Create a Professional Blog for Your Business

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Professional blogs, for professional people, for professional companies, are keys to online marketing success.

A blog is for your B2B or B2C business, and more importantly, a professional blog is key for your business when communicating with customers and potential customers. Blogs are simply websites that are easy to use. Forget the stigma, if you have one, about blogs just being online journals or someplace where your friend sends you to read the latest personal updates about his or her life.

No, no, no, you have the wrong idea all together. Blogs are for any business that wants to have an additional market outlet online.

I can’t begin to tell you the importance of having a professional blog for your business.

Let’s start with the most obvious though.

A professional blog is a place to write about current events for the corporation and for customers to be able to read about it online. Customers want to know what is happening with companies today. Not only that, customers become much more in tune with a corporation’s brand when they are able to read about the products or services provided in a non-formal way. New customers are much more inclined to becoming lifelong customers if they can sense the company’s ethics, or how the company treats their customers in a professional business manner. By having a professional blog, a company can share those thoughts with their readership online.

Staying up-to-date with the business is another key area for reasons for publishing a professional blog. One blog may not be enough for your company. This is especially true in light of the increased diversity of many corporations today. Simply having one corporate blog is not good enough. Each and every division should incorporated a professional blog into the strategic communications and marketing strategy. This has the benefit of being able to succinctly keep up with each particular aspect of the business. Then it is simply a matter of creating links to the other business units and tying them all together in the navigation menu.

Professional Blogs For The Intranet.

The Intranet is the internal Internet of the corporation. A good Intranet can help corporations run much more efficiently. Having an Intranet blog or in the case of many divisions, having Intranet blogs are one of the ways to help managers and employees stay in touch with one another on the various projects. Imagine the managers able to see in an instance of what the status of a project is without calling a group meeting. Talk about time savings, this could cut out those daily half hour to one hour meetings which eat up time for many of the individuals in the meetings to begin with.

Professional Internet Blog For Your B2C or B2B Business

As you can see, the blog has evolved into much more than a web log. It has taken on a life of its own. The possibilities are limitless in what it can do for your business. Talk to Professional Web Services today about setting up a professional blog for you. Get setup with a key professional web marketing and online advertising source for your company

Good Internet marketing strategies are key to online B2B and B2C marketing success.

Contact Professional Web Services. Professional Web Services, Inc. is an Internet Marketing Services, Ethical Search Engine Optimization, Online Advertising Strategies, and Web Branding Solutions provider for the B2C and B2B market place.

Blogger Labels and Categories

J. Warholic

The importance of using labels in your blog postings.

When writing your blog, it is nice to be able to segment the postings into a logical manner for future reference. Labels have now been provided in the new Google Blogger software to do just that. Now, online newsletters created using Blogger can be sorted based on these labels. Imagine being able to have a listing of real estate Homes Sales Prices posted monthly along with other information. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to view all the sales stats for all related postings? Or, how about Marketing or Internet information grouped together in one location as though it were one group of postings online.

This can be of a benefit in more ways than one. Users, readers, buyers, and visitors to a website blog can now get to and read related information quickly. This can also be used as a sales tool for the sales and marketing department. If products or services are grouped together in a logic format, then a single hyper-link can be produced in an email to send a potential customer to the information all in one place.

Additionally, postings can have more than one label. Many times a posting will have more than one subject matter. By being able to label postings with more than one label, this provides the information in various layouts to the reader, depending on what they are searching for.

Take the time to add labels to older postings. Your readers will like it. Think of labels as an online filing system. Try to think in a logical manner and create your own categories.

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More Sales for Your Business

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Most everyone wants a powerful online market presence for their business, don’t you want it too?

Using the power of the Internet can greatly expand your business presence in both B2B and B2C industries. Developing a good Internet marketing plan and online advertising strategies can provide a wealth of new customers for your business.

Everything is related to the Internet today. Internet marketing is not just to be used by the Fortune 500 companies. In fact, the Internet can be a big equalizer for small and medium size businesses to really target select groups of individuals, consumers, businesses, or industry sectors that previously were not attainable.

By selecting and expanding your business’s keywords and using various forms of online advertising strategies, both B2B and B2C companies can realize a market impact, both for the present and in the future.

