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HOW TO: Build site traffic for your small business website

June 5, 2010 By Alan Smith Leave a Comment
building site traffic

Website traffic is not like the movie "Field of Dreams."  Just because you build it, doesn't mean they'll come.  You have to do some planning and intentional work to get visitors to your website through organic searches.  You could spend your hard earned cash and create a pay-per-click campaign and get some site traffic, but to really build site traffic naturally, you need to follow a few specific guidelines. The purpose of this post is to help shed some light on what the small business owner can do to help build site traffic.  There are no magic bullets or gimmicks … [Read more...]

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Grow by Blogging

June 2, 2010 By Alan Smith Leave a Comment
Computer demands blog update

If you own a small business and are not running a blog on your website, you may be missing a lot of potential business.  One of the key elements of quality marketing is getting people talking about you and your products or services.  This social communication, whether online or in person, is critical for growing a successful small business, it builds likability and trust.  The quickest way for you to be involved in that conversation is through your own company blog.  Every small business should be blogging! Why Blog? - It makes it easy to add regular content to your … [Read more...]

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Demographics helps focus your online marketing

May 31, 2010 By Alan Smith Leave a Comment
Customer Demographics

One of the fundamental rules of marketing or business is know your audience.  If you intend to sell a service or a product to a consumer, you MUST know the ideal consumer.  Characteristics like age, gender, income level, family status, affinity sites, etc are small pieces of demographic data that help you clearly focus on who you need to be targeting you marketing message.Getting this data is not incredibly difficult to obtain, but most businesses fail to learn who they need to target.  This post will provide you with a couple helpful tools that will aid you in understanding … [Read more...]

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HOW TO: Add My Business to Google Places

May 27, 2010 By Alan Smith Leave a Comment
Google Places

Many small businesses struggle trying to figure out how to get their website to rank high in Google searches.  With all the recommendations about SEO and Page Ranking for organic traffic, it is easy to loose sight of the objective, be found in Google. For most small businesses, the primary market is local.  They are doing business in their community and spending time marketing to that community.  So, why is it so important to be number one in Google search for someone outside you local community?  It isn't!  It's just bad business to spend time marketing to people … [Read more...]

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Facebook releases security enhancements

May 26, 2010 By Alan Smith Leave a Comment
Facebook - Mark Juckerberg

If you haven't noticed, Facebook has been facing alot of criticism lately over its privacy policy.  It hasn't been a very easy few months for the young leader at the center of the internet universe.  It seems that many facebook users, have become upset with the policy changes and the Open Graph.  Some have even proposed quitting Facebook.This week, Mark Zuckerberg discussed the new changes with the Washington Post.  And today he announced the changes at Facebook offices.The FIXThe solution to the privacy issues rest in three sets of simple controls: a single control … [Read more...]

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Small Business Marketing with No Budget

May 24, 2010 By Alan Smith Leave a Comment
Small Business Marketing

When it comes to running a business, marketing budgets often get overlooked.  This could be a problem if we lived in a world where large marketing budgets were needed to effectively reach your clients.  With the power of the social web, a small business owner can now spread the word about products or services with NO BUDGET!  The social media accounts are free and using them effectively usually only requires an investment of time. The fact is, however, that the primary obstacle facing most small businesses today is not budgets, but finding an effective strategy that … [Read more...]

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Free Facebook with any Wireless Provider

May 21, 2010 By Alan Smith Leave a Comment
O.Facebook.com

For Facebook users who do not have a data plan with their wireless carrier, accessing their Facebook account has been impossible.  Until now!  Facebook has just launched a new way for people to access Facebook anywhere, anyplace, and at anytime: 0.facebook.com.  It is a new mobile site that includes all the key features of Facebook, but it is optimized for speed. When using the mobile internet, we are faced with two main challenges - speed and cost.  Either access to the internet is too slow to enjoy its use or the data plans offered by wireless carries are cost prohibitive. … [Read more...]

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Bridges Learning Center Site Launch

January 31, 2010 By Alan Smith Leave a Comment
Bridges Learning Center

Media317 is proud to announce our latest project.  We have redesigned the website for Bridges Learning Center in Columbus, GA.  The Learning Center offers education for children with autism.  The old site was simple and clean, but very difficult to manage and update.  The Learning Center does not have a webmaster to manage and maintain the site on a regular basis, so the site quickly became outdated. Media317 was given the opportunity to redesign the site and provide a platform that would allow the staff of the Learning Center to manage and update the site.  We built … [Read more...]

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Littlebranch Farm site launch

October 25, 2009 By Alan Smith Leave a Comment
http://littlebranchfarm.com

Media317 was given the opportunity to redesign the website of Littlebranch Farm, a small business in Hamilton, Georgia that makes rustic log furniture.  They are master craftsmen and have had furniture highlighted and displayed all across the country.  They came to Media317 with the goal to freshen and redesign their site to better reflect their core business and all for easier content management. We provided Littlebranch Farm with easy content management by building the site on the Wordpress platform.  By providing them with a stable, simple to use platform that … [Read more...]

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