Get FREE Website Advice With Our New ‘Ask a Web Pro” Service!

Posted on May 7, 2012 by superspider

We are very excited to launch our new Ask a Web Pro service this spring which allows anyone to come in and ask a question about their website or the web in general and get free advice from one of our experts – no strings attached!

Here is how it works:

  1. Go to http://www.askwebtech.com to submit your question.  Fill out our simple form so we can give you targeted advice.
  2. We will get an email notification with your question.  We will answer it within 48 hours.
  3. You will get an email notification that your question has been answered and a link to view your answer.  Easy!

Once we have answered your initial question you have the option to ask a follow up question or a diagnostic package that allows us to provide further help.

For the month of May we are giving everyone who submits their first question through our Ask a Web Pro service a automatic free 15 minutes of extra help.  You can’t beat that!  Simple include this code with your first question – FREEHELPB12.

What can we help you with?

We’ve got experts in the following fields ready to give you targeted advice to point you in the right direction and help you make educated decisions about your website: WordPress, PayPal, SEO, eCommerce, Social Media, Custom Programming, HTML, Website Design, Website Usability, Hosting, Domains, Email and more!

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Google+ pages for businesses

Posted on May 5, 2012 by superspider

We wrote an article on Google+ a while back on the “Pluses and Minuses of Google+” for businesses, and one of the issues we have with it is there was originally not way for a company or organization to participate in the new social media platform, only individuals.  However that has now been solved with Google+ relatively new pages for business, organizations and other groups that want a social media presence.

We are currently compiling information for a more detailed post and ebook so keep your eyes peeled for those resouces in the upcoming weeks.  In the mean time…

Check out SonicSpider’s Google+ page - https://plus.google.com/u/0/112252930882287723690/posts

Or…. get started creating your own page here – https://plus.google.com/u/0/pages/create

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The Pluses and Minuses of Google+

Posted on August 16, 2011 by superspider

Google has added their own version of a social networking site to their suite of services – Google+.  You may be like many of us and trying to figure out if you want to take on another social media outlet into your marketing plan.  We’ve been playing around with Google+ over the past month and we have some pros and cons to help you decide how helpful this new site will be to your business or if it will just remain a personal pursuit.

Pluses:

  • Automatic Integration. Google+ easily integrates into all your other Google services – Buzz, YouTube, your profile, rss reader and more.
  • Convenient. If you you Google’s other services in your business like Gmail or Documents, Google+ is just one click away on the menu bar.
  • Circles. One of our favorite features of Google+ is the circles feature.  This allows you to easily sort your followers into different categories so that you can communicate with different groups more effectively.  Only you know who is in what circle.  You can also follow people without being their “friend”.
  • Profile Editing. You have a lot of control over your profile an you can hide or show different elements depending on what you want people to see.  You can even have different parts showing for different circles.
  • Photos. Google+ has a great photo sharing tool. So if photos is your thing that this is a great place to show off.
  • There’s an App. You can download the mobile app to your phone to get and make updates on the go.  An essential plus these days.

Minuses:

  • No Business Profiles. Google+ has made it impossible for a business to have a “business” profile.  As of right now they have made it so you have to be a individual person to join.  This makes it difficult to keep business and personal communications on Google+ separate.  You can create a business “circle” but that can be limiting.  We are hoping that they will offer better ways for businesses to interact with the site in the near future.
  • No Events. There is no event sharing tool like on Facebook.  you can share links to events but you can’t create an event page and invite your followers.

Our Recommendation:

As with everything we recommend it all depends on the circumstances.  Depending on your relationship with your business – do you like to mix your personal life with your business or do you like to keep it separate – will determine how helpful Google+ is as a business marketing tool.

You may want to play with the site on a personal level to get a feel for it and see if there are any opportunities and benefits to bring your business into it.  Good Luck!

To learn how you can leverage Social Media more in your business click here….

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