a landing page is to focus on a specific action related to a specific result. You can’t design your page unless you determine whether you want website visitors to sign up for a mailing list or to purchase a product. If you’re selling a product, then you need to provide sales numbers, endorsements, a special discount, and possibly even a video demonstrating your product.<br /><br />On the other hand, building a mailing list requires a very different kind of landing page. You’ll need to focus on presenting details that drive home the reasons to belong to your list such as the number of subscribers, the free gift for subscribers, discounts for subscribers, and unique industry insights that only you can provide.<br /><br /><b>Frame Your Landing Page</b><br /><br />Once you have a focus in mind for your landing page, you can move on to framing your website with a collaborative website design tool called Mockingbird. Mockingbird provides simple website frames that you can build and modify without having to set all of your coding in stone or even build a website in the first place. The drag and drop functionality makes it easy to add elements to your website landing page mockup and then test out which work the best.<br /><br />If you need to do some split tests of your landing page, something every expert recommends, then you will especially want to look into several variations of your landing page. Mockingbird makes preparing for these tests especially easy since you can develop a couple different versions and tweak each of them based on your results over time.<br /><br />Mockingbird provides a simple grid layout that easily integrates various text sizes and media elements such as videos and pictures. You’ll have a clear sense of how to lay out your website before you add a single bit of code to your HTML document. In addition, Mockingbird provides a series of common website elements that you can drop right into your website mockup.<br /><br /><b>Advantages of Mockingbird</b><br /><br />Mockingbird is a fully web-based website design tool, so you’ll never have to worry about being unable to access your work when you’re in a variety of locations. This also makes it extremely easy to invite several collaborators to your website project.<br /><br />If you need to share your mockup with a client, you can export your design as an image or as a pdf file that is easily emailed to everyone with a stake in the project. Edits and overhauls are easily done by resetting your design or dragging and dropping various elements around your design.<br /><br /><b>The Cost of Mockingbird</b><br /><br />Mockingbird isn’t free, but none of the landing page design tools around are free. The least expensive option is $9 per month, which will quickly pay for itself if you need to work with collaborators in different locations.<br /><br />While Mockingbird provides a very basic service for designers, it takes a lot of the guesswork out of the design process and streamlines the process of working with colleagues in multiple locations. You can test out Mockingbird on the cheap and then determine whether it is the best solution for your website design process.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-27785907894600519072017-01-14T11:13:00.002-08:002017-01-14T11:13:47.110-08:00Marketing, Reporting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Constant Contact</b> ( www.constantcontact.com ) – Create a branded newsletter that can be emailed to your reader/customer base at the touch of a button. This service is trusted by many small business owners and is highly customizable. There are more than 400 templates to choose from so you can find one that matches your existing site very easily.<br />
<br /><b>LinkPopularity.com</b> ( www.linkpopularity.com ) – Build your off page SEO by looking at who is linking to your competitors. See which web pages are publishing content relative to your competition. With that information in hand, you can seek to build your own relationship with that site. If you decide to do this, be sure to maintain the highest professional standards.<br />
<br /><b>Mail Chimp</b> ( www.mailchimp.com ) – MailChimp is a great tool to use to help manage your marketing newsletters. The program features customizable templates, CMS services such as WordPress and many other features that many small businesses will find useful. Review: http://www.pcworld.com/appguide/app.html?id=490567<br />
<br /><b>Marketing Grader by Hubspot </b>( marketing.grader.com ) – This is an excellent tool to let you know how your website is doing in a wide variety of marketing strategies. Essentially, it produces a report that analyzes what you are doing to bring visitors to your website, keep them there, and then convert them into customers.<br />Statistics, Research<br /><br /><b>Alexa.com</b> ( www.alexa.com ) – Alexa.com is a provider of free, global web metrics. Search Alexa to discover the most successful sites on the web by keyword, category, or country. Use their analytics for competitive analysis, benchmarking, market research, or business development. Use Alexa’s Pro tools to optimize your company’s presence on the web.<br />
<br /><b>FreshBooks</b> ( www.freshbooks.com ) – Freshbooks is an online invoicing system that allows you to track the time spent with multiple clients. This program also lets you send invoices via email or regular mail. Freshbooks is an easy to use program that allows you to easily track your income and what you are paying out. Reviews: http://techcrunch.com/2006/10/05/freshbooks-invoicing-reports-how-you-stack-up/<br /><br />
<b>Google Analytics</b> ( www.google.com/analytics/ ) – Google analytics is a web business application that helps increase the amount of traffic your website experiences. Google analytics can also show you how visitors found your website which in turn can help you improve your website to make it run more efficiently.<br /><br />
<b>PDFOnline</b> ( www.pdfonline.com ) – PDFOnline comes in handy because they allow you to convert the document into a PDF format so that all of your intentional indents and embedded graphics stay exactly where you put them. You can convert MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Publisher, Text, or certain images to PDF just by uploading them to the website.<br />Shopping Carts, Payments<br /><br /><b>Checkout by Amazon</b> ( payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business/cba ) – The JavaScript code used by Amazon means you will be able to rely on the Amazon servers for your online shopping cart. This means less down time and that your shoppers will be able to use data already securely stored in the Amazon accounts for making purchases. With the popularity of Amazon, consumers will have confidence that your eCommerce shop can be trusted.<br />
