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How To Make a Facebook Page
Facebook Pages for Business are considered a must have in this day and age and how to make a Facebook page is relatively simple. You may not see the need for your business to have a facebook page, however your competitors most certainly do. Your business may be missing out on great Social Marketing benefits for business.
What is that you are asking, great question .... Branding Your Business in the manner you want.
To make a Business Facebook Page you must already have a personal account. (We are assuming you already have a personal account set up)
NOTE: Profiles are for Personal Accounts -----------Pages are for Business Accounts/ Bands etc
- Log into your personal Facebook Account
- On the left hand side of your home page you will see a menu (links) under your profile picture, click on the "more" link
- You should now be able to view "Ads and Pages" Options . If you are experiencing trouble finding this link (this changes with Facebook updates etc) please click on the link below to go straight to the "How To Make Facebook Page"
Click on the link to learn How To Make a Facebook Page
- You will now see the "Create a Page" as per below
(Again this is current at this time but Facebook do update/change things on a regular basis
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How To Make a Facebook Page - Options
- Choose the option that best describes what you want to advertise, then add your details to the form that pops up.
- Read and Agree to the Facebook Terms and Conditions and Congratulations your Business Facebook Page has been set up
- You can now click on "Edit Info" (top of the page) and start building your page with the correct information you require.
- You can view your page by clicking on "View Page"
Just a Few Tips on How To Make a Facebook Page:
- Don't forget to add your Logo/ Image for your Business Facebook Page
- Link Your Twitter Account if you have one - See the option in the edit page
- Add the Page to your Personal Account
- Invite Your Friends to your new Business Page
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We trust this has been of assistance in How To Make a Facebook Page
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Stainless Steel Bubbler - Marko Stainless
Marko Stainless has been manufacturing stainless steel bubblers and stainless steel wash troughs for 16 years from their Head Office located in in Cardiff, Lake Macquarie. Marko Stainless have the added advantage of being able to build the stainless steel bubbler to the exact dimension required by New South Wales Schools, both Private and Public. As well as New South Wales Health for all their hospitals and finally, of course there is also their range of stainless steel bubblers for the Commercial Sectors.
Benefits of a Stainless Steel Bubbler
The stainless steel bubbler is especially designed to withstand exposure to the harsh weather conditions of New South Wales. The Bubbler is finished in high quality stainless steel, ensuring ease of maintenance and longevity of this quality product for many years to come.
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Our stainless steel bubbler can be shipped to your location within a short space time and are easy to install by any qualified plumber. The stainless steel bubbler are ideal for schools and playground, hospitals, industrial sites, factories and anywhere a reliable water outlet is required.
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What is e-commerce? e-Commerce or eCommerce, is “electronic commerce.” Right, tell me something I don't know.
Simply stated, It’s buying and selling products, services and other important stuff over the Internet. e-Commerce covers a vast range of businesses, both conventional and unconventional. These can range from stores selling specific products, such as Baby Stores or Camping Stores, to Auction Houses, which list and sell everything and not forgetting the most important e-Commerce application, the downloading of music and movies (after a fee has been paid).
How amazing is it. You can go online, at any time of the day or night, buy a shirt or a book, and have it delivered to your house within the next day or two. All this and you never left the comfort and safety of your house. This advancement in e-Commerce has allowed the smaller businesses to compete against the multi nationals, in a more cost effective and efficient manner. The growth of e-Commerce has been immense over the last few years and this trend is expected to continue and expand accordingly.
What is e-commerce? Relying on innovations in moving money, information, Products and Services around electronically, marketing goods and services over the Internet, processing the actual transaction online and Internet security. The explosive growth of e-commerce creates amazing opportunities.
Another exciting opportunity that has arisen from e-Commerce, is the B2B Model. Business to Business e-commerce is usually referred to as “B2B”, whereby Manufacturers buy parts, Retail stores buy from Wholesalers and so on. e-Commerce has considerable advantages over older tried and tested means for B2B. If correctly implemented, e-commerce is faster, cheaper, more convenient and can potentially reach more customers.
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One last thing to consider. You know that tiny little lower case “e” at the beginning of the word e-commerce? Have you ever wonder why it’s not in Upper Case E? The answer is simple: the e stands for electronic, and electronic, literally, means having to do with electrons. Electrons are the sub-atomic particles whose moving around gives us energy in the form of electricity. The scientific symbol for electron is a small e.
