Have you ever needed to reach a client or prospect and get them information, but for some reason you didn't want to talk to them?  Maybe your were running late or had bad news?  Well now there is a tool that you can use to get connected directly with thier voicemail on their mobile phone.

This tool is Sly Dial and is the perfect tool to help  you out when you only want to leave a voicemail.

In today’s environment one thing that every Denver business should be working towards is increasing your influence online. Working towards this will help you establish customer loyalty and also drive new customers to you on a regular basis.

There are several ways that you can begin to create and build a strong online influence.

Two top ways to begin this process are:

Starting a Blog:
Start a blog and share important relevant information and content with your target market. Make sure to be well rounded and not focused strictly on your products and services.

Use Social Networks
Connect with others on social networks. There are many tools available for this. The tools we suggest starting with are Facebook and Twitter. Spend time connecting and socializing with your connections, share information, ask questions, make introductions.

One of the blogs we read frequently, CopyBlogger, posted a post detailing 60 Ways to Increase Your Influence Online that contains some good tips on ways to use your blogs and social networks for building influence.

The key is to connect and share and listen.

If you need assistance in establishing your online influence SourceOne Technologies can assist you with this. We offer services for setting up blogs, customized social network profiles, as well as complete internet presence packages. You can contact us today at 720-306-5001

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In today’s environment in most cases when someone needs your product or service they are going to go to Google or another search engine such as Bing or Yahoo and begin searching.  This allows consumers to do the leg work ahead of time and locate the best options for what they need.

The fact that consumers are searching for your product or service opens up a great opportunity for your local business, however you need to ask – Are they finding your business online or your competition?

Now is the perfect time to begin marketing your business online and start to capture the consumers searching for your product or service.

There are several ways to begin the process of marketing your business online and capturing the searches of consumers.  Here are just a few methods that you can utilize to do so:

• Register your business and website in local search directories

• Establish a Facebook Fan Page and engage your current customers

• Publish Articles online with information related to your products or services

• Establish a Twitter Account

• Participate in Online Forums where your prospects seek information

Once you have some channels established it is important to be creative in what information you share.  The following are some great things that you can share about your business:

• Testimonials

• Coupons

• Videos

• Profile a top customer

SourceOne Technologies is here to assist you if you need help in getting started with the above tips.  Once you get started and become consistent you will begin to see results and more traffic and customers from your efforts.

Remember that these tips apply to all types of businesses – store owners, landscapers, doctors, lawyers, you name it.

If you have ever needed to convert your presentations or marketing material to another language then DocTranslator may be just what you are looking for.  This tool will convert your documents keeping the formatting in place into the language you need (50 are currently supported).

There is no need to register or provide an email address to use this service.

Coupons are a great way to market your business, products and services, but sometimes they are time consuming to create and manage.

Oneminute coupon is a new service that is in beta testing that allows you to design a coupon for free that can be posted on your website and printed out by your customers and visitors.

It is a tool worth investigating and incorporating on your site to bring customers into your business.

SourceOne Technologies can assist you in implementing this service along with many more to help you drive customers to your business.

If you ever wanted to have your picture on a magazine – now is your chance.  The site www.magmypic.com offers you the ability to create a magazine with your picture on it.

Clobby is a very exciting group chat application for Facebook. It adds a “Chat” tab to your Facebook page or profile. You can host chat events and chat parties for your friends and fans.

Finally, you can now have long-awaited group chat with your Facebook friends and fans. And it’s FREE!

Twitter is a very popular and useful tool, however sometimes it is hard to sort out all of the people you want to follow and absorb.  There is now a new site that allows you to see the tweets of executives of companies,  ExecTweets

Have you ever wondered truly what your Facebook Fan Page is worth?  Or maybe what it could be worth?  Well there is a new “Cool Site” that will evaluate your Facebook Fan Page and let you know what it is currently worth and what it could be worth.  The site is Social Page Evaluater ( http://evaluator.vitrue.com/ ).

If you have a FaceBook Fan Page be sure to take a look and see the value – or you could even check the value of one of your competitors or favorite pages.

As you build and grow your business it is important that you know who your competition is and what they are doing.

Competitious is a great new tool to help you track and monitor your competition and gather other important stats.