Information can stay online forever. Publishing a website, blogs, or “target specific” websites for specific areas of your company, can help develop a brand image over time. Even the advertising spent online can have a lasting impact into the hearts and minds of the consumer or other businesses being targeted.

Remember, good Internet marketing strategies are key to online marketing success.

So, if you want more sales for your business, take a look at what Professional Web Services can do for you. We offer Internet marketing services, online advertising strategies, ethical search engine optimization, and Web branding solutions that will help your bottom line.

Contact Professional Web Services today for a no obligation Internet marketing evaluation.

Video On Demand Marketing For Business Websites

J. Warholic

Marketing Services
Make a major marketing impact with video on-demand marketing.

Make a marketing impact for your business with a video. If a picture tells a thousand words, then a video is magnitudes greater, if done in a creative and smart marketing way. The business website is a great place to incorporate the essence of your business and share it with the online world. An unveiling of a product, with a video introduction of the actual product in use, is a cool way to spice up a website and provide a reason for customers to come back. As is common in the B2B, Business to business world, the process of making a sale is many times, significantly longer than the B2c (business to consumer) counterpart. Various levels of management typically get involved with large machine purchases or any type of major capital investment. Having a video of the capital equipment in action can help make the sale.

A video can also be used to highlight the importance of your product or services provided. There are many videos online that make a stunning marketing impact to provide the detailed understanding of what your business is all about.

Here are a few websites with videos that I think capture the essence and ideas of what online marketing is all about.

Actually, I am a little biased on some of these websites, because they are related to Professional Web Services, Inc.

First off, the design and customization group, that has taken great designs, and customized them for various customers to promote their brands. Many times simply changing a heading picture on many of the professional open source designs will set the business apart. Take a look at our Professional Web Services designs for a creative marketing video that has been incorporated into the website.

Second, we have our Marketing Forces in force. This particular website has been incorporated with another video that we discovered that is really cool animation. The creator put a lot of time and effort into creating a super quality artistically designed video using another open source program. It is simply amazing at what can be done.

Last But not Least From a Business Industrial Perspective

This website incorporates several marketing concepts that provides information in a particular market segment, just by viewing the short video online. The clip is educational about the circuit board industry and how PCB CNC drill machines actually drill holes in the circuit boards. It also provides an inside look to show other related industries of the types of CNC machines and electronic equipment serviced and maintained by Probe Industries.

Consider using video on demand marketing for your company. For more information, contact Professional Web Services today to have powerful marketing strategies make an impact for your business online.

The Most Important Question(s) on the Internet

J. Warholic

20/20 Business Glasses
Get 20/20 Marketing Vision

Are potential new customers seeing your website online or finding your global or local business with the search engines? Are you getting sales leads and customers from the Internet? Do you want more customers now?

By: Jim Warholic

Learn how Internet marketing and online advertising with Google, Yahoo!, and Bing Search (formerly named Microsoft MSN Search) engines can drive new customers to your online doorstep and even deliver them to the inside of your store, where they can shop and buy the products or services your business provides. Take the next step with Professional Web Services today.

In the competitive business world we live in, a business must be proactive with 20/20 business vision when it comes to marketing their company online. Any business that is selling products or services to other businesses in the case of B2B, or selling to consumers in the case of B2C would not dream of going without hiring some good sales people. Many times these businesses will be paying top dollar to get the best sales person they can. But, some businesses will neglect what I would consider the most important salesman for their company, their corporate website.

Presidents And CEOs

The buck stops here, with the president and CEO of a company. I am going straight to the top on this one. These are the people that are the ultimate decision makers. They provide the guiding force and direction for a company. While a president and CEO does not have to be a marketing genius, they do have to understand the marketing basics, at a fundamental level, for the health and well being of an organization. In essence a good president and CEO knows the importance of hiring the right people for the job. They know that good marketing is key for business success.

