THIS MONTH’S OFFER:

this month’s offer

A fully Interactive Website for only £250

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This Offer includes:

• Search Engine friendly Website (up to 10 pages).
• Blog or E-zine/Newsletter Page.
• Image Gallery.
• Five email addresses.
• Enquiry /Quote Request form.
• Customised to your brand.
• Inclusion in Google Business Maps.
• Google Analytics included.
• Connection to your Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn.

• Control Panel (This feature allows you to maintain and update your website content as often as you wish without the involved costs charged by most web design agencies)

• 1 hour mentoring on how to use the Control Panel to update content

This OFFER expires on Friday 25th June 2010

‘Recommend a friend and receive a FREE 1 hour One-to-one Marketing Consultation for your business’

This offer is subject to Terms & Conditions (read below)

T&C’s: This promotion offers the design and build of a website containing up to 10 pages + a Blog Page. Each additional page will be charged at £15 each during this promotion. Delivery time will be dependent upon project size and a ‘First come first serve’ basis. Offer does not include content, domain(s) and hosting. Hosting must be provided by Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd. Domains can be purchased through Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd. There will be a handling fee for transfer of existing domains (if necessary). This offer is not to be used in conjunction with any other offers. Clients must be 18 years of age or above. A 50% deposit will be required before starting the project. All elements constituting the website will remain the property of Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd until accounts are paid in full. FULL Payment is required before official handover of website or any other jobs carried in conjunction. Full Payment must be made within 10 days from invoice date. ‘Recommend a friend incentive’ Free MARKETING CONSULTATION will be delivered upon third party’s acceptance of a website design contract with Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd. The website will include a user-friendly control panel in which the client will be able to change / update the content of the website independently at no additional cost aside from the £6.99/month hosting charge. Any content added to the website by MFSB Ltd for demonstration purposes is not the property of the client and must not be used by the client under any circumstances. The text, images and any other content will be added to the website by the client after they receive the 1-hour website lesson. Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd reserves the right to determine the time and place to deliver the training for the 1-hour website lesson. The feature ‘Google Search Engine Optimised’ consists on an element of the website that allows the addition of an appropriate Title, Description and Keywords tag to every page and post of the website. Images and links will also be able to benefit from the provision of alt tags. Inclusion on Business Google Maps consists of the addition of the client website link and the business basic information into Google Business Center (Maps). The client will be able to add additional information about their business  products and services independently after receiving their login details. MFSB Ltd is not liable for changes in Google and any other Search Engine algorithms or how this might affect the ranking of the website. This limited offer is subject to availability and cannot be exchanged for cash or refunded. OFFER expires on 25.JUNE.2010.

It seems like Apple has been very careful with the details of the launch of its tablet, but made a mistake of beginners: They did not check whether the name iPad was already registered.

Indeed, the brand not only registered, but Fujitsu, who owns it, has a tablet device that receives the same name, according to the Trademark Registry and U.S. Patent. It is a device a little bigger than a mobile phone; it includes a touch screen and runs under Windows. It is designed for stores and business managers with the aim of controling inventories and movements of goods, access prices, read barcodes, and so on.

This  is not the first time in Cupertino that something similar happens. Following the launch of its famed iPhone, Apple had to battle with Cisco for the name. Apple Inc claimed that this name had previously been registered in Trinidad and Tobago but in the end, after a financial settlement, they kept the name.

Fujitsu claims to have been using the trademark iPad since 2002 in relation to its mobile computing products for the retail sector. Japan’s attorneys are considering whether or not to go to court.

Watch this space

Michael Gomez

What a great feature! who has checked it out?

However, if the timing is correct, then it would appear that Microsoft is trying to accelerate the frequency of updates for your operating system, which does not appeal to many customers of the company. Let’s keep in mind however that in the mean time Google continues to advance its Chrome OS, which could be ready later this year.

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Microsoft’s browser signs a new partnership to deliver direct answers and links, providing an additional service that allows them to extend their offer and compete with Google.

The supremacy of Google in the field of online search seems not to be questioned, but its competitors are slowly bringing new applications in pursue of least grabbing some market share.

