Free eBook Detailing How to Start an Online Business Successfully

Well-known Internet marketer, Maureen Rainford, has announced the release of her new eBook, “Internet Business for Newbies.” The publication provides essential information for anyone who wants to learn how to start an online business and make money. Maureen is giving away free copies of her eBook for a limited time.

“starting a online business is not difficult and if you are willing to put in the work, it can change your life beyond your wildest imagination,” said Maureen Rainford, author and owner of the website, CreateOnlineBusinessEasily.com. “It did for me and it’s given me financial independence.”

Loss of jobs and the desire of people to own their own business is at a fever pitch. Individuals can make money easy online if they have the knowledge and tools to do so. Maureen has been an Internet marketer since 2007, and “Internet Business for Newbies” walks readers step-by-step through the process of establishing a successful online business.

Maureen doesn’t mince words or skimp on details in her eBook. Written in plain English, the information is easy to understand and implement, even for those who have no marketing experience.

Maureen explains how to start a new business, as well as steps that must be taken prior to going online. She shares information about the most important factor that affects sales of those who want to work online and make money.

Successful business owners know how to stand out from the competition in their chosen industry. The eBook helps readers explore ways they can distinguish their business to make money easy online.

To make sales, businesses must have traffic to their websites. The most sophisticated online site is no good without a steady stream of visitors that can be converted to buyers. Maureen examines proven methods for generating traffic, from website SEO techniques to press releases.

Those who want to work online and make money are cognizant of the importance of building and maintaining a customer base. It’s critical for the long-term success of any enterprise and “Internet Business for Newbies” explains in detail how to build a customer base for future success.

Maureen’s new publication is available as an eBook that can be downloaded for instant access. The free eBook offer is only available for a limited time, and is recommended reading for anyone with the desire to work online and make money.

“Internet Business for Newbies” provides the knowledge, tools and techniques needed to make money easy online. Maureen examines a wide range of topics essential to creating a successful online business, from prelaunch phase to profits. The free eBook provides a comprehensive guide that can be used by anyone who wants to work online and make money.

For more information, visit the website at http://www.createonlinebusinesseasily.com.

Integrity Defenders, Inc. Rolls Out New Online Privacy Service to Protect Your Personal Information

Integrity Defenders, Inc., an online reputation and privacy management firm, has today announced the company's new PrivacyID service geared towards removing personal information from online people search databases.

People search databases offer personal information such as your name, phone number, address, salary, and other details about your personal life. Integrity Defenders' new service will search the web for this information and remove it from online databases. "Identity thieves have begun utilizing these databases to gain access to victims online accounts," warns Michael D'Alessio of Integrity Defenders.

Members can sign up for Integrity Defenders' monthly PrivacyID service for $12.99 per month. The PrivacyID service continuously monitors people search databases such as MyLife, Whitepages, U.S., Search, and many other online databases for your personal information and removes it for as long as you are subscribed.

For more information on Integrity Defenders new PrivacyID service please visit http://www.integritydefender.com/privacy-id-services.php

About Integrity Defenders, Inc.:

As a leader in Personal Online Reputation Management, Integrity Defenders creates, manages, and promotes positive search engine results for their customers. Their innovative approach to online reputation management delivers unparalleled results within the ORM industry. Integrity Defenders is a privately held company, located in Andover, New Jersey.

XLN Telecom CEO wins regional award for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year

Christian Nellemann, Group CEO of XLN Telecom Ltd – the UK’s leading provider of telecoms services for small business – has been named a winner in the Business Services category of the 2010 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year for the London & South region.

A hundred and thirteen business leaders from across the UK were short-listed as regional finalists and winners will now go on to vie for the title Ernst & Young UK Overall Entrepreneur Of The Year 2010 at a ceremony held in London in October.

XLN Telecom specialises in providing small businesses high quality, low-cost fixed-line, mobile and internet services. Today it has over 125,000 customers. Co-founded by Christian Nellemann in 2002, XLN Telecom now employs 145 staff at its Vauxhall head-office and has a turnover in excess of £54 million per annum, having grown by 36% in 2009.

Christian Nellemann, founder and Group CEO of XLN, said:
“I am delighted to have won against tough competition in the London region – and look forward to the national awards in October. Entrepreneurial spirit runs deep in XLN and this award recognises the strength of our team, their dedication and commitment to providing unrivalled customer service at unbeatable prices”.

Sponsored in the UK by Credit Suisse, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year celebrates people who build and lead successful, growing and dynamic businesses; recognising them through regional, national and global awards programmes in more than 135 cities in 50 countries.