Many of the presidents and CEOs know hiring good people is key to corporate growth, but have not really grasped the importance of the Internet search engines, Internet marketing, and online advertising. They themselves use the Internet on a regular basis for searching all sorts of things but there is a disconnect between the searches they personally do and other people searching for what their business does. Small business company owners seem to be especially guilty of this Internet shortsightedness. Simply put, they are not seeing 20/20 business vision, and sadly they don’t even recognize their poor business vision and the need for good business glasses. They have the misplaced idea that a website is just something you are forced to have in business, instead of wrapping their arms around it, promoting it, and realizing that the website is, or should be, one of their most important assets a company can have. This business mentality is not strictly limited to small businesses. Corporate America has a certain segment group that is just as guilty as their small business counterparts. They have gotten fat and happy doing business the old way and have not adapted to the changes taking place online.

Embracing Internet Marketing

More Sales For Your Business: Internet Marketing ServicesGrasping the potential the Internet has for your business is absolutely paramount to focusing a fair amount of your marketing and advertising dollars online. A salesman can not be available 24×7 but the website can operate round-the-clock, and be accessible to customers that are looking for those frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the products or services your company provides. In addition, detailed information can be available to your customers at their browsing finger tips. Information such as application notes, drawings, manuals, material properties, and type specifications can be made available to customers.

The website is so powerful that it can do most of the work of all your sales force combined. This allows your sales force more time to concentrate on closing sales and building better customer relations. The fact of the matter is the website can help support the structure of the company and provide excellent tools for the sales department to use. Simply having the information at both the customer’s and your sales department’s fingertips will make everyone’s job much easier and will result in more sales. Email’s written can then be linked back to the specific information being requested. Customers will come to rely on your company’s website as being a good source of information. This helps promote your brand and keeps the customer’s focus on you, instead of the competition.

B2B, Business-to-business customers are becoming much more demanding in what they want from a source provider. They demand the information now. If you don’t provide that information, it is just a matter of time before they go somewhere else. Maybe you have worked hard to build up customer relationships in your business. But in today’s business climate, where the weather changes quickly, and customers are likely to get blown off course quickly by the competition, it is imperative to set aside a marketing and advertising budget and focus this toward providing a solid online presence.

Forget the smoke and mirrors approach with the website design. You must have substance, and that substance involves work, time, effort, and a fair amount of financial investment. To be sure, the website is really only the starting point from an Internet marketing perspective. The website must be promoted in the form of quality link building, continued website development in the form of new content and regular site maintenance updates, along with regular detailed evaluations and analysis. With billions of pages online, not to mention the online directories with sometimes hundreds of competitors lined up and down the pages there has to be marketing focus with ongoing keyword development and targeting of new market segments to really standout online.

The businesses that standout on the Internet, and standout first online with the search engines for their specific industries’ keywords, will be in a position to capture those early sales leads and new customers.

As the owner, president, or CEO of your organization, you can do only so much yourself. Start today, set aside an Internet marketing and online advertising budget to promote your business on the Internet.

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Gmail Cell Phone And Pager Notification

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Check out the cool features in Gmail.

Are you expecting an important email from someone? Would you like to get immediate notification of an email even when you are not at your computer?

Well, with Gmail you can get an alert sent to your pager or cell phone free of charge, even if you don’t have a text pager.

Believe it or not, your pager and cell phone have their own email addresses. That’s right, most pagers and phones have a unique email address specific to the phone number and the hosting provider. What that means is that you or anyone can trigger a page or a cell phone text message from any email system in the world.

So, back to the Gmail solution for notification. You can set all your emails to notify you when any email arrives or create a filter for specific emails from specific individuals, subjects, having certain words, or not having certain words in the text, to automatically forward the message onto the email of the pager or cell phone. If you only have a number pager (as opposed to text pager), the text will not come through, but you will know it is a page from your email system. There will be some sort of code specific to the email displayed on the pager itself. If you have a cell phone, most cell phones provide at least a truncated messaging receiving system. You will most likely be able to read the subject line and maybe a little of the body text.

With this in mind, you can really keep tabs on your business when away from the office. Also, many voice mail systems are now being set up to provide not only voice mail over the phone but also provide access via the Web. By sending your messages to a specific or dedicated free email box you can save your voice mail messages forever as MP3 files plus get free notification of new voice mail messages.