<br /><b>Google Checkout</b> ( checkout.google.com/sell/ ) – This service might be the most easy to understand of all the ones listed. In part, this is due to Google’s experience managing large amounts of information. When it comes to integrating Google Checkout as your online shopping cart, there are a wide variety of options, including a mobile check out process.<br />
<br /><b>PayPal.com</b> ( www.paypal.com ) – PayPal lets you sell online to anyone with a credit card. They don’t even need a PayPal account to pay you. You don’t need advanced programming skills to add a payment button to your site. It takes about 15 minutes to get up and running. With low rates and no monthly fees,* PayPal can help reduce your TOTAL processing costs.<br />
<br /><b>Yahoo Ecommerce for Small Businesses</b> ( smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/features ) – There are many layers of service available from Yahoo and they are utilized by more Internet Retailers® Top 500 retailers than any other hosted service. The Yahoo online shopping cart is easy to set up and highly customizable. They also offer customer support over the phone during traditional business hours.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-18869334835812985862017-01-14T11:10:00.001-08:002017-01-14T11:10:03.379-08:00How to Not Fail at Social Media for Your Business Website<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It’s easy to set up social media accounts for your small business website, but it’s even easier to get it completely wrong. While social media can be a bit of a moving target at times, there are some basic practices that you should always integrate into your website’s use of social media:<br />
<br />Start with Goals Before Tactics<br /><br />It’s quite common for business owners to start with “how” to do social media when they really need to think about why they’re using social media and what they hope to gain from it. Once you can strategically figure out where your business is going and how social media can help you accomplish your goals, you’ll have a better idea of how to use it.<br /><br />For instance, you could focus on using social media to address customer concerns if you don’t create a lot of content on your website. However, if you want to use a blog to drive more traffic to your website, make sure your social media team understands which posts need to be shared and that your blog writers are consistent in their writing schedule. In addition, adding images to blog posts will make them show up better on Facebook and could even lead to more shares on Pinterest if relevant.<br /><br />Whether you want to build more awareness through generating a large list of followers and fans or you want to generate a list of quality leads, your use of social media will always matchup with the goals and outcomes for your business website.<br />
<br />Keep Your Social Accounts Personal<br /><br />The reason why people use social media is for personal contact with a friend, colleague, or family member. While the personal experience of online shopping is quite different from that, social media opens up opportunities to directly assist a customer with a purchase.<br /><br />The advantage of social media is the personal availability of a business to specific customers. Don’t just have a one way, information dump mentality with your customers. Ask important product research questions, offer feedback to comments, and share the information that will be most helpful to them rather than just throwing press releases their way.<br />
<br />Don’t Overwhelm Readers with Social Media<br /><br />Social media can be a very positive experience for both customers and website owners, but if you get social media wrong, it can become either ineffective or a liability. For example, inundating readers with a mess of social media buttons at the bottom of your blog posts or in your website’s side bar will not be as effective as three to five specific social media platforms that are used most frequently.<br /><br />Certain social media buttons will depend on the nature of your business. If you sell household decorating products or anything related to food, then Pinterest is a must. If you’re selling software or technology, don’t even bother with Pinterest. Stick with Facebook and Twitter. While you don’t need every button, carefully choose which ones you make available on your site.<br /><br />Some bloggers have also started sharing specific lines from their posts as suggested tweets, a practice that may strike some as helpful but could also be perceived as being a little too pushy or presumptuous. Use your own judgment here, but my own sense is that readers will share what stands out to them without being specifically prompted. You could always use bold font to highlight an important point in order to make it stand out without actually telling readers you expect them to tweet a particular line.<br />
<br />Make Action Steps Simple<br /><br />Don’t lose sales or subscriptions by creating too many steps or leaving action steps vague on your website’s landing pages. When a customer from a social media account lands at a promotional page on your website, make sure the action step is one simple and immediate action that the customer can take. The email sign up form or “purchase” buttons should be right there for them to use. Don’t expect customers will hang around to scroll through your website in order to find a promotion.<br /><br />If you have a blog post that you’re directing customers to, add an action step at the end of the post asking them to subscribe to your blog or e-newsletter. Always give customers one simple step to take after visiting your site from social media. Chances are they’re just killing time on social media anyway, so they won’t have a lot of patience for a poorly designed website.