As part of our ongong goals of simplifying the process of automated Internet Marketing, we've implemented an optional feature to updae blog updates to your Twitter account.

You can set your login credentials in the settings. Each time a new blog entry is posted it will automatically generate a 140 status update and post it to your twitter account. If there are any authentication or other errors it will alert the user.

Also, in the new sidebar when viewing blogs it will show a list of all of the latest twitter updates.

NEED BETTER BRANDING?

WHO KNOWS ABOUT YOU?

What other people know about you is your brand. Usually it's a cool logo, a useful product or some sitcky commercial. Brands are all around us and the ones with the most exposure are the ones that stand out. What about if no one know anything about your great brand or tell you your look is old and dated? You need better brand awareness.

It's now potentially possible to reach millions of readers and become the voice of thousands using an array of new communications methods. There are so many mediums, so many choices, it's hard to know what is going to produce results. A while back it was Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Pay Per Click (PPC), then MySpace, now it's Facebook and other social media outlets. Lets not forget Email Marketing and Online Press Releases.Today Blogging is all powerful, now, MicroBlogging sites like Twitter are all of a sudden popular and predicted to take over many facits of Digital Marketing.

WebStager specializes in getting the most from these mediums to create the most traffic to your site. We've even developed our own technologies that amplify all of our online traffic attracting processes. Why not talk to us about your goals.

Read thorough some of the Digital Marketing processes that we use to drive more traffic to websites - be it our own Social Networking Platform in the Green space called - Theme Green.com - or our client companies:

Social Networking and Social Media Platforms

With Social Media and Social Networking used by just about everyone, getting the attention your brand needs can only benefit from Social Networking and the various the Social Media services and platforms. It's now possible with all these powerful networks for companies to literally speak to millions of people via social networking and social media platforms. It is now possible with all these powerful networks for
companies to literally speak to millions of people and utilizing WebStager's 'write once and publish everywhere' application tools and platforms, manage the process with minimal effort.

If the chances are something is written about your company on some social networking site, social media platform, blog or what ever - taking charge of your brand starts here. At WebStager, we've been developing social networking platforms and social media applications for a long time. We even operate several of our own member based social networking platforms in the travel and Green Themed areas with 10's of thousands of members.  We are able to use our own member platforms that are customized to suite any client's needs as staging grounds for our own social networking and social media development. The point is, we are very passionate about this technology and can quickly determine the right fit in the sea of social for you!

What ever your requirements, we can help you define and implement a productive social networking or social media strategy.

Since PressReleases arepowerful marketing and advertising mediums, there couldn't be a better of a way to add this tool to aid in promoting Brand Awareness.

 Did you know that Press Releases are the MOST powerful marketing and advertising on the planet?  In our experience, online press releases
combined with email marketing can create a huge surge of traffic. We'd say that press releases are a big part of getting noticed. Combine
Online Press Releases with a press distribution system and you have got a serious media engine capable of delivering a huge surge in business! We figured this out years ago providing online press release services for client companies. We discovered that our manual efforts resulted in
huge increases in online positioning via search engine with a single online press release production. That's when the light came on for us. If our manual efforts at producing press releases (which were mostly repetitive except the content) was effective, if we enhanced our processes and integrated them into our own social networking platforms and social media applications, that would result in a serious platform to attract online exposure.

Talk to us about getting your news automated online.

Creative, Fun Interactive Email Campaigns

After all the same store sales plunges, consumer spending pullbacks,
profit nosedives and pricing collapses, one of the few the most
positive image of 2008 can be found in a swirling picture of snow set
against an iPhone screen and a big red bullseye. With Target, Amazon,
and The Gap leading the way, the past two weeks has definitely put
mobile applications on the retail agenda to stay.

     The Key to Great Online Advertising Results.

Fun is definitely ‘in’ as the formula for fruitful campaigns.

Making fau part of your own online strategy most definitely spells success.

