LinkBox™ lets you easily generate new sales leads and customer referrals online

by matso on June 24, 2010

How good would it be for your business if you could give every agent in your sales organization their own microsite online?

If you could give them a new tool to help attract new customer leads, get customer referrals and fulfill requests for information?

And what if the process of getting all these of microsites was laughably easy and didn’t require even one IT geek?

Plus, give you an online dashboard where you can see the activity of every agent’s or franchisee’s microsite, including how many people visited, how many requested appointments and information and referred friends?

Well, it’s entirely possible with LinkBox™

Microsites in minutes, made easy:
• Easy to sign up
• Easy to change your messages and offers
• Easy for your customers to redeem offers and ask for appointments
• Easy for customers to refer friends
• Easy to promote your microsites via Facebook and Twitter
• Easy to track usage stats, appointments and referrals

LinkBox™ is a stand-alone system that requires no complicated IT integration, yet it can be branded seamlessly to match your corporate image, including your company logo, colors and product names.

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Tweetup tools to help you create, manage and promote your Twitter networking event.

by matso on June 8, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO - APRIL 14: Attendees mingle during a break at the first annual Chirp, Twitter Developer's Conference April 14, 2010 in San Francisco, California. Chirp, the Twitter Devloper's Conference is a two day event for developers who work with the popular social networking service. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Tweetups are great for networking, meeting like-minded local people and promoting your business. These valuable tools can help maximize the success and functionality of your Tweetup.

Manage your tweetup guest list with Twtvite. You can even use Twtvite to print out name tags with guests’ Twitter names, avatars and usernames.

Hosting a paid Tweetup? Collect Tweetup admission fees with Eventbrite. Eventbrite can collect money through secure credit card processing, PayPal or Google Checkout.

In addition to promoting your Tweetup through twitter, of course, you can promote your tweetup with Meetup.com and Upcoming.com

Use Twitterfall.com to create a Twitterwall. This is a real-time updated, animated list of everyone tweeting with your hashtag. Project your Twitterall on a wall so everyone at your Tweetup can see it and be movitated to add a tweet, further promoting your event successfully.

Record your Tweetup or stream it live with Usstream.tv

For Wordpress users, Tweetuptheme.com makes it easy to promote your Tweetup website. Just upload the tweetUp theme into your Wordpress themes folder, adjust a few simple settings and enter your Tweetup event just like you would enter a normal Wordpress post.

One great feature of Tweetuptheme is the live RSVP system to help you see who’s coming. When users RSVP, they automatically send out tweets informing people that they’ve RSVPed for the event, with a link to your Tweetup Site where others can learn about your Tweetup and also RSVP.

The embedded Google map makes it easy for your Tweetup attendees to find your location.

Use any or all of these tools to make your next Tweetup a huge success!

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Automatically create and place local online ads and flyers for your business or business clients

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A company called PaperG has two new services – Flyerboard and PlaceLocal – to let advertisers and publishers automatically generate online ads and flyers and place them online.
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Get the latest forecast for your keywords: number of impressions and demographics

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Getting ready to launch a SEO or SEM campaign? This is a valuable free tool from Microsoft adCenter Labs. Use it to predict search volume and demographic profiles.
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Accept credit card payments using your iPhone, iPad or Android phone with Square

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Good news for merchants and small businesses. Now you can accept payments anywhere (at a flea market, for instance) with no merchant account required.
You just plug Square’s credit card device into your iPhone, iPad or Android phone (Square promises support for other devices soon).
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Combat banner blindness and banner burnout

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Banner ads have become less effective than text links over the past several years.
Chalk it up to banner blindness and banner burnout.
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Use negative keywords to reduce your cost per click (CPC) and increase your return on investment (ROI)

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If you’re like most Internet advertisers, you put a lot of thought into your keyword list, but what about your negative keyword list?
Negative keywords are essential to an effective keyword list. Including negative keywords in your ad group means that your ads won’t appear for search queries with those words.
After all, why waste [...]

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Groupon: coupons + social media = business boost

April 15, 2010

Groupon is a popular new website that sends subscribers in each city a daily e-mail that contains one heavily discounted bargain from a local business.
Launched in 2008, Groupon has more than 3.7 million subscribers who receive their daily e-mail offers. More than 3,000 businesses have signed on to offer these deals.
Groupon works a lot [...]

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Put your small business on the map literally with Google Local Listings

March 20, 2010

Want more customers to find you? Add your free map-based listing at Google Local Listings.
With all of the major search engines now skewing search results toward local, this and other online listings should be part of your small business’s online strategy.
It’s free to publish your listing with all the basic information: Your business name, [...]

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