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-15446642902168709552017-01-14T11:07:00.003-08:002017-01-14T11:07:35.279-08:00Tips and Tools for Beginners to Pros<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Whether you are a beginner or professional web designer, you have probably found yourself at a loss at one time or another as to what tools and techniques to use in order to create a user friendly site. This is a common problem in part, because there’s so much available. There are many questions to answer. Do you use an online web builder or buy software? What all needs to take place before your site is ready to be put together? How do you find feature-rich tools that will deliver an outstanding product? All of these are valid questions and should be addressed.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Begin with a plan.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Know what your site will contain and how many pages you will create. Remember, there’s always room for more later. Have a budget in mind. Knowing how much you have to spend will help you when deciding how you will spend it. Now for the actual building itself.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There are many ways to build a web page.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You can choose to code it yourself or use a wide array of tools and templates. If you want to have complete control of your pages, you’ll want to write your own code. Here, a simple text editor and image editing software will do. This, however, is just the beginning. The following tips will help you start your search for the right tools.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Begin with a framework.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Think of this as an architectural framework. Software and web developers depend on it for coding. One way to write code is just to write it all in a file. Another way would be to write your codes separately according to their appropriate places. Web developers often use a framework to make their coding easier and to create it in a more logical fashion. Even if you don’t wish to actually learn in-depth coding, knowing the basics will serve you well. This will allow you to correct mistakes and clean up the generated code.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Validation tools are important to use.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They allow you to take a close look at those tiny elements that aren’t acting as they should and figure out why. You can then come up with a solution for fixing the problem. These tools are designed to find issues your own eyes may miss.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The ability to edit various codes such as HTML, CSS, and Java is important.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There are tools available that will enable you to inspect and edit your codes on the spot and instantly see the effects. If you are new to coding, such tools will also help you to understand it better. While learning HTML and CSS isn’t especially difficult, it can be tedious. If you find you don’t have the time, consider at least becoming familiar with these two codes. They truly do give you more control over how your pages look and function.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A code generator can also help you build powerful web pages.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>While this may seem contradictory of learning code and various languages, it can actually help expedite the entire website building process. You can even learn more about coding and web languages from such generators. These also help when you are on a time crunch and in a hurry to get your site up and running.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Utilize web forums.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>While this may seem a bit off-topic and unrelated to DIY website design, in reality it is closely related. Locate web building forums and ask questions of other developers. This will give you an opportunity to find out what other people are using, what works and doesn’t, and how to get the most out of the tools you have implemented. You’ll also learn about new tools and trends. Exchanging information is one of the best ways to network with others and really learn a craft. Forums are also great resources for problem solving as surely someone else has encountered a similar, if not the same issue as you.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Always proofread all your code and content.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There are a great number of web pages currently up on the World Wide Web that contain numerous typos and spelling mistakes. Take the time to carefully read through what you have written to make sure it reads well, will make sense to visitors, and is presented correctly. Spelling and grammar are always very important.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Make sure your site is updated regularly and always test each element on a page before it is published.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The last thing you need is to lose a customer because a product link or “buy it” button does not work. Your thoroughness will pay off in a big way in the end.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Be resourceful.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Don’t Take the time to regularly conduct searches to find out how other sites look. Updates and changes are always taking place and you need to stay ahead of the competition. Check out what’s around you and evolve with the technology and tools and you’ll remain in the front running in your field.</div>
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If you are interested in learning HTML, CSS, and other languages, or if you just want to know more about them and web development in general, visit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130316154512/http://www.w3schools.com/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.w3schools.com</a>.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-1314332813706055702017-01-14T11:05:00.001-08:002017-01-14T11:05:59.566-08:00Top 5 Website Creator Mistakes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Building a site with a website creator is fun and easy to do. It takes very little time and effort to build a website in this manner. However, there are some pitfalls that are easy to fall into when you use a website creator. This is because they are so easy to use it can be difficult to remember that your site needs to be professional and unique, as well as easy to navigate. Here are the top five website creator mistakes that you should avoid at all costs.<br />