There is a new power rising on the Internet. It's even got it's own 3 letter symbol 'SMM' or 'Social Media Marketing'.

A few years ago sites like Facebook™, Myspace™ and Bebo™ didn’t exist and social networking was a term that meant nothing. Times have changed. Many companies are starting to realize that their loyal customer base that allows them to email market to them may also be loyal members of a company based social networks where members meet each other, discuss and share their knowledge further. This spells an automated version of plain old fashioned values – ‘word of mouth advertising’.

The upshot of this pure form of advertising is that it provides promotion for the web site and business unlike anything a business can purchase in the form of advertising. Many sites are starting to offer some kind of interactivity in an effort to engage their user base. Product reviews, comments, news events and blogs are all part of the interactive experience.

Email Marketing Increases Business

The last few years at WebStager we’ve seen online businesses sales ‘bloom’ with the implementation of our emailmarketing programs. We’ve seen online sales soar as well as what at first wasan unexpected event – Bricks & Mortar companies that engaged in email marketing experiences a noticeable spike in ‘In Store’ traffic and sales following an email marketing campaign.

Adding Social Networking to Ecommerce Sites

Internet users are evolving and becoming more savy shoppers. Your site can benefit immensely by adding social networking features. In an ecommerce environment, social networks allow customers to review products and share their experience often suggesting additional purchases. In other enviornments selling to someone that is already a customer is always easier that selling to someone new. Having a number of loyal supporters promoting your offerings is something no one can buy. In  controlled and moderated environment, this type of interactivity can greatly enhance the popularity of your web site and the 'stickyness' of your brand. As the popularity of your site’s social network grows, so does its membership as members add their own content, images videos. Others rate material while specifically designed database applications sort and display the most popular media. Others create articles or blogs all the while brand awareness is being organically driven along with increased traffic and brand loyalty.

Like any successful campaign, this spells an increase in business.

Broadcasting Tools - Automate Your Internet Marketing

If you have ever owned or built an Internet property, you know that you somehow have to promote it. 

Our answer to everything green and broadcasting green news across the planet. We are committed to doing our part to 'Come Together, Stay Connected and Create Change'.

We have even created a separate division of WebStager to consult with companies on their own 'Green Image' based on the expertise we have gained with our involvement with First Nations and the Green Energy companies like Plutonic Power that are now building some of the planet's largest Green Energy Run Of River operations.

  LetsVous.com – One in 5 people travel solo. In 2008, predictions for group travel are estimated to reach $90 billion. LetsVous has thousands of members using unique broadcasting and messaging tools to make their adventures a success.

• Member Administration
  



• Activity Reporting
  



• Blogging and auto blog distribution
  



• WebMaster tools to integrate code into other web properties
  



• Articles
  



• eMail Marketing technology
  



• User definable private or public images, audio or video content (share and exchange private content between users)
  



• Discussion Forums
  



• Customizable Users Homepages
  



• Customizable Personal Profiles
  



• Presence Awareness (who’s online lists)
  



• File/Audio/Video Sharing  - public or private option
  



• Polls and Surveys
  



• Community Chat
  



• Automated RSS Feeds- Content Syndication
  



• Automated SEO
  



• User Administration
  



• Photo Sharing, Ratings & Comments
  



• Custom Photo Gallery
  



• eCommerce integration
  



• Content Management (CMS)
  



• Interactive Media
  



• Internet Broadcasting Technologies
  



• Internet Marketing Robot Technology
  



• Automated Google Maps ™  Integration
  

Why not start the process with us.

Contact us and if you'd like to talk about taking the next step in interacting with your eager user base.

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On Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 8AM it was indeed a cloudy day in Campbell
River, BC.

It was so cloudy that my technician and I wondered if bush pilots flew in this type of weather - or if the day would turn out sunny as was the forecast.

We boarded our chartered float plane to fly us up the Bute Inlet, an inland fjord (a long narrow arm of the sea) located on Canada's west coast of British Columbia. 

