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    Customizing Your Facebook Fan Page

    If the number of invitations I receive every day to become a fan of yet another eatery in Des Moines, or an interactive agency in Tuscon, is any indication, companies of all sizes are realizing the benefits of a Facebook fan page . Then how come they’re all so boring and repetitive? Without taking some steps to customizing your Facebook presence, your fan page will look like every other page on Facebook.

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    SEO and Social Media Consults Giveaways

    This is the last week to enter for two of flyte new media’s Web marketing giveaways: Search Engine Optimization: Would you like your site to rank higher at the search engines? Do you wish you could attract more qualified leads to your Web site? Do you wonder why your competition beats you at Google

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    How to Segment Your Email Subscriber List

    Dear Rich, I don’t want to send information to subscribers that they’re not interested in and risk having them unsubscribe. How can I do a better job delivering only the information they want to receive? –Confused in Cornish Dear Confused, You ask a good question, and your solution probably lies in segmenting your list and delivering on subscribers’ expectations.

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    Win a Free SEO Consult from flyte!

    Nicki Hicks, seen here before her crazy SEO consult giveaway. This is what happens when I take a four day weekend: Nicki Hicks, our intrepid search engine marketer, decides that she wants to give away some SEO consulting, so she created her own little giveaway. The winner will get: an initial one-hour consult, a mini-keyword analysis, a link building strategy, additional Web marketing strategy, and a follow-up one-hour consult with Nicki.

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    Tradeoffs Small Businesses Make – A Better Approach

    Tradeoffs Small Businesses Make – A Better Approach Small Business, Marketing And Web Design As I have shown in the previous post ( Tradeoffs Small Businesses Make Are Wrong ) picking up “cheap”, “good” and then “fast” is wrong? I promised to elaborate on a better answer, so here goes. If you have any kind significant small business experience – you probably already suspected that there is no right answer

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    Nicola’s Homes Blog: Great Design Ideas from Nicola Manganello

    Earlier this week flyte launched a brand new WordPress blog for Nicola Manganello, an amazing interior designer located right here in Maine. As Nicola says, I want to share [the joy of design] through this blog

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    Social Media Marketing That Works: Webinar – 1/14/2010

    Save $20 w/discount code “brownie” Are you ready to move beyond the hype of social media marketing? Are you ready to reach and engage a new audience for your business or non-profit? Are you ready to measure your results so you can determine whether your time on Twitter, on Facebook or on YouTube is paying off for you

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    Levey & Wagley: A WordPress Port for Maine Lawyers

    Recently flyte helped Levey & Wagley, Maine attorneys-at-law , upgrade their Web presence. First, a bit about Levey & Wagley: located in Winthrop, Maine, this law firm offers services in the following categories: Elder Law Estate Planning Probate Special Needs Trusts Real Estate Divorce & Family Law, and Mediation & Alternative Dispute Resolution We performed what we call a “WordPress Port.” We take a traditional, static Web site, and create a WordPress theme based on that design. We then port over all the content, included some training, and voila! The law firm, the small business owner, or the non-profit agency can now add, edit and delete their own content, create new pages, upload photos or embed videos to their heart’s content

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    Small Business, Marketing And Web Design With only about 12 hours of year 2009 left to spend, I guess this would be a good time to wrap up. Since my latest trend was to change this blog’s focus from smaller, more often posts to larger posts made more seldom and random. Hopefully by next year I will find a balance between the two, as I get a lot of things I want to share but not that much time to do it.

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    Mobile In The Cloud Is Too Hot To Handle For Small Biz

    Mobile In The Cloud Is Too Hot To Handle For Small Biz Small Business, Marketing And Web Design The topic of mobile computing in the cloud seems to occupy every tech blogger’s mind on the planet. The idea of storing all your data on the cloud (in the clouds?) is so fascinating that anyone who dares to say otherwise is considered almost a Luddite. Well, let me play a little bit of devil’s advocate here

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    Web Marketing Six-Pack: Get 6 Months of Webinars for 50% Off

    We just posted our editorial calendar of Webinars for the first half of 2010; everything from SEO to Social Media to Google Analytics and beyond. As I was looking at the fresh list last night, I realized that although any one of them is powerful, taken as a group they offer a huge competitive advantage. So here’s what I did: We’re now offering all six Webinars for 1/2 off