Flexiant targets SME and start up market with next generation cloud platform

The eagerly awaited next generation of Europe’s first cloud platform, FlexiScale 2.0, launches today. FlexiScale 2.0 is a complete, bottom-up re-write of market leading FlexiScale, a dominant player in public cloud platforms since 2007. FlexiScale 2.0’s leading-edge technology enables start-ups and SMEs to grow from one server to one thousand servers in seconds – critical for organisations offering streaming video, social networking or SaaS, and ideal for a wealth of other applications.

FlexiScale 2.0’s pay-as-you-go virtual dedicated servers can be up and running, or taken down in less than 60 seconds, ensuring businesses can rapidly shape their IT resources in response to dynamic market conditions. With no long-term commitment or capital expenditure, FlexiScale 2.0 facilitates clear focus on core business activities by reducing time, energy and effort spent on IT provisioning and investment.

Powered by Flexiant’s flagship technology “Extility”, FlexiScale 2.0 has a very user-friendly look and feel making operating the functionally enriched FlexiScale 2.0 an empowering experience. Current users of FlexiScale will see immediately that Flexiant has responded to market demand and remain clear leaders in provisioning viable, business enabling technology.

Key new features include:

A completely revised graphical user interface;
A richer API for programmatic server control;
Substantially reduced charges;
Highly accelerated initial boot times;
Virtual Data Centres to enable customers to organise their own array of servers;
Ability for customers to attach, detach, resize, snapshot, image and clone virtual disks;
Ability for customers to create their own servers from uploaded images; and
VNC console support to diagnose boot or connectivity issues.

Customers can fire up as many servers as they want. These can be based upon either an OS or appliance images from Flexiant’s own library, a customer uploaded image, or a clone of an existing customer server. Flexiant’s advanced storage system means there is no long OS installation cycle; however the server is built, it will be available in seconds. Servers in the virtual data centre can be built either through Flexiant’s intuitive web-based user interface or using its comprehensive API, allowing users to control the servers programmatically.

Tony Lucas, Founder of Flexiant explains: “Our existing FlexiScale customers are very important to us and we know they will love the improvements and new features of FlexiScale 2.0 that the Extility technology suite has enabled.”

The OS agnostic FlexiScale 2.0 supports MS Windows Server and all common versions of Linux. Each customer has their own VLAN and their own virtual disks giving security and network QoS. Flexiant provides a fully monitored system, fully automated hardware recovery and instantaneous backup and restore capabilities through disk snapshots.


Reseller opportunity

Since FlexiScale was first launched in 2007 it has built up a strong customer base and now Flexiant is offering the opportunity to the web-hosting reseller market and to IT service delivery companies.

Flexiant’s FlexiScale 2.0 Resellers and Affiliates will be able to rapidly leverage their existing customer base to take advantage of FlexiScale’s platform independent infrastructure, bringing immediate improvement to bottom-line performance, whilst delivering highly dependable world-class services to their customers.

Tony Lucas comments: “FlexiScale 2.0 delivers an excellent commercial opportunity for technology resellers to deploy wide ranging high quality services to their existing customers, whilst enabling them to compete more effectively in this very challenging industry. We are very proud of bringing this innovative, leading edge technology to market”

http://www.flexiant.com/

Global IP and Tpad Join Forces to Dominate VoIP Communications in Windows 7

 Tpad and Global IP have taken on the challenge of delivering VoIP to Windows 7 and Vista users with great success. Providing a full range of features that allow consumers to maximize their communication experience.  The specially branded Tpad “Ninja Pro” combines the best software with the best telephony infrastructure to transform the personal computer into a powerhouse telephone.  

Imagine being able to integrate all of your computer telephone tools like your address book in Outlook, your Customer Relationship Management database or Microsoft Exchange Server and you will begin to see the possibilities of using this system.

The ability to instantly dial calls directly from within your own database is just one of the time-saving features of the Tpad branded “Ninja Pro” system. The comprehensive and intuitive menus make communicating via VoIP / SIP on WIN2000, WIN XP, WIN2003, VISTA and Windows7 a breeze even without TAPI.

Making the “Ninja Pro” Softphone customizable was a top priority to Global IP Telecommunication who realized the importance to consumers and business owners to have a system that adjusts to their workflow tasks.  This includes localization in a majority of the world’s languages and remote administration support.

