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		<title>More Internet Marketing Advice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Millard Hiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people ask you questions, make sure you take the time to give them a detailed reply. You want to show everyone who has a question that your customer support is top-notch. When people notice that you are replying right away, they become satisfied with your site and everything that you have to offer. They [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When people ask you questions, make sure you take the time to give them a detailed reply. You want to show everyone who has a question that your customer support is top-notch. When people notice that you are replying right away, they become satisfied with your site and everything that you have to offer. They then start telling their friends about how well they were treated by your site, which can increase your popularity.</p>
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<p>Do not simply reply to posts with generic, broad messages. Make sure that you address that individual&#8217;s particular answer to the best of your ability. When people feel like they are talking to a robot, they tend to pick up on this and feel like they are not treated with proper care. This can harm your image.</p>
<p>Try to market on social media sites so that you know people are always viewing the content on your site. This is a good way to make sure that all of your updates are visible to all of your followers. Since people are always on social media sites all the time anyway. This is a good idea because they are likely to see your advertising without much effort. With enough exposure, your site can grow significantly through social media sites.</p>
<p>Remember it takes time to achieve your website traffic goals for your site. But given time, with the correct usage of Internet marketing techniques, you will increase your audience. Be patience and you will eventually see your Internet efforts pay off even if it does take a couple of months. Hopefully, this blog post was helpful to you and your Internet marketing efforts.</p>
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		<title>Achieving Internet Marketing Success</title>
		<link>http://whitegyr.com/blog/?p=1400</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 23:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Millard Hiner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Achieving Internet Marketing Success]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The improvements in technology over the last forty years has made it simple to make money online. More folks are building websites, selling stuff over the Internet and making some great profits. And you can join the same club. When you have a site you should have an idea about who you want your audience [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The improvements in technology over the last forty years has made it simple to make money online. More folks are building websites, selling stuff over the Internet and making some great profits. And you can join the same club.</p>
<div id="attachment_1590" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 233px"><a href="http://whitegyr.com/blog/?attachment_id=1590" rel="attachment wp-att-1590"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1590" title="Making Your Website Profitable" src="http://www.whitegyr.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/bigstock-Computer-Earnings-223x300.jpg" alt="Making Your Website Profitable" width="223" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Making Your Website Profitable</p></div>
<p>When you have a site you should have an idea about who you want your audience to be. What kind of people are you going to market to? That is the question you should ask yourself. Once you figure out you want to market to certain people, such as housewives for instance, then you can make the necessary additions to your site to cater towards those people.</p>
<p>Everyone loves it when things are easy. When something is complicated it can be frustrating and it can deter you from coming back. This is why you need to make your website as user friendly as possible. You want people to come to your site and appreciate all of the content on it and navigate through the site with ease.</p>
<p>People love it when they feel like their things are being handled on time and with proper attention. So add a section to your site where people can get in touch with you so that you can address any of their concerns. When you make it easy for people to communicate with you they feel like they can trust you and this is a good thing since you want customers to trust in you.</p>
<p>A good way to know what you should be doing to better your site is to ask for feedback from your customers. This is a great way to interact with people and to give them what they want. Remember though that sometimes you might not always get the friendliest of remarks, so always treat people in a professional manner if you want to maintain your reputation.</p>
<p>Using these methods will definitely help you sell your stuff. Try to use what you have picked up here and then quantify how much your website improves over several weeks. We suggest using Google&#8217;s free analytics program to track your website&#8217;s statistics. If you stay consistent with your marketing strategies you will see a positive change in your Internet income.</p>
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		<title>Two Tips To Internet Profits</title>
		<link>http://whitegyr.com/blog/?p=1614</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 17:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Millard Hiner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2 Tips To Internet Profits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Small stuff in life can certainly make many other things fit into place effortlessly.This is certainly true when considering Internet marketing. The basis for this is: when you take care of the lesser, smaller details in your Internet marketing tactics, you will increase your brand popularity and with time, folks will remember your brand. When [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Small stuff in life can certainly make many other things fit into place effortlessly.This is certainly true when considering Internet marketing. The basis for this is: when you take care of the lesser, smaller details in your Internet marketing tactics, you will increase your brand popularity and with time, folks will remember your brand. When this occurs the traffic to your website will increase and your revenue will grow proportionally. Need more information? Read more.</p>
