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		<title>Google Local / Google Maps Testing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ADSENSE CODE #1Don&#8217;t mind this post, I&#8217;m just testing something for Google Local Search. I am doing some testing for a past client(champion cleaners) and I need to make sure that Google indexes these URL&#8217;s. I threw them on a few other sites that I don&#8217;t own but wanted to stick them here to make [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t mind this post, I&#8217;m just testing something for Google Local Search. I am doing some testing for a past client(champion cleaners) and I need to make sure that Google indexes these URL&#8217;s. I threw them on a few other sites that I don&#8217;t own but wanted to stick them here to make 100% sure Google indexes them real nice.</p>
<p>Without further due(a due?), however it&#8217;s said, here is the list:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Champion.Cleaners.239-598-1555">http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Champion.Cleaners.239-598-1555</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/champion-cleaners-naples-2">http://www.yelp.com/biz/champion-cleaners-naples-2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.insiderpages.com/b/3712678684">http://www.insiderpages.com/b/3712678684</a></li>
<li><a href="http://fl.citysquares.com/bonita-springs/personal-services-care/dry-cleaners/champion-cleaners">http://fl.citysquares.com/bonita-springs/personal-services-care/dry-cleaners/champion-cleaners</a></li>
<li><a href="http://my.citysquares.com/business/5488156">http://my.citysquares.com/business/5488156</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mojopages.com/biz/champion-cleaners/naples/fl/34110/1638314">http://www.mojopages.com/biz/champion-cleaners/naples/fl/34110/1638314</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.superpages.com/bp/Naples-FL/Champion-Cleaners-L0098398829.htm?SRC=bpo&amp;lbp=1&amp;TR=77&amp;bidType=FLCLIK&amp;PGID=yp416.8081.1268362473372.25920300917">http://www.superpages.com/bp/Naples-FL/Champion-Cleaners-L0098398829.htm?SRC=bpo&amp;lbp=1&amp;TR=77&amp;bidType=FLCLIK&amp;PGID=yp416.8081.1268362473372.25920300917</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.yellowbook.com/profile/champion-cleaners_1529804595.html?addressId=1">http://www.yellowbook.com/profile/champion-cleaners_1529804595.html?addressId=1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.topix.com/yp/naples-fl/3667865239-champion-cleaners">http://www.topix.com/yp/naples-fl/3667865239-champion-cleaners</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.manta.com/company/mmlhx6n">http://www.manta.com/company/mmlhx6n</a></li>
<li><a href="http://national.citysearch.com/profile/43506115/naples_fl/champion_cleaners.html">http://national.citysearch.com/profile/43506115/naples_fl/champion_cleaners.html</a></li>
<li><a href="# http://www.centerd.com/places/naples-fl/champion-cleaners/detail/?id=366786523">http://www.centerd.com/places/naples-fl/champion-cleaners/detail/?id=366786523</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dexknows.com/business_profiles/champion_cleaners-l803623712">http://www.dexknows.com/business_profiles/champion_cleaners-l803623712</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mapquest.com/maps?name=Champion+Cleaners&amp;city=Naples&amp;state=FL&amp;address=13500+Tamiami+Trl+N+%23+14&amp;zipcode=34110&amp;country=US&amp;latitude=26.293153&amp;longitude=-81.801929&amp;geocode=ADDRESS&amp;id=22348243">http://www.mapquest.com/maps?name=Champion+Cleaners&amp;city=Naples&amp;state=FL&amp;address=13500+Tamiami+Trl+N+%23+14&amp;zipcode=34110&amp;country=US&amp;latitude=26.293153&amp;longitude=-81.801929&amp;geocode=ADDRESS&amp;id=22348243</a></li>
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		<title>Search engine optimization of your web site</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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Promoting your products and services through SEO has become much easier these days and it only matters whether your web site is SEO. If it is not done, better get it done today itself, as you may run out of sales. Because, thousands of people turn to Google engine searching for a key word and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="480" height="385" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yaGJDSa6T-s&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yaGJDSa6T-s&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p>
<p>Promoting your products and services through <strong>SEO</strong> has become much easier these days and it only matters whether your web site is SEO. If it is not done, better get it done today itself, as you may run out of sales. Because, thousands of people turn to Google engine searching for a key word and go by the results. So, if your web site is search engine optimized, your web site will get as number of clicks as you wanted and your web site will soon gain recognition.</p>
<p>Web is vast and wide and there are thousands of links and tags that will be looking for its space. Among all these, if your web site is also promoted for better results, you will make good sales on Internet as customers will be directed to your web site. Therefore it can be stated here that, search engine optimization is also an effective marketing tool and you can implement many marketing strategies to record more sales for your products.</p>
