Category Archives: Internet & Online

Business, Internet & Online

GrowTraffic Launches New SEO Services Website SEOAuditing.co.uk

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Nowadays most companies have a website, most of them are static sites that are a few years old and a lot of them do a good job in generating traffic which converts into sales or opportunities for a business.

However, the way people have used the Internet has moved on since a static website was everything a business needed to have an online presence.

The Internet moves fast, a great example can be seen that in 2004 social websites had virtually no share of the market, in July 2010 Facebook alone reported reaching over 500 million users, which represents around 13% of the global population. Business owners should be thinking to themselves how they can embrace the revolutions taking place every day online and how they can be implemented into their websites and online marketing strategies.

Traditionally, SEO has solely concentrated on gaining positions for customers in the search engines, however as the way users interact with the internet as a whole changes so too does the way the search engines interpret how it’s users want to have its results qualified, that means SEO is crossing over into many other spheres of internet use, including the use of social media.

Due to a growth in the number of requests for SEO Audits that provide a detailed analysis of the online marketing activities of a business and create SEO strategies for the business to implement GrowTraffic has launched a new SEO Auditing service at SEOAuditing.co.uk.

SEO Audits are the basis for the future development of a website and an online marketing strategy. As such our expert Search Marketing and Finding Strategists carry out this service and give one to one feedback on the conclusions and how to implement the SEO Audit’s strategy.

GrowTraffic’s founder and senior SEO Consultant Simon Dalley explained “Regular reassessments of a company’s website and online presence is imperative as the internet is moving at such a fast pace. We’ve seen a massive growth in demand for this service and that’s why it was decided to separate this out as a stand-alone service at SEOAuditing.co.uk.”

Internet & Online, Small Business

Work From Home – Being Part Of A Community

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POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (January 25, 2011) — With the economic downturn and recession plaguing many individuals and families, more people are creating a home business to work from home to increase annual income. People are enjoying the ability to work from their home and still make time for daily family activities. The allure of working independently has been an attractive option in the challenging economic times of the current recession. A community of independent business owners has been organized at www.homebiztalk.com. This important social community for businesses was created to allow business owners to network products and services to help expand market reach for the betterment of all home based business owners.

Traditionally one of the greatest ways to grow a business has been by word of mouth advertising. The creation of the Home Biz Talk network combines traditional word of mouth advertising with social media networking capabilities. This modern version of advertising includes online banner advertising, blog posts, video uploads, and networking opportunities. Business owners around the world can easily grow a new business or purchase products or services from existing businesses. This modern way of social business networking has provided an alternative way to help market the products and services of a home based business.

When entrepreneurs work from home and run a home business, using modern ways to grow sales leads, showcase products, and display expert information about a service or industry is important for a business. Blogging has become a major player in the world of product and service marketing. The ease of use and easy distribution of a blog has taken the place of most advertising methods on the Internet. Businesses can create a blog to give helpful and accurate product or service information to a potential buyer or new business client. By becoming an expert in a niche product or service, a new business can flourish and grow tremendously without the need for relying on cold selling techniques or pitching deals to grow a business.

The registration process at www.homebiztalk.com is fast, easy, and free. A home business that is serious about using the Internet to build potential partners, customers, or to provide information about products and services can easily penetrate new markets by creating an account. This important online network of business owners makes socializing and networking easy.

About www.homebiztalk.com

The homebiztalk.com community brings entrepreneurs, new businesses, existing businesses, and developers together to share ideas, create new marketing concepts, and network to help forge new relationships and sales markets. Businesses from around the world use this online community to gain valuable information and to help grow a home based business.

Contact:
Roy Revill
RY Enterprises
877-213-2419 (Toll Free)
office@homebiztalk.com
http://www.homebiztalk.com

Internet & Online

Discount Textbooks and Used Textbooks at Etextshop.com

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Ogden, Utah January 27,2011 – Etextshop, online of the leading US-based online book stores, has recently partnered with a number of overstock textbook suppliers and is now able to offer books and textbooks at some of the lowest prices available online directly to their customers. In fact, Etextshop takes pride in helping college students save up to 90% off college book store prices. This online book store sells new textbooks and like new textbooks at half the price of traditional college book stores. There are even more substantial discounts on used textbooks, which have no pages or chapters missing and are fully functional.

Based in Ogden, Utah, Etextshop was founded more than six ago, back in 2004, in an effort to provide college students with a better alternative to buying textbooks and books in traditional college book stores. Knowing that college expenses can be overwhelming at times, Etextshop helps students cut back on their college-related spending by saving up to 90% when they buy textbooks or books. Everything college students need, from new and used textbooks to discount novels and low cost best sellers, can be found at Etextshop.

