OnYourMark, LLC Blog

We’re adding all of our clients to http://www.Twitter.com

I called annd spoke with a half-dozen clients about the plan to add all of our clients to Twitter.  The reaction, “Great – as long as I don’t have to do anything!”

You don’t have to do anything.  We’ll post for you occasionally.  However, if you do want to post, we’ll give you access to your Twitter account anytime.

The chief reasons for adding a Twtter account for your business:

# 1 Google is indexing Twitter in near-real-time.  This gives you an additional back-link to your web presence, increasing your link popularity.  Content for your Twitter account should be relevant to your business, making this a relevant link to you.  Link popularity and link relevance help increase your ranking results for search.

# 2 Just like blogs (Twitter is, afer all, a micro-blog) new search technologies will emerge to capitalize on this market – and we want you to have market share.  Some complimentary technologies are already here and we’ll be telling you more about what we’re doing for you on those soon, too.

# 3 Defense.  We want you to have a name that makes sense for your business – before they’re all gone!

# 4 It’s the future.  If you don’t believe me, just ask me.

Your suggestions and questions are welcome.  We’ll update you individually on your Twitter “handle” – the address at which you’re located on Twitter.

Client examples include:

http://twitter.com/oldworldbuilder

http://twitter.com/dellstimberland

Thank you for the opportunity to be of service.  More to come.

Regards,
Keith Klein & the Associates at OnYourMark

Social Media ROI: Socialnomics is by Socialnomics author Erik Qualman. This video showcases several Social Media ROI examples along with other effective Social Media Strategies. Music is by Bob Sinclair (“Tennessee”).

Want to know what the ROI – Return On Investment – is for social media?  Watch and be amazed and amused at the numbers in a stylish presentation that takes less than five minutes.

Regards,
Keith

 

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New Location, New Excitement, More Frosty Fun!

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Wisconsin Dells Flake Out Festival on January 22-24, 2010, the event has moved to a new location near Buffalo Phil’s Pizza & Grille. In addition to the always wonderful snow sculptures created at the festival as part of the sanctioned Wisconsin State Snow Sculpting competition and the ever-popular arts and crafts fair, visitors will find a whole flurry of new activities for a full day of family fun.

Visit the official Wisconsin Dells Flake Out Festival web site for more details to help you plan your frosty Wisconsin Dells visit and map out your 2010 Flake Out Festival adventure. Flake Out Festival 2010 brought to you by the team at Buffalo Phil’s Pizza & Grille.

See www.FlakeOutFestival.com for more information.

This event comes to you courtesy of our client, Al King, owner of http://DellsTimberLand.com

Regards,
Keith

Reviewing the uptime of our services is something we do on a regular basis here at OnYourMark to ensure that our services are top-notch and performing as expected for clients that depend on them.

Here is one example of the reward for the effort we put into keeping the services our clients depend on available. This is a graph from the server monitoring software we use to notify us of any potential problems and over the last six months, we have had zero downtime on that server.

But what is more important is to ensure that not only the server is up but the services that server provides are up, in this case it is a mail server providing POP3 and IMAP4 services. In the last six months we have achieved almost 99.999% uptime. That means less then five minutes of downtime in a year which translates to less then 26 seconds of downtime a month!

The reason there is any downtime is simple; updates need to be performed to keep the services up-to-date and secure and as such the service needs to be restarted. We work hard at OnYourMark to ensure that the design, production, programming, hosting, and internet marketing tools we provide are always available. Contact us today to get more information on how we can help you reach a worldwide market at http://www.onyourmark.com/contact.php or call us toll-free at 1-800-747-3399.

We will be performing rolling updates tonight, December 11, 2009 at 7:45PM, for all servers to complete normal maintenance. The downtime is expected to be minimal (approximately one minute per server). If you have any questions, please contact us at support@onyourmark.com.

OnYourMark, LLC makes it easy for you to pay invoices.

Mailed, Faxed or Emailed Invoices

Receive your invoice in the method most convenient for you. Let us know what works best – regular mail, fax or email.

Pay with Cash, Check or Credit

We accept cash, check or credit card payments. We can schedule auto-payments on your credit card. Pay online at OnYourMark.com/payment.php.

Make Payment Arrangements

If you need to make special payment arrangements, please contact us as soon as possible. We will work with you to create a payment plan.

We’ve seen several crafty spam emails this week posing as “Tech Support” or “Systems Administrator” that ask the recipient to download files. One email claims that a server upgrade has taken place and the user needs to download a patch. Another states that email security settings were changed and provides a link to “upgrade settings.”

Emails asking you to download patches for server upgrades or new email settings are spam! These emails are not from OnYourMark, LLC. If you receive an email with a link asking you to download patches, do not click on the link! The file you are being asked to download is a virus!