<p>SEO is a process to improve your traffic on your web site and also to gain more recognition and prominence to your web site.  Because,  if your web site is visited, you will get opportunity to sell your products. This is what the job done by SEO as it drives more traffic to your web site. Therefore it acts as a marketing mediator on web  for every benefit and advantage of its users.</p>
<p>Internet marketing strategy is implemented by SEO and as many agree to this fact, many small and medium business owners are focusing more on <strong>search engine optimization</strong>.</p>
<p>For the common man understanding purpose, it can be stated here that a web site is maintaining its good partnership and cooperation with search engine by getting search engine optimized. Both search engine and your web site, enable your business to function smoothly by generating more volume of business for you on a daily basis.</p>
<p>For instance, if you sell perfumes from your web site and your web site is SEO, whoever is searching to buy a perfume, will definitely visit your web site and will make a purchase. So, on an average if there are about 1000 clicks per day on your web site, you make 1000 sales per day, which is extremely good and benefiting to you.</p>
<p>Therefore, ideas such as these are many with SEO, you must know how to implement these for your business. Similarly, you can sell garments, footwear, personal care products, groceries and you can even provide credit card and debit card services.</p>
<p>But this all requires a professional approach and right method of work in order to gain maximum results. Achieving this can be very easy, once you are methodical and professional in your approach.</p>
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		<title>Be ahead with the technology</title>
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Corporate world is all engrossed in holding conferences, events, etc.  to promote and offer more to the existing clients in order to never loose them. A similar approach can be seen in terms of providing ample of training to the staff as well. Well what exactly happens is the companies spend so much and [...]]]></description>
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<p>Corporate world is all engrossed in holding conferences, events, etc.  to promote and offer more to the existing clients in order to never loose them. A similar approach can be seen in terms of providing ample of training to the staff as well. Well what exactly happens is the companies spend so much and then if the objective is not achieved, it feels atrocious. We, Orlando production team with the warm greetings would like to introduce you to the concept of video production. A concept which is high these days and an investment in it would be of grand results.</p>
<p>Apart from the results, the image of the company is also improvised in an enormous perspective. All what video production demands is the investment in to an appropriate company who would be able to analyze your concept and as well as give the required input. Our team is the one you are looking for which is of specialized and outgoing elements who have a massive experience in this particular field.</p>
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<p>We as a team do not limit ourselves to an extent, in fact the truth is that we are trained to get deep into your concept and be the right destination where you always wanted to start shooting. If you have made up your mind to encourage your goods and services tremendously then, we make you aware of how we would be soon standing besides you to initiate. To reach the destination i.e. your final product, all this requires is four steps to climb with the most affordable price to pay! First we receive your concept openheartedly then convert it into an easy form to map the further step. The opening face is the one which becomes the foundation to decide on the budget, location and the equipments to be used. Then, the shoot starts following with the editing part. Distribution becomes the crucial role.</p>
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<p>We agree on the fact that our responsibility does not limit to the creation of the video instead it is carried on with the distribution. Web being a huge platform, enables you to reach your target audience with the easiest implementation. Apart from web, the other form would be television, huge visual hoardings, or the highly captured market of DVD’s, CD’s etc. which can not be avoided either.</p>
<p>Guess, your mind has already started clicking. And we believe to comfort our perspective clients when they need us the most with the most unique, highly spread and updated technology, video production. So, we are just a click away!</p>
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		<title>Business advertisement</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business advertisement is very important because it is the medium through which you can sell your products and services. Previously advertisement used to be very expensive and designing of advertisements also used to be very costly. Only those who can afford to pay high costs could approach media for advertising their businesses and products. But [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Business advertisement is very important because it is the medium through which you can sell your products and services. Previously advertisement used to be very expensive and designing of advertisements also used to be very costly. Only those who can afford to pay high costs could approach media for advertising their businesses and products. But after the launch of Internet, advertisement has reduced by a large extent because of the easy access to the products and services. Further on line purchase has also contributed to the on line advertisement methods.</p>
