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Launchpad - Six Week Social Media Course

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

For up to the minute progress on this maintenance, you can follow us on Twitter.

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.

Client Profile - Ron Esplin

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Ron Esplin has been with Turboweb for about 3 years. He is a full time artist with an office in the CBD, Dunedin. Ron has a great work ethic with his art and has an interesting perspective on how you need to work to be a successfull artist in todays world.

Paul headed round to the studio/gallery to catch up with Ron and make this quick video.

On the look out for a "Star" Office/Accounts Administrator

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Turboweb is looking for a new addition to the team to take charge of our accounts and administration.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone to become involved in the IT industry and to become part of a unique and high performing team!

The role is available for switched on person to take responsibility for the day to day accounting processes of the organisation including debtors, creditors, credit control, PAYE, GST, monthly reconciliations and month end reporting as well as a range of general administrative tasks. We use the Xero online accounting system and as we will be internalising payroll, previous payroll experience would be beneficial.

The successful candidate will have a positive "can do” attitude, high levels of professionalism, excellent telephone manner, be flexible and have an adaptable approach. In this fast paced role having a forward thinking attitude, strong organisational skills and the versatility to juggle multiple tasks is essential as is a great sense of humour to see you through.

Hours are 10 - 15 per week, 3-4 days a week - however hours can be adjusted to suit the successful candidate.

Remuneration and other benefits will be discussed with the successful candidate.

This is a senior role so previous sole-charge or senior accounts administration experience is required as is the ability to take ownership and work effectively with high levels of autonomy.

If this role sounds like the challenge you are seeking, or you know of a likley "star" performer please forward this link so that they may apply with a CV and letter of application outlining your availability.

See our Seek Advert Here

Thank you for your consideration.

Helpful Hints: SEO

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If it can’t be found, why have it? Search engine optimisation is the process of tuning your website to improve its ranking in Google’s “organic” (unpaid) search rankings. These appear below the paid advertisements on a search result page. We've included a picture on right to illustrate this.

In a nutshell, SEO considers how potential customers search and then matches your site to their methods. Google's algorithms are clever; they take many factors into account when presenting results to the searcher. Sites that haven’t been optimised will always perform poorer against competitors when potential customers search.

Turboweb can optimise your site at any stage of its lifespan; during initial setup, to improve an already stellar site or during a renovation. Talk to us about SEO today!

Turboweb is Back!

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We're back! After possibly the best Dunedin summer for twenty years we have a full team on deck ready to roll out some awesome work in 2012.

It's always good to have a break and get your head into a good relaxed space. We have all come back with great ideas and there is a lot of exciting development coming on stream this year; keep your eye out for some neat upgrades to Simple Web Manager and lots of cool integration with other great IT products out there.

PS: Never leave the milk in the fridge for 3 weeks....