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Maximize Contact with your clients!

As many businesses move rapidly online it is becoming incredibly important and quite easy to keep in touch with them. The issue for many businesses is knowing how to keep the vital lines of communication connected.

In the sales and marketing world relations always have been and will be the life-blood of a successful enterprise. For any business interested in long term sales and vitality, the relationship and communication with clients is essential.

As our culture move “online” it is still important to build your business through relationships, though the methods and culture is different. Online is also a major force in that your company’s market is now expanded to anywhere in the world! So how do you reach out and touch the millions of consumers online? How do you stay connected?

There are many ways to reach the online community with paid (very expensive) online advertising through search engines, banner exchanges, etc. The fact of the matter is it doesn’t have to be expensive! Enter Social networking!

Social Networking has taken the world by storm. people are connecting casually and for business on sites like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, MySpace, MyBlab, and many others! Currently Facebook is reporting over 500 million…yes million members! An important thing to remember is that these are social networks and the primary focus is social connection. If you go in by storm and are all about business (some sites allow this in certain areas of their site) you will never gain the credibility with other users.  Now…you can enter as a business, but you must offer interesting facts, solve a problem, talk about subjects that people want to know about…much of that must be free so that people connect with you because you are providing interesting content. More on that another time! Suffice it to say..show respect to your connections on these sites.

Finally how do you get targeted people to see your message, company, or product?  And how do you stay connected with the masses? Well as you might imagine there are companies and programs designed to help you with just that!

If you are looking for an affordable way to get your business in front of the masses you will need a program like Plug into Prospects. This is a great way to get your message in front of hundreds or even thousands of people for $40 a month. Bear in mind a lot of companies like this have many other products and services they will put in front of you, many of them free or low cost. Just select the ones that make sense to you.

Another essential for keeping in contact with customers is called an “autoresponder”. You may not know the name but everyone that has been online has experienced one! An autoresponder is simply a program that “auto-responds” to prospects or clients with return emails, newsletters, and company announcements! These are safe effective ways to get your message out. Be sure to select one that is spam compliant like Traffic Wave. They have many tools for producing and tracking all types of campaigns.

I wish you well on your journey into the big world of online networking, and great success in your business!!

- Ken Evans  -Evans Marketing Group

Making Money on Twitter

With hundred of business opportunities appearing in your Tweets, the choices can often be overwhelming and therefore many of us will ignore them altogether!

I have looked through many of the offerings and found one to be down to earth and professional…AND at a reasonable price.

Twitter Affiliate Cash gives you all the information you need to master selling through Twitter. The most impressive aspect to me is the ethical approach that helps you to avoid spamming or annoying your followers. We all have people we follow that fill our tweet feed with the same message over and over. Twitter affiliate cash helps you to avoid that by teaching you proper etiquette and courtesy.

Take a few minutes to read my free report and then check it out for yourself! I wish you all the best!

Twitseeker a great tool!

Just discovered a great tool (Twitseeker) for finding people that:

• Are looking for what you can provide (business service etc)
• Have the same interests as you (hobbies, etc)
• Tweet about something you need or want or have interest in

That’s just a few suggestions how you can use this search tool and best of all…Its FREE!
It is always important to use acceptable standards when using tools like these, as Twitter and the developers of many of these programs are strongly against anything that looks like spam. As long as you are considerate it is acceptable to follow people with hopes they follow you and are then exposed to your interests or businesses.

The Twitter Affiliate Cash system is a great way to gain understanding and insight with regard to marketing through Twitter and the author Bill Mc Rea is very sensitive to acceptable practices. You can read a free report HERE that explains the program in further detail. Twitter Affiliate Cash also does an in depth training on the Twitseeker tool.

I wish you great success in your Twitter Journey!!

Runner_Man

Twitter Tools

Ok, so now you have your Twitter account and you are starting to get alot of followers, right? By now you have noticed that many Tweeters (Twitter members) pride themselves on the number of followers they have.

In this post I will discuss the dynamics of following and being followed on Twitter.
As with Most social media sites, Twitter has also become a place for businesses of all kinds to get their products known to the masses. (caution: if you use it for business promotion be sure you use acceptable practices and do not spam your followers!!)
One of the best ways to get followers…is to follow those you want to follow you! If you go to www.search.twitter.com you can search Twitter for people that are tweeting about things you are interested. Once you “follow” them usually they will follow you back! (Note: it is etiquette to follow someone who is following you unless you find their content objectionable.)

As your twitter acount grows, it almost goes on autopilot as far as people wanting to follow you, based on your content (so be interesting, informative, and honest!). Once you start growing it becomes a daunting task to log in and manage your new followers by thanking them for following you, following them and other administrative tasks.

One great program that has a free version will really save you time in managing many aspects of your Twitter activities is called Tweet Later. You can sign up by clicking the link below…Have fun!

Twitter Basics

Every day there are new social media sites popping up! Just when we thought we were getting used to sites like Facebook or Classmates, new ones pop up that become essential to survive in the social media world. (well at least we are made to feel they are essential!)

