Tampa Web Design & SEO Blog By Group 5 Web » CheApO’s Blog http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog Blogging is an important tool for any online business to succeed. Group 5 Web offers SEO friendly blog set up and optimization at affordable prices. Tampa's expert web design & internet marketing agency Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:57:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Social Media Just For Fun http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog/social-media-fun/ http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog/social-media-fun/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:31:11 +0000 Lisa http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog/?p=65 Social Media has so many benefits to our social and professional lives. It can turn a high school buddy that lives on the other coast into a neighbor. I’ve watched baseball games with my friend in Boston. I can share photos from last night’s party as if 100 of my closest friends were sitting in my kitchen.


Facebook has become the easiest way to rally my neighborhood association. I think it is ironic that I chat with the guy across the street on Facebook chat instead of just walking down the stairs. I’ve spent Friday nights at my kitchen table with a bottle of wine and PINGFM and had a great time.


 


The internet allows the public to control what they are exposed to. People no longer respond to mailers and radio commercials, they go to Google to get their needs met, and completely block out all the 100s and 1000s of messages that are pointed at them every day.


 


This is the reason that I only use MySpace to catch up with my 13 year old step brother in Austin. I get friend requests from porn shops. My Profile has been accessed 3 times and I have, unbeknownst to me, left drug trafficking comments on my friend’s profiles. The profiles load so slowly because of all the HYPE…


There’s a reason I have a profile on Facebook.   When I accept a person as a friend or follower, I “opt in” to find out what parties they are going to, if they are single this week, and how their weekend went. I like to be reminded that it’s their birthday.


What I DON’T like is all the annoying little notifications. “Someone looked at you on Sparkey.” “Matt sent you a BEER!” “Fiona gave you a Purple Myrtle plant.”  “You have a flirt on Zoosk.” Zoosk must be where all the guys that get banned from Yahoo Personals go. Have you noticed that some applications open in the same window and dump you into page of spam? And someone PLEASE tell me how sending a boat load of virtual Day Lillies will reduce my carbon footprint.


 


The bottom line is that we are programmed to ignore 100s of 1000s of media messages every single day. If social networking becomes part of that, we will all have to go back to hanging out on our front porches. Not that that would be terrible.


]]> http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog/social-media-fun/feed/ 0 The Importance of Understanding your Market http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog/importance-understanding-market/ http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog/importance-understanding-market/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:15:55 +0000 group5 http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog/?p=58 I recently was given some market research for the Tampa Bay area.  The research overviewed about 100 professions and businesses and the aproximate # of purchases to be made in each category in the Tampa Bay area this year.


A sampling of some of the cateogies


Business Type Purchases Expected in one Year % of Which Decision Was Made Based on the Internet
Banquet Facilities 35,993 41%
Bridal Wear 52,401 43%
Caterers 34,903 35%
Health Clinics 99,325 25%
Mortgages 151,199 34%
Movers 74,241 31%
Office Furniture & Equipment Sales 153,161 34%
Printers 149,226 29%
Tax Preparation 34,903 22%

How much of your business are you currently getting from the internet?


This data is a powerful tool in understanding if your particular market is influenced heavily by the internet as well as understanding the possibilities your business may have for expansion.


While I have taken an opportunity to highlight some of the internet heavy industires – I have market data across many industries as well as other media source statistics.  If you are not aware of how users are searching for you in the marketplace – you need to be.  Send me an email with the business sector you are interested in and I will make sure you get the information.


]]> http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog/importance-understanding-market/feed/ 0 CheApO’s 1st Blog Post http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog/cheapos-1st-blog-post/ http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog/cheapos-1st-blog-post/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 21:59:38 +0000 group5 http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog/?p=34 Each week I will be here to blog on small business marketing ideas that can help you stretch your budget and improve you revenues both on and off the web.  This first post is dedicated to blogging!  – Blogging can be a great tool that helps you stay in touch with your clients, educated them about your services, and attract new business by offering solid advice and demonstrating your companies assets.  While Group5 is know for creating custom software solutions, we love Word Press for blogging.  The open source community has been contributing to this software for years and those 1,000s of contributions have created on of the best tools on the web.


Instead of offering custom blogging software, we have concentrated our efforts on creating a comprehensive guide to getting the most out of your blog.  Our guide comes with a 2 hours one on one course on using your blog and we feel confident that if you spend the time to utilize this tool you will start to see results.


Contact Group5 before the end of June and we will give you this training free of charge with any blog setup.


http://group5web.com/get-a-blog.php


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