SMS Cell Phone And Pager Email List

3 River Wireless phonenumber@sms.3rivers.net

ACS Wireless phonenumber@paging.acswireless.com

Advantage Communications 10digitpagernumber@advantagepaging.com

Airtouch Pagers 10digitpagernumber@myairmail.com

Airtouch Pagers 10digitpagernumber@alphapage.airtouch.com

Airtouch Pagers 10digitpagernumber@airtouch.net

Airtouch Pagers 10digitpagernumber@airtouchpaging.com

AlphNow pin@alphanow.net

Alltel 10digitphonenumber@alltelmessage.com

Alltel PCS 10digitphonenumber@message.alltel.com

Ameritech Paging 10digitpagernumber@paging.acswireless.com

Ameritech Paging 10digitpagernumber@pageapi.com

Ameritech Clearpath 10digitpagernumber@clearpath.acswireless.com

Andhra Pradesh Airtel phonenumber@airtelap.com

Arch Pagers (PageNet) 10digitpagernumber@archwireless.net

Arch Pagers (PageNet) 10digitpagernumber@epage.arch.com

Arch Pagers (PageNet) 10digitpagernumber@archwireless.net

AT&T; PCS 10digitphonenumber@mobile.att.net

AT&T; Pocketnet PCS 10digitphonenumber@dpcs.mobile.att.net

Beepwear pagernumber@beepwear.net

BeeLine GSM phonenumber@sms.beemail.ru

Bell Atlantic phonenumber@message.bam.com

Bell Canada phonenumber@txt.bellmobility.ca

Bell Canada phonenumber@bellmobility.ca

Bell Mobility (Canada) phonenumber@txt.bell.ca

Bell Mobility number@txt.bellmobility.ca

Bell South (Blackberry) number@bellsouthtips.com

Bell South phonenumber@sms.bellsouth.com

Bell South phonenumber@wireless.bellsouth.com

Bell South phonenumber@blsdcs.net

Bell South phonenumber@bellsouth.cl

Bell South Mobility phonenumber@blsdcs.net

Blue Sky Frog phonenumber@blueskyfrog.com

Bluegrass Cellular phonenumber@sms.bluecell.com

Boost phonenumber@myboostmobile.com

BPL mobile phonenumber@bplmobile.com

Cable & wireless, Panama cellnumber@cwmovil.com

Carolina Mobile Communications 10digitpagernumber@cmcpaging.com

Cellular One East Coast phonenumber@phone.cellone.net

Cellular One South West phonenumber@swmsg.com

Cellular One PCS phonenumber@paging.cellone-sf.com

Cellular One 10digitphonenumber@mobile.celloneusa.com

Cellular One phonenumber@cellularone.txtmsg.com

Cellular One phonenumber@cellularone.textmsg.com

Cellular One phonenumber@cell1.textmsg.com

Cellular One phonenumber@message.cellone-sf.com

Cellular One phonenumber@sbcemail.com

Cellular One West phonenumber@mycellone.com

Cellular South phonenumber@csouth1.com

Central Vermont Communications 10digitpagernumber@cvcpaging.com

CenturyTel phonenumber@messaging.centurytel.net

Chennai RPG Cellular phonenumber@rpgmail.net

Chennai Skycell / Airtel phonenumber@airtelchennai.com

Cincinnati Bell phonenumber@mobile.att.net

Cingular 10digitphonenumber@cingularme.com

Cingular Wireless 10digitphonenumber@mycingular.textmsg.com

Cingular Wireless 10digitphonenumber@mobile.mycingular.com

Cingular Wireless 10digitphonenumber@mobile.mycingular.net

Clearnet phonenumber@msg.clearnet.com

Comcast phonenumber@comcastpcs.textmsg.com

Communication Specialists 7digitpin@pageme.comspeco.net

Communication Specialist Companies pin@pager.comspeco.com

Comviq number@sms.comviq.se

Cook Paging 10digitpagernumber@cookmail.com

Corr Wireless Communications phonenumber@corrwireless.net

Delhi Aritel phonenumber@airtelmail.com

Delhi Hutch phonenumber@delhi.hutch.co.in

Digi-Page / Page Kansas 10digitpagernumber@page.hit.net

Dobson Cellular Systems phonenumber@mobile.dobson.net

