A Different Approach to Website Marketing

January 4, 2010

I have a couple projects that are important to me that dance around in my head each day.  They never get the attention they deserve because the clients’ needs come first. But I did have time to work on them a bit over the Holidays and I stumbled upon a concept in marketing I may [...]

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Reintroducing Yourself

January 1, 2010

It is the first day of the new year.  How many times did a client tell you, “We are thinking about doing something next year or at the start of the new year?”  I heard it a couple times myself.  True or not, I noted them throughout 2009 and started contacting them today by email.  [...]

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A New Blog In 2010 for Prompt

December 31, 2009

blog.promptinternet.com will change in 2010.  I initially started this blog to share thoughts at my convenience.  I would like to share thoughts when they occurred and pass along some of my favorite books, etc.  But creating a blog based on convenience is a formula for failure.  It becomes neglected because it falls down the list [...]

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“The Way I Work” – Inc. Magazine

November 7, 2009

First, a completely random thought:  I have  to have the NOOK and it is killing me to have to wait until the end of the month.  I don’t play the stock market but months ago I was telling everyone that I should be gobbling up Ford stock.  Now I am kicking myself.  This one is [...]

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Get “In Touch” With Prompt

October 24, 2009

Current Clients: Keep an eye out for a new promotion coming with 1st Quarter hosting. Prompt will be ready to allow our clients to set up recurring billing for their hosting. Invoices go out December 1st for the 1st quarter and anyone who sets up recurring billing for their hosting is entered in a drawing. [...]

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Blog + Passion = Easy

October 13, 2009

I picked up a new book this week. I am really enjoying it. It is titled CRUSH IT! – Cash In On Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuck. The one part a read this morning that really stuck with me was about blogs. He says you should not start a blog unless you can think of [...]

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Where Have You Been?

August 3, 2009

I have been getting emails and phone calls asking if my blog was finished and if I had abandoned it. Obviously not the questions you want to field from those who follow my blog but I am back to blogging. So what has Prompt been up to that steered us away for so long? First, [...]

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Free Website Seminar Announced

June 6, 2009

I have the opportunity to lead a “Keys to a Successful Business Website” workshop sponsored by the Blue Water Chamber and hosted by St. Clair County Community College at the M-Tech building on the evening of June 30th. I am always excited by the feedback and questions I get even weeks later after speaking about [...]

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Websites Increase Your “Sphere of Economic Impact”

June 3, 2009

It has been confirmed. Sponsored by Prompt Internet Solutions, the Blue Water Chamber Education Committee and St. Clair County Community College there will be a FREE educational class focusing on a successful business website. The date is June 30th at 6pm at the M-Tech building on the SC4 campus. One of things discussed will be [...]

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Music on a Website

May 4, 2009

I have clients ask me all the time about my opinion of music on a website. I feel music should NOT be used whenever possible. Music is not needed at all on corporate websites. All it does is slow down loading speeds and distract a visitor from the real reason they are there. BUT, there [...]

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