The customer selected service packages of Tpad’s global telephony network allow everyone to have the features they need in using the “Ninja Pro” Softphone.  Consumers can realize significant cost savings using VoIP / SIP and with the advanced features of this Softphone users can enjoy professional level audio and video calls at a fraction of the rates charged by fixed line providers.

For Windows 7 users this is an excellent opportunity to see the capabilities of VoIP at its highest level of performance.  Tpad’s Customer Care Advisors are on hand to address any technical issues to configure the “Ninja Pro” for operations with the Windows 7 or Vista operating system.

Tpad has been recognized for several years as one of the most progressive, consumer-oriented leaders in delivering high-quality VoIP services to individuals and businesses around the world. This latest addition to the host of VoIP tools for crystal-clear communications tackles one of the remaining obstacles to VoIP usage. With the branded Tpad “Ninja Pro” software, VoIP for everyone is now a reality.

About Global IP Telecommunications Ltd:  (http://www.globaliptel.com):
Global IP Telecommunications is a leading manufacturer of auto provisioning-capable softphone applications for Voice-over-IP. Global IP Tel. products are being sold worldwide through leading PC-, USB- and headset manufacturers, internet service providers, Telco's as well as international sales partners.

Web Design Tips To Apply That Are Extremely Valuable

When considering the various components that go into creating a good site, you realize how complicated web design is. The ultimate goal of a site design is to both be appealing to traffic while also ranking high on search engine pages. On the other hand, even if you positively influence the search engines, if your site is too unattractive and visitors don't want to stay on it, you haven't done much. The "bounce rate" of people who come to your website and leave immediately is mainly owed to the aesthetic appeal of your site. To achieve excellent results over the long term, it is critical that you emphasize good site design. Some websites do very poorly in sales, yet they achieve great rankings in the SERPs. This article will be exploring the various tips that you can use when working with web designing.

A good web design tip to remember is to always keep it simple and to stay away from clutter. A good example of this is http://beardandmustachetrimmer.org with a clean layout and easy navigation. Yes, it's fun to try out all the neat Photoshop effects or use flash based animation, but keeping it simple without all that hustle and bustle will pay off when it comes to the long term. Your site visitors will simply be put off by the design that is confusing and cluttered. You can instead create an appealing webpage design by organizing the information on your page so that your visitors easily find what they are looking for. It's not right if text overpowers the visual, and vice versa, so make sure you have a good balance between the two. You won't want to forget to optimize all images so that your site loads as quickly as possible.

Another thing that you need to keep in mind is navigation. Good web design and smooth navigation should always go together. People should be able to visit your site and easily find what they want. Don't force your visitors to click a bunch of links or scroll to the bottom of the page, etc. Instead, you'll want to offer a clear cut road map on how you've structured your site so that they can easily move around. Some people may find your site through the search engines, so keep in mind that not every visitor comes to your site through your home page. Therefore, it's important to have the page's title, and links on the top or bottom leading to the important pages of the site, such as the home page, contact page, about page, etc.

Never program any music to begin playing immediately with out visitor control. When the visitors come to your site and hear any kind of music blasting out, they will simply move on to the next one. You also need to be careful with automatic talking heads, or audio welcome messages. You should give them the needed control to turn on/off the music if they want.

All in all, website design isn't difficult once you know what you're doing.

Just keep in mind that the more effort you put into designing your site, the better your success will be in the long run.

Drinks vending gets a fresh look and feel with KLIX

The new website has been designed in order to ensure that prospects and customers have a simple, hassle-free platform through which to easily access information about the vending machines and drinks available.

KLIX is the UK’s number one in-cup vending solution and is part of Mars Drinks (http://www.marsdrinks.co.uk/), the specialist drinks division of the Mars Group of companies. As the market leader in drinks vending, the new KLIX website reflects the changing needs of customers and has been built with this in mind.

To increase ease of use, the new features also include a secondary navigation bar to make moving around the website more intuitive, thereby ensuring information is easily accessible, and ideal for those new to drinks vending.

This new platform allows for the further development of web 2.0 tools and utilities. Customers already have the option of getting in touch via Twitter (http://twitter.com/marsdrinksuk) and following updates from the team on the KLIX blog (http://klix.co.uk/news), and there are more innovations in the pipeline.

Shabbir Dungarwalla, UK e-business manager, Mars Drinks explains the thinking behind the updated website:

“As one of the leading innovators in the vending industry, we are continuously developing our online presence to allow our customers to interact with us in the way they prefer. We hope the new website reflects the KLIX ethos of simplicity and reliability and that our customers and prospects are able to access all the information they need with ease. If customers choose to go online because it is more convenient for them, we want to give them as many options to contact us as possible and embrace the new technologies that allow that.”