This is what Microsoft has just made, by signing an alliance with WolframAlfa to offer direct answers in addition to links on their search results .

Bing will be using WolframAlpha’s API, to have access to thousands of different algorithms and calculations processes that will improve significantly the search results.

Michael Gomez

‘The Techy Guy’ at Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

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The independent testing of software, AV Comparatives has done an exhaustive comparative study of 16 antivirus software for the consumer market.

Results are available in a 27-page report published on the website of the organization.

A summary of results is presented in the table below

This study focused on the ability of programs to remove viruses from infected PCs, not just detection. The study also sought to establish how far the cleaning process removes all traces of the virus, or if it leaves residues of damage to the system. For more details view or download the complete study at http://www.av-comparatives.org/

Michael Gomez

‘The Techy Guy’ Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

1. The average and median age of company founders when they started their current companies was 40.

2. 95.1 percent of respondents themselves had earned bachelor’s degrees, and 47 percent had more advanced degrees.

3. Less than 1 percent came from extremely rich or extremely poor backgrounds

4. 15.2% of founders had a sibling that previously started a business.

5. 69.9 percent of respondents indicated they were married when they launched their first business. An additional 5.2 percent were divorced, separated, or widowed.

6. 59.7 percent of respondents indicated they had at least one child when they launched their first business, and 43.5 percent had two or more children.

7. The majority of the entrepreneurs in the sample were serial entrepreneurs. The average number of businesses launched by respondents was approximately 2.3.

8. 74.8 percent indicated desire to build wealth as an important motivation in becoming an entrepreneur.

9. Only 4.5 percent said the inability to find traditional employment was an important factor in starting a business.

10. Entrepreneurs are usually better educated than their parents.

11. Entrepreneurship doesn’t always run in the family. More than half (51.9 percent) of respondents were the first in their families to launch a business.

12. The majority of respondents (75.4 percent) had worked as employees at other companies for more than six years before launching their own companies.

Which of the above surprises you the most and alters your mental model of what entrepreneurs are like?

Read the full article on Onstartups.com

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Hello…. here are a few useful tips for Small & Start-Up Businesses on how to build your brand on Twitter by Daniel B. Honigman Digital Communications Supervisor at Weber Shandwick.

• Thank every person who lists you.
• Follow lists compiled by people you’re looking to network with.
• Create lists of people you meet offline.
• Create lists to show how well-rounded you are.
• Showcase your happy clients.

Read the full post on Social Media Today.

Claudia Walliman Gomez

Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

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This new tool can be accessed from the “dashboard” command and shows the information stored in Google’s computers which include search requests, email summaries and youtube use habits.

This tool points  to bring satisfaction to those concerned with privacy issues; however, it only gives information related to Google services and does not show activity associated to non-Google services.

Go to http://www.google.com/dashboard/ for more information, there’s also a helpful video that explains how to use this feature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPaJPxhPq_g

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Michael Gomez

Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

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Google and Facebook will soon include on their pages the option to listen or download pre-paid music…!!

The American press recently announced that Google is about to launch a music search service on the web that allows not only listening to songs online but also the option to purchase the tracks. This new service was created by of some major labels and has been made possible through an agreement with companies from the online music sector such as Lala, and iLike.

Google, who will also be offering photographs and information about the artists, will keep the advertising revenue on these pages, although they will presumably share a percentage  with record labels. The search is expected to also include links to music videos from Google’s  YouTube subsidiary. Both initiatives are a clear attempt to compete with Apple, which has found the goose that lays the golden egg with its iPod digital music player and iTunes online store.

In countries like the U.S., Apple dominates the field of legal music downloads on the Internet with iTunes, which has already sold over 6,000 million songs, plus millions of movies and TV series since its launch in 2003.

Facebook will be charging users for the songs sent, and it is foreseeable that if the network members are willing to pay for sending a virtual link, they will also do so for sending a song.

Google will also offer the possibility to buy songs through links to the pages of Lala, and iLike.

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Michael Gomez

Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd