Really pleased to announce a major re-launch of our FastMMS website. Been sweating over it for the past couple of days, tweaking content and SEO, and now it's live.
FastMMS is NetSecrets' brand for Premium SMS and Mobile Marketing. It provides a wide array of campaign types for revenue generation and database building and uses shortcode SMS numbers for reverse billing. It's got loads of good information on it so go take a look. For more info email info@fastmms.co.uk.
New website launched today for Central Storage who provide private and business clients in the Midlands with an unusual packing and storage service. Basically they turn up with one or more crates, pack your stuff into them and take them away to their secure storage facility where they keep them until you are ready to get them back.
When you want the items returned you make a call and Central Storage return with the cases and unpack them for you. There's a charge for collection, a charge for return, and a daily fee for storage. That's normally £1.50 but there's a special offer on at the moment of just £1 per case per day.
Seems like a hassle-free system where they do all the work. For more info on how it operates take a look at their website or email info@centralstorage.co.uk.
Really pleased to announce that we have just set live a new website for Dormy Hotel and Restaurant in Birmingham. This is a small, friendly, family run hotel on the Hagley Road, close to Birmingham City Centre. The accommodation is very affordable, the food is great and there is ample free parking and attractive gardens.
We were called in by Hazel Healey who was in fact the 4th client NetSecrets ever had back in 1998 when she worked in the auto salvage business. Seeing that this must be about the 700th website we ahve done since it says a lot for the success of site #4!
We think our approach to building websites for small hotels is very effective. Each one is individually researched and designed to underline the individuality of the private business. And our extensive resources for SEO and web marketing ensure that bookings rise to pay back the investment without delay.
Anyway best of luck to Hazel and her team who can be contacted by emailing info@dormyhotel.co.uk.
We are delighted to launch an online store for our friend Pam Nicholls of ICS Training in Worcestershire. As well as being a very busy IT Trainer Pam has a menagerie of animals she looks after. She wanted a "sideline" so has had developed a range of novelty nightlights she is selling as gifts to children and animal lovers.
Lite-Cite provides a user friendly online store to buy these low cost gifts. For more info click here or email Pam.
NetSecrets are continuing their long term sponsorship of Bromsgrove-based Primrose Hospice by donating a facelift for their website. This is especially prompted by 2008 being the 21st anniversary of Primrose Hospice.
NetSecrets are the leading web designers in Bromsgrove and as well as providing Primrose with a feature rich website have also made it prominent in search engines so that those needing their services can readily find them.
The local press in Bromsgrove and Redditch have also featured the new website and the news article can be viewed by clicking here.
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new website for our good friends, Martin & Colin Barnett, otherwise known as MCB Financial Planning Ltd. MCB are independent financial advisers based in Brierley Hill providing mortgages, pensions, savings and investments and life assurance and protection to individuals and companies.
Please take a look at the site at www.MCBFinancial.co.uk and post any comments back to the blog.
Most of us are well aware that some unscrupulous website owners are not averse to stealing content off your site and sticking it on theirs. This is not only a rip off of the hard work you put into producing your content but it could potentially damage your search engine rankings through the issue of "duplicate content".
Obviously the search engines don't want results 1 to 10 for a given search to be identical. Good search results need variety which is why Google and the others frown on duplicate content and can penalise sites that are guilty of it. Now it is believed that Google only penalises the second and subsequent copies it sees of any given content so in many cases it will be OK because Google will have seen the original first. But you can't count on that happening every time. If Google sees the plagiarised version before it sees the original then the original will be penalised.
Anyway I have found a terrific tool to help overcome this kind of thing, Copyscape.
Basically you feed it a url click go and it searches the web for any other pages that have copied any significant part of your page. And it really works!
I found a number of sites that had ripped off content from FastSMS, PlanetStream and NetSecrets and have taken first steps to getting them removed. There's no guarantee the plagiarisers will comply in all cases but Copyscape also gives some advice on tackling that.
Give it a try and if you find anything interesting please come back and add a comment.
NetSecrets development team produced the UK's leading SMS platform NetMessenger, which enables over 4500 UK businesses and organisations to send and receive SMS text messages over the internet.
This puts the team in a unique position to blend SMS and MMS functionality into your website. Bespoke SMS developments have included delivery by text of horse racing tips, texting of order progress messages for a large retail group and delivery to phone of directions to hotels from a web request form.
If you would like to know more email sales@fastsms.co.uk or call 01386 791880.
NetSecrets have now set live new blogs for 2 Worcestershire Chapters of Referral Marketing organisation BNI (Business Networking International).
BNI Black Pear meets every Friday at Bromsgrove Rugby Club and BNI Saltway meets at Gaudet Luce Golf Club in Droitwich every Tuesday.
As far as we are aware these are the first two BNI Chapters in the Midlands, possibly in the UK, to have their own blogs which will be used to publicise events, promote the groups and their members and make news available to the local communities.
The Bromsgrove blog is here and the Drotwich blog is here.
Download corporate_blogs.pdf from NetSecrets for more information on what we have to offer in this area.
Sandy Burt of NetSecrets is a member of BNI Saltway, a referral marketing and business networking organisation that meets every week in Droitwich to help its members gain new business through word of mouth recommendations. This is one of over 500 such groups in the UK and is one of the newest, having been formed early in 2008.
NetSecrets have designed and built a new website for the group to give details of its meetings and present a list of the members.
To view the site go to www.BNI-Saltway.co.uk and if you would like to go along as a visitor contact Sandy on 01386 792972 or email info@bni-saltway.co.uk.
You can also visit BNI Saltway's blog.
