Seven North Web & Graphics Service

Seven North Web & Graphics Social Media-Hub Website

Our Philosophy: You should have total control and ownership of your site’s look, function and content, your hosting choices and your domain.

Our Policy: You select your hosting and domain registry provider (we can assist you with this if desired); You do your own content management (we can get you started and provide training or manage it.for you if desired.)

Web Site Option One

We will:

• Consult with your company about your Web Site, and
• Build a Social Media HUB-Web Site designed specifically for your business.

You Get:

• Theme Layout
• One hour of Design Time
• Web Log
• Two Blog Entries
• Content Pages
• Two Social Media Connections (Face book, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr, etc.)
• One Hour of Training- Content Management and Organic SEO Techniques.

We Install:

• Your Web Ready Content
• Links, Categories and Navigation
• Search Engine Optimization Plugins
• User-Centric Modifications
• Comment-Spam Protection
• Daily Backup System
• Google Analytics or similar tracking system
• Webmail Account
• Wysiwyg editing aids
• And more.

Starting At $599.00

Graphic Design: From business cards to billboards, we can design, manufacture and deliver all your print-media promotion at great prices.

Web Site Option Two

Includes Option One - PLUS

• Custom or Premium Theme
• One extra hour of design time -( Total two hours).
• Four extra Social Media Connections (Total six)
• Ten Web Log entries (Total twelve)
• RSS News Feeds with content relevant to your industry.
• 2 Hours of Training (*Total three hours*) option one plus: Writing for the web and SEO, Business blogging, Social media marketing, Netiquette.

We teach you how to run your Social Media Marketing Empire effectively and efficiently.

1. Post to all your social applications at once, including your weblog – Free!
2. Use RSS feeds and specialized searches to gather industry news and media daily that you can use to blog, microblog, bookmark etc., which increases your authority, web ranking and reader base – Free!
3. Find out what customers are saying about you, your competitors and your industry in real time - Free!
4. Find out who visits your page and from where – Free!
5. Learn to use the free and honest way to increase your Search Engine Authority as recommended by Google – Free!
6. Learn the easy way to write copy for the web using your branding key words naturally for organic SEO - Free!

Starting At $899.00

Call 727-894-5266 for more information.

*Re-pointing of existing domain ($40.00)
*Logo design, if required, is additional

Not necessarily the best recommendation, but in this case I’m proud that Uncle Sam uses open source software like Wordpress so widely. This list is from M. Jaquith, who writes the fine Mark on WordPress.

Here is a list (probably not all-inclusive) of United States government agencies or organizations using WordPress (whether privately or publicly):

Air Force
Army
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Coast Guard
Defense Intelligence Agency
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Department of Treasury
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
Marine Corps
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
National Reconnaissance Agency
National Security Agency (NSA)
Navy

Full article here.

-Via Cozmolabs:

Wordpress is slowly making it’s way into the corporate world as well: Yahoo, CNN, New York Times, Ford, Nike are just a few of big names that implemented it for it’s ease of use, fast development times, cost reduction and easy maintenance of the platform. Oh… and U.S. Government Agencies are also using WordPress.

Depending on how you use it, Google RSS Reader can be a discerning filter, a news funnel or an indiscriminate and overwhelming firehose of information/trivia. It takes a little practice, but the world’s most popular online RSS reader is a business blogger’s best friend.

Here’s a diagram of Seven North’s recommended SMM set up:

(Via Mashable)

Your business is primarily local in scope– How do you use Twitter to build community and market your products within a few miles of your office?

Finding local Twitter users to connect with is great for networking, but also for getting relevant, real-time, local information about things like jobs, news, politics, weather, food, and more. Someone tweeting from London can’t help you find a good place to eat in New York City, and if you live in Chicago, tweets about the weather in Los Angeles won’t be very enlightening. Here are nine ways to locate Twitter users in your town to help you get the most out of Twitter.

Read the whole story on Mashable!

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(Via Fast Company)

I don’t think it gets any clearer than this, from Dear American Airlines:

I redesigned your website’s front page, and I’d like to get your opinion.

I’m a user interface designer. I travel sometimes. Recently, I had the horrific displeasure of booking a flight on your website, aa.com. The experience was so bad that I vowed never to fly your airline again. But before we part ways, I have a couple questions and three suggestions for you…

Fast Company sums up the exchange here.

(Via ReadWriteWeb)

The ReadWriteStart Channel has up-to-the-minute advice for new and re-visioning small business-people. Here is their much-referenced advice on URLS and company names.

Relax (But Avoid Really Horrible Ones)
URLs matter a lot less than it would seem when you are starting out. One can think of plenty of terrible names that did great and vice versa. We are now moving away from destination sites. Search engines and browser capabilities, such as Firefox’s awesome bar, will help people find you.
If you are relying on a great name to build traffic… don’t. Unless you have a lot of money to buy an existing domain — and that is probably not a good use of your cash — there are cheaper ways to build traffic.
So then, “okay” is good enough. Don’t obsess over the URL. Save your obsessing for usability design. But avoid the real stinkers, the names that make people laugh at you and then ignore you. We live in a global world, too, so do check that your great URL does not mean “Your mother is a mangy dog” in Chinese, French, or whatever.

Read the whole piece at ReadWriteWeb.

… Everybody else was doing actual work.

World’s coolest Social Media/Business Blogging authority Chris Brogan lets you in on a basic technique for grabbing attention:

So the trick is this: create “how-to” information that people want, and that people will want to share. The goal of this information is to be helpful, but subgoals include getting the information spread out to more people, and also getting more people interested in a business relationship with you.

Read the whole entry on Mr. Brogans always-useful eponymous blog. And keep reading: here is the Essential Brogan.

Or it will if you are using it right.
Lee Odden makes the point in Online Marketing Blog

When you look at shifts in consumer information discovery, consumption and sharing, there’s no arguing with the intersection of search and the social web. Searchers expect to not only find what they’re looking for on search engines, but to interact with the results, whether it’s through commenting, voting or sharing. As a result, social media affects SEO in numerous ways, creating opportunities for marketers.

Read Lee’s whole take in the Online Marketing Blog entry.

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