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The Takeover of the Mobile Web Infographic

The Takeover of the Mobile Web Infographic.

It’s been predicted that mobile internet usage will overtake desktop internet usage by 2015. This infographic looks at exactly how those figures are shaping up and evaluates whether or not the desktop computer is on its last legs.

How are you positioning your business for the massive shift?

Top 8 Benefits to Effectively Market Your Business With a Website

Do you need a website? The answer is a resounding YES. We believe that in the 21st century any business that is not using the internet as part of its marketing strategy is shooting itself in the foot. The internet is the cheapest and most effective way for you to showcase your ideas, services and products.

Have you ever sat down to think how you can get new customer to your store, or maintain your relationship with your existing customer? This is a daunting question that goes on in the mind of every business person that wants to keep his/her business afloat.

If you are a boutique owner, restaurant owner, photographer, dry cleaner, landscaper, tattoo shop or a professional service provider such as a doctor, lawyer etc, your clientele are probably online checking for your product right now, will he find you there?

WHAT IS IT

A website is a collection of pages with useful information that is connected together with links so that you can effectively showcase your products or services to your visitor. A website has a tremendous power for anyone wishing to promote an idea, a product or a service or an event both locally or internationally.

The internet is still at a young stage but many small businesses worldwide like yours have and are already using it to take their businesses to new heights never thought achievable. Just to think that the internet had only two users as at 1990 in the persons of Tim Berner-Lee who invented the web and his friend Robert Caillou and today we have over 300 billion daily users is phenomena.

This then means that in the next 5 to 10 years if a business is not having a web presence, that business will be die a natural death plain and simple. Because in today’s connected generation where there are smart phones, smart television, and gadgets your potential customer expects you to be on the web with your website.

BENEFITS

Owing to the fact that the web is growing at an unprecedented pace like an untamed wild fire, it has an unlimited potential for you to achieve whatever you can think of.

Having a professionally designed corporate website is a must-have if growing your business rapidly is your goal. The benefits of having a website are numerous that if you have a limited budget for marketing.

A corporate website can help

  • Attract hundreds, even thousands, of visitors every day, many of whom become new clients? Many small businesses around the world are setting up a business website as a strategy in reaching out to new customers because it acts as a cost effective business tool for buying and selling their products and services.
  • Pre-sell prospective customers before they call you? Having a website serves as the main source of lead, sales and even customer services. Today people are more web savvy and usually search Google, Yahoo or Bing or even ask their friends on Facebook when they want to buy a product or need the services of a professional.
  • Nurture, encourage and develop the relationship you already have with existing customers, increasing both loyalty and repeat business? Social media websites such as twitter and Facebook are increasingly been used by businesses as a customer service centre.
  • Command undivided attention? Once they are on your site, you have their total attention (unlike a crowded Yellow Pages page or local business directories).
  • Take clients away from competitors? Develop new ways to monetize your skills and knowledge?
  • Gives you the ability to update frequently and to reach your clients with seasonal specials, interesting titbits etc.
  • Open market globally: A website acts as a hub to all your marketing and advertising efforts both online and offline: the internet offers a wider reach to your customers leading to a larger customer base for your business thereby providing you with a competitive edge over your peers who don’t already have a website.
  • It’s a source of credibility to your prospects: your prospects and customers expect you to have a website and if they check on you online and discovered that you are not there, you immediately lose your credibility.

No website = no credibility = no business

At Mediatech we have several web design services that load faster acts smarter and can help you to reap all these benefits and take your business to the next level.

Please feel free to send us an email so that we can work together to help your achieve your business goals.

Is Google Feedburner Shutting Down?

By QuickOnlineTips

Is Google Feedburner shutting down? Many of Feedburner’s related services are gradually shutting down, and it is a matter of concern for Feedburner users who use the service for delivering a single usable RSS feed for their blog. We use Feedburner to deliver daily RSS updates to over 25,000 RSS subscribers.

