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13.03.10
#Olympia, #Tacoma census jobs still available. $11.75-$17.50/hr - The Business Examiner. http://ow.ly/1jum8
09.03.10
You May Be Dangerously Sleep Deprived and Not Know It http://ow.ly/1gkgK
08.03.10
Twitter Grows nearly 1500% in 2008 http://ow.ly/1fsnS. Twitter also reported same 1500% growth for 2009 yesterday.
08.03.10
Nielsen report: time spent on social network, blogging sites growing more than 3X the rate of overall Internet growth. http://ow.ly/1fscH
05.03.10
Check this service out: Isolate pieces of web pages, remove backgrounds, print or save as PDF - Free! Works on Mac or PC. http://ow.ly/1eT0l
04.03.10
just joined a video chat at http://bit.ly/aPmygW #tinychat
04.03.10
Why No Business Should Be Involved In Online Social Networking http://ow.ly/1efvO (Make sure you read the entire article)
04.03.10
Social media privacy: Insurance companies want access to your #Facebook - http://ow.ly/1edXt. Moral of the story - think before you post!
04.03.10
Social network security: Where is the outrage? http://ow.ly/1edPo. Keep this in mind as you use services like #Facebook Connect.
01.03.10
The #Facebook imperative for enterprise software. ZDNet.com http://ow.ly/1cRgm. The paradigm shift to social computing is here.
28.02.10
Google Makes Facebook Pages a Higher Priority for Businesses - http://ow.ly/1cg2d. Your FB Fan Page is now more important than ever!
28.02.10
Local Tweets: 9 Ways to Find Twitter Users in Your Town http://ow.ly/1c644
28.02.10
Playing around on Google #Buzz. Definitely see some nice features, but some things that should be obvious R hard to find. Feels like beta.
27.02.10
Chile struck by one of strongest earthquakes ever http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16026/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=IDaAncyw
27.02.10
Carly Simon reveals 'You're So Vain' clue - http://ow.ly/1bTdK. Beautiful piece of social marketing by Carly to promote her new album.
26.02.10
I'm sitting @ Smitty's right now... pizza they're cooking 4 us smells fantastic. Hope ur coming to eat it w/me or I'm going to ruin my diet!
26.02.10
Can we make it? 100 members by the end of February - The Venue Online, (really) free business networking community. http://biz-venue.net.
26.02.10
Hey... the VOL #Olympia Meet & Greet is TODAY at noon! Business networking and authentic Chicago-style deep dish pizza. http://bit.ly/9xgeMy
26.02.10
Why and How to Use Disqus with Wordpress. http://ow.ly/1bvlN We build #Disqus commenting into #Joomla! and #Wordpress sites we develop.
26.02.10
@zacpalmer It was a day-long virtual conference on social media for business sponsored by the American Marketing Association.

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Alternative Marketing Connections specializes in making modern websites that are social media friendly from the ground up. All sites we build, large or small, are designed not just to provide information, but to interact with your visitors and encourage them to return to your site often to get new and updated information. They are also designed to interact directly with your social media presence. The combination of our social media setup, management, and monitoring service and our social media friendly Web design provides a powerful online marketing system for any size business.

Our websites are all designed to be user updatable. Adding information to one of our websites is as easy as typing in a word processor. It requires no special software other than your web browser on the computer you already use. You will not only be able to modify pages that already exist, but you will be able to add new pages without any technical assistance. Never again will you have to wait for your web designer to fit in the time for you to update your site with important information.

All of our sites are built with search engine optimization (SEO) in mind.  We build every page to rank well in the major search engines, and will register your new site with Google, MSN, Bing and the Open Directory Project.  We will also teach you the basic rules of SEO so that when you add content to your site, you'll know how to help those new pages rank well in the search engines.

We provide our web deveopment as an entire "soup to nuts" package.  We provide professional hosting services with plenty of room for your site to grow, as well as unlimited imap-based email addresses.  We'll even help you select and register your domain name if you don't already own one.

Below, you'll find three categories of websites that we frequently build. Keep in mind, however, that these are just examples. We can build a custom package specifically for your business.



"Guru" Websites

Guru sites are websites typically created for professionals in a specific niche market. Some examples are motivational speakers, consultants, or even artists or musicians.

These sites typically are designed to promote the guru as the brand. To be effective, these sites need to be frequently updated with blogs and informational articles. They also need to encourage visitors to interact with the site to leaving comments and signing up for newsletters. Oftentimes, they will have a simple shopping cart for buying books and e-books, training materials, or tickets to events and seminars.

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Corporate Websites

Corporate websites often are largely informational in nature. They typically provide information about the business itself, the products and services they offer, and how to contact them. For small businesses they might be as few as 5 to 10 pages; for a large business they may be dozens or hundreds of pages.

As a rule, the more information your website priovides, and the more frequently it is updated, the more the search engines, like Google and Bing, will be interested in them.  In order to keep your site content fresh, it should be possible for your marketing and communications staff -- not just your web designer -- to be able to add content in a timely manner.

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Social Community Sites

If you know how to turn on a computer, you've probably heard of the popular social networking sites, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and MySpace. While it's critical for businesses and organizations to develop a marketing strategy for these popular sites, it's also possible to create a social media site for your own entity.

Alternative Marketing Connections can build a social community as a part of a website that it designs, or as an independent community link to your existing or new website.

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