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Get Your Company The New .CO Domain Name
Feb 12th
MissionSprings.net Web Hosting has announced that the .CO domain name is now the Default Choice for those registering new domains with their WordPress Hosting Service.
For over 25 years the .com domain has been the primary domain for businesses large and small. In fact, now over 90 million websites around the world us the .com extension but that is changing now with the availability of the .co extension. With so many website domains taken with the .com extension the new .co opens up the opportunity for business owners and individuals to get that corporate name or favorite domain name that they may have missed long ago.
While many domain registrars and website hosting companies often charge around 3 times the cost of a .com domain extension for the .co extension, MissionSprings.net is currently offering the .co for only $16.95 per year at the introductory price.
.co is the country code top-level domain assigned to the Republic of Colombia. It is administered by .CO Internet S.A.S., a strategic venture formed between Arcelandia S.A. and Neustar, Inc. Arcelandia is an entity with interests in a variety of Internet-related businesses; and Neustar is a provider of global registry and managed DNS services for top-level domains.
As of July 20th, 2010, any company, organization, or entrepreneur can use a .CO domain for their online branding needs. Some examples include Twitter (t.co), AngelList (Angel.co), ENTER (Enter.co), and e-commerce giant Overstock (O.co).
Google Is Really Going Local, This is Good For Local Businesses
Jan 20th
As you have no doubt already noticed as you have been doing Google Searches in the past couple months, more local businesses are showing up on Page One of Google. If you are a local business owner this is REALLY good news for you.
I just read a story on WebProNews, “If You’re Not Local, How Can You Compete in an Increasingly Local Google?” You might want to read the encouragement here for you if you own a local business in Elk River, Minnesota or any city in the nation.
Be sure to watch the video with Google’s Webmaster YouTube Channel, Matt Cutts. Matt is head of the Google webspam team. He lays it on the line and tells why Google Places is focused on pulling in local business listings to the SERPs.
If you are a local business owner with a store or office in the Greater Elk River, MN area I want to help you get on Page One of Google with your business. You can use my Contact Henry Griner form today to request a No Cost consultation to see what I can do to help your business grow in 2011.
The Future of QR Codes
Jan 10th
What is this funny looking black and white box on my website? This is a QR Code, a new type of bar code (actually a square code and not a bar) that allows folks to encode information in a way that can be quickly shared by folks using a QR Code Reader on their Smartphones.
What is the future of these codes and who is using them? Let’s look at a few recent stories linked up at Mashable.com
Why the Best Online Marketing May Be Headed Offline
HOW TO: Use QR Codes for Small Business Marketing
Why QR Codes Are Poised to Hit the Mainstream
I have been using the QR Code and Bar Code combination reader from www.quickmark.com on my Samsung Epic phone. I downloaded and tried the Microsoft Tag reader but it would not work at all. This app works great as it quickly reads either type of tag and then I pull it up on my phones browser.
I just got a free account at www.jumpscan.com that I used to create the QR code you see here.
What ideas do you have for using QR Code Tags in your business or personal life? Post your replies and let’s see what we can come up with.
Elk River Online Business Mastermind Website Updated
Jan 9th
Yesterday I did some major updates to my Elk River Online Business Mastermind Website including a new theme to start off 2011. Also I posted a new article asking the question, “Why should any business owner care about Google Places?” Here is a short snippet from that posting.
Most people would consider that YellowPages.com is still the leading point of entry for citizens looking for a neighborhood restaurant, bakery, bike shop, or hair salon. Working hard to attract attention are the biggest online companies, with Yahoo.local, Bing.local, Apple Apps, and of course Google all offering their unique solutions. As these big fish fight for position, the smaller fries still have a shot at dominating search results. Yelp, CitySearch, MerchantCircle, HotFrog, and SuperPages are postitioning themselves smartly and hoping for a shot at the next tier. Meanwhile Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and others are being touted as the next best way we will begin our shopping day.
As an Internet Marketing Technology Consultant who follows these developments I believe that Google Places has the most juice, the clearest path, and the best basics to end up as top gun. And after 12 months of changes to the product on an almost weekly basis, Places seems poised to make a move to become the leader in the Virtual Land Rush to help business owners build their local businesses.
