Facebook and Twitter Page Designs-Social Media Marketing

Social Media for Small to Medium Size Business From Blast creative and Brenda Segna

2010-07-22T10:28:00.003-06:00

Social Media Marketing is one of the most valuable tools for small to Medium size businesses. If you aren’t taking advantage of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, then you could be losing sales, potential clients/customers.

Your business needs to be where the people are at and the people are on Facebook and Twitter. According to Mashable.com, Facebook is predicting that their 500 millionth member will join next week. That’s 500 million people that you have an opportunity to network with and market too!

Did you know that you can design your Facebook business page as well as your Twitter page to stay consistent with your brand? It’s true, you can run contests on Facebook, have an enewsletter signup, have an rss feed for your blog, have a shopping cart; the possibilities are endless!

If you are wanting to implement Social Media Marketing for your business, then contact Blast creative and Brenda Segna today! We can assist you with all of your marketing needs as well as design your Facebook and Twitter pages! Take your business to where the people are and let us help your business/network grow!

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2010-05-01T19:58:00.001-06:00

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Is Your Website Sad and Lonely?

2010-03-20T19:35:00.003-06:00

Is your website sad and lonely? Neglected by you, your staff and your clients alike? Sitting all alone on page 3 of Google–or worse, page 55?

Have you abandoned your poor website? Too embarrassed to even post it? Is it clothed in yesterday’s fashion? Neglected with broken links and outdated content? Do you have old-timey buttons that are gigantic, an antiquated link exchange or fancy scrolling text from the nineties?

(Headshake)

Have you been spending so much time on Facebook and YouTube that you forgot that your own website is the most important thing in your web marketing world? Have you run out of time to make the changes? Ignoring it’s helpless pleas for a make-over? Are you pretending everything is okay, when you know good and well something is wrong–very wrong with your tired old site that nobody cares about? The only person you’re not hurting is your competitors.

Do your clients and prospects a big favor. Stop lying to yourself, or hiding your head in the sand. Your website is a mere shadow of what it used to be, isn’t it? It’s not good enough for the new open web. It needs a fresh face and a new attitude–and it’s about time you do something about it.

(And don’t think your cousin’s uncle’s brother’s friend will do you any better on the website front either. You need help from an expert. A real expert who knows how to maneuver and position you in this new world of social media and the open web.)

Don’t Waste Another Day

Face it: Your website is tired, boring and old. It doesn’t do what you want it to do–not even close. You know deep in your heart that there are better ways to generate buzz on the web, but you’re afraid to invest (even a little) in technology. Why? You know in your heart that the web is the wave of the future. That 200 million people login to Facebook everyday. That fame is up-for-grabs. Why would you come to the party with an old teddybear of a website? Or wearing the same dress that over 1000 other girls have? Why? Why? Why?
Rotary Phones & 8-Track Tapes

When I was a little girl, rotary phones were still around, though many people migrated to the push-button kind. Remember? If not, think cassettes vs. CDs (though some of us remember records and 8-Tracks, but that’s not my point). What I am trying to say is that technology MOVES FORWARD and your website needs to stay ahead of the game, or at the least, neck-in-neck with the latest technology. Those old rotary phones took forever to dial just one number! The new buttons made life easier, gave us more time to live our lives and accomplish what we wanted. Likewise, there is new web technology available to you that can help you reach more people in less time and for less money. It can allow you to make your own edits, update the design in minutes, and share your thoughts with the entire planet with the click of a mouse.

If you only knew!

Believe me, I would rather not sell websites. I would rather coach, write and speak all day long. Unfortunately, my target market–small to medium business owners–do not hear the endless cries of their tired old websites. They just let the cries drone on, and on, and on–holding their noses to the foul smell. Therefore, I, a dedicated social media expert, must continue to sell, sell, sell newer, faster, better small to medium business websites that get the job done like no cheap template ever would or could. (I’m trying to make the world a better place..)
Old, Cheap Websites Are Bad for You!

Every time I talk with a potential coaching or consulting client, I first ask to see their website. Much to my chagrin, the sites are always old, boring, tired, feeble and practically useless. It is so sad to see their poor, neglected sites shivering in the cold, in dire need of warmth and TLC. I just want to run over, pick it up, squeeze it and give it a thousand kisses. I ache to bring those poor useless websites back to life by introducing them back to civilization, Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, YouTube. Heart wrenching.