<br />1. Not making the site unique. A website builder offers hundreds of templates for you to choose from. Unfortunately, these same templates are being used by thousands of people every day. In order to keep your site professional and unique, you need to change the template slightly. Choose a different color scheme. If possible, make a unique color scheme by choosing individual colors for your font and backgrounds. This way your site is somewhat unique from the thousands of others using the templates.<br /><br />2. Not using keyword rich titles for your pages. Some site builders will automatically name a page "Page 2" or something similar. Other website creators name the page after the heading you put in the title. The name or title of the page in the navigational tools and buttons should be keyword rich and descriptive. This is necessary both for your site to be professional as well as for your site to be found in search engines.<br /><br />3. Not changing graphics. You might choose a template that you like because the graphics match your business or website goals. However, this is detrimental to the professionalism of your site because thousands of other people will have the same graphic. Instead, change the graphics in the template to original graphics that you create yourself or purchase from the internet. This way your site is professional and unique. Title the graphics with keywords to further optimize your site for search engines.<br /><br />4. Not giving enough information. It is easy to build a website with a website creator in a matter of minutes, but you won't be providing much information in the process. Information is important to keep your visitors long enough to buy something from your site. Keyword rich content is also important for getting higher placement in the search engines.<br /><br />5. Not keeping it simple. Too many graphics, colors in the fonts, hard to read font styles, and similar design mistakes are not as easy to make when you use a site builder, but they still crop up. You want your site to look cool, but you also want to make sure that the design doesn't take away from the goal of the website. If something is too flashy, many visitors will not stick around long enough to buy something.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-84158204324881320992017-01-14T10:54:00.001-08:002017-01-14T10:54:05.028-08:00How to Find an Easy Website Program<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There are many ways that you can build a website. However, if you do not know HTML code and scripting languages, you will have a very hard time making your own website from scratch. Luckily there are alternatives. You can choose an online web builder that may or may not offer the features you need, or you can look for an easy website program that will allow you to build your site in any way you choose with little to know knowledge of website coding.<br /><br />An easy website program holds many advantages. First, it will allow you much more flexibility in building a website. Online web builders start with templates that you can customize with color and graphics. An easy website program, however, will actually allow you to choose from hundreds of backgrounds and formats, make your own page layouts, and completely customize your site so that it does not look like hundreds of other sites on the web.<br /><br />Finding an easy website program is simple. It only takes one easy internet search to find the hundreds available. However, you want to be careful in which one you choose. There are many easy website software programs available, and you have to choose the one that will work the best for you. There are several things to watch for.<br /><br />First, you do not want an easy website software that takes all the creativity out of building a website. You want to be able to customize the site as much as possible. Secondly, not all easy website software comes with website tools that you will need for your site. These may include a guest book, shopping cart, or discussion board. Forms for contacts and other pages may also be required, and not all software packages offer these scripts as part of the software.<br /><br />Finally, your easy website software should include a WYSIWYG editor. This is where you can see the code for your pages that you develop. While you do not need to know code in order to build the website, you will need to be able to add certain code to your pages. For example, if you choose to use Google Adwords to place Google ads on your informational site, you need to insert code that tells Google where to put the ads. If you plan to use Google Analytics to track your site traffic, you will need to be able to copy and paste that code in as well. Finally, if you decide to use any web tools that are not offered in the easy website program, you will need to be able to copy and paste the code for this as well. You cannot do any of thes things without a WYSIWYG editor.<br /><br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-67300165364566792062017-01-14T10:45:00.004-08:002017-01-14T11:06:09.889-08:00How to Build a Website that Sells<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
