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7 Steps Organic Search Sngine Optimization in 2006.
Last month Google wrap-up its Jagger updates and we have seen
changes in rankings of many sites. Basically this is one
indication before the beginning of New Year that crawlers are
getting smarter and smarter and have much better filters...
A World Outside The US
With the exception of myself and a small handful of very remote and isolated journalists, no-one today bothers writing about the growth of the web. It's old news, and we already get it. Today's buzz is more about reaping the benefits of...
Can Your Customers Pay By Electronic Check?
What's the Real Story About Electronic Checks? Accepting electronic checks is essential to any business, and should not be overlooked. As many as 20% of America Online, Prodigy, and CompuServe users pay for their internet access by electronic...
Creating A Blog To Promote An Existing Business
Copyright 2005 Mal Keenan
If you belong to any of the following groups, then this article is for you.
* You already have a business and a website that serves as the official hub for your online sales. The website may be serving as an online...
Make Money Online: Work from the Comfort of Your Own Home
Copyright 2005 Harley Darby
With so many ways to make money online, what is the best way to work from the comfort of your own home without breaking a sweat?
To make money online requires skill and patience. This article will reveal the...
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PR, Press Releases and Promotion!
Effectiveness of press releases can be entirely dependent on whether or not there are any major national scandals brewing before that news release is sent. I don't know if there will be any major earthquakes, tornadoes or presidential sex scandals this week, but I'm very excited that television's 60 Minutes news magazine covered online education tonight!
This week WebSite101.com and OnlineWorkshops.com officially announced our partnership to the press via an electronic press release distributed online via multiple sources and sent by email to specific local media sources. I can't yet say what results that announcement will have as it just went to the inbox of hundreds of journalists across the country.
What the media pays attention to is often determined by what the media pays attention to. Every news outlet looks at what the competition is running on the front page or what tops the hourly news reports. If 60 Minutes is paying attention to online education, then WebSite101 has got great chance of being a major news story tomorrow. If my local paper, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat gets interested, their parent publication, the New York Times may pick up the story too!
All we can do now is to wait and see if the San Jose Mercury News or the San Francisco Chronicle notice a small business internet tutorial teaming up with a distance education portal. The 60 Minutes piece was specifically discussing major online distance education initiatives launched by Duke University and the well known internet education site, University of Phoenix. Talk was centered around whether it was an
effective and useful way to learn. I already believe that it is.
Now we'll see whether the media agrees with that perspective. And as long as George W. Bush is faithful to his loving wife, and makes no malaprops during the performance of his duties tomorrow, maybe the Philadelphia Enquirer will take notice of a quiet little web site that is seeking to change the face of ebusiness by training a few thousand independent entrepre- neurs in ecommerce for the little guy.
I'm excited and hopeful of the potential for distance education and the small part WebSite101 can play in helping small business gain an edge in ecommerce. Our first press release was used by Entrepreneur Magazine, the Sacramento Bee and Oracle Magazine and we can only hope for more of that kind of attention will follow with the latest announcement. Ted Koppel, what do you think? David Letterman, do you care to comment? Howard Stern, would ya like to weigh in on this one?
Take a look at our press release by visiting it online at:
http://website101.com/press.html
And keep your fingers crossed for us that no movie stars get arrested for soliciting prostitution or some such nonsense. Maybe Martha Stewart'll say something nice about WebSite101. Oprah, would you like to add my ebook to your recommended reading list?
About the Author
Mike Banks Valentine WebSite101 "Reading List" Weekly Netrepreneur Tip Sheet Weekly Ezine emphasizing small business on the Internet http://website101.com/arch/ e-tutorial online at: http://website101.com/shortcourse.html By week's end you're ready expand your business to the web!
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