Those who want to sell books and textbooks can also do that at etextshop.com. The company provides year-round textbook buyback and offers some of the best prices in the country. As college book stores often offer an unfair price on used college textbooks, many students choose to sell textbooks and books online. Etextshop guarantees that all students who sell their textbooks online will get a better percentage of the price they originally paid for their textbooks. Textbook buyback comes with free shipping at Etextshop. The company provides shipping labels so that their customers do not have any additional expenses.

Whether you want to sell or buy textbooks or books, you can do so very easily and conveniently at etextshop.com. The web site is extremely user-friendly and any book or textbook can be easily found by searching the inventory by ISBN, author, title or keyword. Should a textbook or book be out of stock, Etextshop will provide the customer with a link to a reliable seller who has that book on stock.

For more information about Etextshop’s discounts and services, please visit www.etextshop.com or contact the company at info@etextshop.com.

Internet & Online

Year-Round Textbook Buyback at Etextshop

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Ogden, Utah January 27, 2011 – Etextshop, one of the largest online bookstores, would like to announce that they offer year-round textbook buyback for college students who want to sell their used textbooks and books. The company takes pride in being able to offer the most competitive online prices for college student textbook buyback in the United States.

Based in Ogden, Utah, Etextshop was created in 2004 as a result of the high demand of cheap textbooks for college students. For more than six years now, the company has been helping students buy and sell textbooks online to get a better percentage and save money. College students who are on a tight budget and want to buy books or textbooks will find that this online book store is the perfect destination for all types of books and textbooks. Etextshop is the place where you can find thousands of discount novels, used textbooks and low cost best sellers that fit anyone’s budget.

In addition to providing college students with the opportunity to save a lot of money on their textbooks, Etextshop also helps them sell textbooks and books and get a better percentage than they normally would in a traditional book store. Knowing that book stores do no pay fairly for used college textbooks, many students choose to sell books and textbooks online and Etextshop is the primary destination for a very large number of college students.

College students can log on any day of the year to etextshop.com and get a quote on used textbooks or new textbooks. Etextshop offers free shipping for textbook buyback and provides shipping labels so that their clients do not spend any money on shipping. The company also offers phone support for their customers.

The company’s goal is for their clients to navigate their site easily, buy or sell books and textbooks at very convenient prices and have them delivered within the shortest time possible. For more information about Etextshop products and services, please visit www.etextshop.com or contact them at info@etextshop.com. For live phone assistance, you can also call 1-800-508-0490.

Education, Internet & Online

Will You Be Five Years Too Late?

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If you have a steady job, you might be shocked to know that you could be making the same mistakes that are destroying one of the major Internet companies. That’s right, of dialup Internet and free e-mail fame. According to experts in the field of job hunting, many people who are out looking for work right now are stuck in the unemployment lines because they followed the same destructive path as this company.

This international company just launched their new e-mail upgrades. The new features are nice, with smart ideas like supporting text messages, maps, and even photos inside e-mails. So what’s the problem? Well, for them, these nice developments come about five years too late. Everybody else already has that. After years of ignoring changes in the e-mail industry, the company is bleeding clients to companies like Google and Facebook. According to experts in the industry, this company has lost 23% of their subscribers this year alone. That’s several million people.

“The company didn’t move in any significant direction for years,” says Rob Gundersen, a motivational life coach and job search expert. “This company pioneered much of what we’ve come to expect from the Internet experience. But when other companies came along with a better idea, this company didn’t take the steps they needed to stay ahead of the game.” Mr. Gundersen notes that the time to prepare for significant change is before the change. “If you have a steady job right now, it’s the time to brush up on your education. To learn the latest in your field. Otherwise when the change happens, you’ll be working from a panic situation.”

“People need to forget the entire idea of job security,” argues Jennifer Landreu, who runs her own résumé polishing business from her home. “I can’t tell you how many clients I have coming to me who say, ‘I never saw this coming. I thought my job was safe.’ In this economy, it strikes me as foolish for anyone to assume that they will be able to keep their job indefinitely.” Jennifer says that the people who keep up with the changes in their industry are more likely to find new work – and faster – if they lose their old jobs. “For example, earlier this year I was working with a client who had been working in the banking industry for the last two decades. Unlike his peers, he had been reading up on all the new legislation that the U.S. and other countries were passing after the meltdown in 2009. Wouldn’t you know it, within less than a month, he found a new job with a U.S. firm – in his hometown. And he’s making better money than before.” She pauses before continuing. “None of his coworkers who got the axe are so lucky right now.”