Dobson-Alex Wireless / Dobson-Cellular One phonenumber@mobile.cellularone.com

DT T-Mobile phonenumber@t-mobile-sms.de

Dutchtone / Orange-NL phonenumber@sms.orange.nl

Edge Wireless phonenumber@sms.edgewireless.com

EMT phonenumber@sms.emt.ee

Escotel phonenumber@escotelmobile.com

Fido phonenumber@fido.ca

Galaxy Corporation 10digitpagernumber.epage@sendabeep.net

GCS Paging pagernumber@webpager.us

Goa BPLMobil phonenumber@bplmobile.com

Golden Telecom phonenumber@sms.goldentele.com

GrayLink / Porta-Phone 10digitpagernumber@epage.porta-phone.com

GTE number@airmessage.net

GTE number@gte.pagegate.net

GTE 10digitphonenumber@messagealert.com

Gujarat Celforce phonenumber@celforce.com

Houston Cellular number@text.houstoncellular.net

Idea Cellular phonenumber@ideacellular.net

Infopage Systems pinnumber@page.infopagesystems.com

Inland Cellular Telephone phonenumber@inlandlink.com

The Indiana Paging Co last4digits@pager.tdspager.com

JSM Tele-Page pinnumber@jsmtel.com

Kerala Escotel phonenumber@escotelmobile.com

Kolkata Airtel phonenumber@airtelkol.com

Kyivstar number@smsmail.lmt.lv

Lauttamus Communication pagernumber@e-page.net

LMT phonenumber@smsmail.lmt.lv

Maharashtra BPL Mobile phonenumber@bplmobile.com

Maharashtra Idea Cellular phonenumber@ideacellular.net

Manitoba Telecom Systems phonenumber@text.mtsmobility.com

MCI Phone phonenumber@mci.com

MCI phonenumber@pagemci.com

Meteor phonenumber@mymeteor.ie

Meteor phonenumber@sms.mymeteor.ie

Metrocall 10digitpagernumber@page.metrocall.com

Metrocall 2-way 10digitpagernumber@my2way.com

Metro PCS 10digitphonenumber@mymetropcs.com

Metro PCS 10digitphonenumber@metropcs.sms.us

Microcell phonenumber@fido.ca

Midwest Wireless phonenumber@clearlydigital.com

MiWorld phonenumber@m1.com.sg

Mobilecom PA 10digitpagernumber@page.mobilcom.net

Mobilecomm number@mobilecomm.net

Mobileone phonenumber@m1.com.sg

Mobilfone phonenumber@page.mobilfone.com

Mobility Bermuda phonenumber@ml.bm

Mobistar Belgium phonenumber@mobistar.be

Mobitel Tanzania phonenumber@sms.co.tz

Mobtel Srbija phonenumber@mobtel.co.yu

Morris Wireless 10digitpagernumber@beepone.net

Motient number@isp.com

Movistar number@correo.movistar.net

Mumbai BPL Mobile phonenumber@bplmobile.com

Mumbai Orange phonenumber@orangemail.co.in

NBTel number@wirefree.informe.ca

Netcom phonenumber@sms.netcom.no

Nextel 10digitphonenumber@messaging.nextel.com

Nextel 10digitphonenumber@page.nextel.com

Nextel 10digitphonenumber@nextel.com.br

NPI Wireless phonenumber@npiwireless.com

Ntelos number@pcs.ntelos.com

O2 name@o2.co.uk

O2 (M-mail) number@mmail.co.uk

Omnipoint number@omnipoint.com

Omnipoint 10digitphonenumber@omnipointpcs.com

One Connect Austria phonenumber@onemail.at

OnlineBeep 10digitphonenumber@onlinebeep.net

Optus Mobile phonenumber@optusmobile.com.au

Orange phonenumber@orange.net

Orange Mumbai phonenumber@orangemail.co.in

Orange – NL / Dutchtone phonenumber@sms.orange.nl

Oskar phonenumber@mujoskar.cz

P&T; Luxembourg phonenumber@sms.luxgsm.lu

Pacific Bell phonenumber@pacbellpcs.net

PageMart 7digitpinnumber@pagemart.net

PageMart Advanced /2way 10digitpagernumber@airmessage.net

PageMart Canada 10digitpagernumber@pmcl.net

PageNet Canada phonenumber@pagegate.pagenet.ca

PageOne NorthWest 10digitnumber@page1nw.com

PCS One phonenumber@pcsone.net

Personal Communication sms@pcom.ru (number in subject line)

