Chris Garrett, author of Blogging for Business and the famous ProBlogger book, wrote this interesting article emphasizing the reasons why small businesses can benefit from implementing their marketing efforts through a well managed blog.

1. Attract an audience
2. Inform, interact and learn from your audience
3. Retain your audience
4. Energize your audience
5. Recruit help, contacts, employees
6. Respond to stories and customers
7. Links for direct traffic
8. Links for SEO
9. Building trust and familiarity
10. Branding
11. Grow a community
12. Offer better service
13. Initiate more sales

You can read the full article on 13 Reasons your Business needs a Blog.

Read more about our affordable Blogging packages and how your business could benefit from our blogging services or call us now on 01202-233262 to find out more.

Claudia Walliman Gomez

Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

Who doesn’t like Steve Jobs presentations? Well, I’ve never come across to anybody who doesn’t think they’re not engaging, fun and memorable!!

Author and communications coach Carmine Gallo from ‘Gallo Communications’ spent the past three years watching hundreds of hours of Steve Jobs presentations in order to produce his latest book ‘The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in front of Any Audience’.

Watch Carmine Gallo’s interview and some of his presentation tips contained in his new book.

So would you be getting this book? Leave us your comments below.

Claudia Walliman Gomez

Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd will be attending the Green Breakfast Club tomorrow morning 4th November 2009 at 8:00 at the St Leonards Hotel, Dorset.

Ask at the entrance for our consultant Claudia Walliman and claim your £125 Website Voucher see MFSB Vouchers for more information on this promotion.

We hope to see you there.

MFSB Ltd

It seems like Google wants to make the lives of their web browser ‘Google Chrome’ users easier. Check out the new beta Chrome they’ve introduced yesterday.

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Ideal for those with multiple computers, either laptops or desktops, this new feature is set to help you keep your bookmarks in sync without having to go the trouble of manually bookmarking your favourite sites on each of your computers.

Pretty cool!

Claudia Walliman

Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

‘Twitter Has Lots of Marketing Potential’ This guide by Jason OConnor offers 10 useful tips on how your Small Business could benefit from Twitter Marketing.

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Claudia Walliman

Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

Hello!

For those aspiring to get a Google Wave account, we wanted to share with you this link to this comprehensive user manual written by Firefox extensions builder Gina

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Trapani and Web Developer Adam Pash ‘The Complete Guide to Google Wave’.

Enjoy

Claudia Walliman

Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

For those entrepreneurs and business managers, who seek for tips and advice on how to be successful, this article provides a list of 10 entrepreneurs who have built their businesses from scratch.

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These entrepreneurs use Twitter to communicate their unique perspectives. Follow their tweets and learn from the big players. I hope you enjoy the article.

ttp://mashable.com/2009/10/29/entrepreneurs-twitter-follow/

Claudia Walliman

The US chairman of the Federal Communications Commission will present some proposals that may require Internet providers in that country to treat everything the same way every flow of content. The concept, known as net neutrality, faces Internet companies like Google with providers of broadband services like AT & T, Verizon Communications and Comcast, which oppose

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control rules in the network management.

Proponents of network neutrality say that Internet service providers should not be able to block or delay traffic on the basis of content. The suppliers say that the growing volume of services that monopolize the bandwidth, like streaming video, requires an active control and some argue that network neutrality could be a problem for innovation. The Federal Communications Commission of the United States could formally propose ruling fixed wireless platforms designed to ensure neutrality for the Internet.

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by Michael Gomez

‘The Techy Guy’ at Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

For more info visit http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/search/label/Net%20Neutrality

The new Microsoft operating system, Windows 7, not only will be sold in packages to complete the installation via a disk, but you can download from online store to removable storage units or burn it to DVD.

The idea is that even users who do not have optical drives on their computers, especially those who have a netbook, can upgrade to the new platform, running the installation directly from your USB flash drives.

“For users who do not have a DVD optical drive on their netbook, the download tool in Windows 7 for USB / DVD will get an ISO image and create an auto-run USB device, which may be used to install Windows 7,” explained Brandon Leblanc, a company spokesman.
As indicated by eWEEK magazine, this choice (only available for downloads within the U.S. for the moment), is based on the WUDT tool, which also burn the ISO to a DVD for a traditional installation.

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Michael Gomez

‘The Techy Guy’ at Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

Almost stealthily, last week Apple updated listings for their online store to offer consumers new products in almost every product lines. The biggest surprise of all was the unveiling of the new  iMac. The old versions that Apple marketed in sizes 20 and 24 inches disappear to make way for a new display of 21.5 “in the basic model, and the huge 27-inch iMac, with a resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. With these resolutions, Apple reaches the 16:9 high definition tv ratio and emphasizes the idea that their computers are home entertainment centers.

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Although the new iMac has been improved in many respects, Apple – as usual – keeps the price of the basic machine in £949; the same cost of the basic model for the previous generation.

In the top models of the iMac line, it will be possible to incorporate QuadCore processors, 16GB of RAM and hard drives up to 2TB (approximately 2.000 “gigs”). Significant cosmetic changes are incorporated into the new iMac, with the back and the base of the computer, formerly of black plastic, in aluminium finish, slightly thinner.

In the initial setup – 2.66 GHz Intel Core i5, 4GB RAM, graphics card ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB and 1 TB of storage – the new iMac 27 “is priced around £1,599.

These all-in-one will come from factory with embedded wireless accessories, and those wishing to use the bigger keyboard (with numeric keys) will have to order directly from the Internet store, a move not liked for those who prefer Wired keyboard with its convenient USB port and complete set of numeric and shift keys.

The most popular computers from Steve Jobs, the “Macbook White” – so successful that the market took its big brother, the version made of aluminum – also went through a microscope for a “total re-engineering.

In appearance, Apple’s engineers devised a carcass “unibody”- in one piece – slightly more rounded, and incorporated the glass trackpad, significantly larger than the equivalent of a conventional notebook and enables the “multitouch” that hitherto exclusive to the very expensive model MacBook Pro and Air.

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For around £799, that until recently bought a Macbook with 1GB RAM, 160GB hard drive and 2.13 GHz processor, you will be able to purchase a laptop with 2 GB of RAM (two modules of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM), a slightly higher processor and 50% more storage.

We’re looking forward to getting hold of one of these new iMacs, have you already got one?

Michael Gomez

‘The Techy Guy’ at Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd