• Reach the right audience using Google AdWords and boost your ad performance by choosing the right keywords and writing compelling ads
• Claim your business on Google Maps and create a Google Place Page
• Use Google Analytics to track online traffic and optimize your website

This seminar is ideal for customers who are new to online advertising as well as existing AdWords customers who want to get more results from their online advertising investment.

Date:
Wed, Feb 2, 2011

Time:
4-7pm

Location:
Clayton State University Student Activity Center
2000 Clayton State Blvd.
Morrow, GA 30260
(678) 466-5100

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Registration:
Registration is required to attend. Space is limited. First come, first serve. There is a $49 fee to attend this workshop.

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Atlanta, GA, October 26, 2009 – Evolv – Team Moran, an Atlanta based distribution team for Evolv, natural spring water enhanced with Archaea Active™ , will launch this week with a power house of Senior Executives. Team Moran announced today that they will partner with marketing and branding firm Zowbie Consulting.

Dave Moran with EvolvHealth Founder Trey White and Chief Executive Officer, Brent Hicks

Founder, Dave Moran currently advises wealthy families on their investment portfolios and is a Certified Financial Planner™. With a vision to bring health and wealth to individuals, Team Moran brings strong entrepreneurial and leadership skills to a launching team of highly skilled professionals. Moran has a Business Degree from the University of Florida.
Archaea Active™ is an essential formula in the Evolv Beverage that utilizes all natural ingredients to bring many health benefits. These ingredients include enzymes from pineapple and papaya, extracts from alfalfa stems and leaves, and protein from milk whey.

More than 15 years of scientific research and development have been invested in the proprietary, all natural Archaea Active™ formula. Evolv combines this colorless and flavorless formula with natural spring water to deliver the health benefits of good hydration with optimal oxygen utilization and increased stamina, energy and endurance. In vitro testing was conducted at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and FutureCeuticals®.

Discovered only 32 years ago, Archaea refers to the group of microscopic, single-celled microorganisms that are the simplest form of life. There are only about 200 experts worldwide who study Archaea. These cells have adapted to survive the harshest environments and are currently giving researchers many insights, including the repair strategies of DNA.

Moran noted “To partner with a company that believes in giving back, being healthy and creating wealth is exciting. Trey White and his executive team at Evolv Health bring the knowledge, marketing resources and training to a product that could sell itself. We are thrilled to lead up a division of the distribution team.”

EvolvHealth, LLC is a direct sales company developed by a team of scientists in conjunction with seasoned entrepreneurs, marketers and direct sellers. The team is led by the Founder and Chairman, Mr. Trey White.

Founded in 2004, by Carl H. Martens, Zowbie Consulting assists businesses in establishing a brand, delivering the message and connecting with current and future customers. Zowbie fuels marketing with premium support and takes businesses the distance. www.zowbie.com

To join Evolv – Team Moran please email info@drinkandevolv.com or call 404-606-1107.

The website is built using WordPress and features a contact submission form and mailing list subscription and database.

I have used the website, Restaurant.com in the past to purchase gift certificates to some of my favorite restaurants in Atlanta and Chicago.  A $25 gift certificate can be purchased for $10; there are requirements…in this case you’d probably be required to spend at least $35 at the restaurant excluding drinks.

Today I received an email that really got me excited, 90% off the purchase of any gift certificate until this Sunday, September 13th!  That means that the $25 gift certificate mentioned above that costs $10 will only cost $1 until Sunday!

There is no cost to enroll and setup an account with Restaurant.com  Click on the link below and give it a shot…see what restaurants in your area are offering gift certificates.  To receive the 90% off on your purchase, be sure to enter in the discount code, “NINETY” (at the top of the shopping cart page), then hit apply.

To see Facebook Connect in action, visit Zowbie’s affiliate site, EverythingGeneva.com

A short list of the benefits of Facebook Connect include:

• Build a community with just one click!
• Login using your Facebook account
• Send comments and share articles to Facebook profile feed
• Invite your friends to the website’s community
• See last visitors with a short bio and link to Facebook profile
• Sign up for a website account without having to create an account; instead using your Facebook login info

I really like the idea of building a community within your website and Facebook Connect makes this easy with just one click of a button.  An additional feature which I love is the ease of which a website visitor using Facebook Connect is able to promote your website to their Facebook friends by sharing an article with friends on their wall or inviting them to join your site’s online community.

If you would like to have Facebook Connect installed on your website, contact us today!

Some other great ideas, especially pertaining to Facebook Connect and its implications for ecommerce can be found in the presentation from Razorfish embedded below – Portable Social Graphs: Imagining their Potential:

The website features a landing page, bio page, and a submission form.  Additional content is being gathered at this time and a redesign to the site is scheduled in the future.

What if there was a software service that made it possible to manage multiple instant messaging accounts at once?  That’d be pretty cool huh?

Well, for the past couple of years I have been doing this.  I use a service called Meebo.

About Meebo

Meebo is a new communications and media company that’s re-writing the way people have conversations and communicate on the Web. We provide instant messaging and group chat to over 40 million people at meebo.com and via partner sites across the Web.

At meebo.com, millions of people every month keep in touch with friends on any IM network (AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk and Gmail, MySpace IM, Facebook Chat, and more!) and chat with people in Meebo Rooms. Meebo also enables live communication integrated into any website with Meebo Rooms, Meebo Community IM, and Meebo Me. Meebo is the Web’s live communication platform – instant messaging from absolutely anywhere, no downloads or installs required, and free!

Meebo launched in September 2005. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, JAFCO Ventures, Time Warner Investments, and KTB Ventures. We have over 75 corporate partners, including major record labels, global media companies, social networks, games portals, and some of the world’s most-talented application developers.

We (the Meebo team) are just a fun bunch of people trying to bring IM to the Web!
Click below to find out more…

News agencies and blogs from around the world and all over the internet have written about Meebo. Here’s what they had to say.

Bonus Tip

Not only do I connect with friends, family, vendors, and clients through Meebo…I also use it as a way to try and spark a conversation with future clients.

Take for instance the leads that you get via your website’s submission form.  How many of these people leave both their phone number and email?  Most people will provide an email and either no phone or a bogus phone number.  Success rates for connecting with (and converting) leads providing only an email address is pretty poor.

To enhance your conversions, take note of the email address provided.  If the email ends with @yahoo.com, @aol.com, etc. there is a good chance that they are also on instant messenger.  Create a group within your buddy list labeled, “Future Clients” and add these people.  If you have their first and/or last names rename the contact so it displays this rather than their screenname.  Now, when you see someone signed on, send them an instant message.  You’ll be amazed at how successful this is.

Everything Geneva

Everything Geneva provides a place for residents as well as others in the community to find information and the latest news about happenings within Geneva.  You can learn more about Geneva homes, neighborhoods, the latest developments, Geneva restaurants, businesses and events.

The website is built upon a WordPress platform and uses Zowbie’s community website theme.  An IDX solution provided by Wolfnet Technology has been integrated into the website as well to allow visitors to search for current homes for sale and rent within the city of Geneva.

Resident expert, Paula Boone, a Realtor with Keller Williams Realty is available to help those looking to buy or sell a home in Geneva.

Early May came the announcement of the availability of the Peachtree by Sage 2010 product line.  Peachtree provides small firms with the accuracy, control, and results they require for successful business management, and with 2010 is introducing a range of new features and improvements that brings greater visibility, enhanced analytics, and increased productivity to small businesses.

From the Sage press release:

Highlights in Peachtree 2010 include:

Customer Management Center: Particularly in the current economy, customers are small businesses’ most precious asset. The new Customer Management Center helps small businesses view customer details all in one place, with customizable dashboard views, enhanced lookups and easy export to Microsoft® Excel® or PDF to manage more effectively and provide excellent customer service.

Transaction History: Whether a customer needs to see the chain of events from a quote to a receipt or from a purchase order to a payment, all the information is easily made available to them in one click. Small businesses can then better serve their clients and vendors with easier access to the information they need to manage the relationship.

Business Analytics, powered by iLumen(1): Understanding a business’s performance relative to peers — where it stands and where opportunities exist — is more critical than ever. In the 2010 line, Peachtree features Business Analytics, powered by iLumen, that enables small businesses to benchmark their own performance compared with others in their industry, and other small businesses overall. This capability is ideal for companies that lack the resources to do their own research.

“When we first opened, I managed our finances with a bunch of Excel sheets linked together, but that took forever and never gave me the visibility I needed into our business. With Peachtree, I can easily drill down to analyze our activity — to see where we’ve been and where we’re going. I’m especially excited about the new benchmarking capabilities, which add a whole new level of analysis for our company. To be able to have that capability, for a company of our size, just makes things so much easier.”

Other new features include the ability to have multiple companies open at once(2), multiple contacts per company(3), automatic backup, improved employee management, password security, and inventory management.

Pricing and Availability

Peachtree Premium Accounting 2010, Peachtree Complete Accounting 2010, Peachtree Pro Accounting 2010 and Peachtree First Accounting 2010 are now available direct from Sage and will be available from most computer retailers and office supply stores in mid-June. The suggested retail price for Peachtree Premium Accounting 2010 is $499.99, Peachtree Complete Accounting 2010 is $299.99, Peachtree Pro Accounting 2010 is $199.99, and Peachtree First Accounting 2010 is $99.99. The Multi-User Value Pack (5 seat license) of Peachtree Complete Accounting retails for $699.99, while the Peachtree Premium Accounting 2010 Multi-User Value Pack (5 seat license) can be ordered direct from Sage for $1,199.99. High value competitive rebates are available from Sage for customers on other small business accounting packages. Call 800-228-0068 for more details.

About Sage North America

Sage North America is part of The Sage Group plc, a leading global supplier of business management software and services. At Sage, we live and breathe business every day. We are passionate about helping our customers achieve their ambitions. Our range of business software and services is continually evolving as we innovate to answer our customers’ needs. Our solutions support accounting, operations, customer relationship management, human resources, time tracking, merchant services and the specialized needs of the construction, distribution, healthcare, manufacturing, nonprofit and real estate industries. Sage North America employs approximately 4,100 people and supports 2.9 million small and medium-size business customers. The Sage Group plc, formed in 1981, was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989 and now employs more than 14,500 people and supports more than 5.8 million customers worldwide. For more information, please visit the web site at www.sagenorthamerica.com or call 866-308-2378.

(1) Internet access required. Service is embedded within Peachtree 2010, however is also available for Peachtree 2008 and 2009 products via a separate application download from www.peachtree.com.

(2) When opening more than one company performance is not impacted; however, you will experience reduced product functionality in those companies opened after the first one.

(3) There is a maximum of 20 ship to addresses and 1 billing address per customer. Only 2 contacts per customer can be synced with Outlook.

Sage Peachtree Premium Accounting 2010 tutorial videos on YouTube.