<p>In this pattern, there is a shift from regular advertisement to Internet advertisement as it is very low in cost as compared to the regular method of advertisement. Television advertisement has been in great demand for many years now and with Internet and web presence, the demand for classified ads, video advertisements and banner ads have become much easier to promote and sell your products.  In fact this is a very good method to advertise your products and services.</p>
<p>When we discuss about video production and its contribution to business advertisement, it should be stated that videos leave a great impact on business advertisement and ensure that proper business is produced from the videos of products which demonstrate its usability. In a way, it is a good source, because, videos and images are more effective than other marketing strategies.</p>
<p>Videos are self-explanatory and videos are more effective. Videos are easy to produce and in fact these are more creative for the videographers to demonstrate their efficiency on Internet or television.  For instance, if your company products are being advertised such as shampoo or perfume, if you produce a one minute video and place it either on television or on Internet, whoever clicks on the video will definitely view your product and will make a purchase and this is guaranteed.</p>
<p>In this way, Internet advertisement and television advertisement contribute a lot through video production.  Another point of emphasis is, business advertisements are very important because they drive the growth of a business when every business is looking for a customer to purchase products. Therefore, video production contributes much to the business of advertisement and in fact the job of business advertisement is made much easier by just uploading to a web site wherein your advertisement video will take care of itself and will drive traffic to your web site to purchase products from your web site.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; Moderate congressional Democrats, a bloc that&#039;s crucial for the fate of President Barack Obama&#039;s renewed wellness health care effort, presented only mild endorsements of his new strategy Tuesday, although warning that it faces a hard legislative path.
&#8220;It&#039;s quite constructive,&#8221; Senate Spending budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., explained from the blueprint that Obama [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WASHINGTON &mdash; Moderate congressional Democrats, a bloc that&#039;s crucial for the fate of President Barack Obama&#039;s renewed wellness health care effort, presented only mild endorsements of his new strategy Tuesday, although warning that it faces a hard legislative path.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#039;s quite constructive,&#8221; Senate Spending budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., explained from the blueprint that Obama released Monday. &#8220;But how this is accomplished just isn&#039;t distinct to me at this moment.&#8221;</p>
<p>The president&#039;s self-described &#8220;opening bid,&#8221; in anticipation of his bipartisan health care summit Thursday, combines elements of separate bills that the Senate and also the Home of Representatives passed final year with only a single Republican vote</p>
<p>The estimated 0 billion, 10-year package would need most persons to obtain coverage, would supply insurance coverage subsidies for lower-income families and would impose new taxes on increased incomes and much more high priced insurance policy policies.</p>
<p>Because of Obama&#039;s pending summit, practically no Democrats wanted to criticize the president&#039;s exertion publicly, but it was crystal clear that the moment the summit&#039;s throughout, the White Home faces political and substantive issues in acquiring a comprehensive package deal approved.</p>
<p>Numerous centrist Democrats confront re-election in November in conservative states and districts, and Republicans are eagerly wanting to use Democrats&#039; well being health care positions against them.</p>
<p>&#8220;Everybody is looking at the polls that display within the a single hand, folks want one thing completed,&#8221; explained Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb. It&#039;s tricky to get constituents to agree on specifics, nevertheless, and &#8220;that creates health treatment a tough sell,&#8221; he stated.</p>
<p>The most typical responses from moderates Tuesday about Obama&#039;s blueprint had been related to that of Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., who voted in opposition to the Democratic program in November. &#8220;It&#039;s far better than the Property bill,&#8221; claimed Altmire, who&#039;s a member in the conservative, 54-member House Democratic Blue Dog Coalition, &#8220;but we still will need to determine more cost containment.&#8221;</p>
<p>Home Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., also was guarded.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am not heading to create comments on distinct proposals &mdash; and I just saw this on Monday &mdash; until I have an chance to digest it.&#8221; Thirty-nine House hold Democrats voted alongside the party&#039;s wellbeing health care approach on final passage in November.</p>
<p>Republicans pounced for the Democrats&#039; new program. The National Republican Believe in PAC, an independent Republican group, plans to start 3 days of radio ads Wednesday in Washington urging the Blue Dogs to distance themselves from Property Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., or reap the penalties from voters in November.</p>