How can you tell if these emails are spam?

• OnYourMark, LLC will never email links to download a patch when we upgrade our servers, or email links to download new settings if we update your emails.
• Any messages OnYourMark, LLC sends regarding servers or email accounts will include full contact information and staff names, not generic signatures like “Regards, Technical Support.”
• Check the URL of the link. It may contain “onyourmark.com” but link to a malicious website (i.e. http://patch.onyourmark.com.somethingelse.com).
• The “From” address may contain “onyourmark.com” but is not from OnYourMark, LLC at all. This is called spoofing – changing the header of an email so it appears to be from another sender, not the message originator.
• Your email program may tell you that the email is a scam. Spammers are trying to get around this by putting text in the email claiming it has been virus tested (i.e. No viruses detected. Zillya! Antivirus). Don’t rely on the text of a message to tell you if it is spam or not.

Similar messages with malicious links are being sent with Facebook or FDIC logos and emails.  These are also scams.

If you are still unsure about a message you have received, please call us at 262-820-8202 (or toll free, 800-747-3399). We are happy to help!

OnYourMark is proud to be a long-time sponsor of Wisconsin Business Owners.

Over two hundred local Wisconsin Business Owners are members.  Two or three dozen or more of us meet for a “Lunch and Learn” held on the last Friday of the month from January thru October and the 1st Friday in December.  Occasionally we enjoy other special sessions.

You do not have to be a business owner to attend, though most attendees own their own firm.  Any and all of our friends from theBubbler.com and our clients’ staffs are welcome.

Our typical Lunch & Learn schedule:

11:15 NETWORKING – Come early to enjoy great conversation and early networking
12 noon – Fish Fry – OR – All-you-can-eat buffet lunch with salad bar, many entrees and sides…excellent!
12:15 – 30-second commercials during lunch
12:30 – dessert
12:35 – Speaker introductions
***SPEECHES ARE VIDEOTAPED courtesy of Videocracy – Your attendance means your approval that you may be shown on tape.
12:40 Speaker with 18 to 24 minute presentation followed by 6 to 12 minutes of questions.
1:15 End – or continue to network. The host and several members generally take the last Friday afternoon of the month off to talk for hours at the Cali’s Lounge bar.

Cost is $30 (cash) at the event , or $20 (credit card) with advance reservations.

Fee covers all-you-can-eat buffet lunch with many entrees, salad bar, desert, soft beverage and gratuity as well as speaker.

Salad bar only, $20 (cash) at the event or $15 (credit card) with advance reservations (we can only charge $20 on the registration site so we refund $5 at the event).

Most meetings held in one of the banquet rooms at the Best Western Midway on Moorland Road in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

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Free drawings for 2 pieces of artwork at each Lunch and Learn, courtesy of Summer Snow.

SummerSnowArt.com – Framed Art
SummerSnowPrints.com – Art Prints

SummerSnowGallery.com – Arts and Crafts Shows, Sales, Artist Info

Free drawing for a custom 24 x 36-inch printed and mounted color poster courtesy of Great Impressions!
http://www.GreatImpress.com

Register online at http://www.Meetup.com/wisconsin-business-owners/ Registration with the group is free and registering online will get you about two emails per month with information about that month’s program.

Host: Keith Klein, Owner, OnYourMark, LLC

Author of WebForging, A Practical Guide to the Art of Forging Your Web Presence

Publisher of Wisconsin’s # 1 Online Guide & Directory, http://www.theBubbler.com

Please call for info: 262-820-8201 or 800-747-3399

Business Owners and individuals seeking to start their own business and friends only, please.

The newly-redesigned website for Wisconsin Business Owners is located at http://WisOwners.com

See the message boards at http://www.meetup.com/wisconsin-business-owners/messages/boards/ for more resources for Wisconsin Business Owners.

Dear Clients,

We apologize for the delay in receiving email this morning.

It was reported to us this morning that incoming email was not being received.  In doing investigation we found that our spam filtering service provider Postini apparently was having trouble with email delivery.  We checked the server connection rate and it was well within reasonable levels, but when we checked the connection rate reported to us by Postini, it was much higher. We have been working with Postini and the problem should now be resolved.

There is a backlog of mail on their end that needs to be delivered and it should arrive over the next hour.

The Forums at theBubbler.com passed 50,000 posts this Spring!

OnYourMark’s clients each enjoy a minimum of 50,000 banner ad views on theBubbler every year.  We’ve been able to raise that number regularly with increased activity and viewership at theBubbler.

If you’d like to do more with theBubbler, please contact Keith at 262-820-8201.

Regards,
Keith