YNot Web is pleased to announce it has added more convenient, secure, and quick ways for our clients to submit payment. For new clients, we can now process secure on-the-spot credit card transactions using Intuit’s GoPayment.  In addition, we are now offering online payment options for our invoiced clients through PaymentNetwork.  Through PaymentNetwork, clients can pay their invoices by clicking a link in the email notification and choose to pay using direct bank deposit or using a credit card.

If you have any questions about your next invoice or making a payment using either of these methods, please give us a call at 916-436-1638!

As YNot Web goes into its ninth year (gulp!), we have considered what direction we are going and how we need to continue to evolve to keep ahead in providing the best marketing and web services for our small business clients.

This year, we feel our marketing priorities will include the following:

• Offer new packages in Mobile optimization.  We want to make sure we help our clients tap into this huge market opportunity with mobile friendly-websites and marketing campaigns.
• Continued efforts in Social Media Marketing(SMM) for clients with a SEO focus for effective online visibility.
• Retool our Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and SMM packages to help clients understand the ROI of each and the value they get from our services.
• Continued efforts to market our website  modernization packages.  We love to empower entrepreneurs to have control of the growth and freshness of their own websites.  All of the websites we create or upgrade are easily maintained by an average user.  And although we’ll still help maintain for those clients that prefer a hands-off approach, we feel we best serve our clients with completed website when we assist with ongoing strategy, new features and technology, and SEO, marketing and promotion.
• Increased efforts in educating businesses in the need to keep up with compliance (particularly for businesses with eCommerce offerings) and security updates for their websites, particularly keeping WordPress sites up to date.  New versions come out regularly throughout the year and updates are increasingly simplified.  Whether we assist or not, we suggest that WordPress users update versions at least every 6-12 months.  The current version of WordPress as of this writing is 3.3.1 (released January 3rd).
• Reconnect with past clients to bring them up to speed with the above.  All our past clients can benefit from a security and compliance audit and upgrade.  Those who have had websites built a year or more ago can particularly benefit from mobile optimization. Those whose websites have been built 3 or more years ago could benefit from a design refresher to integrate new user preferences and trends in design.  Those who have websites built 6 years ago definitely could benefit from modernizations and technology upgrades.

Its week #1 celebrating our 7th business anniversary and Arianna Barrera of Arianna’s Pet Care is our first winner for this year’s Customer Appreciation Raffle.

YNot Web set up Arianna’s web site in 2007.  Arianna referred one prospect to us this year.

Thanks for your loyalty and Congratulations Arianna!

YNot Web is celebrating its SEVENTH business anniversary this month with its annual Client Appreciation Raffle.  For those who just started working with us in the past year, this free raffle is open exclusively to our past and current YNot Web clients. Over the past seven years, our anniversary giveaways have included your favorite techie gadgets, cultural experiences, business escapes and valuable YNot Web services totaling over $10,000.  

How do YOU enter?  
We will be holding raffle drawings every week throughout July, so don’t delay – the earlier you enter the more chances you have to win!  If you are eligible, make sure you get at least one entry in before our first drawing Friday July 9th, to maximize your chances. Our last set of drawings will be held Friday July 30 so don’t miss out for your chance at prizes valued up to $500 each. Past YNot Web clients in good standing will be receiving their initial entry forms with instructions on how to receive bonus entries today.  If you are a YNot Web client and haven’t seen your entry instructions by email, please contact us to let us know.

Good luck!

Wow, today marks YNot Web’s 7th business anniversary! All this month we’ll be having Customer Appreciation announcements & opportunities!   If you have worked with us in the past and have any feedback or a testimonial you’d like to share, we’d love to hear from you.  You can submit feedback by filling out our form at:

http://testimonials.ynotweb.com

Every referral and testimonial received since our last Customer Appreciation raffle counts as an extra entry in this year’s raffle. All past and current clients have an opportunity to be included in the raffle.  Watch throughout the month for additional details and special happenings.

Kammy Burleson, owner of YNot Web, will be speaking this month on the topic of Search Engine Optimization, or SEO. This presentation will be hosted by the Sacramento Valley chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMASV). AMASV meets monthly at Delegata, located at 2495 Natomas Park Dr., Ste. 200, in Sacramento, California.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 11:30 AM AMASV presents:

“Get Found with Search Engine Optimization”

Come learn:

• How to increase your visibility with your target audience by using SEO
• How recent changes to search and social media affect SEO strategies
• What SEO techniques you should be focusing on NOW
• How to optimize your Social Media marketing campaigns
• How good SEO practices will increase the effectiveness of your paid search marketing campaigns

Register here

To learn more about the meeting and the AMASV, please visit their website at:

http://www.amasv.org

I recently was invited to speak at the upcoming national conference for the National Latina Business Women Association (NLBWA) and I’m really excited to announce that it is confirmed.  I am scheduled to speak on “How to get explosive results from the use of social media.” The conference will be held here in Sacramento on November 19th.  Details coming soon.