I’m a huge fan of custom corporate apparel for both free advertising and building customer loyalty.
Within a company, if you give branded jackets, sweaters or caps to your staff, they are bound to wear them when they are out and about. Hundreds or even thousands of people will see the logo, and it builds brand awareness.
Another great use for custom corporate apparel is the industry convention. If you have ever attended an industry convention, you know that there are a lot of schmucks who try to hard sell you on their product or service without spending a dime on booth space. Not cool. The alternative is to wear custom corporate apparel with your company’s name and perhaps a motto. Let the customers come to you, instead of pestering them.
So say you’re at an webmaster convention, and your company sells web hosting. You could wear a jacket that says “Pink Host - 99.9% Uptime Guaranteed”.
It’s bound to get you some business.
Another benefit of custom corporate apparel is to build customer loyalty. It’s kind of hard for a customer to switch to a competitor after receiving thoughtful gifts from you.
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Have you ever had the experience of eating fruit for one whole day? Well, besides the uncomfortable gastronomical accelerations, its very pleasant. I eat plums and dates and apricots everyday now. I find that with all my new time off, I can enjoy some of the finer things in life.
How did I do it? For starters, I found a new solution to managing my fruit shoot website by myself. Check out this membership management software for yourself. I found that it has features that do all my membership work for me. It manages and organizes all my clients and prospects for me now. I used to spend hours per week just entering and deleting accounts, but now I have time to do better things. I pay just a small fee per month and now I get more web traffic because there is now no delay in getting my clients registered. They love the new interface and efficient data organizing.
I have found 50 new clients per day by using this new software. I really enjoy its ease of use and simple technology. It is well laid out and the color scheme is delightful. I have found something great and now you can too. Check it out and let me know what you think.
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Look if you’re going to sell goods or services online at least have the common sense to offer online merchant services. You would be amazed these days at just how many sites don’t accept credit cards as a form of payment. It’s a simple process that can be organised in less than 24 hours by companies such as CardServiceSales.com.
I get so angry as an SEO expert when sites really take off, have loads of unique visitors coming on board only to be totally disappointed that to purchase their product becomes a painful task. You can use the likes of PayPal but you will be losing thousands each year on fees. Get it together and make sure you offer simple and easy to use payment methods such as the acceptance of credit cards online.
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Just recently I decided a much needed change was due in my life so I up and moved from Sydney to Perth in Western Australia. Having worked in IT for the past five years in the hustle and bustle of Sydney, I thought the quiet pace of Western Australia might do me good. Not only did I decide to change residential locations but I also decided to change my careeer…well slightly. I decided I wanted to create a niche Web Directory. The only problem is that I am a Network Engineer, not a website guru. That’s when I decided to look for some companies specialising in Search Engine Optimisation and Web Design Perth. I came across TN3 Productions.
These guys were fantastic. They say me down and nutted out a really great strategy for my Web Directory. They covered a range of different SEO techniques and also came up with some really unique ideas for my website. Now I’m really excited about the prospect of making money from my site. It’s still in the planning and building stages at the moment, but from all accounts I think it’s going to be a success. I also managed to learn a lot about SEO that I never knew before. I just wish I hadn’t worked in Networking for so long.
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As far as I’m concerned SEO is all about links. The more links you have pointing at your site from another site holds far greater weight with the search engines than any other strategy. For example if you did a Google Attorney Search you would be faced with literally millions of website results. Now, naturally surfers tend to only look at the first two pages of Google before choosing a site that sounds appealing to them. So how do I know if the site is going to be beneficial to what I am looking for?
Well, the more people that are pointing to a site, generally the better the quality and more useful the site is. Of course you will get people buying links but that is not to say that their site isn’t good either. There will always be people who find a way to manipulate the search engines for their benefit. It’s just whether or not the engineers at Google and the likes are smart enough to catch on.
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Don’t you just love attending SEO Conferences each year? I get no better pleasure than that I get when I take my camcorder to an SEO conference and record these morons talking about stuff they seem to have no idea about. I love bringing the footage back to the office and showing my staff what a pleasurable week I had listening to monkeys try to explain the NEW and hidden secrets behind Search Engine Optimization.
My company has a proven formula which we have used for years. We’re leaders in the Industry and we have never received a complaint from our clients once. In fact, most of our clients are returning customers who have also recommended us to hundreds of other contacts. Our rule is be honest, provide good service and always offer a money back guarantee if not fully satisfied with the service. Other than that, the rest is a secret.
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Being an SEO has allowed me the luxury of traveling the world and living in various countries whilst still maintaining my job. All I need is a powerful laptop like my Fujitsu, a fast Internet connection and few cups of coffee and everything still gets done as if I was in an office. Next on my places to live is Boulder, Colorado. The Boulder real estate market is doing quite well now and I have even managed to land a few clients up in that area. My plan is to move there over the coming weeks and settle into a more laid back kind of lifestyle.
The only pitfall is that I have never actually been there. Whilst, I have never had a problem moving abroad without visiting there first, this time I am a little apprehensive. I guess I am used to the big cities like Tokyo and New York where I feel at home sitting in a local cafe for hours on end completing my assignments. Boulder I guess could be a little different where in a small town everyone knows everyone and it may appear strange if I am sitting in the local cafe all day staring at my laptop screen. In any case, I am going to give it a try and am looking forward to taking it easy over the coming year.
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These days as I become older and lazier I have started to think of ways I can make my life more enjoyable and EASY. Being an SEO means I am no stranger to enjoying the comforts of a swivel chair but how about the home? It seems I have a million and one different remote controls all controlling one device or another. That was when I stumbled across Home Automation New York. Being a resident of Manhattan’s lower east side I decided to give these guys a call. What a great idea it turned out to be.
Within 48 hours a rep was at my apartment assessing my electronic setup. Being no stranger to technology (I have several Panasonic plasma screens, computers, JBL audio and more) I was intrigued to see what could be done. It turned out that I could control almost all of these devices including climate, lighting and security from a single touch panel control or even better yet remotely. I was sold immediately. The guys are coming in the next few days to setup everything. I can’t wait! Now I can enjoy an even more pleasant life as a lazy SEO.
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Recently, I’ve been thinking about a change in career. I don’t exactly know why but recently my job as an SEO professional has been getting on my nerves. I am seriously considering studying accounting in St Louis. I guess you are thinking why accounting? Well, I have a friend from University who has been an accountant ever since he graduated and he absolutely loves it. Not only that, I think he has only ever paid tax once to the Government. He is able to do things with deductions and expenses that one could only dream of doing.
I’m also a big fan of the St Louis Cardinals so I thought why not change not only my career but my place of residence. At the moment this is all just a pipe dream. Of course it is not so easy these days to just quit your current profession and start studying again. Well, that of course is if you don’t have the money to support yourself. I am thinking I will give it some more thought and follow my gut instinct.
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I’ve recently started working for a Search Engine Optimization company and I have to tell you I am extremely disappointed with the content management system we have in place. Actually, I should re-phrase that – the non-existent content management system we have in place. For a company of this size and the number of clients we service, one would think we’d employ the services of an information assets company that specializes in maintaining content, files, information and other documentation.
These days it seems I am forever sifting through masses of past emails, completed orders and other backed up files to find what I am looking for. My job is to send requests out to bloggers to post links and I don’t even have a simple database of which bloggers have linked to which domains. It makes my job very time consuming and inefficient. My boss really needs to consider employing the services of a company that can combine our past and current content into an easy to search, easy to automate system that will in the long term better produce results for this company.
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