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A Children’s party planner based in Essex.

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www.woodfloorrestorations.com
www.woodfloorsrestoration.co.uk/

These are the newest websites created for FloorZone a successful Wood Floor Restoration Business owned by David Dring.

The new website is called Festive Impact Lighting and is for Festive Impact Lighting Ltd, Buckles Lane, South Ockendon, Essex

Some ideas of how to promote your business and grow your online presents for FREE.

Increase visibility in your community.
Join local organizations that provide business networking opportunities, or start your own. Do volunteer work for a large charity. You’d be surprised at the marketing support such activities can bring.

Participate in online marketing groups.
Search Twitter and other social-networking sites for groups meeting to discuss marketing. For example, Understanding Marketing holds a chat and Q&A session on Twitter that focuses on small-business marketing. It’s live each Tuesday from 8 to 9 p.m. eastern time. Search #smbiz on Tweetgrid.com.

Submit information to blogs.
Blog writers are always looking for content for their sites. Target appropriate ones and send them press releases or descriptive e-mails.

Reward existing customers.
Offer an exclusive incentive to your regular customers—only your regular customers. Notify them via e-mail or other contact methods, and direct them to an otherwise inaccessible page on your Web site where the offer appears.

Get your customers to bring in new customers.
Offer an incentive like a discount to customers who get a new customer to make a transaction with your business.

Spruce up your Web site.
Stale sites don’t attract business. Fresh, frequently updated Web sites show your customers you’re a vibrant and active business. Let users subscribe to get update notices, then update frequently.

Provide free, helpful information to your customers.
Such content should be related to your type of business and can include tips, hints, reviews, and other information that can help drive sales. For example, a business selling paint can provide a guide to selecting the best paint for different uses. Such informative content is often available from suppliers. Use it.

Offer your noncompeting business customers a link exchange.
A link exchange is much like a bulletin board at your business that holds your customers’ business cards. The more links your business has to its Web site, the better your search engine placement, and the greater the number of people who see your business’s links, the more will visit you.

Use downtime for marketing.
When times are slow, keep employees busy contacting customers. Create e-mail marketing documents your employees can send to individual customers. Personal contact with customers gets results. Mass e-mails are less effective and, given today’s e-mail spam filters, may not be seen by many. Go for quality contacts rather than quantity.

Visit your own Web site frequently.
Look for ways it can be improved. Too often, small business Web sites load slowly, are poorly organized, and are difficult to navigate. Fix bottlenecks that impede customers and look for ways to get customers to act. Make sure all links work and lead to up-to-date content. Test campaigns with printable coupons and other incentives. For more tips, see our story “Build a Better Web Site.”

Get active in the online community.
Encourage employees to do the same. Don’t spam discussion forums or other social sites, but don’t be afraid to use signature lines containing links to your Web site. Establish common-sense rules for yourself and your employees regarding these social-networking and discussion sites, and always strive to be positive and helpful on them.

Check out your suppliers’ Web sites thoroughly.
Add links on your site to informative and helpful content on those sites. Many corporate sites offer instructional videos and other material that can inform your customers and lead them back to you, ready to do business.

Get a toll-free phone number.
It makes you look more professional and encourages business—and the fees aren’t as high as you might think.

Launch a blog on your site and update it daily.
Nothing reads “I don’t care” like a blog whose most recent entry is days old. Assign this task to employees who can write and spell—an illiterate blog is worse than no blog at all. Introduce people to your company and its staff. Highlight products. Run contests and give away company swag. Announce specials and upcoming product-line changes. Establish a “customer-of-the-month” tradition and do regular write-ups. Surely there’s something you can say to your customers daily.

Yes, use Facebook and Twitter.
Having a Facebook page may not earn you any new business, but not having one may cause customers to ask why you don’t. Take some good pictures of your offices and your employees (unless you’d rather leave those details to your customers’ imaginations), or, in some fashion, put a more human face on your company identity. Twitter is a young technology, and everyone’s scrambling to figure out useful applications. In the meantime, let your customers at least follow you, and implement a strategy similar to what you’re using in your blog. In 140 characters, that is.

Visit online marketing sites.
Good Marketing Ideas is an excellent site, with plenty of useful tips. The suggestions here cost little or nothing to implement, and will likely lead you to resources you might never have thought of on your own.