With website builders anyone can build a website, but you need to know how to build a website that sells in order to be successful in your online business. Remember that your website is your store front, and should be professional and welcoming. If it is not, you will not keep visitors very long, certainly not long enough to buy anything. There are a number of mistakes you can make that will keep people from buying at your site. On the other hand, there are also many key elements to a website that sells successfully.<br /><br />The first mistake many people make is in the layout. Your layout should not be too complex, nor should it be so simple that it does not look professional. A website builder usually has many templates that are in between, and will work for your site. If your layout is too complex, people will be confused by your site and give up navigating it before they buy anything. If your layout is too simple, people may feel that your site is not professional, and they may even think that it is a scam.<br /><br />The second mistake people make is in content. You should have more content than a simple about us description, home page, and product descriptions. You should offer informative content that is useful to your visitors, shows your knowledge of your industry, and compliments the products and services you provide on your site. This will not only help customers feel at ease with your site, but it will also help get your site into the search engines where buyers can find your site.<br /><br />After content, one of the biggest elements to how to build a website that sells is learning about shopping carts. You need to have a shopping cart on your site in order to process orders. However, the shopping cart should be professional in appearance as well as easy to use by the customer. It should also be use for you, the seller, because if you cannot easily access orders and process payments you will lose buyers. More importantly, if a visitor cannot easily navigate your shopping cart system, they will give up and buy from someone else.<br /><br />There are several things you can do to learn how to build a website that sells. The best place to start is the websites of your competitors. These websites will show you what you should and should not do with your own website. You can also do some market research, asking potential customers, friends and family members what they like and dislike about similar websites. This will give you some great ideas as to what to include or avoid in your own site.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-32409202000497707172017-01-14T10:45:00.001-08:002017-01-14T10:45:17.709-08:00Social media marketing and Google Analysis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">This information covers how individuals and businesses might take advantage of the Google Analytics social networking widget to watch their company’s various media campaigns. When using the social websites widget properly configured, it is possible for you to determine should your media campaign is producing the required results for your own personal company.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Google Analytics is an efficient tool with a lot of features and once configured properly from the website it could permit the webmaster insights to his web traffic. Registering for Google Analytics is free of charge the benefits of knowing how potential prospects arrived at your site or blog just what they are actually on the lookout for is priceless. It needs a jiffy to register putting a smallish quantity of code at your pages -then watch the data roll inside of Google Analytics account.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">No matter the dimensions of your online business, that you should have a business proposal that encompasses advertising and marketing. It may include promoting the organization brand, raising awareness about new products, or paid advertising that directs potential customers to the websites to buy a particular item. But how do you know if your ad budget are supplying you with a very good return on your investment (ROI)? How will you track which customers/purchasers was taken from a social media site, or specifically which post drove them to your site or blog? While Google Analytics tracks and reports your website traffic, your dashboard is comprised of widgets that provide a summary of one’s metrics and reports you care about most – it can be located under Acquisition and then Social.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Let’s start creating a widget inside your dashboard for “Advertising and marketing”. Once we have completed the Social networking widget you’ll get a better understanding of your traffic from sites like Google , Twitter, Facebook, tumbler and more.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">1. Login to your Google Analysis account. Choose your account.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">2. Look out for “dashboards”, in the event that you have one created it certainly will appear under “Private”</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">3. In case not Click “new dashboard, give it a name (Social networking) then select “save”.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">4. Open your newly created dashboard or preexisting dashboard.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">5. Select Add Widget, a popup box will seem.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">6. Widget title: Provide it with a descriptive name (ex: Social websites).</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">7. Select the pie on the first line and you’ll be presented that come with choices</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">8. Under “Create a pie chart showing”</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">9. Select the drop down</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">10. Look out for “Session” and select it</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">11. Under “Grouped by” select Social media</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">12. Select “Add a filter”</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">13. You may be coached on extra possibilities</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">14. Look under “Filter this survey”</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">15. Select “Only show”, in add a dimension, select “Social Source Referral”, leave Containing and enter in “yes”.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">16. Look out for “Link to Report URL” and pour in some fundamental:</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">17. “Acquisition / Social / Network Referrals”</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">18. Click Save</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-2125417880692052952017-01-14T10:44:00.000-08:002017-01-14T10:44:12.235-08:00Top 3 Mistakes To Avoid When You Start A Home Based Business<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When you begin a house based business it’s the start of a beautiful entrepreneurial journey. You can develop your own personal business by selling products or services that genuinely interest you. But regardless in case you work towards it part-time or on a full time basis a home business is not really a licence to print money. Here are the three top mistakes to avoid when you begin a home based business.<br />