Can’t You See? Your Website Needs You!

Your website is crying, begging and pleading to be brought up-to-date with the new decade. It needs a little TLC. There are so many ways you could help it. So many things you can do that require very little from you. New technology is making new tools affordable like content management system, search engine optimization, editable pages, lead capture forms and IDX search. Nowadays you can get a site that’s built with open source code that makes changing the design as easy-as-changing an iPhone case. It’s terribly disconcerting that all this amazing technology is at your fingertips and you’re not using it to make your life easier. Too bad, website so sad.

Your website is the core of all your social media activities. When you’re online having a blast like 200 gazillion other people (including your target market), you could have something worth showing off–if only you’d invest a little time and money to make your website as brilliant as you are. If only. If only you’d see the value in having a website that’s integrated with social media, search engine optimized and totally editable by you. If only.

Pobrecito!

Just a few years ago, your website was fine and dandy. It was merely a place to hold information. Any website would do–you didn’t need an expensive contraption. You could build your own site at GoDaddy, or pay $49 per month to Advanced Access. You didn’t need to pay more, because cheap template sites would get the job done. Not any more.

If you want to experience top-level success on the web using social media, you will need to get a new website that’s inline with new open web technology. Your new site needs to be clothed in original couture, unique and branded to match your target market. Put your lonely website to work! It is dying to feel useful. She could be a work-horse, if you let her. A central repository (so-to-speak) of all your web content. If social media sites are like mingling at a party, your website is like bringing good friends to your hacienda. Your website is the focal point, your place on the web where everything stems, and everything flows. Don’t embarrass yourself with an unkempt web house. (Not with me around!)

You new, popular, fulfilled website can do what your worn-out, used one never could. Here’s what I’m thinking:

1. Brand your business.
2. Provide information to clients, prospects, industry & media.
3. Offer tools for prospects to use.
4. Contain your blog.
5. Contain all web content to be distributed through social media.
6. Convert prospects with lead capture tools.
7. Tell prospects about all social media activity.
8. Automatically update to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Others.
9. Allow your visitors to Tweet your posts and share them on other sites on the open web.
10. Provide a place for visitors to comment and engage with content.
11. Optimized for search engine rankings.
12. Integrated with Google for immediate indexing in the cache via direct RSS feed.
13. User friendly layout with search feature.

Sounds like a lot, doesn’t it? Well it is. Just a few short years ago, you couldn’t get these features for a reasonably priced website. Today, all that has changed. My company, BLaST creative can help turn your old site into a beauty queen with endorsement offers. ;-)

And That’s Not All!

Your website deserves to have the best there is, so we’ve spared nothing to bring you even more attributes to make your site the best–and to help you show it off with pride in social circles.

Having an updated website that feels good about herself will pay dividends well beyond the web. You will be more proud of your online look, and more likely to share her with others. You will begin to see an increase in notoriety and fame among your target market, as your new, improved, advanced, beautiful semi-custom website will sparkle, shine and do the work of ten horses for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year–around the planet–for infinity.

Give the girl a break. Get an update today! Together, we’ll create a client-magnet.

How to Optimize PDF Documents for SEO

2010-02-15T09:40:00.000-07:00

On page optimization and link building are the most basic techniques of optimizing a website. Apart from web pages, many sites contain assets in the form of documents (.doc, .pdf), spreadsheets (.xls), presentations and videos (.avi etc). Optimizing these assets is beneficial as they get indexed faster and rank well in the top search engine result pages.

1. Use a Text Based PDF Creator: There are a lot free tools available online with Adobe Acrobat being the best text based PDF creator. If a PDF document is created in an image based program, the search engines will completely ignore it. If the PDF is created using a text based creator like Adobe acrobat, the search engine robots will read and index the text like any other web page.

2. Update the Document Title: The title of the PDF file is as important as the title tag of a web page. The PDF title property tells the search engine robots about the type of content. The most important aspect of the title is that Google uses the text in the title field as the link in the search engine result pages. Thus, the title field should be keyword rich and should not contain random text.

3. Complete the document properties: A PDF file contains many document properties apart from the title field. These are keywords, description, author info, copyright info etc. All the fields must be completed with relevant information. The keyword field should not be stuffed with keywords or remain empty. It has not been proven that the search engines give importance to the keyword field in the document properties. If in future they do, your PDF file will have an advantage over other web pages.

