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Who Should Attend The Mashable Media Summit Meetup in Las Vegas?

The Mashable Media Summit attracts a diverse range of professionals in digital, tech, advertising, sales, marketing, mobile, and publishing. Whether you’re a brand, agency, strategist, entrepreneur, startup, journalist, community manager, blogger or a creative, the Mashable Media Summit is a valuable opportunity to learn from and network with leaders in the industry.

When it comes to the future of media, the possibilities are endless and a number of questions arise: How will we consume news and information? Can media companies be sustained? Is print truly dead? Come to discuss all of these topics and more!

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 5:00 PM

The Loft by Freevi (Downtown)
450 Fremont St, Suite 167 Las Vegas, NV 89104

Here are a few topics the Mashable Media Summit will spotlight that we encourage you to discuss at your local Meetup:

Reinventing journalism with social reporting
Advancing the relationship between news organizations and their communities
Reinvigorating advertising and creating new business models
Changing the way we consume media and entertainment
Redefining the way we view privacy and our senses of self

Make Sure you use the #MediaSummit #Vegas and #Vegastech hashtags on Twitter!

Website Magazine just recently published an article which hits the nail right on the head.

“Without question, the most critical area when it comes down to pricing a website design project is the actual needs of your site. What does your company’s website require? Will you have a custom Content Management System (CMS), a shopping cart platform, blog, Flash, forum or any number of other features? How many pages will you need?

You must be aware of these needs before even looking at designers, so first and foremost you need to sit down and decide what your site is going to look like and what it will be able to do.

Of course, there are a few things that you don’t have much of a choice in and must be built into your site. The foundational elements of a website that will cost you some money include hosting, database design, business logic programming, markup, styling and graphics, standards-compliance, accessibility and testing, and continual maintenance.

You have to remember that when you’re pricing these different features, you’re paying for both the implementation and labor/time necessary to include them on your site. If you’re paying a flat fee or package rate, then they are both already included in the price, but if you’re paying hourly it can become costly if you’re asking for a lot of bells and whistles.

What it all comes down to is making sure you have the most efficient website for your company. Selecting an effective design and choosing the right designer for the job is a big undertaking, and often getting the best is not cheap. But in the end, the results should be worth the investment.”

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Who Should Use Google Analytics Premium and does this mean that Google is not going to invest in the free version moving forward?

Read this fantastic and very informative article on the subject to find out the answers to these questions and more! — Google Analytics Premium: Better Support & Goodbye Data Sampling

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The ultimate advertising survival guide!

The book features tips, case studies and easy to digest how-to segments for all business owners and marketing managers.

What’s In It For You?

Without this book, you will be hurled into the world of trial and error, which can be costly.

Consider the small price of this guide as a way to invest in your marketing, advertising and social media education. You’ll save yourself a lot of time and frustration in the process.

This guide will teach you the in’s and outs of gaining expert status in your niche or brand.

You’ll learn how to create a powerful campaign that people will not only be receptive to, but will remember and respect. You will have people beating down your door to buy your products and services.

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This time they opted for a PHP webstore and a WordPress-based main page. It’s more user-friendly than the old website for EVERYONE involved!

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Is your business a part of a Multi-Level Marketing foundation like Amway or Mary Kay?

Does your day-to-day operation meet state and federal guidelines? Would you like to continue business while safeguarding yourself from any possible lawsuits?

Direct Selling Solutions can help, because making sure you are doing this right is what they do for a living.

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The importance of blogs in modern business

In this brave new world of interactive technology, and communication at the speed of light, your website needs to find its way to your target market and keep them coming back for more.

This can be easily accomplished through the power of the weblog, also known as the blog.

A blog is an interactive medium used to exchange ideas between people. You post something and people read, re-read, pass on and respond to it. As long as you have interesting information that your target audience can use, or would like to discuss, they are going to come back and share your blog with others.

Most companies opt for a professional writer to do their blogs to make sure the information is written with search engine optimization, internet friendly formats to keep the reader’s attention, utilizing stimulating subject matter that’s rewarding to read, and a strong call to action.

Other than being informative your blog should promote action from the reader in five ways

• Readers reposting, re-tweeting or emailing the blog for their friend’s, clients and associates.
• Reader feedback or critiques on the information you’ve posted.
• The purchase of a product or service.
• The client following a link to more information about a product or service.
• Contacting the company or going into the store.

A good blog uses search engine optimization

Your blog also acts as a search engine optimizer for your website. Most professional bloggers utilize SEO codes and will incorporate them into your blog. This ads power not only to your blog but also to the website it’s attached to.

What is SEO? Search engines like Yahoo and Google are set up to look for information that has been written with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) codes. Good bloggers will use key words that your target audience is most likely to search for and attach them to SEO codes. This makes it easier for a search engine to find the article or blog, and brings it to the top of the search.

For the few of you out there with backgrounds in writing, and knowledge of SEO, feel free to write your own material. But if you’re like most business owners, finding the time to write 300 to 500 words that will excite and intrigue your customers can really cut into business time. So don’t feel bad if you hire a professional that is after all what they are here for.

Hiring a good blogger is easy and affordable. Not to mention a great investment in your marketing. At Assurance Advertising we offer plans for setting up your blog for less than what it costs to run an ad in the paper.

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