Tasks: My Favorite Google Apps Addon Now With Calendar Integration

Google recently added an addon feature for Google Apps called tasks which shows a list of to-do items in your mail view. You can turn it on by going to Settings --> Labs and look for "Tasks." I love this addon because it puts a list of to-do reminders where I spend a good portion of my time - in email. Tasks can even be viewed on your phone.

Even more recently, Google added task integration with Google Calendar, so you can schedule tasks and easily refer to them when in Calendar view as well - here's more information from Google about it.

Did I mention Google Apps is free for 50 accounts or less? Once you see what it's capable of, it will revolutionize your workflow.

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5 Ways to Market Your Site Using Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a relatively new concept that allows people who visit a website to share information that they find with their friends or associates that they are connected to in a variety of social websites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, Delicious and more.

This post will cover 5 ways that you can get more traffic to your website using social bookmarking as well as bleed over into link building in general as the two are closely related.

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Page Progressive Now Offers Internet Marketing Writing

Page Progressive is now offering article and press release writing specifically geared towards drawing more traffic to your website. This is accomplished by writing interesting articles and press releases that include key search phrases that you want to build an association with your website and then syndicating that content on the internet in order to get as many incoming links as possible to your site.

"Well-written press releases and articles are one of the best ways to build quality links to your website," says Daniel Trimpey, CEO of Page Progressive.

For a limited time only, Page Progressive is offering 10 articles or press releases for your company for only $500! This new service adds to the list of several services available for small businesses in Raleigh, NC who want to use internet marketing to acheive better exposure for their company.

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For more details, you can contact Page Progressive online here or call at 919-374-3014.

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Local Internet Marketing Firm Provides Workshop for Helping Small Businesses Leverage the Web

On June 30th, at 9:30 AM at the Capital City Club in downtown Raleigh, Daniel Trimpey, CEO of Page Progressive, will be providing a workshop geared towards orienting small businesses in Raleigh, NC to the importance and capabilities of using the internet to market your business.

The workshop will run for approximately two hours and there will be a lunch afterwards at the club for attendies. The topic will be "The Basics of Internet Marketing for Small Businesses" and will address very broadly the aspects of search engine optimization (SEO), link building and pay-per-click (PPC) advertising in the efforts to generate more traffic and business. "All three aspects of internet marketing is key to getting the best results," says Daniel Trimpey. There will be plenty of time built-in for questions, since this has been a very hot topic for people in the past.

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If you'd like to RSVP for this event, please contact the Capital City Club at (919) 832-5526‎. The event costs $15 and includes lunch.

 

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Yay! We're Upgrading Our Hosting!

We have recently added a new server for web hosting clients and we are happy to announce that there will be several perks of this upgrade:

• Twice the bandwidth allocations for both Basic and Advanced Hosting plan users
• A much faster processor with way more RAM (memory)
• Unlimited domain aliases (Registration fees still apply)
• More email accounts, with a new and improved webmail interface
• Support for IMAP as well as POP - both utilizing secure encryption
• Support for Secure FTP (SFTP)

Things you should know:

1. We are encouraging all clients to consider moving their email to Google Apps. This will allow you to transition your email easier, not to mention provide you with other great features like Google Docs and Google Calendar. For more details on Google Apps click here or call us at 919-374-3014.
2. The transition should not affect your website downtime.
3. If you have a static IP address - (Ecommerce clients mostly) your website IP address will change. This should not have any lasting affect on your website, and we will contact you specifically if your IP will change and address any concerns you may have
4. If you stay with our email system, rather than Google Apps, you will need to update settings in your email client to connect to the new server. We will contact you specifically with these settings if this applies to you.

Again, if you have any questions or concerns, please let us know by filling our out online contact form here or calling us at 919-374-3014!

 

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Blogging on Blogging

Well, I'm sitting in a workshop on blogging this morning. Although I've been blogging for years, I figured it's always a good idea to keep learning and it never fails to surprise me how much there is to know, even on a topic that you consider yourself an expert in. I figured I'd take the opportunity to blog out it :-) The speaker for this event was Denise Tawwab and you can check out her website here: http://ncconnected.org

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Taking Full Advantage of RSS

I've been blogging for some time now, and one of the best aspects of blogs - being easily syndicated via RSS feeds, has one big downfall: about 80% of the people in the world have no idea what they are. Enter Feedburner, a great service, recently acquired by Google, that takes RSS feeds and makes them able to be subscribed to via email - a technology anyone can appreciate. We have used Feedburner for a long time now, and recently we found a service that seems to leave it in the dust...along with many of the other email services out there like Constant Contact and iContact.

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