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I am excited about my new logo.  It reflects striving to become the master one of both WordPress and Mobile marketing.  These two areas are exciting and growing.  They can help your business update, improve and ultimately reach more customers while giving you greater control over your resources.   I really enjoy working on these tools for our clients.

I am constantly studying new ways to revise and improve web sites using WordPress.  Every day I spend some time researching new WP plugins, logos and designs.   I also spend time studying the latest marketing.  Mobile marketing is really in the infant stages as far as cost and reach but will grow exponentially in near future.  Internet marketers are starting to see the benefits so they will start integrating their customers into the market.

Businesses will need to integrate and learn website and mobile phone skills to stay competitive on the internet.   Users will keep moving to the web and cell phones to learn, search and buy products and services.   Businesses will  use savvy marketers to reach their customers where they are at, which is on the web or on their cell phone.

My intent is to help business and individuals use tools like websites and and cell phones to reach their customers.   My hands on experience has shown WordPress is the easiest way to implement the sophisticated tools web site owners want.   It allows you to integrate SEO, social marketing and incredible backend tools to control your site.   The second huge tool to reach customers is cell phones.   You can probably count on one hand the number of people who don’t have a cell phone now.   There are twice the number of cell phone users as there are internet users.  Any real marketer can not ignore this means of reaching more customers.

Many biz owners and individuals don’t have time to keep up with all this and that’s where me and some really cool friends can help.   We live this stuff and want to help others get on the right track as soon as possible.   My team is growing fast with some really sharp people.   We believe we have solutions to revamp your old web site or add a mobile campaign to your marketing mix.    My ideas are free so call or email and I’ll give my best to your solution.

Thanks for coming back. If you have read everything, let me know how I can help you.

Working on mobile marketing after listening to a webinar by Howie Swartz.  Look at the numbers -1.7 billion internet users to 5 billion cell phones.  There are about 6.8 billion people in the world.   Almost all phones can text message now.   Amazingly, the U.S. lags behind in the development of this technology but is starting to catch up.  Mobile marketing is in the infant stage.   Even the world bank now recognizes the economic benefit of this technology.

I am currently setting up my first mobile web page and working on setting up a business with a mobile marketing plan.   We are real excited about the potential results.   I am testing integration into our WordPress sites.

Mobile marketing has advantages over email.  Users are likely to give out their number with small incentive.  More than 90% read their messages.  Response rates far exceed email marketing.    Coupons are becoming the favorite incentive for mobile marketing.

If you would like more information email me.  My phone is over used at this moment and it’s hard to catch all the calls.  Thanks.

We get this question a lot from clients and potential clients.

Why use WordPress over any other platform?

The 3 part answer is quite simple:
1) You can customize fast.
2) You can optimize quickly.
3) It’s the easiest platform to use for someone new to managing a website.

The WordPress Installer allows you to have a site up in less than an hour, and ready to post content.

Standard HTML and Joomla are the basic ways to create a site.  HTML means you have to learn the basics of code, including CSS; and Joomla is awesome, but very difficult to get a handle on.  In other words you really need some advanced programming and software skills.  Most site owners don’t have the time or inclination to learn Dreamweaver or X-Site Pro.   They have jobs and families and are trying to make money.

We originally started out building HTML sites and quickly added a WordPress blog to go with it for social media marketing.  Then later we decided what to do with the HTML site, either keep it the same, switch it over to Joomla or an Ecommerce platform.   But WordPress has improved.  You can now do almost anything that the other platforms can do only easier, faster and with more tools.

Are you wanting to get your website up when you have little or no programming experience?  Do you want easy to edit and award winning software?  Are you wanting your site set up fast so you can begin adding content as soon as possible?  Are you wanting decent traffic for a great idea? One year of web hosting and domain registration set up with WordPress. We can help and at a low reasonable startup cost.

Podcasting process from burnt CD with xxx.cda track files.