<br />1. Not Embracing The web<br />Larger numbers of people are resorting to the Internet first once they want to buy a service or product. When you begin a house based business you must be online if you want to reach the widest number of potential prospects within the most cost effective way. Starting a home based business on the world wide web is not like a complicated as you may think. There are many easy to operate programs and systems available that will guide you to quickly have your Internet business.<br />
<br />2. Not Having A Solid Business Model<br />You have to know what you will sell, who you really are going to market it to and the way you certainly will market it to the people. A solid business model will have a clearly identified target audience that are seeking to purchase the products or services that you are actually selling. Ideally, you’re going to need a good mixture of income streams which offer residual income, direct sales and income from high ticket items.<br />Remember that every entrepreneur has faced challenges with the company at some stage or another. As soon as you have a solid business plan, these setbacks won’t deter you from reaching your objectives.<br />
<br />3. Not Building A List<br />One of the most important tasks for any work from home business owner is building and maintaining a collection of prospective and actual customers. Your list will certainly be made up of email addresses of people who have willingly given you their approval to transmit them emails regarding your products and services.<br />
<br />It’s not quite possible that somebody will give you their email address without getting something of value in return. Therefore, in order to help create your list, provide a free handy report, eBook or newsletter that you’ll be able to send them when they register. Once they ve are included on your list don’t just send them sales messages all the time. Send emails with helpful information which will help your subscribers. As they come to trust your opinions and value what you forward them, they will be more inclined to buy from you.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-51501732157149550812017-01-14T10:41:00.003-08:002017-01-14T11:06:32.239-08:00Website Ideas Many People Never Consider<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There are a lot of website ideas, and many of them are overdone. People write content sites with Google ads to make money from blogs and informational websites. Some people sell products or services, or have a website full of affiliate links. But there are some website ideas that are not tapped into quite as much, but can still be viable sources of income.<br /><br /><b>Not for Profit Websites</b><br /><br />Non profit websites include websites that are designed to accumulate money for a specific cause. These websites are not allowed to make a profit. However, you are not expected to work for free. You can collect donations to a cause, and at the end of the week or month pay yourself a reasonable sum for your efforts. You will be doing the world a service, and you will also be earning a modest income. The important thing to remember about non profit websites is that you must follow through on what you advertise. If you are taking donations for Harvesters, that money, minus your operating expenses, must go to Harvesters. You have to keep meticulous records of this income and expense, otherwise you could face fraud charges.<br /><br /><b>Review Websites</b><br /><br />You can easily start a website that contains reviews of products in a certain niche market. Choose products that are in high demand and that you can become an affiliate with the parent company. You can use genuine, honest, unbiased reviews to drive traffic to your site, where they will find the opportunity to buy the product they are reviewing. The key to review websites is to not target the product as the keyword, but to target keywords that are related to the product that people might search for if they are in need of it. For example, if you are reviewing a product that counteracts hair loss, you would target hair loss as your keyword, not the brand name of the product.<br /><br /><b>Reverse Work for Hire Boards</b><br /><br />You see them all over the internet. Websites offer a place for people to post their outsourced work, and service providers can bid on the projects. This is just the opposite. Instead of people posting work, service providers post what types of work they are looking for and what prices they are willing to accept for that work. You can make money by charging service buyers a monthly fee or a commission on work that they provide to the service providers.<br /><br /><b>Become a Web Concierge</b><br /><br />Do you have hours to spend on the internet? Most people don't, and that is where this website idea comes into play. If someone needs information, they pay you to find it. If someone needs tickets to an event, they pay you to locate and purchase the tickets and have them waiting for them at the event. Whatever people need done online, they pay you to do it in their stead. You can make money by charging one time fees for the service provided at the time, or monthly subscription fees.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-87747346536015178782017-01-14T10:38:00.004-08:002017-01-14T11:06:47.568-08:00Editing Websites Online - Tips for Success<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There comes a time in the life of every website when the content must be updated or a change made. In fact, it is recommended that you refresh your content every quarter so that you can keep your clients interested. This can mean changing the content completely or adding new content pages. Whichever you prefer, editing websites online should be a piece of cake if you have the right tools at your disposal.<br /><br />How easy it is to do a web page edit online will depend largely on the setup you started out with. If you used a good website builder, editing your site or adding content pages should be fairly simple. However, if you used a poor site builder, you may have problems in getting your website edited in just the way you want. This is why it is important to check out this feature of a web builder before you reach the point of needing to edit the site. Regardless, there are some very important tips for success you should know before you edit a single page.