How to start your own blog

"Creating a ‘killer’ blog is not that hard to understand … but it is hard to do.

1. Start with a great blog software.
2. Get a great design.
3. Produce great content."

See the rest of this post at Killersites.com

The Web Design Team at
web-design-miami.com

Email Marketing Success

Internet marketers should try to get the e-mail address of the people visiting their site. Visitors who are not interested in what you're selling today may find something else that would interest them in the future.

Things you can do are:

- Offer a free report with valuable information
- Ask them to sign up for your newsletter
- Entice them with a free draw for a prize.

Once someone has signed up for something, you've got a valuable e-mail address that you can use to build your list of potential customers.

Each communication you make in future with prospective client should do two things:

• The e-mail needs to offer them something valuable otherwise they'll unsubscribe. Give information or tips or helpful information that will have that person anxious to open future emails from you.

• You need a call to action at the end which will entice them to do something you want after they close the email. This could be to visit your website with a handy link, sign up for another service, refer their friends to you or even offer a purchase link so they can buy what you're selling.

The Web Design Team at
web-design-miami.com

Corporate Writing Style

A company writing style will unify written communications and reflects corporate identity and brand awareness. To achieve a unified writing style, create a style-guide.

A style-guide is a booklet that lays down the 'rules' to be followed when writing corporate literature:
- Word, phrase and sentence usage,
- How to write brochures, technical manuals or ezines, etc.
- Common errors in grammar and syntax.

A well-thought out writing style-guide will ensure clarity and harmony in your corporate communications and reinforce corporate personality. It's just as important as your logo and visual imagery.

The Web Design Team at
web-design-miami.com

How Leaving Comments On Blogs Can Drive Traffic to Yours

You’ve probably heard the age old ‘how to find readers for your blog’ advice that goes:
“Leave Comments on Other Blogs”
It is one of the first tips that's given on how to find new readers. See this video posted at problogger.net.

The Web Design Team at
web-design-miami.com

Drupal 6, a winner?

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.
The built-in functionality, combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, will enable features such as:

• Content Management Systems
• Blogs
• Collaborative authoring environments
• Forums
• Peer-to-peer networking
• Newsletters
• Podcasting
• Picture galleries
• File uploads and downloads

and much more.

Drupal 6 has a lot of great additions like:

• Built in triggers: you can tell Drupal to do things when say for example someone post a comment.
• Better Forums: more features now.
• Drag-and-drop admin UI capabilities. It is easier to manage where things appear on your pages.
• Much faster than it was in previous versions.

You can get Drupal at: http://drupal.org/

The Web Design Team at
web-design-miami.com

Video advertising and monetization

Last month, Google product managers and marketers held a workshop on video advertising and content monetization at the Ad:Tech conference in San Francisco.

You can hear some perspectives on industry trends, some new details about AdSense for video, and the opportunities that Google is offering advertisers to get their messages in video content.

Trends in video consumption, habits, and the estimated market size for video advertising.

Robert Victor describes the evolving needs of buyers and sellers, and previews how Google and DoubleClick In-Stream can fill the gaps.

Detail about AdSense for video, describing the various formats and recent success stories

Tracy Chan describes the compelling opportunities for advertisers on YouTube

The Web Design Team at
web-design-miami.com

Is Google page rank really that important?

Google page Rank is based on links between your web pages and other web pages.
You can see the page Rank of your website in the Google PageRank bar on the Google Toolbar.
It shows a numerical value of 0 to 10.

The higher your Google PageRank, the higher Google is likely to list you in the search engine results pages.

The higher the Page Rank, the more relevant other people will consider any particular page on your website to be.

The higher your Page Rank, the more people will want you to link to their website.

The Web Design Team at
web-design-miami.com