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<p>Be sure to make your website user-friendly for everyone that visits your website.  Always make sure that anyone can easily navigate your website. Do not make it hard follow the contents of your website, if this were to happen, your site visitors could become frustrated. And when folks become frustrated, they will probably leave your site and never look back..</p>
<p>Be sure to double check every graphic on your site including all the photos. Ideally you want a website that is highly visual with a lot of links going to highly relevant websites. Any time you add a link onto a graphic, be sure to make certain they work as you expect them to. You must  also check all other links on your website and make sure they are working as planned. Bad links, either dead or just going to irrelevant websites are another frustration that can drive customers off a website and out of the loop.</p>
<p>A couple of small things, website navigation and links, but inattention to either can be disastrous to the success of your Internet marketing business.  Attention to the &#8220;Small Stuff&#8221; can make your day!</p>
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		<title>Making Your Website Profitable</title>
		<link>http://whitegyr.com/blog/?p=1549</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jumpstart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A profitable website like an offline business is easy to have. All that is needed is more income than expenses. Of course, that&#8217;s like saying that all you need to create a giant and gorgeous tapestry is a needle and some threads. The reality is that a profitable website takes all the skills of a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A profitable website like an offline business is easy to have. All that is needed is more income than expenses. Of course, that&#8217;s like saying that all you need to create a giant and gorgeous tapestry is a needle and some threads. The reality is that a profitable website takes all the skills of a traditional website plus the expertise to do internet marketing.</p>
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<p>Making a business more profitable comes through decreasing expenses to do business and/or increasing sales. One route to decreasing expenses can be consolidating web services with one company that is full service, providing web design, website maintenance, SEO, domain name acquisition and hosting. Bundling services not only helps insure quality and continuity but also simplifies doing business and can save money.</p>
<p>The obvious path to a profitable website is good return on invest by having a high volume of sales with the least expense in promotion. A well designed site, preferably by seasoned professional design services, uses savvy content to attract search engines, looks good on all browsers, offers perks for mobile device users and follows all the rules of online ethics.</p>
<p>Increasing traffic also increases the opportunity to make a sale or to obtain a donation for a nonprofit, but the quality of the site is critical to entice the visitor to stay and to shop or donate. If your stats show that many visitors are bouncing, that is coming to the home page or linked page but leaving quickly. the site needs redesign.</p>
<p>A profitable website is also one that inspires confidence in the visitor. It provides good contact info that is easy to find and security for payment and for any personal information that needs to be entered.</p>
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		<title>Computer Security Help</title>
		<link>http://whitegyr.com/blog/?p=1552</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 23:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jumpstart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard some rumors about some sort of looming cyber attack on PC&#8217;s on May 1st or shortly  thereafter but cannot find anything specific. In any case, here are some links to help with security, most of it free. For Windows/PC http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/default.aspx#Safety-products-and-scans For Apple/Mac general info for OS X http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is/security.html security guides for each OS [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve heard some rumors about some sort of looming cyber attack on PC&#8217;s on May 1st or shortly  thereafter but cannot find anything specific. In any case, here are some links to help with security, most of it free.</p>
<p><strong>For Windows/PC</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/default.aspx#Safety-products-and-scans">http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/default.aspx#Safety-products-and-scans</a></p>
<p><strong>For Apple/Mac</strong></p>
<p>general info for OS X</p>
<p><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is/security.html">http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is/security.html</a></p>
<p>security guides for each OS X edition</p>
<p><a href="http://www.apple.com/support/security/guides/">http://www.apple.com/support/security/guides/</a></p>
<p>Flashback removal tool info &amp; other security alerts</p>
<p><a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222">http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222</a></p>
<p>Just to be safe, take a bit of time today to be certain all of you malware protection software and firewall are up to date and active.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Getting a professional website for only $700</title>
		<link>http://whitegyr.com/blog/?p=1545</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 21:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jumpstart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say you have done your due diligence and have decided that the advantages to using a professional web design company outweigh any disadvantages but now are dreading the cost of the service and the wait to get the site online and functioning. The really good news is you have already arrived at a site [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s say you have done your due diligence and have decided that the advantages to using a professional web design company outweigh any disadvantages but now are dreading the cost of the service and the wait to get the site online and functioning.</p>
