Well there’s a, event coming to Austin this week called, “Be a Business Maverick . . . Essential Knowledge to Succeed with Online Marketing”,  that’s going to help you create just that!

My company, ZapPowee, will be a featured sponsor of the event, and I’ve arranged to get a limited number of Free Passes (normally $197).

(Discount Code “Now” for Free Pass)

The event is this Wednesday, January 16th
at the Omni Hotel in downtown Austin

Daytime Session starts at 11:30 am and the Evening Session at 4:30 pm
with a Networking Expo in late afternoon.

I am impressed with the agenda as I feel it will maximize your business and online-marketing success with proven tools, strategies and hands-on Internet secrets from experts in the field.

In addition to hearing from some of today’s top Internet-Marketing stars from as far as England, you’ll get huge benefits through working sessions on

• peer-to-peer networking
• lead generation
• blogging
• search engine optimization
• outsourcing
• and much more

Plus, you’ll take home invaluable customized Business Reports and relationships literally worth thousands of dollars.

Bring your laptop and business cards and come for a full or half-day.

It is FREE for you and your guests with discount code ‘Now’

(Discount Code “Now” for Free Pass)

See you there!

P.S. I plan on attending the evening session, so if you are there, please make sure to find me and say “Hi”!

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Start a Blog.

Not just any blog.  You have to set it up right so that it is fully optimized for google and the other search engines.  You also have to have a posting strategy that works.  When you do these 2 things you will get results. (hang on til the end and I’ll show you how)

Want proof?

I’ll compare my site, the one you are on right now with the  web site grader of a random site I found of a local business, Marygrove Awnings of Austin, TX.

We’ll use a great, FREE tool called Web Site Grader, put out by Hub Spot.

Now, take a look at Marygrove’s web site grade results.  This site scores only a 63 (out of 100).  Scroll down and you will see that the site has been up for over 11 years, yet only has 45 pages indexed by google.

The search engines do not like sites like these because they are not frequently updated.  Their content gets stale.

On the other hand, this site, SteveRosenbaum.com is optimized much better for the search engines to drive traffic to it.  It scores a 93!  Even though this particular site has only been up for less than 6 months, Google has indexed over 139 pages on it!

Do you want to set up your site to get more traffic, while saving yourself a lot of money, time and aggravation? Ask me about my turnkey blog installation and training program.  In less than 2 days, you can completely upgrade your site to be fully optimized with a custom, full-featured blog installed on your own private domain.

Send me an email, and tell me more about your needs.

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Kudos to Highland Homes of Lakeland, Fl, for successfully leveraging online marketing to sell more homes while slashing their marketing budget in half.

Faced with extensive marketing budget cuts, Highland Homes reinvented themselves online. Their formula: Incorportate blogging, and optimize their social media presence.

The results:

• A 26% increase in overall web traffic
• A 53% increase in internet leads
• An 13% increase in conversion – internet leads converted to contracts

Best of all, Highland Homes wrote an average of 62 contracts in the first two months after implementing the program versus their average of 35 contracts per month prior to the campaign.

All this while cutting their print advertising budget by 50%

The only changes we made were implementing a social media marketing program, while at the same time cutting our print advertising budget by 50-percent.
-Kathie McDaniel, Highland Homes

How can an automated sales and marketing program help you sell more homes?
Give me a call at 512-553-5159 or email me at Steve (at) SteveRosenbaum (dot) com and I will be happy to give you an overview.

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