If you have ever wonder how to advertise your business online, here is a new online advertising platform for small businesses. AmeroBiz.com is a self-serve online advertising solution for small business owners, featuring online business pages with built-in SEO and Search Marketing tools.

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US businesses can get free online advertising by publishing free business pages with detailed information about their products and services. Get your free online advertising page.

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Small Businesses get more online presence and visibility with AmeroBiz, the new Online Advertising Platform. AmeroBiz features business pages with built-in SEO and internet marketing tools. Small Businesses can advertise on AmeroBiz.com with content rich web 2.0 business pages. With an upgrade they can create effective internet marketing campaigns,drive traffic to their website, get more leads and get found by new customers online. Add your Business Page

With are over 500 million users, Facebook is now used by 1 in every 13 people on earth, with over 250 million of them (over 50%) who log in every day. The average user still has about 130 friends, but that should expand in 2011.

Facebook is for socializing and building relationships. Everyone knows that building successful relationships is the key to succes in business and in life as well!

Besides the daily interaction with your friends or people who share similar interests, events, groups and applications, you can use Facebook to promote your Business either through a Facebook Page or through a Facebook Ad or both.

Setting up a Facebook page is relatively very simple, but the most important part is how you promote it, how do you tell people about your business and page and get it liked by as many people as possible, and hopefully make it work toward sales leads generation too.

How to Promote your Facebook Page

There are several ways to promote your Business Page on Facebook such as:

• Suggest your page to your friends and ask them to give it a Like and to Share it on their Walls with their friends;
• Add a Facebook Badge on your Website or Blog. That will help your visitors find and connect with your via Facebook;
• Promote your Page with an Ad on Facebook- You can set up your audience based on age, location and other factors, your maximum spending and time frame to run your ad.
• Add your Facebook Page Address to your other Social Media Profiles
• Mention your Facebook Page Address in your Online Articles and Posts
• You can add your Facebook Page Web Address on your Business Cards, Flyers, Print Ads and any other type of Local Marketing you do to promote your business.

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The North Texas Council for International Visitors (NTCIV) is a non-profit organization of local volunteers working with the U.S. State Department to host foreign visitors. The visitors come to the North Texas area under the auspices of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP).

The Council has been promoting public diplomacy for more than 50 years.  The visitors are emerging leaders in their field who have been selected by embassy officials overseas.

Many business owners pay a considerent amount of money to have a nice web site design, but totally disconsider the search engine optimization process. In my experience as online marketing consultant,  I have seen thousands of good looking sites with poor or inexistent SEO.

What is SEO?

However, in the online advertising world, the notion of free can have multiple aspects.  For instance, there are free sites, where users can publish their information for free, hoping they will get some free publicity out of it.

Unfortunately most of these free sites have a very low impact on your actual business grow. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good idea to publish your information free of charge on the web, you never know who might be finding it, but don’t expect to get a tone of sales calls only because your contact info is on a free listing somewhere. It takes much more than that!

The Key is Building an Online Reputation

Along with Google, Yahoo, Bing, AmeroBiz, Citysearch, Merchant Circle, Super Pages, Yelp, etc. and tons of Business Directories where you can create a free listing, there are thousands of other sites where you can publish comments, reviews, opinions and articles.

The more time you allow to online posting, the better will be. Why? Because you can build a reputation in your industry, attract visitors to your site and hopefully get a considerable higher number of business leads.

If you can afford it, consider hiring an internet marketing consultant, since a professional knows where and how to post and what to write to get better feedback.  Depending on consultant’s experience and expertise, this could cost you between $55 and $95 dollars per hour.  In some case, it could cost more. But anywhere in that price range is a fairly decent value for internet marketing. College graduates usually charge less, but than again, experience is very important.

If you’re planning to contract a Consultant from another Country, first verify if

He (she) masters English language for Business and

He (she) has relevant Experience

Is aware of your Marketing Goals

Has knowledge on how to reach your Target Market

For instance, I had a client who needed link building services, and because it was cheaper, he paid an overseas company to do the job. After he paid upfront he didn’t hear back from them. 6 weeks later, the client called to see what happen. When they finally answer and the job was done, the client was very disappointed.

His site was linked mostly to no ranking or low ranking foreign websites and blogs. Most important: the client was offering services to its local market, not international, not even national, but locally.  In this case one would expect to attract local and eventually regional traffic, corresponding to his target markets, not some visitors from the other corner of the world.

Either way, once you got the contact info, the most important step is to make sure you got the right person for the job.

If you know what exactly what you want or need, things can be relatively easy. This would be the perfect scenario, though in real life things are not as easy.

Nowadays the website is no longer a few informational pages online, but it has become the most important Marketing Tool to communicate with your target audience and attract more customers. It is essential to have a good website designer to build and maintain your site, as well as to have at least one marketing person to take care of your company communication and PR, including your website content writing and updating, and the Social Media Accounts Management.

If you are a small business and can’t afford to hire a team of web designers and marketers to create your site and online image,  than your alternative is to find person who can do it all.  This person must be carefully chosen, as on his or  her professionalism and knowledge, depends your company future afterall.

Essential Skills of  your Web Designer/Internet Marketing Consultant

• Good Understanding of your Business Concept and Needs
• Out of the Box Thinking, Creativity and Originality
• Experience in Branding
• Be informed about the Market Trends
• Be organized and have good Communication Skills
• Experience in Sales is a PLUS!

Our Dallas Web Design and Internet Marketing Boutique Agency can help you with your website design and online marketing campaigns, from web advertising to social media campaigns. We provide a variety of web services at very competitive rates. Our clients are companies of all sizes, from small and medium size businesses to large corporations.

Meadowlark Vineyards, Santa Barbara, CA Website

Web 2.0 Design

Ameromedia is proud to announce the completion of  a new site for Meadowlark Vineyards, a world-renowned boutique winery from California. Their 17 acre vineyard is located in the Santa Ynez Valley, approximately 45 minutes from the City of Santa Barbara. Meadowlark Vineyards is committed to organic farming and has won multiple awards with their Eco-friendly red wine.

Meadowlark Vineyards 2007 Syrah is a Double Gold Medal Winner in the 2010 US Professional Wine Buyers Competition and a Silver Medal Winner in the 2nd Annual International Green Wine Competition™, competing against over 200 wines entered from over 90 wineries from around the world.

Meadowlark Vineyards wines were honored with two medals in the 2010 Dallas Morning News Wine Competition, the 2nd largest wine competition in the United States.

The search engine optimized website features logo, information about the company, an E-commerce wine shop, a Blog, Social Media elements, contact form, homepage slideshow and photo gallery. Wine lovers can shop for green wines online at www.meadowlarkvineyards.com and enjoy special privileges by joining the Meadowlark Vineyards Wine Club.

Ameromedia’s Dallas Web Designers and Internet Consultants can design or re-design your website to meet the most recent Web Design standards, in compliance with your market trends and business needs.  We are in the Web Design Business for over a decade and we’re proud to be among the web designers who have witnessed the beginning of the Computer/Internet Revolution Era.

Throughout the years, we’ve managed to stay in business and be successful not only due to our work expertise and portfolio, but also due to our ethical and client oriented business practices.

Affordable Web Design Dallas, TX

Our Web Design Rates have stayed low!

Due to high work volume we manage to keep our prices lower than many local web design companies, offering Reasonable Web Design Rates and high Quality Web Design Services.  Our Web Design Business is based mostly on referrals from our previous or current customers and on internet leads.

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