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    Maine CPA: Albin, Randall & Bennett Launch a New Web Site

    Last week flyte new media launched a new Web site for Albin, Randall and Bennett (ARB), certified public accountants and business consults with offices in Portland and Auburn, Maine . By organizing themselves into teams of specialists, each focusing on a specific industry , ARB stays up-to-date on the latest developments within their field; therefore learning how new developments may affect your individual business. While ARB serves many markets, they primarily focus on: Automotive , Construction , Credit Union & Financial Institution , Employee Benefit Plan , Manufacturing , and Not-for-Profit

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    How to Use LinkedIn to Spam Business People

    No, I’m not suggesting you use LinkedIn to spam prospective customers. Rather, I’m saying that it’s being done already with company’s and their affiliates setting up straw men (and, in this case, women) to drive traffic. I’m hoping that someone from LinkedIn will see this post and put some up some new barriers to keep LinkedIn spam to a minimum, before it becomes a real problem

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    Calling on Prospects: How Much is Too Much?

    The other day as I left yet another voicemail for a prospect who hadn’t returned my previous few calls or emails, I wondered how many unreturned “touches” most people leave before giving up, so I quickly tweeted my question . I was surprised that the answers that came back were almost invariably one or two, although Marty Hamre’s magic number was 7 and VirtualGalt invoked Brian Tracy’s name in suggesting that 5 was the right answer

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    End of availability of the ProLiant G5 range has been moved up to 3 weeks

    This should come as no surprise to Hardware.com customers; we have been informing our client base of the upgrade to G6 and the advantages of doing just this. Hardware.com was the second to announce the new G6 server range when it was launched in April 09, HP asked us not to pre-empt their official launch so hp.com was the first. HP generally has a 3-month overlap period between introducing a new server and the old version becoming end of life

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    Finding your network infrastructure quest

    Many stories, myths and films revolve around a near impossible mission, people travelling miles in the most inhospitable environments to bring back an extraordinary item. It’s all about the quest, not the actual item itself, it’s the mission that matters and gets everyone pointing in the same direction, that’s about a common goal, leadership and change. It creates action and motion, and motion in some direction is often better than no motion at all

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    Network hardware in the digital world

    The digital revolution is changing everything, and it affects the way business is run and the continued reliance on the network infrastructure to deliver the digital communication that drives business today. This has also affected marketing from: BOUGHT (advertising to mass audiences), to OWNED (websites, blogs, emails) and now and in the future EARNED (customer interaction, feedback, viral, forums, real-time engagement, free content = attention and their data, news, authentic, open-source thinking)

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    HP embedded security to end laptop theft

    We have all heard the news stories about civil servants losing sensitive public data on laptops that that have been left on trains and in taxis – and this HP security development was created as a result of the embarrassments in Whitehall. HP have developed embedded security in their business laptops and desktops so that when they are stolen the data is remotely deleted on the hard drive and they will also be able to locate the stolen PC as soon as it is connected to the Internet

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    UPS – Just When I Thought I’m Out They Pulled Me Back In

    UPS – Just When I Thought I’m Out They Pulled Me Back In Small Business, Marketing And Web Design UPS Troubles Just when I was about to write how our local UPS office picked up the ball after main office dropped it – they blew it above the sky. Hour later I got a call from our local UPS office and nice lady promised that driver would contact me about an hour before dropping off my package AND drop-off will happen after five. Well, I said, thank you, this really saves me a lot of trouble

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    Yahoo Image Search – Epic FAIL

    Yahoo Image Search – Epic FAIL Small Business, Marketing And Web Design Yahoo Image Search Fail It was about 11:22 AM Eastern Time. Already fixed, but you know… Tags: fail , image search , yahoo You might also be interested in reading this: About Yahoo Image Search (September 23, 2008): Nobody promised anything, but if you have an image search function it better produce some meaningful results. Since Google Images somehow managed to get blocked at the place where I am sitting right now (probably doing too good finding what you’re not supposed to be looking at), I use Yahoo Image search for blog posts.

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