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Internet marketing Mentoring can give real results

June 15th, 2009 by Pete

I was very pleased to hear from Wayne Van Elsen from Newport Digital today about his success with AdWords paid search.

In a recent  internet marketing mentoring session I guided Wayne through some refinements and tips for his home grown AdWords (pay per click advertising ) campaign.

After these tweaks, Wayne contacted me today to say that he’d closed $1,500 worth of business for a mighty investment of less than $3 for the clicks.

Wayne had previously given up on Adwords after an intial attempt, but he’s a convert now!

Well done Wayne!

Also special thanks to the ( 2009 International Incubator of the Year Award winning) team at North West Business Development Centre (NWBDC) who make the mentoring possible.

NWBDC’s mentoring services funds guy’s like myself to spend quality time with small business owners and their staff to develop skills to build their businesses; in my case the sessions are on using websites as a sales tool, but there’s a range of other consultants covering a range of business services.

Wayne’s business NewPort Digital provides websites suited to folks looking for low cost entry websites, but that can readily grow into substantial online presence without major expense.

Boing it's Microsoft's Bing. Bing deal.

June 3rd, 2009 by Pete

If you like me you rarely use Microsoft Live / MSN then we both missed the launch (rebadging ?) of ‘Bing’.

It caught me by surprise when logging into the Microsoft WebMaster interface today and “boing” (with musical intonations!) there was the ‘Bing’ branding.

Apart from that the Microsoft Webmasters interface is still extremely underpowered functionality-wise compared to Google’s WebMasters Tools

If I cared more I’d research ‘bing’ and tell you more.

Sorry, you’ll have to bing it yourself.

Gawler Bookkeeper proves Online marketing really works

June 3rd, 2009 by Pete

I was really pleased to see this story by Dean Allen from MYbookkeeping Services

Dean took some advise I provided in recent internet marketing presentation at the Gawler BEC & turned it into some international business by bringing together two of his customers, Living with Wildlife and Compliance & Competency Management

Now that’s really providing value to your clients! Well done Dean!

Read more on Dean’s blog