Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Ways To Reach out to a younger and Local Target market On the Web



Young people make big use of their cell phones revealing they will utilize it for everything from playing video games to searching for bars within their local area. They even can shop and search while they’re on their smartphones. That attests that getting a presence on local advertising and marketing search engines is a great strategy to place yourself directly in the path of this profitable marketplace.
Listed here are 3 top rated services you’ll want to list your online business with and make a an important part of your local online marketing strategy.
Yahoo Local Listings:
Yahoo local is not hard to get listed with and you could already be listed if your business has a yellow pages advertisement. Yahoo local extracts their data from the same service that makes phone directories. Still, you’ll want to be sure you’re listed correctly. If you’re not listed with Yahoo local, just make a visit to their website and post your business there.
To help make your listing have a lot more weight and importance with younger users, you can ask colleagues, family members, acquaintances and current customers to write reviews regarding your business. Businesses with great testamonials are awarded more popularity, site traffic and customers. You could have a contest with your subscribers and clients that every person that evaluates your business gets entered into a drawing. You can even submit photos of your business not to mention a inbound link to your website or blog.
Merchant Circle:
Merchant Circle is a website dedicated to linking smaller businesses to their local customers. Once you sign up for merchant circle, which is free, you need to insert pictures, set up a weblog, create coupons and bulletins, and connect with some other suppliers, in addition to situating yourself in the path of prospective customers. Merchant circle, and Yahoo even make links to your website, which in turn boosts your search engine placement. Promote on these local websites and you will definitely acquire precious customer referrals.
Insider Pages:
Insider Pages functions similar to Merchant Circle and Yahoo local Listings. You can list your business totally free, get reviews and ratings from clients so that you jump out whenever people are searching for your organization services or products and you can share images of your company, links to your website and advertise. Furthermore it builds up your search engine placement.
Since getting displayed with all of these websites costs nothing and since they help improve your website positioning, attention, publicity and viewers there’re a wonderful resource to promote your business. When it pertains to reaching a more youthful market, often your greatest strategy is to just place yourself where they interact socially. As increasing numbers of people utilize their smart phones to help them navigate through the web, they’re going to these local listings to find where they can go shopping, where they will eat and who they collaborate with. Get listed today and begin increasing your business earnings.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Benefits of Having a Professional Website for your Business


Do you have a website yet for your business?
If not, then you probably know that you need one. But why?
The benefits of having a website are numerous:
  • Prospective clients can find you: This is one of the most important reasons to have a business website. People are looking online for your services. When they search, will they find your business? If they can’t find you, they can’t hire you.
  • Prospective clients can learn more about you: People want to know more about the people they’re considering hiring. One of the most common ways to do that today is to “google” a person or a business. When people search for you online, they should find a professional website that provides information about you and your business.
  • You can convey your credibility: If someone is considering hiring you, they’ll want to know about you, your background, and your experience. A good business website should include an “About” page that provides this information as well as testimonials about your work.
  • You can showcase your solutions: If your business provides a service that will help someone with a specific problem, you can let prospective clients know how you can help them (and if your business doesn’t help someone with a specific problem, you might need to rethink your business!).
  • You can share your expertise: A website with a business blog is a great way for you to share information about what you know. This gives prospective clients an opportunity to learn more about how you can help them. A blog also helps search engines to find your website and serve it up in the search results, which will drive more traffic to your site.
  • Generate leads: Once someone finds your site, make it easy for them to contact you. Prospective clients should be able to fill out a form, pick up the phone, find an email, or otherwise contact you easily so that you can follow up with them.
  • Serves as a hub for your social media profiles: If your business is not yet on social media, it should be. Social media is a great way to ensure that information about your business and services can be shared online, making it easier for people to find out about you and how you can help them. Your website then becomes the glue that holds it all together.
  • Collect contact information from people interested in your services: Wouldn’t it be great to have access to a list of people who are interested in your services and who have voluntarily given you permission to contact them about how you can help them? You can do this with newsletter signup form on your website.
However, having a website doesn’t mean that you should have just any website. Let’s face it, some websites just don’t look good! They may be old or outdated, be cluttered, have a “Free website by…” at the bottom, or otherwise make a less than stellar impression. That is something you cannot afford.
Your website should serve as a professional online presence that conveys your credibility, showcases your solutions, and makes it easy for people to contact you. Additionally, it should be optimized so that people can actually find it when they search online. And, it should be easy for you to update on your own, without being tied to a web developer every time you need to make a change to your site.
Fortunately, affordable web design is possible without breaking the bank (or your startup budget!). Contact us to take part of our Pre Launch Special

How Does a Business Website Beats The Yellow Pages?