<br /><br /> Most web editors do not save your previous web page, but rather save over it when you make changes. Therefore, it is important that you do not change anything that you are not absolutely certain about. Make changes slowly, carefully and deliberately. Do not save any changes if something is not the way you want it to look. This is the only way you can go back to what you had before, is if you do not save your changes to the page. For example, if you added text and it caused a graphic to look awkward, don't save your changes until you get the graphic looking the way you want it to again.<br /><br /> Editing websites online is tricky because you can only change so much based on the web builder. Make sure your expectations are not too high, and be flexible in design decisions. Otherwise you could become very frustrated over the layout of your page.<br /><br /> When adding content pages, make sure that you use the correct template format for the page, just as you would when starting a website. Make sure all links are valid and work properly. In addition, you will need to double check the navigation to the new web page. Most web editors will automatically add your new page to the end of the list of pages in the site, and you probably don't want it there. You may need to move the page to where it makes sense in the navigation of the site. This can usually be done easily through navigation tools included with the site builder. If you have any problems with the navigation you should contact tech support for assistance so that your site is easily navigated by your site visitors.<br /><br /> When editing your shopping cart be certain that you do not delete any products that you may want to bring back later. Instead, drop the inventory amount to zero so that it will show as sold out. This way you do not have to add it again later. You should also double check your shopping cart to make sure that all information is accurate and correct.<br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-543004457437630522017-01-14T10:38:00.001-08:002017-01-14T10:38:04.616-08:00The Building Blocks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Overview<br /><br />This quick guide will get you the core ingredients that you need to launch your website with only 30 minutes of your effort. It's that easy! The good thing about this guide is that anyone, whether you are a website guru or a novice, can follow the steps at any time and in any order.<br /><br />The guide is concise and only includes what you NEED to know to get your website up and running. If you need additional information, you may contact the author for expensive yet free advice.<br /><br />Let me tell you how I got this guide together and why it is a self exemplary one. After conceptualising the idea of creating the guide, I scratched some notes in a text editor, then I put together all the content in a word application on my BlackBerry. I then transferred the content to a desktop publisher (similar to Microsoft Word), reviewed and crafted the steps carefully. I then followed these steps to the tee, to get this very website up. From getting a domain name and a web host to populating the site with content, I did it the exact way with this guide. You can do it too - it took me only 30 minutes!<br /><br />This guide will use LiveSpring as a model company that provides web hosting and domain name registration. Examples will refer to LiveSpring Media.<br /><br />Budget<br /><br />You will need to budget for the following:<br /><br />a. Domain Name (US$14.50) This is a yearly fee for your domain name, e.g. yourbusinessname.com. That's what people will use from anywhere to access your website.<br /><br />b. Hosting Fee ($7.95 (monthly) or $5.50x12 (yearly)). This fee will take care of your rental charges for the hosting of your website. For the world to see your site at the domain name you chose, it must be hosted on a "web server" provided by your web host. That's what you pay for: the space, and for them to maintain the server so your website stays up.<br /><br />Website Content<br /><br />As cells are to living organisms, so is content to your website. If you don't know what you are putting on your website as yet, you may as well quit this guide from now. Without content, your website is lifeless. Search engines will ignore it, and while some will return to check if you have published any content since, people (who usually have more sense than search engines) would never come back. But who would want to erect an empty website anyway? Practically noone. But there is another dimension of content, whereas if it is useless, the effect is just the same. You therefore must consider having content and that it is useful to your intended visitors. This is the first and last rule of creating any website. Whatever it is about.<br /><br />Of course, some websites are just tools or applications, and as such one wouldn't necessarily go looking for content at first.<br /><br />To illustrate this, let's do a quick case study. Consider <cite class="_Rm">https://cvmkr.com/</cite> - a web application that allows you to create an online CV, store it and make it available to employers. As a job seeker, when you visit this site, all you are interested in is that some employer might see your CV. That's what you think now. But you are dead wrong. What if one day you need to get some help? Then you would turn to look for documentation on the site that is suppose to offer some kind of guidance. If you can't find that, I would bet my gas money that you would lambast such website, even if it comes with a useful tool for free, as it does now.<br /><br />The point then is that even as there are several different purposes for a website, they all need to have content in some shape or form. Closer to the end of this guide, you will learn more about good practices where website content and delivery are concerned.<br /><br />To prevent automated web scrapers from stealing our content, we require that you enter a code to view the remainder of this website. It's just a 3 digit number. If you don't have one, enter your email address here and we'll send it to you immediately.