I wanted to give some insight that will help you navigate your way through some of the clutter. Today we will discuss some of the dynamics for Twitter.

Twitter  is becoming a major force in social media as a “micro-blog” allowing it’s users to “tweet” or post 140 character entries describing, “what are you doing?” Its free and fun to connect with people around the world that have similar interests.

Here is what to expect with Twitter:

• It’s FREE!
• You only need a Username (be creative) and an email address to join .
• As you “tweet” or post, people find you based on what you post!
• When you log in the first time you can customize your twitter page under settings.
• Use the “find people” feature to locate your friends by name, company or even interests.
• Have Fun!

Of course there are plenty of other features available, and you will enjoy exploring them!

Christmas Wish of Good Health!

While most of my blog centers around domains, hosting, and techie stuff…I wanted to share an amazing discovery I have made! Up until a month and a half ago I was taking all kinds of dietary supplements and vitamins until I discovered Vemma! Vemma has all vitamins, essential minerals, and antioxidants that your body needs for function and cell nutrition. The best part is the fact that it is in liquid form making it more “bio-available”! Truly I have never felt better!

So…my gift to all of you this Christmas…try Vemma! There is nothing to lose as there is a money back guarantee on the product. As a bonus, if you are loking for additional income, there are also business opportunities to earn by sharing this amazing premium quality suppliment with others!

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Web Domain Name Registration

     Domain name registration is basically what you do to sign up for, register or “own” a domain name or “website name”. Domain names simply put, are the title or name of a given area of the world wide web. For instance, www.webrunnerdomains.com is that Domain which our company runs a website.

There are many myths and misconceptions about domain names and their value. Here we will discuss these common fallacies and provide you with useful information for domain selection ans registration.

First- While several years ago there were some notorious examples of people buying and selling domain names at huge profits, this is the exception not the rule. The lesson here: Unless you are quite experienced and know what you are looking for, stay away from the urge to register domains for resale and profit!

Second - The more valuable domain names are descriptive and to the point. A name like “redcars.com” is far more valuable than “ireallylikeredcars.com”! The shorter the better as well. It is important to think about what your website is actually trying to express, and how people will search to find it.

Third - If you are using your domain for personal use such as a family website, photo site, etc., then your domain name “quality” is not as important because you are not necessarily concerned whether people other than your family and friends find it.

Finally - After reading these basic tips…you may be asking…IF a web domain name should be to the point how do people like google and yahoo get so popular with such a silly name?? Its true, initially one would think it would make more sense to be netsearch.com or something along those lines! The magic of google, yahoo, dimdim, is related primarily to promotion or advertising. How much these companies spent to gain popularity would boggle the mind! There  is no one who uses the Internet that does not know these names even though the names themselves have nothing to do with what you do when you visit them! Great marketing has made them a brand.

If you are ready to register your domain name GO HERE

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Cant send emails from some hotels?

If you travel and stay at various hotels, no doubt you have experienced problems with outgoing emails being blocked or staying in your out box. This can be a real pain in the butt when it comes to being productive. In this article I will give you some tips that may help you get through.

Some hotels have configured their internet service to block outgoing emails so that their ISP’s are not inundated with SPAM. Yes it’s true, spammers stay at hotels too!! Anyway, without getting too technical, the emails are kept from going out in one of two ways that often can be easily remedied.

The First thing to check is your outgoing mail settings. If you are using outlook you can go to account settings and double click on the email account you are using. Next go to “more settings” and click on the “outgoing server” tab. If the “my outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication” is checked, uncheck this option and click ok. Often when you are in a hotel, you are using their ISP and settings so your authentication will not work with their system. Conversely you may need to check this option if it is unchecked. Now check to see if your emails send. If not try option two!

The second possibility is by changing your SMTP port settings. You must of course check with your ISP (internet service provider) to ask if they provide an alternate port. The most widely used port setting is 25 which is the default setting for POP accounts. To change the port simply go to account settings, double click the email account you are using, click on more settings then select the advanced tab. You will notice a POP port and an SMTP port setting. In the box for the SMTP setting change it from 25 to whatever your ISP provided.

These two methods will work most of the time though not always. IF WebRunner Domains discovers other help for emails we will let you know!

NOTE: When you receive an alternate port from your ISP it is good practice not to publish that port number. This will keep spammers to a minimum on those ports and hotels and other public wifi locations wont be forced to limit use.

Allow me to introduce myself!

Merry Christmas from Runnerman!

Its always a crazy time around the holidays, but I wanted to take a moment to thank our customers and associated for a great inaugural year. To me…it’s all about doing the things you like and being with people you want to be with. I wish all of you a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. We look forward to provide excellent service, tech info, and of course a good rant every now and again in our blog!

I do want to personally invite you to not only consider our great hosting, domain, and email services, but also become part of our “Blog Roll”. As you can see on our NEWS and TIPS pages, we are committed to good content as it relates to Web Development, etc. Many of you have great ideas and tricks that you would like to share with the world so let us know. Also if you would like for us to consider your RSS feed for our pages send us an email with a link to your site for review.

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