<p>Residence Republicans huddled Tuesday, and afterward they were being adamant that the president&#039;s strategy is definitely an pricey, big-government mess.</p>
<p>&#8220;House Republicans will continue to oppose any exertion to utilize this so-called &#039;summit&#039; being a media preamble to forcing as a result of ObamaCare 2.,&#8221; explained Property Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence of Indiana.</p>
<p>Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was equally resolute. &#8220;The American people believed the debate on this approach to reform was over,&#8221; he mentioned around the Senate floor. &#8220;Yet here we are, when once again, becoming told through the White House that we have to think about similar wellbeing health care bills that brought on such a backlash across the country in December.&#8221;</p>
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A enterprise with no an awesome World-wide-web occurrence might as well have its front door boarded up. But where do you go for guidance, need to you would like to commence from scratch? World wide web website creating, immediately after all, is like accomplishing property renovations&#8212;you will get wildly distinct quotes from [...]]]></description>
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<p>A enterprise with no an awesome World-wide-web occurrence might as well have its front door boarded up. But where do you go for guidance, need to you would like to commence from scratch? World wide web website creating, immediately after all, is like accomplishing property renovations&mdash;you will get wildly distinct quotes from several contractors for that similar marble sink. For perspective, we talked to two distinctly different business owners with Websites that serve every of them perfectly. One website is homegrown and inexpensively created; another necessary major guns and a huge finances to fulfill its great ambitions.</p>
<p>Katrina Garnett, 48, is definitely an Australian-born Silicon Valley entrepreneur whose Crossworlds Application sold to IBM in 2001. Garnett has invested $2 million of her money to create My Tiny Swans, an adventure-travel enterprise catering to wealthy families. A key portion of her strategy was a highly interactive, glossy and sophisticated World wide web website to woo similarly glossy and classy travelers. MyLittleSwans.com went completely are living this January, at a cost of $250,000. At earliest glance, the shelling out appears worth it: The internet site is quick to load, enabled for effortless picture-sharing with Facebook and iPhone-compatible. The site&#039;s paying members can click on information about travel destinations that interest them and drag it into their unique personalized folders. &#8220;I want to commence with a big notion,&#8221; Garnett explains.</p>
<p>Having it on the internet, nevertheless, was hardly sleek sailing. Garnett knew from experience that she&#039;d be finest off hiring a full-service Web-building partner. Many professional firms do just World wide web design and style or only programming and operations, but Garnett recommends discovering one particular which will walk and chew gum in the identical time. As well many times, she has witnessed layout corporations &#8220;that haven&#039;t obtained a clue about &#039;the back-end&#039;&#8221; and operations corporations that can&#039;t spell user interface, which practically guarantees a hailstorm of finger-pointing when one thing goes incorrect. The San Francisco&ndash;based Garnett spent two many weeks shopping and at some point went every one of the way on the East Coast for any firm she felt had satisfactory strengths, front and back.</p>
<p>The following tricky problem: brand identity. Tens of thousands of dollars could possibly get sucked down the drain in the name of branding, or how a small business is graphically presented to the globe. But most entrepreneurs instinctively know what they want here, and it&#039;s ideal should you, like Garnett, have a very design idea in thoughts before walking in the door. Garnett, a mother of three, idea the impression of small swans evoked both a certain grace and also a family members impression. But quite a few design and style teams she talked to wished to modify her brain, that has a steep price tag tag attached, of course. Her advice: Stand firm. &#8220;I by now know I want a swan,&#8221; she recalls saying, after which when she realized they got trouble hearing this, insisted: &#8220;No, it truly is gonna be a swan!&#8221;</p>
<p>After you find a partner, recall that complications can continue immediately after a Web web site launches. It truly is popular practice for engineering firms to state that they will deal with glitches for only the very first 30 days immediately after a internet site goes public. However it can take a number of many weeks before specified difficulties indicate, particularly when you can find several moving components plus a building group of customers. When Garnett observed out that fixing or adapting her internet site following 1 month being live &#8220;wasn&#039;t in the contract,&#8221; she dealt using the account manager the same way an angry mom swan would react&mdash;going around his head and complaining loudly. Garnett pronounces she went straight towards the company&#039;s CEO and acquired what she wanted: entry towards the gearhead who worked directly on MyLittleSwans&#039;s code. &#8220;They created the bug, they deal with the bug,&#8221; she claims, adding, &#8220;You have to micromanage.&#8221;</p>
<p>Unless, naturally, you could have nobody to handle but yourself. Joan Bradford is often a former schoolteacher plus a theatrical costume&ndash;shop proprietor who acquired and renovated an 1840s property 15 many years ago in New Windsor, Md., and turned it right into a bed-and-breakfast. She named it the Yellow Turtle Inn immediately after she had a dream about this kind of creatures and learned that they&#039;re the only turtles that guard their nests. But although Bradford might have a mystical bent (she also says she has witnessed angels close to the house), she also has fantastic technical competencies. Bradford managed the renovation, decorated every single room and cooks guests breakfast just about every morning&mdash;and also produced the inn&#039;s Internet site.</p>
<p>&#8220;Young individuals do not feel we can do points like this,&#8221; says Bradford, who doesn&#039;t treatment to specify her age but describes it as &#8220;way previous retirement.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ten a long time ago, Bradford didn&#039;t even employ a computer system. But she built it for the Web and observed her method to software program organization Homestead Technologies, which advertises: &#8220;Make a cost-free internet site in minutes.&#8221; She took the challenge and ran with it, setting up two house pages&mdash;one for overnight friends and another for brides (&#8221;they like to own their individual Websites,&#8221; she says). Bradford selected templates; uploaded pictures; wrote info; and set up a reservations, payment and e-mail procedure completely on her personal. &#8220;It was so easy to place and click,&#8221; she claims. However the function didn&#039;t quit there. Bradford has fussed throughout just about every image and phrase of her expansive and continually altering Internet existence, which now includes a third web page. When the spirit moves her, frequently following midnight, she updates or rearranges items, a procedure she calls &#8220;creative and meditative.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#039;s also sensible, since fresh information is highly valued by the human beings and machines that trawl the Internet and figure out the ranking a site will accomplish in the look for motor like Google. Just one motive the Yellow Turtle website has accomplished effectively, helping to bring in some 300 visitors a year, is that Bradford&#039;s continually adding rich new materials, notes Angus Thomson, of Intuit, the company that owns Homestead. &#8220;If you do not abide by up on your own Internet website, it truly is like not answering your phone,&#8221; Thomson claims. And obtaining a greater lookup standing is thought being far much more effective at getting users to respond than obtaining the auctioned and usually costly paid-for ads that commonly look inside the highlighted sections of the search-engine page.</p>
<p>Bradford also laces her web sites with terms that regularly get utilized in searches, a process the pros call Website positioning, or search-engine optimization. Figuring that romance is a hot look for term, she has place jointly pages describing how couples utilised her grounds for marriage proposals. Reiki and tranquility also regularly populate her transforming text. Bradford states she understands the search procedure intuitively, and hopefully those people instincts will serve her properly in her following Web venture. Immediately after a satisfying decade-plus at the helm, she&#039;s placing the inn about the market&mdash;and advertising it, naturally, with a World wide web site she designed herself.</p>
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		<title>Email Archive or Backup?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent study by technology company, CMSWire, found that many companies in the United States get email archives and backups mixed up.  As unbelievable as it sounds, the confusion is still rife, even years after the legislation came into force, and organizations are being caught out all the time.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dl2media.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/backup.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-384" title="backup" src="http://www.dl2media.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/backup.jpg" alt="backup" width="480" height="336" /></a>A recent study by technology company, <a href="http://www.cmswire.com/">CMSWire</a>, found that many companies in the United States get email archives and backups mixed up.  As unbelievable as it sounds, the confusion is still rife, even years after the legislation came into force, and organizations are being caught out all the time.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/103645/Archive_and_backup_What_s_the_difference_">For those who still don’t know the difference</a>, a backup is when a copy is taken of a given media and stored elsewhere.  This is to provide disaster recovery should any disaster befall the building, the company or its infrastructure.  Every business should have a comprehensive backup process that is followed to the letter, but it is different to archiving.</p>
<p>An archive is designed to copy, store and manage data for the longer term.  It is designed to be a permanently separate, accessible silo where the data can be safely kept.  Ideally it would be sited somewhere other than the premises, in a purpose built facility where it is protected from all forms of harm such as flood and fire.</p>
<p>In the case of an <a href="http://www.smarsh.com/">email archive</a>, for compliance, the email data is siphoned off the corporate email platform and formatted into a particular state.  It is then indexed, compressed and then stored safely somewhere else.  That storage should be secure, safe and resilient, so the client can access their data should the need arise.</p>
