Thursday, January 29, 2009

Business Websites Newsletter, Blogging - 090129

Hello Business Website Customers and Associates,

This is our second newsletter. Do not know yet what the frequency of these newsletters will be. The first one was about a month ago.

I have been experimenting with blogging. See below for more information.

Last newsletter we introduced email marketing. This is a reminder for you to keep email marketing on your to do list. Having a quality email list gives you more control over your business and lessens your dependence on other marketing channels. Specifically, if you have a good email list you are not as dependent on people finding you through Google.

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew

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In This Email:

1. Blog to help getting your website found on google

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Links:

- Blogging
www.blogger.com

- Email Marketing
www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?pn=bronzebp

- Web Hosting
www.webhosting.gy

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Quotes:

- Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest
of places if you look at it right
~ Robert Hunter

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1. Blog to help getting your website found on google

Blogging is short for web log and is an online journal.

There are many benefits to blogging. One benefit is helping your website get found on google.

Blogger.com is owned by google. Google loves blogger.

If you have a blog on blogger.com, google will index your blog regularly.

On your blog you can put a link to your website. Google will find your website through blogger. This will help your page ranking on google.

To create a blog, go to www.blogger.com.

I have a blog for this newsletter.
http://internethandholding.blogspot.com/

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thing in this week's email that would interest you or others you know.

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Visit www.WebHosting.gy

Andrew Weitzen
publish@bronz.com
561-939-2469
Gainesville, FL

www.bronz.com
- Internet hosting, programming and handholding

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Newsletter for Business Websites - 090101

Hello Business Website Customers and Associates,

Welcome to 2009.

Here is a quick update of our plans to help you do more business through the power of the Internet.

First, I intend to send out a regular newsletter to help you stay informed of things we are doing and other Internet items that could be helpful for your business. This is the first issue. If you want to be removed or have someone added, write to me.

See below for more information on email marketing. Email marketing is a powerful and maybe the most cost effective marketing tool we have. If you are not taking full advantage of email marketing, put this in your plans.

Some other items I intend to discuss in upcoming newsletters are:
- Blogging
- Bookmarking
- Content management of your website, updating yourself
- Domain names
- Newsletters
- Our web hosting and enhanced reliability email infrastructure
- Social networking
- Using multiple websites

Let me know what items you would like to know more about.

We have been working all year on upgrading our software infrastructure.

You can now run as many websites as you like off your one web hosting account at no additional monthly charge. We intend to add user registration and content management, so you can update your website yourself and let your customers interact with you.

See this interesting talk about the brain.
www.believeandmanifest.com/1/bam/video1.php

Have a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous New Year,
Andrew

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In This Email:

1. Email List Marketing - Constant Contact

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Quotes:

- We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to
put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity
and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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1. Email List Marketing - Constant Contact

You should be gathering emails of your customers and prospects every chance you get.

These are the people that want to get information from you and want to buy from you, when the time is right. Stay in touch with them.

At a minimum, you should have email signup on your website.

Depending on your business, you can write to them anywhere from once a year to once a day. For most businesses, somewhere between once a week and once a month is probably the right number.

You can also send out special promotions anytime you like. If you are looking to generate some extra business by giving people a special deal, your email marketing list will be a great tool. This is one of the reasons people signed up with you.

You can maintain your email list by hand, if you have a small list, like I do for this one. I use an Outlook distribution list and send out a simple text email.

If you have a large list you can use an email list marketing provider. You can design fancy looking newsletters and they have reporting tools on how many people opened the newsletter.

The one I like is Constant Contact, so I signed up as a business partner. They are among the oldest and most well-respected email marketing providers. Here is my business partner link if you want to read more.
http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?pn=bronzebp

Give me a call or send me an email if you want to discuss email marketing for your business.

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Write to publish@bronz.com to add your email or have
it taken off (I will not be offended).

You received this email for one of these reasons:
(a) You are a customer or business associate.
(b) You are a friend or family, and I thought this would be a good way
to keep in touch, and you might find some things in these emails useful.
(c) Or, you are not on the weekly email list, but I thought there was some
thing in this week's email that would interest you or others you know.

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Copyright (c) 2009, Bronze Inc. All rights reserved.
Visit www.WebHosting.gy

Andrew Weitzen
publish@bronz.com
561-939-2469
Gainesville, FL

www.bronz.com
- Internet hosting, programming and handholding

You may forward, print, post or use any part of this email
as long as you include this copyright notice.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Web Hosting with Reliable Website Management

I have changed my web hosting service. I now offer two services.

- Business Website Management
- Business Website Support

This should allow me to actively support my website customers.

I want to do more than passively support them. In the past, a customer had me build and host their website, and that was the end of it unless they needed something done.

The problem was, my customers are not internet professionals and are not in a position to grow their business online.

What I want to do is actively support my customers by helping them to increase their online business.