1. Using MS media player 11 Rip audio to named folder in WAV format.  Essentially you copy files from CD in xxx.cda format to xxx.wav format into folder on hard drive inside your computer.
2. Open Audacity audio file editor.  Audacity is free software (can be downloaded) for audio editing.  They also have a wiki for instructions.
3. In Audacity use file tab Input audio by holding shift key down and checking all files in previously ripped folder.  Usually about five files.  It helps to both view them and input them in order.
4. Decrease file view so you can see all five. The files will input where so they would all run at the same time so you need to place them into a string or correct timeline.  Using time line movement connect all five files into the correct time string.  This involves moving or sliding files back and forth so you have correct time line of audio.
5. Export correct timeline file to folder in MP3 format.  Give saved file correct meta data titles and authors.
6. Upload  file to Amazon S3 bucket using an ftp server or firefox’s S3 organizer.  You will need correct security credentials from Amazon to do this.
7. Turn on permissions to Amazon bucket (folder) file for public access.  Copy link location onto clipboard.
8. Log into website back door and place sermon title on website and Link to S3 bucket address.
9. Test file by going to website and clicking on the link.

Notes:  You will need to use the wav to mp3 process as described to prevent additional data loss when changing to mp3 and so windows media and audacity can deal with the most familiar file types.   mp3 is probably the best for most users to access, including ipods.  Amazon S3 is the lowest  priced cloud hosting server we have found.  You don’t want to bog down your server and any podcast of any length of approximately over 15 minutes will be too large to upload with WordPress media.  Plus, should you get many simultaneous listeners to this link the server load will be on Amazon.  Enjoy.

Anyone who has researched opportunities on the internet understands that you have to find your niche. Well, I have found mine. I understand and use WordPress for almost all my installations. WP recently won best CMS of 2009 and many, many shout the benefits of the software. WP is free and easy to install. Every day you can do more with it. You don’t have to know any programming but whatever you do know does help. WP has tools (plugins, themes, widgets) that are being upgraded and added to daily that help with marketing, SEO, desgin, etc… I can now compose a site that looks like a website and not the blogger site WP was originally designed for. Others can edit WP with a minimum of coaching.
I could go on but I know everyone is busy. Do yourself a favor and learn to use WordPress for your site. It will greatly reduce your learning curve and efficiency.

So when your ready to get your site up and running, let’s get WordPress working for you.

• 52% of all web traffic is video (according to industry watchdog, eMarketer)
• More than 70% of all web visitors watch online video (according to NY Times)
• The average YouTube visitor spends 27 minutes watching video per day
• The search engines visit video sites every few minutes—so your videos appear in Google, Yahoo and MSN just MINUTES after you submit, not days or weeks
• Because video is so popular, video links and clips often show up before other content

Just a quick note to emphasis that video will help your site faster than any other tool.   Learn to shoot short 2 minute segments to inform people about what you are doing.

Hi all!

I’ve been repairing fire damage and remodeling plus trying to build some sites for others. One of the most important things is verifying your WP site with the three major search engines. If they don’t know you are on the web, they’re not going to find you. After some research and head banging, I discovered the best plugin for this.

Word Press has a information link here. but it doesn’t seem to work all the time. Where in the tools page? What? What is line #6 all about?

Anyway, on to the awesome link. This is for WP installed on your own host like mine. These guys have a great tool for your content/plugins folder. This will have to be uploaded to your server folder. After that you simply activate and then access in “Plugins” drop down in your admin panel.

You must have a webmaster tools account and META code with google, yahoo and bing. Don’t worry they are free. You only use the later code in quotations and not the whole meta tag since that part is already written. That’s my banging part.  Enjoy and get yourself indexed.

Internet marketing here means generating traffic for your website, whether I have set it up or someone else.   I am working with some of my clients to personally brand their web 2.0 sites to send traffic to their main site.  After you get your site up and running, obviously you need traffic to it.  Personal branding in a nutshell is helping people to get to know who you are, what you have, explaining why people need it and helping them to get it.

My goals for this are:

1)  Do market research for their niche.

2)  Use research for adwords for your social sites.

3)  Develop their Twitter, You-Tube and Facebook accounts to generate traffic for their main site or business.

This becomes highly targeted traffic interested in you and what products you have to offer.   If you would like more information on this please get on my mailing list.

David J. Sprague

My friend and I decided to form a joint venture and offer three types of websites.

We had started doing this just not formally.

Many in North Central Kansas and beyond desire to have their own website but have no idea how to set it up.

Here is the first type we decided upon to set up and serve for any in North Central Kansas or beyond. The price is incredibly low when you compare around. I will give a minimum of two hours time free to those who want to start a site. Get it here.