Trust you have enjoyed this
See You In The Search Engines
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Free 5 Day Autoresponder Course
Autoresponders if used correctly are extremely helpful tools to assist you in automating your Business and help reducing your work load considerably.
The potential usages are amazing and can include sending potential customers relevant information on your Business, Product or Service or any other fixed information. Sending email courses and or newsletters.
You start by creating an account at any one of the many available. You pay a modest monthly fee, depending on your requirements and your in business.
Hosting Impact utilises Autoresponders in many ways and includes sending Newsletters, Business Information or even a "Crash Course on How to Use Autoresponders"
We also use them to develop and build Customer Relations, by offering valued information on a regular basis, both free and paid for, including free courses, Customer Support and so much more. We find that it helps to build trust and an ongoing working relationship with them.
Autoresponders Control Panels or Dashboards have in built tracking capabilities that assist you in determining who has received what and when and what clicks have lead to where. This in itself is a cost effective and time efficient Sales and Marketing component that can not be overlooked. It allows you to run split tests to determine which ad, newsletter or format appeals to your subscribers more.
Probably, one of the more important aspects of using an Autoresponder is that they comply with CAN-SPAM Act and requires subscribers to approve and subscribe to an email. More detailed information can be found here The Australian Communications and Media Authority
You determine when and what time the emails of your particular course are to be sent. The flexibility of this allows you to run several e-courses, newsletters and fixed business information at the one time.
With a paid Autoresponder service you are not limited to just one website, you can create unlimited Autoresponders and Newsletters on multiple domains that you own. The potential, if used correctly is immense and should be considered an important and essential tool in your Business.
Should you require additional information on Autoresponders, please follow this link for Our FREE 5 Day Crash Course on Autoresponders
Till Next Time
See You In The Search Engines
Hosting Impact
Creating Your Website Presence
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If the following You Tube Video doesn't make you sit up and take notice, then nothing will. Social Media at it's best. Right Here Right Now ... Enjoy
Social Media continues to grow and expand in all Countries. Social Media is not just restricted to Facebook, it encompasses it all, from Blogger, Linked in, Twitter, My Space and the list grows.
How many Social Media Accounts does your Business or Company have and more importantly do you use them correctly. Social Media for Business is developing and growing and evolving daily and it is never too late to start. Don't think you have the time, then watch the above video again.
Contact Hosting Impact to assist in this exciting phase of your Social Media Business Building. Telephone 1300 85 2227 or email support@hostingimpact.com
I was asked recently to provide an example of how potentially powerful Blogs are. Let me clarify that, how potentially powerful, well written and informative blogs can be.
The first thing I do when writing a Blog or Post, is identify and name the Title of the Post. In this case, I have selected Belmont Home Loans as the Title. I do not have any Home Lending experience, nor am I affiliated with any Home Lenders, nor do I make any representation regarding any product, service, lender or planner. This post is written purely to showcase our skills, or lack of skills in writing effective posts.
I then, provide a brief background of the Title eg: Belmont is located on the shores of Lake Macquarie New South Wales, approximately 1 hour north of Sydney and there are approximately 25 000 people living within the area.
Now we dive right into the heart of the subject. Belmont Home Loans. From here you would discuss the various types of Loans or Mortgages that are currently available for people living within Belmont, New South Wales. Read the rest of this entry »
Just don’t focus on the home page, keywords and titles.
The first step to sales when customers visit your site to see the products they were looking for. Of course, search engine optimization and better rankings can’t keep your customer on your site or make them buy. The customer having visited your site, now ensure that he gets interested in your products or services and stays around. Motivate him to buy the product by providing clear and unambiguous information. Thus if you happen to sell more than one product or service, provide all necessary information about this, may be by keeping the information at a different page. By providing suitable and easily visible links, the customer can navigate to these pages and get the details.
Understanding Your Target Customer
If you design a website you think will attract clients, but you don’t really know who your customers are and what they want to buy, it is unlikely you make much money. Website business is an extension or replacement for a standard storefront. You can send email to your existing clients and ask them to complete a survey or even while they are browsing on your website. Ask them about their choices. Why do they like your products? Do you discount prices or offer coupons? Are your prices consistently lower than others? Is your shipping price cheaper? Do you respond faster to client questions? Are your product descriptions better? Your return policies and guarantees better than your competitor’s? To know your customer you can check credit card records or ask your customer to complete a simple contact form with name, address, age, gender, etc. when they purchase a product.