<p>A backup can run in conjunction with an archive, but are completely separate entities.  They should not be confused.  The only driver for a backup procedure is disaster recovery and damage limitation.  Archiving is necessary to satisfy a range of legal obligations that are enforced aggressively, as well as the retention of important information.</p>
<p>It isn’t only for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_discovery">E-discovery</a> that archiving is a good idea.  Business depends a lot of email using it as the main means of communication both internal and external.  Often corporate communications, policy changes and even external contracts are communicated this way, and they are important for any business to retain for a period of time.</p>
<p>On paper it is an easy mistake to make.  Both processes make copies of stuff for retrieval later but only one will protect an organization from litigation if an E-discovery request comes their way.</p>
<p>While emails can be retrieved from a backup, it is a time-consuming and laborious task.  With no real indexing facility, finding emails may take a significant amount of time, especially in larger, communication heavy organizations.</p>
<p>An email archive makes it easier to follow email trails and the branches that can occur when mail is copied and forwarded to multiple recipients.  A thorough implementation should also comply with the relevant legislation and prevent any action being taken against the company for non-compliance.</p>
<p>Let’s set the record straight once and for all.  A backup policy is good methodology, but entirely optional.  <a href="http://www.archivecompliance.com/">Email archiving</a> is not.  It is mandatory and specified in more than a few laws.  Ever since those very high profile corporate scandal cases, every business has had to comply with a set of stringent compliance laws that demands an effective trail be left with any documentation of any kind.</p>
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		<title>Using the Law to Attract Customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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The law of attraction is a potent tool when marketing anything. Experienced marketers will tell you that to sell something, especially from a distance you have to create an emotional reaction between the product and its audience.
Look at most of the television shows and advertisements on any network. The majority of the cast are slim [...]]]></description>
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<p>The law of attraction is a potent tool when marketing anything. Experienced marketers will tell you that to sell something, especially from a distance you have to create an emotional reaction between the product and its audience.</p>
<p>Look at most of the television shows and advertisements on any network. The majority of the cast are slim and good looking. Chosen to illicit a certain reaction within the audience, namely attraction. Business schools teach that attractive people sell more products, and I’m afraid it’s true. Beauty is prized in our society and marketers exploit this as much as they can.</p>
<p>Times, and trends are slowly changing though. With the changing size of the population, “real” people are being featured more in advertising to connect with people. If they react emotionally to someone who looks like them, an emotional bond however weak is created. This bond can be strengthened by clever scripting or using realistic situations. Not all casting decisions are made on looks alone. The “girl next door” or “Mr and Mrs Average” are also useful characters who can create emotional links to the audience. The casting choice depends a lot on the product being promoted and the tone of the production.</p>
<p>Sound is also a large part of attraction. Think of some of the most popular advertisements of the past ten years, and I’ll guarantee there will be a memorable soundtrack to them. Music can influence the mood, and the tone of the piece. For example an active, dynamic soundtrack will convey profit, efficiency, modern and go-getting products or companies. A slower beat, calmer music will convey the opposite, luxury, classy and comfort.</p>
<p>The right soundtrack is essential to match the tone and goal of the video production. Choosing the right score or track is the mark of a good production team. Choose original scores if the budget is limited and popular music if you have a bit more to spend.</p>
<p>So you have the cast and you have the soundtrack. All you need now is the right script and the right situation. Words have power, and carefully chosen words will influence those who read or hear them. Emotion and humor translate well on video, and are useful in video marketing so use them if you can.</p>
<p>Creating a novel, imaginative video is the first step in making it go “viral.” This is what we’re aiming for, and even if it falls short of that status, it should still net a decent enough audience. Using the information in this post will serve you well if you’re planning to make your own video. It will also serve you well if you decide to get the professionals in, as you’ll have some idea of what they’re talking about.</p>
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		<title>Effective Usability Testing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usability testing is often viewed as time consuming and expensive.  While this may be true in some instances, it doesn’t have to be.  It’s like any other part of web design, the more time and effort that is spent on it, the better the result should be.
You will never completely eliminate the time consuming aspect [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dl2media.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/mainbox_usability.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-373" title="mainbox_usability" src="http://www.dl2media.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/mainbox_usability.jpg" alt="mainbox_usability" width="214" height="200" /></a>Usability testing is often viewed as time consuming and expensive.  While this may be true in some instances, it doesn’t have to be.  It’s like any other part of web design, the more time and effort that is spent on it, the better the result should be.</p>
<p>You will never completely eliminate the time consuming aspect of testing.  A tester has to assume the mantle of a user at varying skill levels, performing different activities within the site.  Allowing them time to do this, then provide feedback and results, then analyzing those results does take time, but it should be viewed as an investment, not just a cost.</p>
<p>There is nothing more important that having a new design tested purely from the users perspective.  The site has been designed for them after all.  We have been staring at the site and working our way round it for days, if not weeks so we can’t test it ourselves.</p>
<p>Three useful ways of getting inexpensive, reliable user testing is by using the online tools Userfly, UserTesting.com and ClickTale.  All three use real users to test your site and provide feedback on the experience.</p>
<p>Userfly is only suitable for smaller, simpler sites as it has problems with playing back the review in an iFrame which doesn’t match the element of the site they are using.  If the design is simple and it’s pretty obvious what action was taken and when, this isn’t a problem.</p>
<p>UserTesting.com is a much more thorough and reliable testing system, albeit more expensive.  The site allows you to specify the demographic of the testers, how many you need and what you want them to do on your site.  They arrange for the testing and provide a video so you can see exactly what the users did, and listen to an audio commentary the user made while doing it.  They then provide a written summary of the testing including what elements the testers did or didn’t like.</p>
<p>ClickTale is similar to UserTesting.com but slightly cheaper for some of the options.  It also records user behavior and provides a video and written summary of feedback for you to use as you see fit.  The testing also includes a heat map generated during testing for you to analyze hot spots on each page.  This is great for refining navigation or page content.</p>
<p>These aren’t the only three user testing tools out there.  We have found them to be the most reliable and who provide the best kind of data and feedback.  Detailed information on how end users utilize the new site is essential in making the most of the design and ensuring its success.  Using impartial, user oriented testers is by far the best way of achieving this, which is why we suggest using this method of user testing.</p>
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		<title>Good CMS Systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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A client who can update, manage and control their own website with the minimum of fuss is a happy client.  Organizations that can manage its own content without having to have a designer on staff is a happier organization.
Fortunately these are things we can offer our clients in the form of CMS, or Content Management [...]]]></description>
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A client who can update, manage and control their own website with the minimum of fuss is a happy client.  Organizations that can manage its own content without having to have a designer on staff is a happier organization.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Fortunately these are things we can offer our clients in the form of CMS, or Content Management Systems.  They are the latest in web design and offer an unparalleled freedom in the construction, design and upkeep of a website.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Developing an SEO friendly CM system adds extra benefit for the client as they then need to spend less on external SEO services.  While we can create a CMS that adds SEO to its repertoire, it will never be its primary goal therefore you will probably need some help with SEO, just not as much as you might have done.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The RT Design Group are The Naples SEO company and can help with either solution.  We can design and implement an SEO friendly CMS and/or help with the SEO of your existing site.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">An SEO friendly CMS should be able to generate its own sitemap in XML when requested or automatically.  Google likes sitemaps as they make its job of crawling your site that little bit easier.  There are plug-ins you can add to certain CMS that do this kind of thing for you, but it is much better to have the capability built-in.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It should also be able to configure its own URLs to consider optimization while still allowing for easy navigation.  Adding keywords to a URL is an effective way of optimizing a site, but they also have to be navigable by users.  Having a coherent structure on a page or post title configured so it works for optimization as well as navigation is a tricky thing to accomplish, but possible given the right skills.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The site must have a logical structure.  If a robot or user is to navigate effectively there should be a logical order in the way the information is presented.  A confusing layout or poor navigation will not only confuse users, but the search engines too.  A site must be able to be crawled regularly if you’re going to rank in SERPs.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">As well as a logical structure, the site also needs to be flexible.  A good SEO friendly CMS must also consider those who maintain and update it.  It should be straightforward for a user to add content, keywords and tags.  All of them will have an impact on the SEO viability of the site, and therefore the position in the results.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">All of these elements go to make a good SEO friendly CM system.  Consulting a professional team about a website can open these kinds of possibilities for your business.  Call The RT Design Group now for a free no obligation quotation.</p>
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