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Bayside Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine
Bayside Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine clinic, only 15 minutes from Byron Bay in the beautiful seaside village of Brunswick Heads, specialises in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) healthcare.
With qualified, passionate and caring therapists, Bayside Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine clinic understands the unique needs of each individual. Our range of complementary modalities and skillfull practitioners ensures you recieve truly holistic treatments to help you achieve optimal health and wellbeing.
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Website with Paypal Integration
E-Newsletter management
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Business Cards
A4/DL Flyers
Gift Voucher
Press Advertisements
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Post By BLOGADMIN in Boost Your Site
Here are some quick tips to give an instant boost to your site or somethings to take into consideration:
- Make sure your website is informative, have you read it lately?
- Get onto Facebook & other social networking sites
- Try a promotion
- 'Visit our website to download a token, bring in store to recieve a discount on your next purchase'
- Implement a refer a friend system, get that word of mouth happening
- Implement a blog
- Send out a monthly newsletter
- Vamp up your email signature - include links to your site
HexFX offers blog software, Facebook customisation & management as well as e-marketing (monthly newsletters sent via email) & we can customise your email signature for you.
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Post By BLOGADMIN in Boost Your Site
Traffic has a major influence on how successful your site ranks in Google. Without traffic your site basically remains in one position, letting everyone else surpass it.
It used to be, that if a website had all the search engine tags & was optimised, that it would far out rank a website that was not optimised. Now, that the majority of websites are appropriately optimised for search engines, it has levelled out the playing field, making the web a very competitive place. However, the main differentiating factor is the traffic. Even if a website was not properly optimised but had traffic, it would still out rank a site that was optimised with no or minimal traffic. There are other factors to consider, however we can't give away all our secrets...
So now we look for other avenues such as social networking sites to improve & generate traffic to our sites.
The type of marketing you persue depends on what type of business you have.
Here are some tips:
- Make sure your website is informative
- Get onto Facebook & other social networking sites
- Try a promotion
- Visit our website to download a token, bring in store to recieve a discount on your next purchase
- Implement refer a friend system
- Implement a blog
- Send out a monthly newsletter
- Vamp up your email signature - include links to your site
Make sure you link to your website whereever you can, to make it very easy for people to access from your marketing material.
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Post By BLOGADMIN in Boost Your Site
Whether we like it or not, Facebook® has become an extremely valuable tool in the marketing of our businesses.
With such a large audience & vast array of target markets, businesses can reach out to more & more prospective clients; we can't afford not be to connected.
By setting up a Facebook Page, Group or Profile for our business, we can constantly promote, contact & interact with the millions of Facebook members.
If you are a little 'old school' & find yourself sitting on the fence, here are some statistics that make you fall off...
- Facebook has more than 500 million active users
- 50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day
- The average user has 130 friends
- People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
- There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
- The average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
- The average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
- More than 30 billion pieces of content (weblinks, news stories, blog posts, notes, albums, etc.) shared monthly.
- About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
- There are more than 150 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
The above statistics are taken from the Facebook website & can be found here
So if that isn't enough to knock you off the fence, I don't know what is.
Perhaps you should be seriously considering retirement...
So, you've decided that you better get on with it & get your business on Facebook, so, how do you do that??
Well you have a couple of options:
1. Do it yourself. If you are comfortable with computers, try to sign up & login. Then read & play & click your way around. Upload some images, write on your wall, find friends & make the connections. Then look for pages & how to create a page.
Pages & groups are where you can be separate from your business profile & really use some of the Facebook business tools such a ads or badges to promote & market.
2. Just too much for you? Ask a family member to manage this for you. A son or daughter or even grand children are perfect. They are eager to help, learn & of course they like to show you how to do something. Read the above & ask the kids to create a page for you and look into the other things Facebook has to offer. With your business sense, experience & marketing know how & their Facebook knowledge you can make a great team.
3. Just not your thing but suppose you better get this Facebook thing happening? Then pay someone else to do it for you. HexFX Design & other web companies do this sort of thing all the time. We build your profile, pages, add in all your details, photos, write on your wall, place the ads, create the badges, research the members - you name we do it!
Call or email us to find out our affordable rates & more information.
If you are a competent Facebook user:
- link your website to the comments on your wall - this is very important
- continue maintaining & adding to your page or group page
- email or contact your members or friends constantly, let them know about new offers, products & services
- write on your wall regularly - keep people up to date
- offer specials just to Facebook users (add a special photo for people to print off & bring in store or email through)
- offer a Facebook referrer reward through suggest a friend (this requires a bit of management but works well)
There is a limitless list of things you can do & ways to use Facebook to your advantage, you just have to be creative & think outside the box.
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Post By BLOGADMIN in Tutorials
So you have just organised your domain name & setup your email accounts with your web hosting provider, but now what??
Lets get started...
Most businesses use Microsoft Outlook to manage their emails & it is what we recommend all of our clients use.
(Don't get confused with Microsoft Outlook Express, this is an older email 'client' with less functionality & stability.)
Outlook is able to manage lots of emails coming in each day, you have the ability to include an image in your email signature - easily, there is a calender for appointment scheduling & reminders, address book for your contacts as well as a task manager.
Check out these features when you have time, they are really great.
Here is a step by step guide on how to setup a standard POP3 email account in Outlook (version 2003, 2007 & 2010):
Make sure you have your user name, password & all information give to you by your hosting provider in front of you.
1. Open Outlook
2. At the top menu bar, look for Tools
3. Select Tools & scroll down to Account Settings
4. Select New
5. Choose an email service, make sure you have the blue dot in the Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP option
6. Click Next
7. At the bottom of this window, select the Tick Box: Manually configure server settings....
8. Click Next
9. On the next window, make sure the blue dot is in the Internet Email option
10. Click Next
11. Enter in your name (I like to put: first name - business name)
12. Enter in your email address
13. Leave account type as POP3
14. Enter in your Incoming Mail Server (This is give to you by your hosting provider)
15. Enter in your Outgoing Mail Server (This is who your internet is with, download a list of Australian internet providers here)
16. Enter your user name (This is give to you by your hosting provider)
17. Enter in your password (This is give to you by your hosting provider, often CASE SENSITIVE so be careful)
18. Leave Remember Password ticked
19. Do not tick Require logon using Secure Password Authentication unless told to by your hosting provider)
20. Click on the button, Test Account Settings
21. You should have all green ticks for each test & a test email will come through from Microsoft
If you do not see this & have a red cross on one of the options, go through the process again, CHECK all details carefully, check spelling & do it slowly. Rushing this process if you are unsure can result in frustration & no email.
If after the third failed attempt to successfully setup your email, please contact your hosting provider. Depending on your hosting provider's server security settings you may find that a series of incorrect entries may get you banned altogether.
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Somnio International Medical Holidays
In Latin, Somnio means to DREAM... your dreams can be a reality with Somnio International Medical Holidays.
Imagine combining an exotic holiday with cosmetic surgery all at one relaxing destination with surgery up to half the cost! Your room lies nestled amongst the coconut palms with the sounds of waves washing your worries away.
The divine smells of traditional Thai flavours float through the air while the locals have a smile for you on every corner, filling your every fibre with a feeling of warmth and excitement in anticipation of the new you, that you have been dreaming of...
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