Education is power. Both of these experts caution that people should never assume that they’ve learned enough when they get their diploma. “You can never know too much,” says Mr. Gundersen. “It’s never too late for a person to make a better life for themselves by gaining more education.”

Consumer Services, Internet & Online, Social Media, Software, Technology, Travel, Web 2.0

Smart Travel – 2011’s Biggest Mobile Trend

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With 75.3 million iPhones sold in 2010 alone, the age of the Smartphone is well and truly upon us. One of the principle innovations associated with the rise of the Smartphone is, of course, the ‘App’.

There are already a plethora of apps catering to every conceivable aspect of modern living and the development of these often whimsical, frequently rather handy and sometimes near indispensable little applications is set to accelerate in 2011. One area that is sure to see a surge in smartphone apps this year is the travel sector.

Apps seem set to impact the travel sector in a big way and DialAFlight, one of the biggest providers of cheap flights worldwide, have lead the way by launching an iPhone application that gives some indication of how Smartphone technology can improve the traveller’s experience.

The free app, which provides users with a complete travel itinerary, updated flight status, a ‘find my hotel’ function and a guide to the best flight prices, was amongst the first in the travel sector to hit the market. This makes finding cheap flights to Bangkok, New Zealand, Cape Town and other exotic locations a dream to organise.

The smart phone allows users to have more control over their holiday experience. With utilities such as mapping, currency converters and travel updates, it promises to take the stress out of travel. No more back seat drivers or bad navigators, just enter your hotel details and let GPS take the reins.

Finding cheap flight details on the go is now so easy, there’s no excuse not to travel cheap. Confidence in the smart phone is steadily increasing and the ease with which flight deals can be checked, hotels booked, travel itinerary and travel guides downloaded is transforming the way we travel.

Find out more at http://www.dialaflight.com/mobile/iphonesupport.aspx or visit the iPhone App Store download the DialAFlight app today.

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About DialAFlight
DialAFlight is one of the UK’s leading travel companies and has been in business for 30 years. Each year hundreds of thousands of people visit our website for cheap flights, hotels, car hire, weekend breaks and business flights.

Visit http://www.dialaflight.com/flights/ or call now for our latest offers. Calls may be recorded for training purposes.

Consumer Services, Entertainment, Internet & Online, Marketing, Travel

Free Balkans Travel Assistance @ BalkansTravelGuru.com

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Athens, Greece – January 20, 2011 – Balkans Travel Guru announced today the successful release of its FREE Balkans travel assistance website, balkanstravelguru.com. The site was created to assist travelers in the Balkans with where to go, what to do, where to find products or services and what they need to know for each and every country in the Balkans. Whether it is planning before your trip, or during your trip, Balkans Travel Guru has the information needed to make your travel easier.

Tourism has fallen sharply throughout the Balkans. Experts believe that a well-informed traveler is a return traveler. Balkans Travel Guru is not a travel agent but an online resource to travelers or potential travelers. Its mission is to increase travel in the Balkans by having well informed travelers and inspire them to travel throughout. The company is currently working on an IPhone and IPod application to further assist the traveler.

“It is a unique tool; there is nothing more frustrating than going to a city and not being able to find what you need. As a business traveler, I need to know so I can do more. You can even find where the local stationary is in Tirana” Said Michael Velop.

Balkans Travel Guru is the number one resource tool for those who travel throughout the Balkans (Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, FYR Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey). Our handy business essential guide provides an up-to-date, useful and informative directory of products and services in each country. No matter what you are in need of, such as glasses, lawyers, accountants, stationary, translators, event organizers etc…, this business essential directory will be your GURU.

Contact:
Manos Ioannidis
Mi@balkans.com
Balkans Travel Guru
+30 6950 924 448

Business, Internet & Online, Management, Non-Profit, Social Media, Society, Software, Technology

Intranet Connections turned to Social Media tools to organize and run a charity campaign

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Intranet Connections (www.intranetconnections.com), provider of the popular intranet CMS software, turned to Social Media tools to organize and run a charity campaign in conjunction with the recent holiday season. During the month of December, CEO Carolyn Douglas and Online Marketing Manager Rachel Lai connected with Intranet Connections clients over Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook with an offer to donate $100.00 to a charity of their choice.