Never surrender.
Getting new and potential customers to notice you is an ongoing—and sometimes uphill—battle, and one you can’t ever stop fighting. Pick a new idea every week or two and implement it, no matter how small it is. Call a meeting of employees, order a pizza for lunch, and brainstorm; offer an incentive for ideas you implement. Before long, your marketing might just pay off in new sales—and happier, more involved customers.

www.brentwoodcarandvanrental.co.uk
www.chelmsfordcarandvanrental.co.uk

These are the newest websites created for Thurrock Car and Van Rentals a Essex success story owned by Mark Osbourne.

Just 24 hours later, Steve Ballmer, the energetic CEO of Microsoft, will take to the stage in Las Vegas to deliver a keynote address to the annual International Consumer Electronics Show (known as CES), the world’s biggest trade show of its type, which runs for four days from January 7.

Mr Ballmer’s speech is likely to expand on comments he made in an interview with The Times last year. What lies ahead, he said, “are going to be fun, fun years! This is going to be the best three years for users in their home – of all time.”

At the heart of this belief is digital convergence, the idea that as fields such as television, computing, music, video, telephony, video gaming and photography adopt and mature their own digital formats, so we will need fewer and fewer devices to store and play content.

It’s a trend that we have already seen in portable devices, as the separate MP3 players, digital cameras and mobile telephones of the mid-noughties have merged to become the smartphones of today.

Story from ‘The times online’ thought you would like to hear.

According to reports flooding the internet highway, the smartphone, code-named Nexus One, has been designed by a handpicked Google team and will be made by Taiwanese electronics giant HTC, exclusively for Google.

The device is expected to boast of features like a capacitive touchscreen; Android 2.1 platform; onboard camera; WiFi; GPRS; EDGE; 3G; Bluetooth; A-GPS (with Google Maps) and 3.5mm audio jack.

However, what we’re most curious about is whether the smartphone will come with a secondary front-facing camera (to support video calls) and whether it will include FM Radio; microUSB port; microSD card slot and a slide-out Qwerty physical keyboard. And, most importantly, whether it will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz processor.

It’s not known still whether Google will take the exclusive route like Apple to market and sell its smartphone or whether it will choose to flood the market with its device by making it available with every possible retail chain and network operator.

But one thing is certain – irrespective of the strategy Google adopts, its smartphone has already caught everybody’s attention and it sure will sell like hotcakes when it launches.

Many small business owners across the UK, are being charged hugely inflated prices for first page Google results. It is just accepted that you need to pay £1000’s to these ‘Professional SEO Companies’, for often extremely average returns, that may take literally less than a days coding.

Many of these companies employ programmers from India, and there is no personal relationship with the team. We provide clients a personal programmer that will deal with them one to one, its important that you achieve the growth you deserve, as ultimately we will also gain from your success.

Some first page results for Google.co.uk:

In the last fortnight we have setup 3 new one page highly optimised websites for an existing client, and here are the great results we have achieved in this highly competitive keyword area:

1. Nottinghamfloorsanding.co.uk

‘Nottingham floor sanding’ – position 5
‘Nottingham wood floor sanding’ – position 10
‘Nottingham wood floors’ – position 7
‘Nottingham floors sanded’ – position 8
‘Nottingham wood floors sanded’ – position 4

2. Sheffieldfloorsanding.co.uk

‘Sheffield wood floors sanded’ – position 1
‘Sheffield wood floor sanding’ – position 7
‘Sheffield floor sanding’ – position 2
‘Sheffield floor restoration’ – position 7
‘Sheffield floors sanded’ – position 10
‘Sheffield wood floor restoration’ – position 7
‘Sheffield wood floors restored’ – position 4
‘wood floors restored in Sheffield’ – position 4

3. sheffieldfloorrestoration.co.uk

‘Sheffield floor restoration’ – position 1
‘Sheffield wood floor restoration’ – position 6

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The cost for each new optimized single page website, including Web Hosting, Domain name and guaranteed Google listing was just £199. And these results were achieved in just a couple of weeks.

There is no hidden costs, only a 12 monthly annual hosting for the Web Hosting and Domain of £29.99, the first year is included.

So why not try our Professional SEO Services and see what we can do for your websites search engine placement.

Regards

Ashley Smith
Professional SEO Services
Webmaster
Acknowledged Web Solutions

www.chesterfieldfloorsanding.co.uk
www.leicesterfloorsanding.co.uk
www.sheffieldfloorrestoration.co.uk
www.sheffieldfloorsanding.co.uk
www.nottinghamfloorsanding.co.uk
www.woodfloorsrestored.co.uk

The purpose is to concentrate on increasing Floor Zone’s client base in the major North Midland Cities.