To find out more about KLIX, please visit the new KLIX website http://www.klix.co.uk or call us on 0870 600 20 30 or get in touch via Twitter @MarsDrinksUK

Survey Reveals Business Attitudes Towards Social Networking

A study into what business men and women really think about social networking and some observations on the evolving conventions of social networking etiquette.

Is social networking just a flash in the pan indulged in by the under 30s or is it a serious communication platform which is here to... stay?
Pilotmax and The Counsel House explore business attitudes towards social networking in a pilot study.

The majority business men and women (83%) believe that social networking is here to stay compared to only nine per cent who think it is just a ‘flash in the pan’ indulged by the under 30s.

Business opinion is more divided on the value of ‘tweeting’. Asked to choose between two opposing descriptions of tweeting, nearly a third of company executives (31%) agreed with one commentator’s view that it is a ‘fun and powerful communication medium’ whilst nearly half (44%) agreed with another’s description that it can be a ‘moronic’ form of communication. A quarter (25%) had no opinion either way.

These are some of the key findings of ‘The Social Networking Report’, a study into executive opinions on the subject published today by The Counsel House, a firm which specialises in interim management within corporate communications, and Pilotmax, a PR consultancy.

Other key findings of the study were:
• Nearly three quarters (71%) say that blogging provides an effective new medium to communicate with a wider audience whilst less than one in five (16%) say that it is simply shouting into the ether.
• Just over half the respondents polled (51%) think that publishing a profile on social networking sites can help develop new contacts and win new business whilst less than a quarter (23%) say that it is a waste of time in this respect.
• Facebook was both the most widely used and highly rated of the six sites listed in the survey. It is used by 72 per cent of the respondents in the survey and is rated, on average, 2.86 on a 1-5 scale. The next most popular and highly rated site is Linkedin, used by 59 per cent of respondents and rated 2.03, and then Twitter, used by 46 per cent and rated 1.3 a 1-5 scale.

The report also highlights a number of growing conventions amongst social networkers and advises business men and women new to the medium to be aware of its emerging etiquette. For example, it advises users to be aware of a number of potential social networking gaffes including:
1. Hovering: the report advises bosses not to look into the social networking activity of subordinates and juniors at work. It suggests that a boss should wait to be invited onto a social networking site as they might find that these sites are already being used as a forum for complaining about work and senior managers. To avoid embarrassment, bosses should always wait to be invited to join social networks rather than insist on it.
2. Overfriending. This, the report says, is the cardinal sin of social networking. It involves inviting every Tom, Dick, Harry, Sally who you have ever met in your life to become your friend just so that you can boast about the number of friends you have on your homepage. Likewise, it says, confronting people who either don’t want to become friends or who do not respond to requests to become friends, is considered to be particularly poor form.
3. Career–risking: Business men and women should also be wary of putting anything up on a social networking site that could harm career prospects. There are numerous recent examples of this happening. Most notably, a number of cabin crew of a major airline lost their jobs after posting inappropriate jokes about their employer on Facebook. The jokes made references to the airline passengers as ‘chavs’ and wrongly implied some of the airline’s planes were infested with cockroaches.

Commenting on the publication of the report, Robin Swinbank, managing partner at The Counsel House, said: “Love or loathe social networking, the business community has to face the reality that it is here to stay and address this reality in all their communications.”

Jane Herbert, managing director of Pilotmax, said: “Social networking has exploded in the past few years and there’s no doubt it is very powerful. But whether organisations engage with it or not – and there’s no doubt not every platform is going to be of value to every organisation – the one thing everyone absolutely must do is monitor it. Organisations have to know what the world is saying about them – especially if it’s bad – if they are going to manage their reputations effectively.”

Copies of the ‘The Social Networking Report’ can be downloaded free of charge from The Counsel House website www.thecounselhouse.com

-Ends-

For further information please contact:
Robin Swinbank
The Counsel House
Tel: 020 8769 6453
robin[at]thecounselhouse[dot]com
www.thecounselhouse.com

Jane Herbert
Pilotmax
Tel: 0208 334 0200
jane[at]pilotmax[dot]co.uk
www.pilotmax.co.uk

Distributed on behalf of Pilotmax by NeonDrum (http://www.neondrum.com)
Nicky Denovan
Tel: +44 7747 017654
nicky[at]neondrum[dot]com

Twitter Your Way To The Top

Jessica Swanson, Founder and President of Shoestring Marketing, Inc., and recently named one of Forbes 30 Women Entrepreneurs To Follow On Twitter, is offering a complimentary Twitter webinar on Thursday, April 29 at 7:00 pm CST. Small business owners, on a shoestring marketing budget, will discover how to tap into the power of Twitter to generate hundreds of new leads, increase their visibility and explode their income.