Does your website give enough contact information?
When you sell from a website, your customer can buy your products 24 hrs a day and also your customers may be from other states that are thousands of miles away. Always provide contact information, preferably on every page of your website, complete with mailing address, telephone number and an email address that reaches you. People may need to contact you about sales, general information or technical problems on your site. Also have your email forwarded to another email address if you do not check your website mailbox often. When customer wants to buy online provide enough options like credit card, PayPal or other online payment service.
Keyword density is an indicator of the number of times the selected keyword appears in the web page. But mind you, keywords shouldn’t be over used, but should be just sufficient enough to appear at important places.
If you repeat your keywords with every other word on every line, then your site will probably be rejected as an artificial site or spam site.
Keyword density is always expressed as a percentage of the total word content on a given web page.
Suppose you have 100 words on your webpage (not including HMTL code used for writing the web page), and you use a certain keyword for five times in the content. The keyword density on that page is achieved by simply dividing the total number of keywords, by the total number of words that appear on your web page. So here it is 5 divided by 100 = .05. Because keyword density is a percentage of the total word count on the page, multiply the above by 100, that is 0.05 x 100 = 5%
The generally accepted standard for keyword density on a website is between 3% and 5%,. This is believed to be the most acceptable number to get recognized by the search engines and you should never exceed it.
Remember, that this rule applies to every page on your site. It also applies to not just to one keyword but also a set of keywords that relates to a different product or service. The keyword density should always be between 3% and 5%.
Simple steps to check the density:
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Copy and paste the content from an individual web page into a word-processing software program like Word or Word Perfect.
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Go to the ‘Edit’ menu and click ‘Select All’. Now go to the ‘Tools’ menu and select ‘Word Count’. Write down the total number of words in the page.
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Now select the ‘Find’ function on the ‘Edit’ menu. Go to the ‘Replace’ tab and type in the keyword you want to find. ‘Replace’ that word with the same word, so you don’t change the text.
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When you complete the replace function, the system will provide a count of the words you replaced. That gives the number of times you have used the keyword in that page.
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Using the total word count for the page and the total number of keywords you can now calculate the keyword density.
See You in the Search Engines
Steve
Hosting Impact
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It is the search engines that finally bring your website to the notice of the prospective customers. Hence it is better to know how these search engines actually work and how they present information to the customer initiating a search.
There are basically two types of search engines. The first is by robots called crawlers or spiders.
Search Engines use spiders to index websites. When you submit your website pages to a search engine by completing their required submission page, the search engine spider will index your entire site. A ‘spider’ is an automated program that is run by the search engine system. Spider visits a web site, read the content on the actual site, the site's Meta tags and also follow the links that the site connects. The spider then returns all that information back to a central depository, where the data is indexed. It will visit each link you have on your website and index those sites as well. Some spiders will only index a certain number of pages on your site, so don’t create a site with 500 pages!
The spider will periodically return to the sites to check for any information that has changed. The frequency with which this happens is determined by the moderators of the search engine.
A spider is almost like a book where it contains the table of contents, the actual content and the links and references for all the websites it finds during its search, and it may index up to a million pages a day.
Example: Excite, Lycos, AltaVista and Google.
When you ask a search engine to locate information, it is actually searching through the index which it has created and not actually searching the Web. Different search engines produce different rankings because not every search engine uses the same algorithm to search through the indexes.
One of the things that a search engine algorithm scans for is the frequency and location of keywords on a web page, but it can also detect artificial keyword stuffing or spamdexing. Then the algorithms analyze the way that pages link to other pages in the Web. By checking how pages link to each other, an engine can both determine what a page is about, if the keywords of the linked pages are similar to the keywords on the original page.
See You In the Search Engines
Steve
Hosting Impact
Posted in Website Traffic | Tags: algorithms, crawlers, excite, google, keyword stuffing, keywords, lycos, msn, robots, search engine, spamdexing, spider, submission pages, web crawlers, website pages, website visitors | Comments
Real Time Results on The Power Of Blogs. Hosting Impact uploaded a specific blog yesterday and less than 24 hours later that particular blog was currently number 2 out of 2.8 million results Australia wide. Read the rest of this entry »