“Intranet Connections would not be the company that it is today without the feedback and input from our clients. We wanted to recognize their efforts and support the causes that are important to them over the holidays,” reported Carolyn Douglas. “By using social media, we hoped to introduce clients to new ways that they can connect with us and build community with our other intranet software users.”

The aim of the ‘Give Back’ campaign was to contribute to a cause that customers are passionate about in an easy, no strings attached way. There was a great response to the campaign and donations were made to charities ranging from a local animal rescue shelter in Nova Scotia, Canada to large national charities such as the American Cancer Society. This was the second year in a row where Intranet Connections has run this campaign over the holiday season.

About Intranet Connections
Intranet Connections Intranet 2.0 Software is out-of-the-box intranet software that combines core tools, intranet tasks and employee collaboration in an easy to use and turnkey environment. More than 1400 organizations world-wide have chosen Intranet Connections as their intranet software provider and the company has a strong vertical within financial and health sectors.

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If you’d like more information about this topic, please contact Carolyn Douglas at 604-924-9770 or visit the Intranet Connections blog at
http://blogs.intranetconnections.com.

Contact Details: Suite 230 – 1000 Roosevelt Cres
North Vancouver, BC
V7P 1M3
Tel: 604-924-9770
Fax: 604-924-9740
Email: clientservices@intranetconnections.com
Web: http://www.intranetconnections.com

Education, Internet & Online, Retail, Shopping, Society

Michaels Associates LLC unveils their new web site at teacher-books.net

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CEO Greg Michaels of Michaels Associates LLC announced today that the company will soon unveil a new website www.teacher-books.net. The new site represents a complete re-design of www.michaelsassociates.com. Visitors to the old site will be automatically redirected to the updated site.

The company, founded in 1986, had its first website in 1995 and specializes in professional resources for K-12 educators and administrators. Michaels Associates LLC has been named “distributor of the year” three times by the International Reading Association. They are also one of the nation’s leading distributors for resources from Scholastic, Pearson, Maupin House, Sage, Shell Education, Guilford, NCTE, ASCD, and many others. Also sold on the site will be leveled books for guided reading and reading recovery as well as school supply items.

The new website will feature new, best-selling, and classic professional titles from over 30 publishers – at a discount. There will also be a button on the homepage that will take administrators and librarians to a page that offers deep discounts on topic-based professional libraries and multiple copies of the same title.

The site is expected to operational by mid-February 2011. Contact CEO Greg Michaels at 1-800-869-1467 or gmichaels@michaelsassociates.com

Contact Details: Michaels Associates LLC
409 Beatty Road
Suite 100
Monroeville, PA 15146

Entertainment, Gaming, Internet & Online, Software, Technology, Telecom, Web 2.0

Grimm: Ride of the Perambulator, a new iOS game now available

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ROBOX Studios is proud to announce the release of Grimm: Ride of the Perambulator, a new iOS game now available. Set in a devilish and stylized Victorian world, Grimm is a side-scrolling macabre adventure, featuring stunning hand-drawn graphics and whimsical humor. Using the accelerometer, the player must navigate a lost carriage and baby through over 10 worlds and 8 mini-levels of fiendish delights. Pursued by Mr. Grimm, the player must survive his questionable intentions as he presents new challenges along the way.

A truly independent title, Grimm was developed by David Pietrandrea, owner of ROBOX Studios. The small development team focused on creating an immersive experience and a fully-realized world, bringing a unique style to mobile platforms.

Enter the devilish and dangerous world of Grimm at your own peril, now in the iTunes App Store:

“Mother has lost her baby! It is up to you, kindly gamer, to safely navigate the baby’s carriage through over 10 worlds of twisted Victorian delights, delivering the lost child home. Avoid the specter of Mr. Grimm, a shadowy figure intent on stopping you at every turn. Grimm: Ride of the Perambulator is a unique side-scrolling adventure set in a dark and stylized world.”

GAMEPLAY FEATURES:
– Use the accelerometer to guide the carriage through over 10 worlds and 8 mini-levels of twisted and macabre delights.
– Launch the baby from the carriage to solve puzzles and combat villainous enemies
– Survive the fiendish intentions of Mr. Grimm as he doggedly pursues you, presenting new challenges along the way.
– Enjoy the unique and handmade art of the Grimm world.

Out now for iOS; iPhone and iPod touch. Featured by Apple.

iTunes Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grimm/id406222390?mt=8

Grimm Mini-site: http://roboxstudios.com/grimm/

Contact Details: 80 River St. Suite 5M, Hoboken, NJ, david@roboxstudios.com, www.roboxstudios.com