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Better Business and Charity
Posted by admin in General, Getting Started on September 27, 2011
How can you benefit your business and do something good for your community? Get involved in your community and help to support a local charity.
For example, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month; there are many local charities that you could volunteer your time and your services to help.
Here in Jacksonville, on October 1st alone, you can take part in:
1. The Pink Ribbon Symposium at the Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, in Orange Park.
It’s a free event that offers multiple breakout sessions for your questions with answers from medical experts. You can join others in volunteering to help to promote learning about breast cancer, survivorship, good health and wellness issues.
- Mary Fisher Design helped out by developing a great website.
2. Victory In Pink is a Celebration of Women Who have Fought Against Breast Cancer by St. Vincent’s Healthcare, at the St. Johns Town Center. The Celebration is a free event and will include the Pretty In Pink fashion show, with makeovers and massages, the Ladies Night Out Breast Cancer survivor fashion show and education.
- Olympic Gold Medalist Shannon Miller is helping out by being emcee for the event,
And, there will be a special Victory In Pink After Party (with hors d’oevres, gourmet cupcakes, a champagne toast, music, winter fashions, and dancing – - Proceeds from this ticketed event benefit Cancer Services at St. Vincent’s HealthCare through the St. Vincent’s HealthCare Foundation).
3. Bands Against Breast Cancer, a group currently conducting educational and informational activities throughout the First Coast area, is holding their 4th Annual Boobsapalooza, their major fundraiser, with ten bands playing on two stages at Lynch’s Irish Pub. Founder Henrietta “Hank” Watson has led a group of dedicated volunteers to help educate and empower women to save their own lives in the battle against breast cancer.
Think about a cause you believe in. Give some of yourself, your time, your services to help. You’ll feel good for what you do and you will get good back for what you do, just like the motto of Business Networking International, “Givers Gain”.
Do you have a story about how you have helped out with a charity in your community that you’d like to share? Please send it to us via our Contact form. We’d like to share your positive story to inspire others.
Add Good Content Regularly
Somehow, even when you get busy, you need to make time to post articles on a regular basis.
Regularly adding good content will be appreciated by your website visitors, and the search engines, and this will benefit your website and your business.
Can you imagine someone wanting to read a document called “Same Old Stuff?” Would you be interested if you saw something with the title “Nothing New Here?” I don’t think so. So if you don’t add new, interesting, useful content to your website on a regular basis, visitors may return once or twice, but why come back if there is nothing new?
Adding new content is good also helps your website grow in size, and that gives new visitors more to interest them. But remember to make the content helpful, useful, interesting; you wouldn’t look around very long on a website with disorganized, repetitive content, and neither would your visitors.
Your new content doesn’t have to take a lot of time or be a long article, just think “What can I share that my website visitors would find helpful and interesting?“ Organize your thoughts, and get started sharing.
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Very few people have not been effected by breast cancer.
Breast Cancer has killed both men and women.
Some ways to make a difference in your community, shared by http://families.com:
- Wear Pink. Show your support by wearing the color that promotes awareness.
- Buy Pink. Many specialty products are available for purchase that benefit breast cancer research.
- Participate. Join in and walk to raise awareness and money for research.
- Get screened. Make an appointment to get a mammogram.
- Help a friend. Celebrate a survivor or donate to a local support group.
Can you think of more? Please add a comment and share your suggestions to help.
Thank you.
Website Maintenance is Important
Whether it’s your car, your home, or your website, regular maintenance is important to keep things running smoothly.
Each day, people and search engines scan the Internet for information about products and services. To help your website stand out among other sites offering similar products or services, your website needs to be original, interesting, helpful, and informative. And your periodic maintenance is how you keep your website fresh for your website visitors and search engines.
OK, so what is website maintenance? Maintenance can include:
- Adding a new article or page (visitors and search engines like to find new, helpful information)
- Changing out images / photos for a new look
- Checking for broken hyperlinks (nobody likes finding a broken link on your website)
- Updating information in the site (just read through the pages and articles in your website, and see if you have anything new to share or change; your visitors and search engines won’t know if you don’t tell them)
- Once you get started doing this periodically, you may think of more ways to help your website
Search engines and website visitors appreciate improvements like these to your website. Your periodic maintenance will help you to have higher search engine rankings and more returning website visitors. (These are organic results, so they will be a steady improvement over time, not a sharp jump.) Check your analytics and see the results.
Have some more suggestions for periodic website maintenance? Please share your comments.
Olympic Gold Medalist Shannon Miller launches Shannon Miller Lifestyle: Health and Fitness for Women
Posted by admin in General, Getting Started on July 31, 2010
America’s most decorated gymnast, Shannon Miller, launches her new company and its website, Shannon Miller Lifestyle: Health and Fitness for Women.
As a passionate spokesperson for women’s health issues and a new Mother, Shannon saw a need for more relevant and convenient healthy lifestyle information for women. Miller has filled this void with a website (http://shannonmillerlifestyle.com) and weekly radio show that are rich with Content, as well as products that are designed for every woman. Shannon and her husband welcomed their first child John “Rocco” on October 28th, 2009.
Regardless of their profession, all women struggle to find time for themselves. They are always on the go, and often serve as the primary caregiver to their family and friends. Shannon’s website provides professional and interactive user content in critical areas such as Health & Nutrition, Fitness, Pregnancy and Motherhood. Miller recently launched products such as her “To-Go” series of books on Yoga, Abs and Stretching, a Healthy & Balanced Pregnancy Cookbook, pre and post-natal work out DVDs and Journals on Fitness and Running (available at the http://shannonmillerlifestyle.com/store and on Amazon.com – keyword: Shannon Miller Lifestyle), to provide women with convenient tools to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
On her weekly call in radio show, Shannon Miller Lifestyle presented by St. Vincent’s HealthCare on WOKV-Jacksonville (Sundays from 9-10am EST), she creates dialogue with subject experts to inform and entertain.