Pioneer / Enid Cellular phonenumber@msg.pioneerenidcellular.com

PlusGSM phonenumber@text.plusgsm.pl

Pondicherry BPL Mobile phonenumber@bplmobile.com

Powertel phonenumber@voicestream.net

Price Communications phonenumber@mobilecell1se.com

Primco number@primeco@textmsg.com

Primtel phonenumber@sms.primtel.ru

ProPage 7digitpagernumber@page.propage.net

Public Service Cellular phonenumber@sms.pscel.com

Qualcomm name@pager.qualcomm.com

Qwest 10digitphonenumber@qwestmp.com

RAM Page number@ram-page.com

Rogers AT&T; Wireless phonenumber@pcs.rogers.com

Rogers Canada 10digitphonenumber@pcs.rogers.com

Safaricom phonenumber@safaricomsms.com

Satelindo GSM phonenumber@satelindogsm.com

Satellink 10digitpagernumber.pageme@satellink.net

SBC Ameritech Paging 10digitpagernumber@paging.acswireless.com

SCS-900 phonenumber@scs-900.ru

SFR France phonenumber@sfr.fr

Skytel Pagers 7digitpinnumber@skytel.com

Skytel Pagers number@email.skytel.com

Simple Freedom phonenumber@text.simplefreedom.net

Smart Telecom phonenumber@mysmart.mymobile.ph

Southern LINC 10digitphonenumber@page.southernlinc.com

Southwestern Bell number@email.swbw.com

Sprint 10digitphonenumber@sprintpaging.com

Sprint PCS 10digitphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com

ST Paging pin@page.stpaging.com

SunCom number@tms.suncom.com

SunCom number@suncom1.com

Sunrise Mobile phonenumber@mysunrise.ch

Sunrise Mobile phonenumber@freesurf.ch

Surewest Communicaitons phonenumber@mobile.surewest.com

Swisscom phonenumber@bluewin.ch

T-Mobile 10digitphonenumber@tmomail.net

T-Mobile 10digitphonenumber@voicestream.net

T-Mobile Austria phonenumber@sms.t-mobile.at

T-Mobile Germany phonenumber@t-d1-sms.de

T-Mobile UK phonenumber@t-mobile.uk.net

Tamil Nadu BPL Mobile phonenumber@bplmobile.com

Tele2 Latvia phonenumber@sms.tele2.lv

Telefonica Movistar phonenumber@movistar.net

Telenor phonenumber@mobilpost.no

Teletouch 10digitpagernumber@pageme.teletouch.com

Telia Denmark phonenumber@gsm1800.telia.dk

Telus phonenumber@msg.telus.com

TIM 10digitphonenumber@timnet.com

Triton phonenumber@tms.suncom.com

TSR Wireless pagernumber@alphame.com

TSR Wireless pagernumber@beep.com

UMC phonenumber@sms.umc.com.ua

Unicel phonenumber@utext.com

Uraltel phonenumber@sms.uraltel.ru

US Cellular 10digitphonenumber@email.uscc.net

US Cellular 10digitphonenumber@uscc.textmsg.com

US West number@uswestdatamail.com

Uttar Pradesh Escotel phonenumber@escotelmobile.com

Verizon Pagers 10digitpagernumber@myairmail.com

Verizon PCS 10digitphonenumber@vtext.com

Verizon PCS 10digitphonenumber@myvzw.com

Vessotel phonenumber@pager.irkutsk.ru

Virgin Mobile phonenumber@vmobl.com

Virgin Mobile phonenumber@vxtras.com

Vodafone Italy number@sms.vodafone.it

Vodafone Japan phonenumber@c.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan phonenumber@h.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Japan phonenumber@t.vodafone.ne.jp

Vodafone Spain phonenumber@vodafone.es

Vodafone UK phonenumber@vodafone.net

VoiceStream / T-Mobile 10digitphonenumber@voicestream.net

WebLink Wiereless pagernumber@airmessage.net

WebLink Wiereless pagernumber@pagemart.net

West Central Wireless phonenumber@sms.wcc.net

Western Wireless phonenumber@cellularonewest.com

Web 2.0 is really taking off. Get your business moving up online with wise marketing and Professional Web Services, Internet marketing services today.

comScore Releases January U.S. Search Engine Rankings

J. Warholic

RESTON, Va., February 21, 2007 – comScore Networks today released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines. In January 2007, Google Sites captured 47.5 percent of the U.S. search market, gaining 0.2 share points from the previous month. Yahoo! Sites maintained its second place ranking with 28.1 percent of U.S. searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (10.6 percent), Ask Network (5.2 percent) and Time Warner Network (5.0 percent).

Share of Online Searches by Engine

December 2006 – January 2007

Total U.S. Home, Work and University Internet Users

Source: comScore qSearch

Dec-06

Jan-07

Pt Chg vs. Previous Month

Total Internet Population

100%

100%

N/A

Google Sites

47.3

47.5

0.2

Yahoo! Sites

28.5

28.1

-0.4

Microsoft Sites

10.5

10.6

0.1

Ask Network

5.4

5.2

-0.2

Time Warner Network

4.9

5.0

0.1

• Americans conducted 6.9 billion searches online in January, up 2 percent versus December. Annual growth rates in search query volume remained strong with a 26-percent increase since the same month a year ago.

• Google Sites led the pack with 3.3 billion search queries performed, followed by Yahoo Sites (1.9 billion), MSN-Microsoft (733 million), Ask Network (361 million), and Time Warner Network (342 million).

Get your business discovered on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other search engines with Professional Web Services, Internet Marketing Services. Contact us today for a free Internet marketing evaluation.

Marketing Home Runs With Custom Domain Names

J. Warholic



Marketing On The Internet Has Taken Off In Amazing Ways.

This article has multiple thumbs up Internet marketing solutions. Google, Blogger, Open Source Web Sites, Website Designers, Marketing, Advertising, and Sales, for your business solution.

Website designs, blog designs, website marketing, and blog marketing are making headlines these days. Why do I mention websites and blogs in the same sentence? The reason is because of the power that is in both. Just sit back for a moment and bear with me on my little story.

Both of the following statements are true. There is no difference between a blog and a website. There are major differences between blogs and websites. In fact, we have a convergence going on online today between website marketing and blog marketing. Management at the highest level needs to throw out their misconceptions for understanding about blogs vs websites. Blogs are powerful websites. Blogs may be one of the most simple and most powerful B2B and B2C website solutions on the Internet today. With RSS feeds and world wide subscriber-ships, a business can stay in contact with their customer base.

Well, Google came out with a cool new powerful marketing and branding solution for any B2C or B2B business or C2C person on the planet. Free of charge blogging services have been around since the early days of blogs, using the Blogger driven software engine by Google. Google has provided anyone the ability to create good website addresses and then if they want point it to another domain file name with FTP publishing. Now there is an additional power feature that was launched this year by Google. Bring your own domain name (BYOD) to your free online blog and Google software will host your blog for free with all the links and published articles functioning as though they were published from day one as your own website without the blogspot.com domain suffix. See Blogger Custom Domains

Here is an example. I created a free blog website by the name of mondayswebsite.blogspot.com. I then published several articles on this site. I had a parked domain name by the name of Mondays.ws and decided to turn it on. So, following Google’s instructions for custom domain name publishing, I pointed my GoDaddy registered domain name Mondays.ws to Google Hosting Services. Then I went into the blog control panel and turned on Custom Domain name and set it to Mondays.ws. Low and behold, when this was finished, now Mondays.ws is displayed instead of MondaysWebsite.blogspot.com. If someone tries to go to MondaysWebsite.blogspot.com they were redirected to Mondays.ws. Try it. Click on the links. By the way, as of (4/19/2011) I now have Mondays Website as a place holder for feeling down with the blues. And then you can take a look at: http://ww2.mondays.ws/2007/02/thumbs-up-for-we-design-it.html

I am testing a few other items related to subdomains. More to come in the future.