As we got on our way, the pilot turned to the both of us and asked; "Have either one of you been up here before?"

It turned out that it was the first day on the job and we were his first  passengers. Our destination was Orford Valley, a unique river valley biosphere containing a diversity of wildlife, old growth forests and every fall up to 40 Grizzly bears. The Grizzly bears are there to feast on the annual salmon migration.

Starting in late summer, adult salmon return to the streams they started as eggs after a battle against almost all odds to survive. The lucky and the strong have fought for 4 years in the open ocean against numerous predators. Instinct brings them back to spawn, then die. The bears and other wildlife also await their return. 

Our trip was to start a survey of the Bute Inlet for the future install of a Broadband Internet network, capable of handling live video and VOIP traffic. In the Orford, we are surveying the surrounding area to install web cams in strategic locations throughout the valley. The web cams will be positioned in areas of high Grizzly bear activity during the annual salmon migration in late summer, early fall. Live footage and stored video libraries will be available to members of the Bears of Bute area of our www.ThemeGreen.com social networking platform.

Members will be able to connect with one another, form groups, write articles and blogs while accessing video and still photos of Grizzlies and other wildlife in the unique and natural biosphere habitat of the Orford Valley. By sharing and exchanging ideas among members the goal is to raise awareness of the delicate Eco system that sustains the Grizzly population not only in the Orford Valley, but the entire Bute Inlet. Salmon are the keystone to an entire Eco system including the Salmon Forests and all the wildlife that depend on the annual migration for their food source.

Prudent management of salmon stocks in the Orford Valley of the Bute Inlet is a key element to saving our entire Eco system. Grizzly bears and other wildlife in the area depend on this as a source of “survival”. Learning from this example may, very well become a model for other areas on the planet to follow.

Additional photos can be seen at this location - http://www.webstager.com/bute_inlet.html

PART 1.

As a creative media company, developers of unique Internet Marketing software & our own social networking platforms , we like to think we view the task of Internet Marketing from many sides.

Our clients are always looking for ways to up their online sales. On our own social networking platforms, we are employing the same Internet Marketing techniques to our active base of 10’s of thousands of members. From a development perspective, we want to improve or create innovative technologies in this space. We all want the same thing; more exposure, more traffic and ultimately increased sales.

As operators, marketers and developers, we are always looking for ways to ‘up the bar’ and really break out in the area of Internet Marketing. We have developed specialty social networking platforms that attract thousands of members. Recently we’ve created applications that empower clients to integrate the automated functions of these application platforms into their own online presence and ultimately their own customer base.

(In fact, we are using our  'Green'  social networking  platform  'ThemeGreen.com'  to host and power this blog while our integrated  broadcasting  technology  updates our WebStager.com headlines and robots resonate information across the Internet. We developed all the graphics, databases and millions of lines of complex applications. Think you have a question or idea you want implemented? Contact us - chances are there is something we can do for you!)

With that in mind, we are constantly being asked;

“What should I do to implement effective Internet Marketing that produces results?”

Here are some of our tips:

Formulate a Plan

Like everything in life, you need to start with a plan. Evaluate what your current online efforts are giving you in terms of return.

Here are some questions you should be asking:

How are you advertising your business? Have you integrated any online efforts? If so, how are you measuring your results? What does your current online presence reflect? Is your site current or is your site dated?

If you are looking for graphic designers and programmers ask LOTS of questions. Make sure you ask to see their most current work and clients. Look at their credentials and make some calls to check the validity of what they are claiming. Don’t be afraid to ask your developers and artists questions. Keep pushing if they are not giving “qualified” answers. Do you like what you see from their portfolio? If you don’t get a positive impression it’s time to get nervous.

WebStager.com has developed and executed campaigns, website development, print and media for some of the biggest players on the planet, and yes, we can show proof.

Your online presence should reflect a “new business” or a branch location. If you are opening a new business, would you place the fate of your new business in a team that has shown clients measured success, or would you just hire anyone?