4. Link to the PDF File from the Homepage: The Searchbots will not discover and index the PDF file if it is placed too deep within the website. To ensure that the PDF file gets crawled by the search engines, it should be visibly linked from the home page or any other page which gets crawled regularly. If your aim is to get the PDF in top search engine result pages, then you have to lead the searchbots to it.

5. Optimize the content in the PDF File: The content in the text based PDF files is similar to the content in a website. This makes content optimization an important aspect in optimization of PDF files. The content should be relevant to the subject matter. Important text should be highlighted by increasing their font size and utilizing the bold and italics features of the PDF files. Keywords should be placed in the first few lines of the content.

6. Place Links in the PDF File: When a visitor opens a PDF file ranking in the top search engine results page, there should be a provision in the file to link back to its original website. This action reduces the efforts of the visitor to hunt for the main website. Also, a link from the PDF file can be considered as a backlink by the search engine.

A PDF file is similar to a web page in an assortment of aspects. It should be optimized with as much care as a web page to achieve high rankings.

The Dos and Don’ts of Web Hosting

2010-01-08T15:41:00.000-07:00

Okay, so you already know that you want/need a website, but what you aren’t sure of is web hosting! If you need web hosting, go to GoDaddy and not a redistrubitor of GoDaddy, but GoDaddy.com!

I promise you that you and your web designer may be best friends today! But I can guarantee you that somewhere down the road you will part ways. That is when the waters start to get murky! Well whose site is it anyway. Let me make myself very clear here-IT’S YOURS! You paid for it, it’s your site, but some of the designers that have you host with them think that if you are no longer their client they can take your site hostage.

Not only is this site hostage situation unprofessional, it’s illegal! It’s YOUR SITE! And people who redistribute-which means that GoDaddy lets designers like myself resell their hosting packages. Not only do these designers charge you significantly more than if you were to go to GoDaddy directly and purchase the package yourself, but you also have to go through their link to access your site.

So if this designer changes sites or moves on to another business, you now have to search for your hosting and where to log-in. BIG HEADACHE! So go to the web hosting site of YOUR choice and I do prefer GoDaddy.com! Purchase the package yourself, then contact a designer. Stay ahead of the game and save yourself a few headaches!

Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting

2009-08-27T13:30:00.005-06:00

Over the past few months more and more people are contacting BLaST creative to share their horror stories of how their site was taken captive by the web designer who hosted their site on their own private server. Or they used a designer in Canada or an oversees company who did the same thing, hosted their site on their private server. NIGHTMARE!!!!

If you are thinking of having a web site design, do some homework, purchase your own hosting. Don't let anyone but you control your web site. You can give your web designer access to your hosting, but you get to keep your files and control over your site.

Another problem is that most hosting company do a resell of their hosting. There are a couple of issues with this, first it costs more, becaue the reseller can adjust the price however they'd like. So in the end they charge you way more then if you would have went to the original hosting company.

Problem #2 with resell hosting, if that person goes out of business or changes business, you don't have access to your site. For example, you can't just go to GoDaddy.com to log-in, you have to find this reseller hosting's site in order to log-in. It's a pain. So save yourself a lot of headaches and go to GoDaddy.com directly to purchase your hosting. No headaches, no heartaches and backup all of your files so that you have them in the event that you need them.

For more information about web hosting and SEO Services, contact BLaST creative today!

I Got Kicked Off My Web Hosting

2008-11-23T21:33:00.001-07:00

So you just got kicked off your web hosting site and now you are looking for a new home. That’s rough. Before you find a new hosting home, you should find out why you were kicked off your original web hosting site.

If you haven’t received an email explaining what you did, then be sure to send one to the site administrator to ask why. You don’t want to make the same mistake twice. In this political war going on before the election, political sites are getting dumped left and right.

If you have a political blog, make sure that you follow all of your web hosting guidelines to the letter. Don’t cross over into grey areas, because if the owner of your hosting company disagrees with your political point of view, he or she can and will kick you off their hosting platform.

Then, you are in a world of hurt, transferring your domain is not always an easy task. If you have hundreds of pages or posts it can take awhile to get all of that data transferred and some of it may not transfer. If you used a template that was supplied from the original hosting service, you may have to have your entire site redesigned. The best thing to do is to follow the rules of your hosting service. If you do happen to get kicked off, find out why and learn from your mistakes.

For more information about web hosting and SEO Services, contact BLaST creative today!

