Arizona High Tech Talent Partnership - AZhttp, Inc. is investigating this set of premium Wordpress Themes (Wordpress Templates) as a possible starting point for future development for Phoenix Arizona Business Marketing of various client and company owned web sites and blogs.
They also have an affiliate program so we will be investigating whether their program is worth promoting.
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How To Submit Your Business Listing to Local Directories for Businesses in Phoenix Arizona, Yahoo Local, Google Local, and MSN Local (Windows Live Local)
Local businesses can show up in local search results on various search engines by submitting a business listing to East Valley Living, Yahoo Local, Google Local, MSN Local, and others.
For more information on each of these opportunities visit the following links or call us at (480) 998-0246.
Submit your Business to East Valley Living Business Directory
Submit your Business to Google Local Business Directory
Submit your Business to Yahoo Local Business Directory
Submit your Business to MSN Local Business Directory
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While you are using Stumbleupon.com, other people are also online stumbling. People who are online now, are very likely to be either new users or active users. Active and new users of the Stumbleupon service tend to stumble a lot of pages and tend to pay attention to who is visiting their profiles. By visiting the profiles of these active and new online users, you will find a wide variety of interesting and informative pages that you can stumble as well as find new people to connect to as friends in order to build your connections on this particular social network.
Visit their profiles at this link http://www.stumbleupon.com/online_now.php and review them and / or Thumbs up them if you like their stumbles and topics. If you don’t like their topics don’t say you like them. Otherwise you will end up seeing pages that they like and you may not like those pages.
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Business Blogging is not rocket science. The most important thing about blogging is not what tool you use. It is not what feed syndication platform you use. It is not who you know and it is not who knows you.
While those are all important, there is a much simpler determinant of success in business blogging. The most important thing about blogging is that you do it. If you never get started, you will never get any benefit from it.
Getting started is half the battle
Keeping up the momentum is the other half.
100 Percent of the Blog Posts that you do not write will get exactly zero traffic, zero comments and will generate zero sales, zero goodwill, zero reputation enhancement, zero branding, and zero interaction.
Many new bloggers start out with grand goals and aspirations and then get bogged down in the minutia of running their business day to day. You need to not do that. You need to start today and move your business blogging efforts forward one day at a time. If you are the CEO and are waiting for your IT department or your webmaster to come up with some grand and glorious architecture, system design and optimal blogging platform before you start writing and interacting with your clients, employees, vendors, shareholders and other stakeholders, then you still “don’t get it” and might as well prepare three envelopes.
In a recent conversation with a potential client, he apologized for how long it took him to get back to me about updating his website and adding a blog to it.
He said this to me:
“The important is often overcome by the urgent.”
He had come to realize how important the update would be to his sales, revenues and bottom line and he had finally decided to push aside the urgent activities long enough to get this most important activity completed.
Your business very likely has some sort of online component. To build that online component you need to interact online with your customers, suppliers and employees and you should be using blogging and other social media to carry on conversations and discussions with them in order to build trust, authority, goodwill, reputation and brand awareness. These in time lead to growing sales and profits which go a long way toward creating the resources to enable you to make the urgent easy to delegate and allow you to focus on what is important.
Get started today.
By Bill Austin of AZhttp, Inc.
Bill Austin is the Vice President of Business Development for AZhttp, Inc.http://www.azhttp.com/ (Arizona High Tech Talent Partnership.) With 27 years of experience in large corporate environments and over 15 years of experience in non-profit and entrepreneurial environments, Bill brings a unique business perspective to the world of blogging, social media and interactive marketing.
Bill Austin is an Internet marketing expert with extensive experience in improving bottom line performance for medium sized manufacturing and distribution company marketing efforts. Bill is a well known SEO Expert with expertise in Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, and Integrated marketing Solutions, including viral marketing, and guerrilla marketing. Bill Austin is also and accomplished Systems Engineer with extensive experience in Security and Internet Architecture, Information Systems and Project Management. Proven successes in defining and developing complex systems and problem solving involving wireless and Internet technologies as well as the invention of integrated systems applications.
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Stumbleupon hint #4 Stumbling People
While stumbling people, you can click the click thumbs up or thumbs down and you can click the little bubble to the right of those buttons to write a review.
With people, you can also add up to 200 people as friends and you will be shown their stumbles and reviews as well as all of them for the topics you choose.
The system refines your topics and choices and even items to show you within those topics based on how you react to what it shows you.
The more often and the better items you stumble and review, the more likely your items will get shown to others.
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Effective Online Marketing Lets You Concentrate on Billable Hours
Your professional responsibility is to serve your clients.
How about growing your practice?
If you spent all your time on marketing, networking, referrals and developing qualified prospects, you’d have little time to meet client needs.
Chances are that you probably spend a good deal of your time using ineffective methods trying to find clients.