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-8984742857073402092017-01-14T10:33:00.000-08:002017-01-14T10:33:16.510-08:00Ten Steps To Creating Your First Website<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The first section is a summary that forms a solid foundation. You can browse the summary and refer back to it even while you read the details. I have tried to make this guide easy to read, as high level as possible and section independent, so you may skip sections that speak to what you already know. Have fun!<br /><br />So, the easiest set of steps ever, to get your website up in mere minutes, so people from all ends of the universe can see what content you've got...<br /><br />Step 1<br /><br />I'm assuming you already got your content together. That's like your gate pass. Yeah.<br /><br />Step 2<br /><br />Decide on a basic layout style that you prefer to use. See some layout samples here.<br /><br />Step 3<br /><br />Create some images. You need your logo, a masthead/header image (depending on the desired layout) and images for some of your content pages. A lot of the image requirements will be taken care of for this guide, as you will be using a template-based system. If you don't have graphic skills or you feel kind of lazy, simply hire a graphic designer. It won't hurt.<br /><br />Step 4<br /><br />Decide on a content management system (CMS) that you will use. We recommend WordPress, Drupal or Joomla!. This guide will elaborate on CMS for you. Don't worry about it.<br /><br />Step 5<br /><br />Think of a domain name that would best fit the purpose of your website (e.g. yourbusinessname.com) and register it at a domain registrar.<br /><br />Step 6<br /><br />Choose a web host to store your website's pages on the Internet. After purchasing the hosting service, you will be provided with links (usually 2) that we call nameserver addresses, which you will configure at your domain registrar. They tell the domain registrar where to look for your website when someone types your domain into their browser.<br /><br />Step 7<br /><br />After waiting a little while for domain propagation, type your domain into a browser and you should be navigated to your new web host space, which usually either shows a blank page or an automatically created default page.<br /><br />Step 8<br /><br />Retrieve the credentials to access your web hosting space. The web host would have sent you when you purchased the service (Step 6 above). Download and install an FTP program to your computer that you will use to push the CMS to your web host space. Trust me. It's like ABC. Just follow this simple FTP guide and you're good to go.<br /><br />Step 9<br /><br />Run the CMS installation process. You will need to have a database setup that the CMS can access. Follow this simple database setup guide and you can take care of that. Remember, this guide will elaborate on CMS, but you can follow this CMS setup guide for this purpose.<br /><br />Step 10<br /><br />Add your content via the CMS and you're D.O.N.E.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183074197158980993.post-79156853132986928392017-01-14T10:30:00.003-08:002017-01-14T10:30:56.992-08:00What's in a Domain Name?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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About Your Domain</h3>
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Your domain name is your real estate address on the Internet. Yahoo!, Google, MSN, YouTube, and the rest, have all carved out their namespaces and their brand names are radiant as ever. The choice of a domain name is not any more complex than the choice of a name for your product or your new business. As such, these general thumb rules should be followed so that life can be happy both for you and your intended audience.</div>
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i. Shortest names hit home more quickly. They are fun to type, impress on human memory quite efficiently, easy to fit into social feeds (like Twitter, BlackBerry statuses), and fit well in the word-of-mouth marketing channel.</div>
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ii. Let your business name and your website name mirror each other. Case study: LiveSpring Media is a company that provides website consultancy. For their domain, "webconsultants.com" wouldn't be a bad brand name, but for a domain name it could be a bad choice. Why? Because LiveSpring media is the brand name that they use to market themselves. Persons in search of their website would be confused now, because they would by default, associate livespringmedia.com with Live Spring Media. To prevent all of this, one should consider their website as part of their biz plan.</div>
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iii. Be careful not to infringe on copyright. If you are running a used car dealership company for Toyota cars, check with Toyota first if you are planning to include their name in your domain.</div>
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iv. Choose a .com over a .net/.org. Unless you definitely plan to run a charity organisation (for .org domains) or a network (for .net domains), always stick to .com domains. They have the highest values in the Internet market, and humans tend to think .com first if for some reason they didn't hear your domain name properly. Not many would try a .net or a .org if the .com fails - only the techie ones.</div>
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Buying the Name</h3>
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First you need to check if the name is available. You can do this with the tool below. Simply type the domain name you are interested in a press enter.</div>
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Several companies around the web sell domain names at various different prices. They all come with different interaces for management of your domain name, and some make it hard for you when you are ready to switch or if you want certain custom features. NameCheap.com is a good service to use. You can also consider LiveSpring if you want quick setup and extensive support. You would choose the latter to save you the hassle of going through the process of securing your domain yourself.</div>
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