You can sign up at: http://www.ShoestringWebinar.com

Jessica Swanson says that, “I want to assure you that Twitter is one of the quickest and most effective ways to bring extra exposure to your business. In fact, Twitter is taking the world by storm, and for good reason. Twitter gets big results for small business owners, if they understand how to tap into its power.

This Free Shoestring Marketing Webinar Will Cover:

1) How to Set up Your Twitter Profile. Learn how to set-up your Twitter account, profile and background for optimal results. This includes the basics of signing up for a Twitter account through advanced strategies such as designing your own unique Twitter background that ensures that your brand remains consistent.

2) How To Build a Responsive Twitter Following. Discover dozens of ways to attract Twitter followers from your specific target market. You will learn how to begin generating a list of prospective clients and customers in your industry who will be responsive to what you have to offer.

3) Top Twitter Mistakes. Uncover the top five Twitter mistakes that most small business owners make regarding Twitter. Unfortunately, these mistakes often hurt small business brands and can even lead to Twitter shutting down their account.

4) Best Twitter Tools.  Learn about the best automated Twitter tools and applications available to the small business owner today. Find out about automated follow applications, local search tools, post-later software, cell-phone applications, group tools and desktop management tools.

5) Your Twitter Marketing Plan.  Discover a simple three-step formula for generating traffic, leads and sales from Twitter. Learn exactly how to implement a simple Twitter plan of action into your daily marketing efforts.

6) Twitter Time-Management.  Find out how to generate impressive results on Twitter in just 15-minutes a day. Most small business owners spend too much time on Twitter with inferior results; learn how to combine personal Twitter interaction with powerful Twitter automation tools.

Swanson adds, “If you are looking for a dynamic, no-cost marketing strategy to boost your small business, than you need to tap into Twitter. Unfortunately, Twitter is a tool that most small business owners fail to implement properly. However, once they bring Twitter into their daily marketing plan, they find that their business grows leaps and bounds, without the large marketing budget.”

Join Jessica Swanson on Thursday, April 29 at 7:00 for her Free Shoestring Marketing Webinar, “Twitter Your Way To The Top” at http://www.ShoestringWebinar.com

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Buy Facebook Fans, Make More Money

We get and stay connected with people from our past and present, we showcase our lives in pictures, and we successfully avoid tackling our to-do lists.  But what fewer people realize is that sites lke Facebook are great places to promote a business.  After all, millions of people already use Facebook, so why not take advantage of that to peddle your wares?

The trobule with this scenario is that Facebook marketing is tough.  Or at least it used to be.  At one time, if you wanted to be successful with Facebook marketing you had to spend countless hours trying desperately to amass a significant number of Facebook fans to make it work.  It was a long, frustrating process, one that too often ended in frustration and defeat for many marketers.  That was before web promotions company uSocial.net changed the rules.  Now, thanks to their new, forward-thinking Facebook marketing service, you don't have to search for Facebook fans anymore – now, you can simply buy Facebook fans!

Basically, all you have to do is tell uSocial.net what kind of Facebook fans you need, based on some criteria that will help point to the fans that will likely buy your product or service.  After that, they'll take care of everything.  They'll do the targeting, gather the Facebook fans you need, and deliver them right to your Facebook page.  That's all there is to it!

The company's CEO, Leon Hill, explains further:

"We wanted to offer our clients the ability to buy as many followers as they wanted, without having to worry about the quality that is being delivered.  Businesses in particular are finding the service extremely helpful in generating marketable followers quickly.”

How would you rather spend your time, would you rather spend endless hours searching for Facebook fans, or would you rather buy Facebook fans and spend your free time spending your extra money?

Contact uSocial.net today and get all the details about this new Facebook marketing service.  Log on to:  http://usocial.net/twitter_marketing

Source: http://www.prlog.org/10601372-the-simple-equation-buy-facebook-fans-make-more-money.html

Referral Networking - The Best Bet For Small Businesses

Chaitanya Sagar, the CEO of p2w2 has been attending various conferences, seminars and events in New York, California and Florida for the past 2 months. He has been networking with entrepreneurs from varied fields. He shares some of his insights on how small business owners can improve conversions and drive sales.