Ever since Google acquired Feedburner in 2007, they have not put much effort in upgrading its services or optimising it for further promotion and expanding their user base. I’m sure millions of blogs use feed burner to power their primary RSS feed. Yet it is difficult to understand why Google would not put in more effort to promote and expand this extremely useful service.Google Feedburner Closing?

feedburnerAdSense for feeds closed – The latest Google spring cleaning casualty has been Google AdSense for feeds, which powered advertising revenue from RSS feeds, and is now shut down. If you remember, they had earlier shut down the AdSense for feeds blog. We had also used AdSense for feeds for quite some time, but it didn’t earn much revenue; maybe it was the same for many publishers, so I guess they were also not earning much commission from it.

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43 Blogger Tips – After Installing WordPress Blog

43 Blogger Tips – What you should do after installing WordPress

by Andrew Rondeau on March 15, 2010 · 333 comments

After installing WordPress these are the best blogger tips I can share. I am assuming as you have installed WordPress you have already carried out your keyword research, so this blog post doesn’t cover the crucial stage of keyword research.

If you want more visitors, more natural traffic, a more ‘sticky’ (i.e. visitors stay longer) site and quickly indexed by Google, then check out this useful list.

(Please note there are many alternatives to the plugins mentioned – I just mention the ones I use).

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Green Priority Goes Green

We have just launched a new website for Green Priority & Services Limited. They are a marine services company based here in Warri.

The site theme is based on the company colour which is green to help established their brand. The navigation is simple and straight forward to allow their visitors to easily find the information they want. (more…)

How to Setup Your Facebook Profile in 5 Steps

With over 8 million users Facebook has become a great community to hangout with friends, catch up on your relationships, and even network with like-minded people as yourself. But how do you start using Facebook? This article is going to answer that.

Before I show you how to setup a personal profile on Facebook, let me use this opportunity to tell you that Facebook has four major area where you can hang out depending on what your goals are. These include pages, groups and places. These will be explained in another article. Ok let’s get started.

A profile on Facebook is a personal page that you create with your information so that you can use it to connect with mutual friends or others that would like to build a relationship with based on their acceptance. To setup your Facebook profiles use these five steps: (more…)

5 Things You Are Not Doing That is Hurting Your Business

Are you currently running a business or you are planning to start one? If you are you have just entered a journey that few ever dare to thread. It shows that you have all it takes to make a difference to yourself, your family, your community and the world. The world is a comfortable place because you and I decided to start a business.

But there is something that you may be neglecting by omission or commission that may be hurting your business growth and even giving you a second thought if you should toll this path. Below are some of the critical landmarks that should be in place to ensure that your business lives up to its potential.

You are in a business that you don’t love: so many people are in businesses that they do not really love. They may have gone into that kind of business because either they see their friend succeeding in it, or they have worked in that industry as an employee for years so they think “maybe I should just breakout and start this business too. (more…)

HOW ONLINE MARKETING CAN DRIVE SUCCESS TO YOUR LOCAL BUSINESS

what is online marketing?

The world is made up of over 7 billion people doing all sought of activities, businesses are being setup by the minute and according to experts many of these businesses will not see their fifth anniversary. Why? Because every business thrive or survive because of their customers. So the saying that “no customer no business” holds true. (more…)

Top 7 Misconceptions Bloggers Have About Social Media

There are so many misconceptions and farce about the internet and social media in general. This post helps to remove them. It’s a wonderful post enjoy!

When many bloggers hop on the social media wagon, they fall prey to numerous, widespread untruths on what works or what doesn’t. The result? Not only does their social media fail, but it actually turns readers off – sometimes for good.

The trick to good social media for blogging is not to bury readers in tweets or Facebook posts, but develop a reliable, targeted strategy that saves time and maximizes return. To get you started, here are the top seven social media and blogging myths and why they don’t work: (more…)