First, there’s the virtual real estate on the Internet. If I were a government attorney, I think I could make a case for unfair competition when it comes to the search engine with 80% of search putting its own local search engine (LSE) in color at the top of the page for searches that include businesses in every US city. But with no such effort coming from the justice department, the other search engine players have no answer to the location, location, location issue. If Superpages or Yelp can sometimes manage to find themselves first in the organic, this doesn’t come close to the power of their single out or seven-pack Google Places presentation.
If you want to checkout the website and read the new posting go to Elk River Online Business Mastermind
Early Review of Android 3.0 – Honeycomb
Jan 6th
Watch this video and then have a look at the post and be sure to read the comments. Some of them are very nasty towards the designers (or lack of them) at Google.
Read all about it on Google Mobile Blogspot.
Review About Matt Bacak and Alen Sultanic’s Mass Money Makers
Dec 29th
So, Mass Money Makers is just launched and it seems to like that everyone is on board. I am sure that you will receive like ten or more emails about it, but I got a sneak peek at the product, and want to give you my review.
So, what is Mass Money Makers?
It’s based on a simple concept that works (and works well)…this concept is what allows us to rank on 1st page of Google within two to three weeks for just about any keyword out there…
…then we take those same rankings and get them to build massive (really massive) lists…which in turn are piped through “mass money funnels” and the end result is money.
Simple, yet very powerful. Indeed it is, and that’s why they’ve simplified it into four core videos that are 2 to 3 hours each, where they break down everything in minute detail.
Can you get any better then that?
So in the end, I vote for Mass Money Makers. It’s a great product, that really works.
If you’ve been looking for a way to make money online, then you really need to get in on it before the launch is completed.
When they first opened the doors, they said the software would be limited. With several hundred thousand people learning about this today they may need to close down at anytime.
I highly recommend that you get your hands on this software right now!
GO here: http://bit.ly/hTJlWI
Be sure to watch the whole video… it’s pretty amazing what he is doing!
Biz Stone founder of Twitter.com to Share Business Plan This Week
Apr 12th
For the past several months Tweets and other discussions have floated around the Internet regarding Twitter.com founder Biz Stone and co-founder Evan Williams revealing their plans for monetization of Twitter. Last month at the Las Vegas Wireless show CNBC interviewed Biz Stone about their plans.
Today on CNBC the Harvard Business School students talked about what their ideas would be for a good business plan for Twitter.com. One concern the Harvard Business School students, as well as other uses of Twitter have is, how might advertising effect or possibly disrupt Twitter uses online and mobile experience.
Twitter along with other Social Media tools like Facebook.com have become a new way for businesses to get their message out to the public, connect with current customers, and to protect their brand by monitoring the talk about their businesses online.
If you are not using Social Media tools like Twitter.com, Facebook.com, LinkedIn.com and others in your business… you are getting left behind. Want to learn how to use these tools for your business? Contact me to arrange a free consultation.
Discover How to Make Money with PLR eBooks
Jun 9th
I have been watching the pre-release videos for this for a couple weeks now and finally the day has come when we all get to see this exciting new system from Socrates.
I believe that today will be remembered as the day that Internet Marketing Changed forever and gave a new level of freedom to those who are serious about wanting to start their own simple home based business!
Never before in history were you able to just “THINK” of a product and have it delivered to you in LESS than *one* minute.
Breakthroughs that make a REAL difference in peoples’ businesses rarely happen, and this is clearly one of them.
If you were given the power to click a button today and almost instantly find a product in *ANY* niche that you can sell as your own, that would obviously be HUGE right?
That is precisely what this new tool does for you.
It’s actually the largest, SEARCHABLE database of resell rights & private label rights products on the planet!
It is called Resell Rights Fortune and it just opened its doors for a limited number of people TODAY. You need to look at this now and discover for yourself how easy this can be.
Here is a small sample of the things Resell Rights Fortune will give you immediately:
- Get your own product in seconds
- Never pay for another product, ever
(All the new products are bought for you)
- Make more profits faster
- Build a huge targeted list easily
Obviously this resource is going to give you a significant edge over the competition. It is like having access to all Resell Rights Products ever created or that will be created in the future.
I know you probably read a lot of websites and get emails hyping up the next “big thing”. If you dismiss this thinking it’s just another ho-hum offer, you’ll be making an enormous mistake.
It took Socrates and his team14 months and over $54,300 to build this system and hunt down all the products.
Give it a try for yourself today. You have nothing to loose and financial freedom to be gained.