BLaST Creative Web Hosting

2008-07-29T21:49:00.002-06:00

The basic fact about every web site is that it needs a host. Web hosting is the service that allows users from all over the world to surf the Internet and locate your business to purchase your products or your services. Most of us don’t have the time or the money to create our own web site using our own web hosting abilities, so we have to find our web hosting from somewhere, but where? And how much time will it take? AND, if you do the 9 to 5 job thing, then you are probably crazy busy and won’t have time to solve all of your web hosting needs and design your own web site?

Web Hosting in Your Spare Time

Fortunately BLaST creative web hosting has rescued several people who wish to utilize the Internet to further their home business. It has never been easier or cheaper to begin building your own web site today. Web hosting services can be provided for literally nothing, or more if you wish to give your web site more professionalism. And all of this can be done in moments, without taking any of your time at all.

The most difficult part of creating your own web site will be finding the web hosting services that best suits your needs. Prices can vary, you have to find the package that best suits your small business needs. Aside from making the actual choices, it can take you only minutes to have your registered web site up and online ready for you to build into the site to your dreams.

For more information on web hosting and seo services, contact BLaST Creative today!

BLaST Creative Web Hosting

2008-07-05T21:32:00.002-06:00

I was asked this week what difference does it make which web hosting service that you use. Well, depending on your site, the design and what you are hoping to accomplish, it really doesn’t matter.

But let’s say that your site is designed using File Maker, which is quickly becoming the #1 application for designing a website, then you will want to use File Maker Web Hosting. It will be easier for the web hosting company to help you resolve any issues should they arise.

If the web hosting service that you use isn’t familiar with your design application then you have a bigger headache trying to fix problems down the road.

Then of course, along with fixing problems is what kind of services do you need and what kind of services does the web hosting service have to offer you? These are all things that will need to be addressed.

But for the most part, the person who is designing your website should be able to lead you to a reputable web hosting service that is competent in working with your particular web site design application.

For more information on web hosting and seo services, contact BLaST Creative today!

BLaST Creative Web Hosting and SEO

2008-06-09T20:22:00.005-06:00

We’ve already discussed BLaST Creative Web Hosting, so now lets talk about BLaST Creative SEO Services. Let’s talk about an important factor of search engine optimization, submitting your site to Google.

If you are hoping that people will notice your site, then it will be necessary for you to submit your site to Google so that it can be indexed properly.

Google uses what is called a spider to crawl your site so that it can index it properly. But if the spider doesn’t know that your site is there, it can index it. So you need to tell Google about your site.

How to Submit Your Site to Google

• So go to Google’s Home Page and click on “About Google”

• On the next page you will need to click on “Submit your content to Google”
• Another page will pop up and you will need to click on “Add your URL to Google’s Index”

• The last thing that you need to do is to type in the URL of your home page. It normally takes Google about 2 weeks to add your site, but can take up to 2 months.

For more information on web hosting and seo services, contact BLaST Creative today!

BLaST Creative Web Hosting

2008-05-26T09:21:00.003-06:00

Okay, so at BLaST Creative Web Hosting we often get asked why do I need hosting? Why can’t I just put my web site out there when I’m ready?

Well, the answer to those questions is that everyone who has a web site has a host. You need to have a web host in order to be a participant in cyberspace, that’s just the way that it is.

Some large companies and business can afford to buy their own hosting servers, but for the mainstream, we all use web hosting.

And web hosting has a variety of applications that you can choose from like, email, ssl certificates, domain names and even web marketing tools. The prices can differ depending on what your needs are and what applications that you would like.
Dollar-for-dollar, feature-for-feature, you'll find the Web's best hosting plans at

BLaST Creative. BLaST Creative web hosting plans aren't cheap - they're affordable. Big difference! Plus, all of our state-of-the-art hosting plans come complete with FREE 24/7 technical support.

If you are interested in BLaST Creative Web Hosting visit us today!

BLaST Creative Web Hosting and SEO

2008-04-27T19:47:00.004-06:00

People around the world use web hosting. Anyone who has a web site has a web host as well, the two go hand in hand. So if you want to see your website, you'll need to host it on a suitable computer that constantly connected to the Internet, known as a server.

You could set up a server in your bedroom, but it's cheaper, easier and more reliable to use BLaST Creative Web Hosting to host your site on a professional server.

Prices start from just a few dollars a year and goes up from there depending on what you want. BLaST Creative Web Hosting also offers email accounts so that you can have your business and staff have email with your domain; me@mydomain.com.

Before you sign up at BLaST Creative Web Hosting, you should decide what features you want for your web hosting account. How many visitors do you anticipate, it's important to know that because your web hosting package will be determined by that. Do you need a shopping cart?

BLaST Creative Web Hosting provides you with a password protected control panel you can log into to check your statistics and set up emails.

If you are interested in BLaST Creative Web Hosting visit us today!

BLaST Creative Web Hosting and SEO

2008-04-20T14:16:00.002-06:00

Everyone who is out in cyberspace is hosted by someone. It's one of those things that everyone is required to have, web hosting. There are some web hosting sites that offer free web hosting, but you should be aware of the term "free."

Free doesn't always mean free and in some cases the web sites are down more than they are up. If your site isn't for business purposes, then free web hosting may be a option for you. But if you want to draw consumers to your site, you are better off to pay for web hosting.

BLaST Creative Web Hosting packages come in different shapes and sizes to meet everyone's needs and budget. And all packages are reasonably priced, you get free email and can set up all of your employees with an email that is indicative of your site name.

At BLaST Creative Web Hosting you also receive 24/7 tech support, free setup, daily backups and web site statistics absolutely free. There are no hidden charges and no surprises.

Take the headache out of web hosting and got to BLaST Creative Web Hosting today!

Web Hosting

2008-04-12T16:37:00.007-06:00

If you are searching for web hosting and aren’t sure what’s what, then keep on reading and let me explain a few of the ins and outs to you.

Web hosting resellers:

Let’s start with what is commonly known as reseller hosting. Here the account owner may divide up their selected hard drive space and bandwidth and resell web hosting.
Usually, resellers are web consultants who are also web developers and designers and a web or a system-integration company. Web hosting for them is an extra service along with other host of services.

Web hosting providers often gives a discount of 50 percent or more to the resellers on the price of a reseller hosting account.

Web hosting resellers are normally not in charge of maintaining web server services or other maintenance related responsibilities but just a "web hosting provider." In cases of any technical problems, such as server down and access problem, the responsibility falls on the owner of the dedicated server in which the reseller host is hosted.

A web hosting reseller will set up its web hosting company on the Internet and start selling web hosting plans under its own brand name.

Ecommerce Web Hosting:

With the rising growth of the Internet, businesses are learning new ways to widen their horizons into new markets creating new opportunities and new challenges. Internet brings a multitude of opportunities for businesses to succeed. However, setting up a web site is not as simple as it seems. It is imperative that the sites are focused and functional, easy to use and deliver quality information.

The Internet is powerful and ubiquitous enough to allow the smallest of businesses to access markets and develop a presence that allows them to compete against the giants in the industry.

Exactly how does a small business compete? Most small and mid-size online businesses are not capable of hosting their own sites in-house. The cost of running an in-house development department and data center is too expensive. That is why these small companies look to companies specializing in Web hosting. There are many eCommerce web hosting companies who offer their clients customized and quality services enabling even the smallest e-business to gain an online web presence quickly and inexpensively.

These professional web hosting providers allow many customers to take advantage of the economies that they develop through the operation of large data centers. Cost savings are passed along on everything from hardware, software licenses, bandwidth, back up systems, and environmental control systems. However, as an online business, you must take into all factors before deciding on who your hosting partner will be.

BLaST Creative Web Hosting

2008-04-04T20:24:00.004-06:00

So you have a web page and you want to know how to get it on the Web. Well, quite simply you need a server that actually lives on the Web fulltime. At BLaST Creative, we can host your website and you don’t to worry about anything. No worries!

Features of BLaST Creative Web Hosting Include:

• Technical Support
• Data Transfer
• Backups
• Domain Names
• Reliability
• Extras: Like email addresses and forums

You should also know that you can get started for almost nothing out of your pocket, and you can always upgrade later if you need additional features.

Are you wondering how you get a domain name? If you don’t already have an idea of domain name, we can help you figure that out, and if you have a name, but it’s already taken, we can offer suggestions of similar names or other names that are available.

Once you have a hosting company, a domain name, and you’ve got a server, you are now ready to upload your Web pages. And if all of this just sounds like too much, just let BLaST Creative design your site and take care of all this for you.

This article was written for marketing purposes, if you are interested in learning more about article marketing or SEO services please email me for further information.