In regard to her company’s vision Shannon states, “My goal is to empower women with the knowledge and education they need to make informed decisions on health and fitness for themselves and for their family.” Shannon continues to travel the country as a highly sought after motivational speaker and advocate for the health and wellness of women and children.
The Shannon Miller Lifestyle website was designed and developed by Kenny Harper of http://keytheory.com, and Olaf Guerrero of http://www.ravenouscreations.com/, working closely with Shannon Miller and a team of great people from http://www.spectrumfilms.tv/, including Nick Furris, Dan Darty, and Katie Barnes. Jax SEO Works also helped with some of the development work, and is optimizing the new website for search engines.
Visit the Shannon Miller Lifestyle website for more on health and wellness for women and children.
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Cleanup
There are lots of ways that you can help.
oil spill photo by geri-jean via stock.xchng
The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will have far-reaching effects.
People, our environment, our economy, few things will not be effected by this disaster.
What can you do to help?
First, beware of thieves and scam artists who prey upon unsuspecting people after a disaster. Just like there have been many times before, there will be those who aim to make personal profit out of someone else’s misery. If you make donations, make sure you know the organization you send your money to, and what they will do with your donation.
Second, do some creative thinking and some research; if you can’t afford to go to the shore for several weeks and volunteer to help with the clean up in person, search the Internet for non-profit organizations to which you can support with donations for supplies, food for volunteers, and shelter.
- Think about the products or services that your small business provides; could they be put to use to help with the cleanup? Maybe something like this offer from Cool Shopping Ideas.com.
- If not, you could ask your business partners and employees to submit their ideas for how to help, take up a collection, send it to help a worthy organization.
- To get your creative thinking going, consider these other suggestions in a related Tonic.com article.
Every day, we have a new opportunity to make a difference, to do something good. This is a large opportunity to help, and the rewards will be great.
Share your comments and suggestions. Maybe you will inspire someone else with a way they can help, too! And, Thank you!
Better Motivation
Sometimes all of us feel the challenges of our work are overwhelming – but we keep going, because that is the difference between us and our competition.
We know we have a dream of what we want to accomplish, and the only way to make that dream happen is to:
- take a different perspective of our situation,
- consider all of the good things we have going for us, and how far we have come,
- then consider a few good things you can do today, and do your best.
What are some things you could do today?
- improve your website to tell people what you do better than your competition,
- communicate your brand with the public,
- communicate with your customers using social media; give them a benefit for their business,
- network with related businesses to for more benefit to your customers.
What helps you get motivated to follow your dream and make your business more successful? Share your thoughts with us.
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Make that difference in your business, in some other peoples lives. Be the man (or the woman) that makes your dreams come true.
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Excellent Care from Kindred Hospital of North Florida
If you have a loved one or friend in need of a hospital specializing in wound care and respiratory care, I highly recommend Kindred Hospital of North Florida, in Green Cove Springs.
I was recently a patient at Kindred Hospital of North Florida, and received excellent care.
Kindred Hospital of North Florida provides a host of other services, whether you need Long Term, Acute Care (LTAC) providing for medically complex patients who suffer from multiple organ system failures – active disorders of many parts of the body, or even outpatient care.
Serving south Georgia and north Florida, if you have a friend or loved one who could benefit from Great care, please contact Kindred Hospital of North Florida.
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Quick Checklist for Small Business Website Advertising
Website advertising is the way to share information about your product or service with others.
If you had lots of advertising money to spend, you could use word-of-mouth, newspapers, magazines, radio, television, Yellow Pages telephone book, and outdoor (bill boards) ads to let people know what your company has to offer, but for most small businesses, the Internet has proven to be the most popular and responsive media, the best investment for their advertising money.
Some people say the first place to spend that advertising money is on a good Yellow Pages telephone book ad. Research studies show more people are turning to the Internet search engines to find out about a product or service they need. Put your ad in a telephone book and it stays like that until next year. Put your ad on your website and if you want to change it, you can change it in a few days, maybe even in a few hours.
Here’s our quick SEO checklist:
- Match your website ads to your target audience.
- Use one company message (slogan) in all of your adds, so website visitors will associate your company and your message / slogan.
- Keep your ads brief, interesting and believable.
- Create ads which will make your website visitors curious to get more information about your product or service.
- Provide easy paths for website visitors to contact your company representatives (telephone numbers, e-mail addresses).
- If you are investing in several forms of advertising, conduct simple evaluations to see how well your different forms of advertising are promoting your product or service.
(For example – for several months, ask all of your new customers how they heard of your business, product, or service; see which form of advertising is bringing the most return for your advertising investment, then check again in a few months.)
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Marketing your small business with blogging.
Blogging can help market / advertise your business product or service.
A “blog” (contraction of the terms web log or weblog) is a category of website where brief articles are posted periodically. In addition to text, the posts can contain photos / images, graphics, or even videos.
Many small businesses use blog posts to tell visitors about the products or services that they provide. They make their blogs interesting and informative. They post new articles on a regular basis, to keep visitors coming back to see the latest, or to subscribe to the business’ RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed from their website (so the visitors can see the new blogs as they are posted, without having to go to the business’ website). Then these website visitors buy those products or services.
Blogs can bring more visitors to your website, more customers to your business, and that means more opportunities for sales.
Just remember : When you write a blog for your business, you want to share information about your product or service that sounds:
- intriguing,
- exciting,
- curious and/or unusual (but true),
- and is easy to understand and remember.
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