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<p>The really good news is you have already arrived at a site that get you a fully functional  site and get online for just $700. If you do some shopping, which we really should do for any purchase this important, you will most likely not find an acceptable web design company for less than $1,000.  Now I&#8217;m sure you will find companies that may offer the same size site but not a complete and truly professional site for that price.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also found that many web design pros whether cheaper or even much more expensive tend to promise a turn around time to produce your site that is measured in weeks and not in days.</p>
<p>If you check WhiteGyr&#8217;s credentials, sample sites, and services, you may wonder how they can even offer let alone deliver a complete site for $700 in a few working days. The answer is partly in experience, The WhiteGyr team has all the tools and skills to deliver a quality site quickly at a more than fair price.</p>
<p>In addition, Millard and his family of web pros know marketing for themselves as well as for their customers. Offering a great product quickly at a terrific price produces happy customers who come back when they need additional services and who will recommend WhiteGyr to others. For the quality you get, can you afford to pass up a $700 complete website?</p>
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		<title>Can you justify going &#8220;pro&#8221; for web design?</title>
		<link>http://whitegyr.com/blog/?p=1543</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 22:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jumpstart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are clearly many advantages for choosing to use a professional web design service such as the one here at WhiteGyr. When you use a quality professional, you should expect and get a great looking and functioning site as well as all the miscellaneous support services you need for hosting, marketing and maintenance. As in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are clearly many advantages for choosing to use a professional web design service such as the one here at WhiteGyr. When you use a quality professional, you should expect and get a great looking and functioning site as well as all the miscellaneous support services you need for hosting, marketing and maintenance.</p>
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<p>As in all business decisions that create an expense, there is a need to justify the expense of hiring a web design pro. I want to discuss some of the issues to use in making that purchasing decision.</p>
<p>Obviously, if you have absolutely no web design skill and no one inside your organization with such skills, the decision is made for you. Even if you do have some web design skills or the means to learn them, you may have such other commitments on your time that using a professional firm is the only reasonable option.</p>
<p>Some of you may fall into a gray area. You have some web design skills and/or experience or will be acquiring them in the near feature, but you aren&#8217;t an expert. It&#8217;s matter of honestly evaluating your ability to produce a site with the functionality and appearance you want or recognizing that a pro can do much better.</p>
<p>Even with good web design skills, you may justify using a web pro company to supply the odds and ends that also critical to an excellent site. These include hosting and maintenance as well as producing high quality content in the form of articles.</p>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s consider the advantages of professional web design</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 13:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jumpstart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Possibly the first decision after deciding to have a website is whether to create the site yourself or in house or whether to hire a professional web design company. The major advantage of the do-it-yourself approach is most often cost, but sometimes this can be false economy if you end up with a substandard website. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Possibly the first decision after deciding to have a website is whether to create the site yourself or in house or whether to hire a professional web design company. The major advantage of the do-it-yourself approach is most often cost, but sometimes this can be false economy if you end up with a substandard website.</p>
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<p>Hiring a reliable and experience pro web designer should result in a professional looking and functioning site. For example, Millard and his WhiteGyr crew have years of experience, great examples of sites they have designed, fair rates, rapid turnover, a complete range of services and testimonials for their sites as well as numerous awards. You should settle for nothing less.</p>
<p>Another advantage of a professional web design firm is finding one that offers the essential services you need all in one place. A really good pro web design company will have artists and graphic designers as well as those who write the code. They can also offer to procure your desired domain name or names, provide hosting, and offer to maintain the site once it is operational.</p>
<p>In addition, a truly excellent professional web design service will offer you marketing support to promote your site and enhance SEO to get excellent Google search results placement. Web pros will submit your site to all the major search engines and appropriate directories.</p>
<p>Finally, professional web design companies should have available writers to produce that fresh copy that is so important to get the notice of search engine bots. They will use writers who are experienced and understand appropriate SEO techniques and who are readable and interesting.</p>