I would suggest you try the service out with one of your parked domains. If your business is like most businesses, that have extra domain names, with variations of a business name or even using the .net, .org, .info, .us, or others to test the service out. Domain names are so inexpensive today that it is wise to sign up for another domain name related to what your business does instead of only concentrating on the company name.

Get started today. Need help along the way? Professional Web Services can provide you with professional Internet marketing services and Blog marketing services. Contact us for a free Internet marketing evaluation.

Jim Warholic, President of Professional Web Services, Inc.

Decisions for Your Business – Strategies for Success

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Maybe your are asking the question, “Why do I need professional Internet marketing services?”

Let’s take a look and see why you need good online marketing today.

Would you like your business to show up in the major search engine results pages of Google Search, Yahoo Search, and Bing Search? If the answer is yes, then you need good Internet marketing services.

Would you like to have greater brand recognition for your business? If the answer is yes, then you need good Internet marketing services.

Would you like your business to be able to break into or expand into new market segments? If the answer is yes, then you need good Internet marketing services.

Would you like your advertising budget to be spent efficiently and have the best return on investment possible? If the answer is yes, then you need good Internet marketing services.

Would you like to see an online advertising campaign targeted to specific buyers or consumers? If the answer is yes, then you need good Internet marketing services.

Would you like to obtain more sales for your business? If the answer is yes, then you need good Internet marketing services.

Can you afford to sit by, letting the competition pass you buy on the Internet, and not have good Internet marketing services? If the answer is no, then you need good Internet marketing services. Remember, good Internet marketing strategies are keys to online marketing success.

Good Internet marketing strategies by Professional Web Services.

Email Marketing – Are Your Emails Being Seen?

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Do your Email marketing campaigns really get read or even seen by the subscriber?

Are you spending money on your email marketing campaigns, with a great looking template design, great pictures, and great content? You may be surprised that what you see is not what the subscriber gets.

I have been telling a number of clients recently that including pictures only in a mass marketing email campaign might actually be causing problems and reducing the ROI. I have various email addresses that I typically use to view emails from both large and small name companies. I also use several types of readers, both online and on local computers, to see how the emails render. Some of the large name companies think that if they put a lot of cool looking pictures in their email campaigns they will increase the ROI. The truth is, the opposite affect might be happening because of how email client readers render an email, and the default handling of pictures with them off by default in many readers.

The email article titled, The Rendering Run-Around, By Len Shnyder, Director of Partner Relations and Industry Communications, Pivotal Veracity is an excellent article about understanding how the e-mail rendering process works for all the major email clients and online readers.

Everyone does not see the same thing. Some of the major email readers are defaulted to not displaying images, even in the preview pane mode. This can have a serious lack of branding affect and cause the reader to place the email into the spam box even if they subscribed to the email in the first place. The reason is because the pictures are not displayed and the reader can not tell what the brand is.

Here are some of the highlights from the article that is definitely worth reading.

# Images are “ON” by default in: AIM.com, AOL.com, Cox, Comcast, Earthlink, Outlook 2002, Roadrunner, Lotus Notes, Yahoo’s inbox folder.
# Images are “OFF” by default in: AOL 9, Gmail, Hotmail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, Outlook Express 6, Windows Live Mail

11. Does my design effect my delivery, reputation and/or ROI?

Everything is connected! The elements of “good email” don’t exist in a vacuum. The design of your email can and does impact delivery with most spam filtering programs incorporating design-based rules as well as various forms of HTML validation.

Read the whole article The Rendering Run-Around

I would add this little piece of advice. Email marketing campaigns must take the rendering issues into account up front. When designing an email template, take into account the ability to hyper link to the main article in the website or specific web pages for landing pages. Do not try to make your email marketing campaign the website. Images in emails should be held down to a minimum or a good balance between body text and the layout; with the understanding of how images are not displayed (when a subscriber blocks images from being seen) and the large gaps that can result in the actual email as being displayed in a client’s email box.

I personally think that email clients will continue to tighten up how email is handled in the delivery aspect. Both business to business, B2B marketing, and business to consumer, B2C email marketing campaigns will have to tune their templates and in some cases eliminate 90% of the pictures in the emails, if they want to have the best possible ROI.

Jim Warholic,
President of Professional Web Services

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