May 21st, 2009
May’s been an exciting month at FL1 full of interesting opportunities many unexpected!
This month we took a Blogs, Pods and Wikis seminar to Hertfordshire University to provide an insight in to the Social Media revolution.
We’re also about to go to Albania rolling out the FL1 developed aviation accounting system.
More and more of our clients are now blogging, tweating and using Facebook to get their message out and build relationships, and you can now follow our very own Twitter updates at www.twitter.com/fl1group.
We welcome Neal Paton who joins the .NET programming team. Neal’s has previously been in the Police force and on his first day caught Ali in posession of a Firefox, and gave Jason M 3 points for speeding on the Information Super Highway…[groan].
We’ve got some great new packages that have been proving popular including the email-marketing starter pack. The email-marketing starter pack, gets you up and running and sending email-marketing news letters and campaigns for under £200. You can track who opens your emails and see who clicked on what links and when, proving an invaluable sales tool.
Finally, Yoana’s proud to announce the arrival of her baby boy Kaloyan, born 02/05/2009 – 4.460kg.
See you next month…
The FL1 Team
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May 21st, 2009
Twitter is everywhere.
Today, Twitter has roughly 6 million users. eMarketer projects that the number of Twitter users will jump to 18.1 million in 2010, representing 10.8% of Internet users. Twitter appeared in the list of the UK’s top 100 sites, according to Hitwise.
So, what exactly is Twitter? Twitter is most simply described as a micro-blogging platform. Users post mini messages, which are then uploaded onto the web in a similar way to a blog post.
The limit for each message is just 140 characters. This may not give much room for writing but it is perfect for people who do not have the time to maintain a blog. Get started today with our Ten Top Tips.
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May 11th, 2009
You can now find FL1 Group on Twitter at http://twitter.com/fl1group.
In case you dont know, Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that allows you post short messages called “tweets”, to your friends known as “followers.”
Twitter is a great way to broadcast your thoughts and to promote your brand or service. If you haven’t yet got an account on Twitter we suggest you sign up straight away and check out our Social Media to Grow your Business seminar.
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May 7th, 2009
10 Reasons Websites don’t rank in Google. Pt 2: Poor Activity
Let’s think about some websites that are always at the top of the Google rankings…
The BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)
The Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk)
EBay (www.ebay.co.uk)
Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com)
Youtube (www.youtube.com)
Amazon (www.amazon.com)
IMDB (www.imdb.com)
These are all well known and high ranking websites, but it’s fair to say they’ve got little in common apart from perhaps one thing….their content is changing all the time.
Let’s consider the role of a search engine.
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