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		<title>4 Steps to an Internet Superstar!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 13:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jumpstart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it still possible to be an Internet Superstar? I&#8217;m not going to pretend that most of us will end up being a megastar like Amazon, but what is possible is being a superstar in your own particular niche. This is true whether you have a regular business or are putting up a site for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it still possible to be an Internet Superstar? I&#8217;m not going to pretend that most of us will end up being a megastar like Amazon, but what is possible is being a superstar in your own particular niche. This is true whether you have a regular business or are putting up a site for a nonprofit organization.</p>
<p>Step One is identifying your exact niche. You will need to define what makes your widget company different and more desirable than all the other widget companies, or at the least all of the widget peddlers in your region. What do you do or sell that really shines? This could be incredible customer service, stellar ratings from satisfied customers or donors, the best prices, the best selection or the highest quality product or service based on awards or evaluations.</p>
<p>Step Two is a professional looking website that has visual flair without being too &#8220;busy&#8221; or garish. Creativity is appreciated but keep it subtle and non-intrusive. Your site must be current and accurate and easy to navigate with a secure payment page and if possible several payment options.</p>
<p>Step Three is driving traffic to your site by targeting your prime audience. You will need to use effective and legitimate SEO and do the work needed to get high value incoming links. You will avoid anything unethical in either your business practices or your web design. Only the bad guys wear &#8220;black hats&#8221; online.</p>
<p>Step Four is to set high goals and work to make reasonable dreams possible. After all, even Amazon started as a little book seller but had the vision to expand as the opportunities presented themselves. If you build it right, they will come, and your star can really be the brightest in your corner of the sky.</p>
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		<title>Online Marketing Tips That Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 16:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Millard Hiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today it is imperative for small businesses to do some kind of Internet marketing. It is no longer a luxury or a last choice. So much of the world uses the Internet these days that if you don&#8217;t start Internet marketing, your competition will take over and you will lose customers or clients. Here is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today it is imperative for small businesses to do some kind of Internet marketing. It is no longer a luxury or a last choice. So much of the world uses the Internet these days that if you don&#8217;t start Internet marketing, your competition will take over and you will lose customers or clients. Here is a comprehensive plan to make sure that doesn&#8217;t happen.</p>
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<p>Make sure your business runs smoothly before marketing it online. A lot of people skip this step, to their ultimate regret. If you have a business up and running, is it ready to handle an onslaught of customers if your marketing efforts work out? Can your delivery process be quick? Do you have a return policy in place? Make sure that your business is able to handle customers professionally and effectively before even thinking about marketing. If your online marketing is a success, your business needs to be ready to go.</p>
<p>Decide on a website address name that people can remember. So many people get this wrong. When you choose your URL name, make it a name that is easy to remember, so that you can be easily found, rather than forgotten. If you are selling widgets, try to name your site something like bestwidgets.com or localtownwidget.com. Don&#8217;t attempt to be clever unless you really think it will work out for you. Instead, try to imagine that you are the customer, and think about what would be easy for a customer to remember.</p>
<p>Set your accounts to notify you in real time if you have problems with your HTML or your servers. This can be a lifesaver, because if your customers discover that your site is down, you lose money. You want to make sure that you know before customers do, so that you can notify your host or fix your coding. That way, you can tell your customers&#8211;who will be emailing you&#8211;that you are working on the problem, and that it will be fixed shortly.</p>
<p>Do some SEO on your site. SEO, or search engine optimization, is a way of making your site most attractive to the search engine &#8220;crawlers&#8221;, which help the search engines decide where to rank you in their results pages. Write relevant content that contains keywords that your customers might search for.</p>
<p>Use keywords properly. As mentioned before, it&#8217;s important that your content contains the right keywords. Keywords should be related to your industry or the product that you want to sell. Don&#8217;t make the mistake that some do, which is &#8220;keyword stuffing&#8221;. This method is used so that search engine crawlers think a website is relevant to a certain keyword that people are searching for, because the keyword is used so often. However, for the human reader, keyword stuffing is hard to read and makes the site look scammy. Avoid overusing keywords, and instead seek to sprinkle them throughout, rather than drown your site in them.</p>
<p>Exchange links. This is an easy way to get the search engines to notice your site. The search engine algorithms imagine that you are highly relevant if other people are linking back to you. A simple way to get people to link back to you is to set up an exchange where you link back to each other. Who can you link with? You can link with anyone, but it is smartest to link to people who are in your field and who offer complementary products and services.</p>
<p>If you want your business to do well these days, you have to market online. Use these tips to point you in the right direction.</p>
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