Focus on Sales than on Branding
Mr. Sagar’s meetings with small business owners have been quite successful so far. In Mr. Sagar’s own words “people are willing to network”.
“As far as small businesses are concerned, networking is much more important than social media,” Mr. Sagar notes. “Social media needs a lot of time but can payoff in the long run. Social media is more about ‘Marketing and brand building’, whereas networking and referrals can lead to immediate ’sales’. “

SEO is Critical
Mr. Sagar made a presentation about Search Engine Optimization and Link Building at one of the social media events at Social Media Week event in New York and it was well received.  Mr. Sagar felt that Marketing and Sales are just about the biggest challenges that small businesses face and that it is “very critical” for small businesses to have ongoing Search Engine Optimization for their websites. “Internet Marketing is definitely the right way to proceed for small businesses. The right strategy for achieving top search engine rankings is to get backlinks, especially relevant ones”, Mr. Sagar added.

For SEO and Link building services check out http://www.p2w2.com/link-building.php

Convert Contacts into Leads
Mr. Sagar also shared a few insights about getting the best out of such networking events. “Merely attending these events is not enough,” Mr. Sagar said. “It is very important to follow up one-on-one with the contacts you make during such events. Be clear of what your business goals are, and have solutions ready for your prospective clients. Most importantly, try to help others as much as possible - this will come back to you in one way or the other.”

About Chaitanya Sagar
Chaitanya Sagar is the CEO and one of the co-founders of p2w2. He is a Chartered Accountant by qualification, and has finished his MBA from ISB, one of India’s best B-schools. Mr. Sagar is also a qualified Excel Consultant. Check out Mr.Sagar's profile on http://www.p2w2.com/chaitanya_sagar/index.php

Source: http://www.prlog.org/10579857-referral-networking-the-best-bet-for-small-businesses.html

Facebook Fan Page Pays Dividends for Entrepreneur

Like a lot of business people who knew they had to “get on Facebook,” Don Campbell started out two years ago by creating a personal profile.

Later, he realized it was a better fit for his business, Expand2Web.com, to have its own Facebook Fan Page. He created it himself, hoping to have unique content and added interactivity. But his business, creating WordPress websites and templates for small business, kept him busy and he never got much further than a basic fan page.

Then a colleague from the search marketing firm BlitzLocal offered to help him build out a fully featured, interactive fan page. The company’s developers built some pages and introduced him to some Facebook Apps and FBML, Facebook Markup Language, which allows page owners to customize and “brand” their Fan Page tabs to be consistent with their websites.
Even though it’s still quite new, the improved Fan Page has allowed Campbell to connect with fans, friends and potential customers, in ways different than through other social media.
“I've found the interactivity is much richer here than Twitter, or even my blog in some cases, because people can add photos, movies and other types of content. It’s a much more vibrant discussion,” Campbell says.

Campbell writes about his experiences here:
http://www.expand2web.com/blog/bringing-expand2web-facebook/

Source: http://www.prlog.org/10573213-facebook-fan-page-pays-dividends-for-small-business-web-entrepreneur.html

New Service Helps Businesses Get More Twitter Followers

We use it as a way to connect to friends and family and to stay up to date with what everyone’s doing. Recently though, the site has started allowing its users to use the site as a way to promote their businesses.

The trouble is, Twitter marketing isn’t easy. It’s a real challenge to get the right number of followers. At the same time, this is absolutely critical to any successful go at this marketing medium. After all, it will do you no good to have informative, exciting, interesting tweets when you have no one to read them, right?

So, how do you achieve that? You could sit back and simply wait for your followership to grow naturally, but that will take some time. And time is something of which you do not have the luxury when it comes to marketing your business. It’s much more effective to get your followers in place quickly, but that presents another problem: What’s the alternative to letting nature take its course?

Web promotions company uSocial.net has the answer. Their new service will help you get more Twitter followers quickly and with virtually no effort on your part. USocial.net’s Twitter marketing service allows you to simply purchase the followers your company needs to boost their online presence. Yes, it really is that simple. Leon Hill, the company’s CEO, explains the motive behind the service:


"We wanted to offer our clients the ability to buy as many followers as they wanted, without having to worry about the quality that is being delivered. Businesses in particular are finding the service extremely helpful in generating marketable followers quickly."

Find more information on this new service at: http://usocial.net/twitter_marketing

Source: http://www.prlog.org/10565890-new-service-helps-businesses-get-more-twitter-followers.html