Relocating to a new area can show you a lot of things, however it wasn’t until I came to be a business owner that I noticed it can also teach you about business. And particularly on how nervous businesses can be about making changes.
I’ve been astonished at the amount of small businesses throughout the Carson Valley don’t have an online presence.  Yet, these businesses are buying space in the Yellow Pages.  Really?!
Don’t they know that most people are very likely to use their yellow pages directory as a doorstop or booster seat rather than actually opening it to find a local business nowadays?  And I’m definitely not exaggerating.
Businesses that still hang on to this conventional advertising method are either living in denial or letting their lack of information or fear of the online world to restrict their business development.
For example, if you’re a auto body shop or hair stylist around the Carson City/Reno area and you don’t have a website, you’re passing up a lot of revenue.
Would you like to know how to have the competitive advantage over most of your competitors in your community?
Present your potential customers with a professional informative website.  Give them directions via an interactive Google map to your business. Include pricing and photographs of your business that anyone can access from a computer or their mobile device.  Present them with testimonials and recommendations by others who have done business with you.
Time is very valuable to the majority of people, so being able to make a well informed decision in a short period of time is important to them.  They don’t have time to try every hair stylist in town.
Show your online visitors that you’re an appealing, growing business interested in your community and customers by keeping your website up-to-date and adding new content continuously.
Most people are hesitant to check out a place that hasn’t updated their website in several months or even years.  You want to know why?  Because many times people will go to that establishment only to find out that the business has closed their doors.   Frequent updates of some kind let people know you’re still an active business who wants you as a customer and that they care about their business.
Most of your potential customer are looking for all those things so stop making excuses  and rationalizing that a professional web presence isn’t important  for your business.
Recognize that a business website allows you to get to a lot more people and share more useful information with them than a costly Yellow Pages advertisement ever could.
Now is the time to have your website built by InterSnap- check out our Pre Launch Special

24 hour WordPress Website Designs


If you need a website within just 24 hours, then you’ll definitely appreciate our ultra-fast website creation solutions which are incorporated into the WordPress content management system, which happens to be regarded as the most powerful and scalable website management platform out there.
Our process to 24 hour web design is straightforward and we work closely with you to make certain your online business receives precisely what it needs in just 24 hours! Our company is a fast-paced crew of US based WordPress specialists operating from 1 location. Our goal is to provide our clients premium quality designs available for WordPress with a 24 hour turnaround.
Why WordPress? When considering creating a website within 24 hours, there is absolutely no better choice for a content management system. We focus on WordPress mainly because the software is open source, offer tons of built-in features, and are backed by enormous online development community.
In order to get your website up within 24 hours, we must receive all of your content. We’ll make contact with you immediately after ordering. Once we recieve all your content, it’s showtime!
What We Don’t Do
If you are looking for a website that uses flash animations or custom javascript, we’re probably not the right design company for you. We’ll be happy to discuss with you to determine whether we can fulfill your needs.
We don’t build shopping carts and static html page websites as this requires more time that our 24 hour turnaround.
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Website Hosting


Affordable & Secure Hosting for Your New Website

We provide hosting for every client that we build a website that is designed to provide clients with peace of mind knowing that their site is safe and secure. You will have peace of mind knowing that our servers are backed up daily, can handle large volumes of traffic, implantation of email spam filters, and our software is updated routinely.

Your Domain Name

If you don’t have a domain name, we will be happy to research the best domain name for you business/niche and point you to an affordable and reputable registrar company. We strongly believe that the client should have complete ownership of their domain name as it’s the most important aspect of their business to have control over it. This also makes it easier if they decide later down the road to host their site elsewhere.
If you already have a domain name we can assist you in pointing it to our domain name servers (DNS).

Web Hosting Costs

All our web design packages have the same hosting price of $129/year. First year is free as part of our Pre Launch Special

Note: Our hosting is only for websites that we’ve created.  If you are looking for just hosting for your current site contact us and we can recommend some web hosting companies.

Free Website SEO


When you choose InterSnap to build and host your new website you will automatically receive a complete initial website optimization for all the keyword phrases you should be ranking for in the organic search engine results.
Our in-house search engine optimization experts will personally optimize your website using the the most up-to-date techniques. Each of our optimization experts have over a decade of proven results so you’ll be in good hands!
This initial website optimization is valued at $800 and you get it free when we build your new site.
Although we will initially get your new site optimized for the search engines which will greatly help your online presence, you will want to keep the momentum by using other internet marketing strategies.