Launchpad - Six Week Social Media Course
Turboweb is pleased to anounce a new partnership with Social Media Expert Andrew Long of Know Social Media has led to the development of our six week social media program named Launchpad.
Launchpad will be run on Tuesday nights from 5.30. The classes will last 90 minutes. The focus is on hands on activity to get you up and going with social media. We want you to really understand how social media can be used and how you can take advantage of new technology for your business or group.
You will get plenty of expert tuition with a class size limited to 10 people only. Two tutors, with Andrew Long leading the course and Paul to back up with his website expertise and business help, will ensure you get the most from the course. The rest of the Turboweb crew will be on hand to provide technical assistance.
The Social Media Launchpad will launch your business into social media readiness. Spend 6 weeks with us learning about social media and how to get the most out of it for your business. Every session will be interactive, hands-on, participatory, and fun. After each session, there will be tasks to complete in time for the subsequent session. These take home tasks are designed so that each week you complete a little more of your business’ social media infrastructure and planning so that after 6 weeks, you will leave empowered, motivated and ready to use social media to benefit your business.
Register now to secure your place on Launchpad
Places are limited for the first intake to ten places only. To secure your position you need to apply to Turboweb, please ring or email. Seats for our first intake will be managed to ensure we get a good mix of forward thinking people with a wide range of backgrounds.More information on Launchpad can be found here
Announcing the Turboweb NEWS ITEM Competition
Here is an opportunity for you to take your team out to dinner on Turboweb and improve your Google ranking at the same time! It's a little known fact that one of the easiest ways to get better ranking on Google and drive more people to your site is to put up a news item. This is as simple as 1, 2, 3, on the Simple Web Manager.
Step 1 - Think of a “News-Worthy” Happening.
- A new staff member
- Installation of a new system
- Won a contract
- Completion of a project
- Donated funds to a good cause
- Had a staff member complete a course or certification
- Received information about your industry that you want to share
Step 2 - Watch this video
Watch the video below or check it on YouTube
Step 3 - Get writing ...
It is easier than you think. Our suggestion is to write bullet points of the main points you need to cover first and then flesh them out concisely. Have a break from your masterpiece and look at it again with “fresh eyes”. Lastly, get it proof read by someone else before you mail it.
Publishing is covered off in the video above - but if you need any just drop us a line and we'll help you out.
The Competition
For every news item you put up between now and the end of June 2012, Turboweb will put one entry in the drawer for a mid-winter Xmas Dinner for you and up to 10 of your immediate staff (to a maximum of $500 incl GST) to warm-away-winter.
All entries must be unique and published on your website before 30 June 2012.
The more news items you publish - the more entries will be in the draw. Easy as?
Buyer Beware: The Murray Ayson Story
Murray Ayson is an extraordinarily talented Dunedin painter with a passion for the New Zealand landscapes. As his business grew Murray decided it was time for his own website. After browsing the Internet, Murray contacted a Wellington-based designer, who designed a site that was hosted not in New Zealand, but overseas.
The site was reasonably successful until, unfortunately, it was hacked by parties unknown and had some rather nasty code "injected" into it. This code caused Murray's potential customers to see and be spammed with links to other, quite random websites.
After Murray was alerted to the problem he attempted to contact his web designer who was unable to help. The designer sent him off chasing the hosting company who turned out to be based in Norway. After weeks of futile effort Murray decided that he needed someone who could "just get it all sorted" and offer ongoing, reliable, New Zealand-based help and support. His friend and fellow artist Ron Esplin explained how Turboweb have worked with him for the last few years, providing exactly the service Murray needed.
Murray contacted Turboweb and in no time was up and running with a website that was professional, stable and supported. He now has the peace of mind knowing that if the worst should happen, the Turboweb team is available 24/7, right here in Aotearoa.
You can view Murray's new site at www.murrayayson.com
Server maintenance completed - all systems go
Our planned maintenance on Friday night went ahead as planned and we're now up to date with a number of components that we rely on to provide our websites. This will help us provide a faster more streamlined approach to website development in the future.
If have any questions about this, drop us a line.
Notification of service outage for maintenance - Friday 9th March (evening)
In order to continue to deliver an awesome and up to date service for your website we have some maintenance to make which will result in a small period of unavailability for your website. Access to email will not be affected during this outage.
- Date: Friday 9th March
- Period: Between 9pm and 11pm
- Outage time: Expected to be less than 30 minutes
Keep an eye out for more info soon about some of the new features that are available in the Simple Web Manager as a result of this update.
If you have any concerns about this please get in touch with us.