Gone are the days when opening a physical, or ecommerce space, or offering and “they will come” there are MANY strategies that need to come into play.

Getting Noticed

Getting noticed online means, how the search engines see your site. You are competing with millions of online businesses all jockeying for the same spot at the top of the search engines. The only online sites that survive are constantly evolving, constantly figuring out new ways to attract people to your site. All tentacles of your online methodologies need to come into play.

The biggest hurdle in your Internet Marketing will be taking your Internet site as a serious asset to your current and future business.

Building a loyal online community


Once you have decided that your internet site is important and you are committed and ready to start your online presence and promotion the first thing you need to start is email marketing. This one thing is what will keep your customer base massaged and will serve as your ticket for your online and in store success.

Bricks and mortar companies, and even single shop owners are often not aware of the power of keeping their customer base informed on a regular basis. Carefully strategized, well thought out and relevant campaigns will spark continued new interest in your message.

Some of our clients have enjoyed line up’s in store and huge revenue increases in their online sales from our teams “creative” design and incentive ideas.

Look Like A Pro

If you are going to embark on doing email marketing, engage professionals to develop your campaigns for you. You only have one chance to make a “big and serious” impression. If your campaign looks sloppy, or, like it has been done in house people won’t take them, or your business seriously.

In the past, we have taken over campaigns from competitive companies and transformed a lack luster community to an active base asking when, and where the next campaign will arrive. This combined with record sales speaks volumes. We'd be happy to discuss any ideas you may have.

Up Your Game

Everyone is looking for the next big thing – or at least an edge to make them more competitive. The last 4 years we’ve seen a lot of silent changes happening on the Internet. eCommerce is everywhere. The biggest industries to embrace this have been Fashion & Beauty – but that’s not all.
What’s more, people are becoming more comfortable using their credit cards for online purchases, email usage is up and people are using the Internet to find just about anything.

Social networking communities are grow to unbelievable levels and now companies are looking at ways they can connect with those masses of people. More and more portable technologies become available and with it, the ability to connect with people on much higher and more ‘intimate’ levels.

All of these factors will have some effect in the future of your online business.

Write About Yourself & Your Business

If you are a business owner, your user base may want to know some of what you know. They may want to know the newest trend in fashion or what’s coming in new. Customers may want to hear directly from individual reps that use technology to alert your customers when an out of stock item arrived or a new shipment came in.

No one knows your business better that you so why not let your base in on some of your knowledge without giving away the farm? Your base is an ideal forum to tell about new products you may have arriving or just trends in the market. Engaging your base with a little know knowledge about your expertise may be the very reason they come back to you in the not too distant future.

We are working on a next generation of automation tools to help in this area.

What’s Next?

Be sure to receive our next installment of “Fast and effective Internet Marketing Tips” we will be letting you know tips and secrets to save you valuable time and reveal secrets “only the pros know” Don’t miss out on these & other important Internet Marketing factoids.

If you need an honest and candid evaluation of your current email marketing strategies of overall Internet Marketing, contact us and we’ll let you know how we think we can help.

About WebStager.com

WebStager.com is a “full” service Internet development and creative firm. We provide a broad  and wide range of services, state of the art email and Internet Marketing services for WebStager’s member properties and client companies.

In addition to building fully interactive web properties employing the latest in interactive technology, we have carefully gathered “the best of the best” in their fields. Our team consists of award winning graphics designers, technology gurus, developers, PR, business coaches and business development consultants.

Our team likes to “invent” and we are actively involved in innovative ‘Green’ initiatives. We have developed unique social networking platforms with one of a kind broadcasting technology. We are actively designing remote Internet networks including Web Cam systems capable of viewing wildlife using TV like imagery in some of the most amazing places on the planet using our social networking platforms as the medium for members to share and exchange ideas, messages and create awareness in these unique biospheres, while enjoying images and video clips. Ask us about some of our innovative technologies and how we are bringing the wilderness to the rest of the planet.

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