Does your law firm website generate all the leads, clients and billable hours that your partners and associates can handle? Marketing of service professionals is quite different than marketing a product. Services are largely intangible and the consumer cannot touch, taste, feel, test drive or observe them in action. Evaluation of the services attorneys provide tends to happen only after the service has been performed.
Referrals, while generally reported as an attorney’s top source of business, rely on a third party to provide prospects with information that can be of little relevance to your knowledge and expertise.
Networking groups are time-consuming and require constant attention.
Marketing must be a major priority for your business, but marketing must not be a major priority for you.
Concentrate on what makes you money.
Be a Lawyer, not an Internet Marketing Expert. You bill substantially more on an hourly basis than the most effective and competent legal firm marketing consultants around.
Stop wasting your valuable time!
Traditional marketing methods no longer work and reliance on a single source of new clients can be disastrous.
Let us help you generate leads, in-bound calls, appointments and other sources of effective relevant clients that can grow your business and build your practice on a continuous and consistent basis.
Whether your law office specializes in criminal law, dui, tax, family law, labor law, business law, employment law, bankruptcy law, real estate law, or any other multitude of other areas of focus, there are legal marketing strategies available to grow your practice.
A multi-media, multi-pronged marketing effort is required these days in order to break through the “Media Attention Deficit Disorder” that plagues marketing efforts in all industries today.
AZhttp, Inc. is an integrated marketing solutions company. The leadership team has over 90 years combined experience in business development, sales, marketing and public relations. AZhttp provides integrated solutions for online media, print, radio, TV, and direct mail. We combine systems engineering principles with unique traditional and non-traditional marketing and advertising methodologies to help clients reach and exceed their sales and marketing goals.
Get started today with our series of small business products. They are reasonably priced and can have a major impact on your client pipeline. For law firms with substantial marketing budgets, we can customize and execute a strategic marketing plan to grow your firm. By driving a steady stream of potential new clients to your law firm’s website, your business can be increased. Whether you need legal website development, legal blog design and maintenance services, search engine optimization targeted to your main practice areas and geographic locations we specialize in using internet marketing bring clients to you!
We can develop a marketing plan that includes business development, advertising, networking, referrals, public relations, media TV, radio, print, direct mail and Internet marketing as appropriate for your growth goals.
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Stumbleupon Toolbar Help Hints Tips and Tricks
Select Good Friends:
The more friends you have, the more good sites you will see and the more activity the sites you recommend will see.
If those friends also have indicated in their profile that they like a lot of the same topics that you like, they are much more likely to approve of what you contribute.
If those friends are also very active users of the system, they are more likely to be using it, seeing what you post and reviewing and recommending that others see it.
If some of those friends are Top Stumblers from this list, http://www.stumbleupon.com/topstumblers.php it becomes even more likely that your stuff will get seen.
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Stumbleupon Toolbar Help Hints Tips and Tricks
Stumbling Pages:
When you stumble pages, you can click thumbs up or thumbs down and you can click the little bubble to the right of those buttons to write a review.
Reviews added to thumbs ups appear to have more weight that just a thumbs up, plus, they show up on your blog for casual visitors to see. Otherwise, visitors only see the items you have reviewed unless they select the button that shows All 
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This post is part of a series of articles I wrote about Stumbleupon.com and the answers to various frequently asked questions various people had a need to know aboutStumble Upon and how to use it, how to use the stumbleupon toolbar, and why certain things happened when certain actions were taken.
You can actually select a stumbler and stumble all of their pages or stumble a specific topic of theirs.
For example, from here: http://astumblingfool.stumbleupon.com/ you can select Quotes and stumble all 59 quotes pages or select Jokes and stumble all 21 jokes pages.
It will tell you when you have gone through all of them and give you a choice of more topics from that user or more topics from the entire system.
You can also select to stumble the user by all of their topics but this can get hard to do at one sitting if a stumbler is somewhat active.
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I learned something from Seth Godin today. I probably knew it already since I follow Wes Zimmerman and communicate with him on a regular basis. Wes’s message is about “Perception” and how it relates to Buying, Selling and Customer Care.
Seth’s message was about the positive feelings that can be generated by caring people practicing excellent customer care.
On page 114 of “Small is the New Big” is this pearl of wisdom
Some relevant selections from Seth’s article include:
“These people were actually trying. Because they wanted to, not because they had to.”
- Seth Godin
“There is no perfect experience. But this was great storytelling, storytelling with authenticity from caring people. It restored my faith (at least a little) in what organizations can do.”
- Seth Godin
To make people feel like they are valued and appreciated takes small simple changes but it usually does take change. Make an effort to cheer up one person or make them feel special today and see how much better that makes you feel.
- Bill Austin
In response to: What I learned from Change
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