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Articles in January 2010

Six Tips For Landing Pages

Posted: 29 January 2010 at 10:55 a.m.

The key to doubling or tripling the effectiveness of your advertising efforts is to set up great landing pages and invite people to your landing pages instead of your website's home page.  Landing pages are the first page a person sees after clicking on a link to your site ...

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Show Facebook Updates On Your Site

Posted: 27 January 2010 at 12:26 p.m.

You can show your Facebook fan pages on your website quite easily.  See the example below to see Danemco's facebook fan page's updates.

To implement this, follow these steps:


1. Log in to Facebook
2. Do a search for your ...

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Real World Twitter Usage

Posted: 22 January 2010 at 11:43 a.m.

A blog post about businesses that have actually used twitter might be insightful.  As this is twitter week, we've considered many businesses that used twitter for various applications.  I thought I'd share a few of them with you.

1. Announce Your Location

Many trucks that sell food from ...

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Twitter as a Marketing Tool

Posted: 22 January 2010 at 11:24 a.m.

Twitter is an amazing business tool, but most of us do not exploit the potentials of this tool fully. If we could, we would soon find that we have increased web traffic to our site, more than what we expected. This is a relatively new business tool which means that ...

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Twitter For Absolute Beginners

Posted: 22 January 2010 at 11:21 a.m.

I thought a little guide on Twitter for absolute beginners will be beneficial.  This is how to get started:

1. Create a Twitter Account

Go to http://twitter.com and click on the Create Account button.  Creating an account takes only a few minutes.  Choose a twitter account name that ...

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How To Gain Twitter Followers

Posted: 19 January 2010 at 11:38 a.m.

Twitter logoIt's Twitter week at Danemco!  Today we'll talk about how to gain a twitter following.

In order to successfully profit from twitter, you first need a following.  When people follow you on twitter, your updates show up on their twitter timeline.  That's how you get your message ...

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Website Statistics Webinar Slides

Posted: 19 January 2010 at 11:25 a.m.

Thank you to all those who attended our Website Statistics webinar this morning.  It was a pleasure learning from each other.  A lot of our discussion focused on what can be done to increase traffic to our websites as well as getting a better understanding of what the website statistics ...

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14 Twitter Facts and Figures.. Both Surprising and Expected

Posted: 18 January 2010 at 9:14 a.m.

Note: The following is an excerpt from an article found on the web (see the reference below). 

Some interesting Twitter facts and figures have come out of  reports and research over the past few weeks and it reveals some expected results and also some surprises.

Expected

  1. USA Twitter share is ...
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Sync Blog to Twitter, Facebook

Posted: 17 January 2010 at 1:10 p.m.

If you're trying to keep up with Facebook, Twitter, and your blog, it can be a bit overwhelming.  I have found a terrific service to tie all three together -- and it's free.  Just write your blog post and it will update Facebook and Twitter automatically for you.  Go ...

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Make Your Site Mobile Friendly

Posted: 15 January 2010 at 1:15 p.m.

iPhone (Medium)A big trend for 2010 will be an increased demand for mobile versions of websites.  As costs fall and more people buy smart phones for business or pleasure, mobile web surfing will rise.  Many websites need to be redesigned to display nicely on small handheld screens.  Navigation menus need to ...

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Click If You're Enthusiastic!

Posted: 13 January 2010 at 9:43 p.m.

Check it out, a musical blog post!  I wrote a song!  You can download the MP3 below.  After listening you may say, "I'm glad you're a web developer not a musician," but there's a story behind this that I want to share.  This may be one of ...

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What's Your Competitive Advantage?

Posted: 12 January 2010 at 12:02 p.m.

In our morning meeting we talked about competitive advantages.  We've all heard it, but I found it refreshing to review and take stock and think what our competitive advantages really are.

What is your company's competitive advantage?  What do you have that nobody else has?  Why would someone ...

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Our Brainstorming Meeting

Posted: 8 January 2010 at 5:14 p.m.

Today we held a meeting we call the DBM (Danemco Brainstorming Meeting).  We had prepared questions on all sorts of topics such as client service, marketing, operations, our products, etc. in advance and asked everyone to come to the meeting with ideas to share with others.  We sat around a ...

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What you leave behind!

Posted: 6 January 2010 at 9:46 a.m.

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." - Pericles

What is it that you will leave the rest of the world when you pass on? Too often we go through life not thinking beyond the here and ...

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5 Tips For Faster Websites

Posted: 4 January 2010 at 10:10 p.m.

They say people make a decision whether or not to read more or leave a web page within a matter of seconds.  If it takes a while for your website to load, you might be losing potential customers.  In today's fast-paced drive-thru want-it-now digital age, a web page (especially ...

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