My wife and I had a miscommunication, about her taking off from work today to watch the kids who have off today because the pre-school has a "teacher education day" smack in the middle of the week. GRRRRRR
Because my 2yr old won't sit through our meeting best I stay home with them. I'll see you next week!
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Franklin Video Productions, Inc. - Marc is coming back... Run!
Had my casts taken off and my car back today. Left hand is good, right hand needs physical therapy, 3 pins removed, and looks kind of gross, like a boiled and dried up chicken leg, but I won't go into detail. Can not bend it yet but I should be rejoining the group tomorrow.
Due to my expertise on keeping ones company running, while recovering from major health issues (such as brain tumor, open heart surgery, thyroid surgery and now the thumb reconstruction, that I've had in the last 9 years), I've been assigned to write an article for StudioDaily.com. It is on how to keep your video production company going while on the "disabled list" or such. Here are my past articles for Studio:
On fun articles I'm going to be the first person in the world to try out a major new editing product and write a review when it is announced later this month. I'm also going to be continuing a review of special effects software called Boris Continuum Complete 6. BCC 6 does some really cool things for fixing problematic video. I'll be testing both on HP's top of the line Z800 workstation. (8 cores running at 3.2 GHz, hyper-threaded for 16 threads, 12 GB RAM, and an Nvidia FX4800 GPU with 1.5 GB video RAM.)
Due to my expertise on keeping ones company running, while recovering from major health issues (such as brain tumor, open heart surgery, thyroid surgery and now the thumb reconstruction, that I've had in the last 9 years), I've been assigned to write an article for StudioDaily.com. It is on how to keep your video production company going while on the "disabled list" or such. Here are my past articles for Studio:
On fun articles I'm going to be the first person in the world to try out a major new editing product and write a review when it is announced later this month. I'm also going to be continuing a review of special effects software called Boris Continuum Complete 6. BCC 6 does some really cool things for fixing problematic video. I'll be testing both on HP's top of the line Z800 workstation. (8 cores running at 3.2 GHz, hyper-threaded for 16 threads, 12 GB RAM, and an Nvidia FX4800 GPU with 1.5 GB video RAM.)
Real Estate Secrets
Today at 6 p.m. is the last opportunity for 2009 to attend a FREE real estate seminar to learn all you need to know about buying and/or selling property. Ten professionals will offer their expertise for the various aspects of the process--from qualifying for the loan, finding the property, inspecting, insuring, and decorating it--there is information for everyone. Come on down to the Quality Inn at 12 Conejo Blvd. in Thousand Oaks at 6:00. Lots of FREE information with no obligation whatsoever, FREE refreshments too. For more information, contact Paula Gallegos, 805-373-6080 or paula@paulainsures.com.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
How to post a comments using an OpenID
In case anyone isn't sure how to post a comment to this blog, I will show you how to get an OpenID.
Go to http://www.myopenid.com/ and follow the steps to setting up an account.
Once finished, you'll receive an email to your inbox that you used during the process confirming your OpenID account.
Now anytime you go to a blog, you can use your OpenID (which is your username.myopenid.com) So mine for example is http://adalea.myopenid.com
It's that simple.
Enjoy.
Anna Dalea
ERT Website Solutions
www.ertwebsitesolutions.com
anna@ert2go.com
Go to http://www.myopenid.com/ and follow the steps to setting up an account.
Once finished, you'll receive an email to your inbox that you used during the process confirming your OpenID account.
Now anytime you go to a blog, you can use your OpenID (which is your username.myopenid.com) So mine for example is http://adalea.myopenid.com
It's that simple.
Enjoy.
Anna Dalea
ERT Website Solutions
www.ertwebsitesolutions.com
anna@ert2go.com
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
ROI Marketing: Reach out to YOUR Clients Now!
Every small business looks for new ways to get new clients and to get old clients to return and purchase their products or services. They do this by advertising, usually. However, besides advertising in a physical paper source (like the newspaper or ad mailers) there are other avenues business owners should use as well to market their business.
For returning customers:
Using a newsletter application to send out tips, promotions or articles that those clients may enjoy is a really great way to keep in front of your clients. Remember, you don't want them to forget about you. Many consumers out there easily forget about things unless they are reminded. Newseletters allow you to remind your clients about the things they liked about your company and allow you to offer better deals or more info that will get that ROI.
Newsletters are also a good way to entice new clients to join your ranks. Allow them to sign up on your site (ie. opt-in) and send out SPECIAL promotions to them to get them into the game. The rule is, once a consumer purchases your products, you know that they are interested. Returning customers should be the EASY target. New customers are a little tougher, but every consumer loves a deal.
Another great way to get clients is to write to them. If you know who your target market is... create a blog written to their tastes. This attracts new clients - those that follow your blogs are interested in what you have to say, and more importantly, will be interested in your products or services. Remember, consumers may not purchase right away. Some may not be financially ready at that moment... but they will follow you, or at the very least, keep you in the back of their mind to use in the future. Those types of consumers will sign up for a newsletter if you are able to offer promotions.
What I find hard to believe is that when given the opportunity to do these things, many people say they want to but then fail to follow through. Time should not be an issue - this only took me a few minutes to write. We live in a world with Facebook and Twitter (among many other community type sites) that have given internet users a "mental change" when using the internet. I refer to it as A.D.D. - or an overload of the senses. Internet users are so used to interacting with websites at lightning speeds, feeding their id (the psychological "I want it now" part of their mind), that they are going to want to interact with your site in some way. You need to give them something... and why not let it be something that is also useful to you?
Stay tuned for more ideas on marketing your business to "the id" consumer.
Anna Dalea
ERT Website Solutions
www.ertwebsitesolutions.com
For returning customers:
Using a newsletter application to send out tips, promotions or articles that those clients may enjoy is a really great way to keep in front of your clients. Remember, you don't want them to forget about you. Many consumers out there easily forget about things unless they are reminded. Newseletters allow you to remind your clients about the things they liked about your company and allow you to offer better deals or more info that will get that ROI.
Newsletters are also a good way to entice new clients to join your ranks. Allow them to sign up on your site (ie. opt-in) and send out SPECIAL promotions to them to get them into the game. The rule is, once a consumer purchases your products, you know that they are interested. Returning customers should be the EASY target. New customers are a little tougher, but every consumer loves a deal.
Another great way to get clients is to write to them. If you know who your target market is... create a blog written to their tastes. This attracts new clients - those that follow your blogs are interested in what you have to say, and more importantly, will be interested in your products or services. Remember, consumers may not purchase right away. Some may not be financially ready at that moment... but they will follow you, or at the very least, keep you in the back of their mind to use in the future. Those types of consumers will sign up for a newsletter if you are able to offer promotions.
What I find hard to believe is that when given the opportunity to do these things, many people say they want to but then fail to follow through. Time should not be an issue - this only took me a few minutes to write. We live in a world with Facebook and Twitter (among many other community type sites) that have given internet users a "mental change" when using the internet. I refer to it as A.D.D. - or an overload of the senses. Internet users are so used to interacting with websites at lightning speeds, feeding their id (the psychological "I want it now" part of their mind), that they are going to want to interact with your site in some way. You need to give them something... and why not let it be something that is also useful to you?
Stay tuned for more ideas on marketing your business to "the id" consumer.
Anna Dalea
ERT Website Solutions
www.ertwebsitesolutions.com
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