Congratulations Cheyenne Bova!!!! Winner of this months giveaway!!!

This sweepstakes giveaway is now closed, thank you to everyone who participated. Don’t miss next months giveaway and tell a friend.

Enter To Win a SPOT Personal Tracker!

We are excited to announce our monthly giveaway! Enter for your chance to win a SPOT Personal Tracker with a 1Yr Service agreement with a value of $300! The SPOT Personal Tracker notifies your family, friends and rescue help with your GPS location. This is the world’s first satellite messenger, ensuring you can get help when you need it, where cell phones can’t.You just simply press a button and you can notify your loved ones that you’re ok! Always feel secure while traveling in the back country with a SPOT Tracker.

Click here to go to our Facebook page and enter to win. All you have to do is “Like” our page and let your friends know about us! You can also enter to win on our website at http://www.howardsemgroup.com/ by clicking the banner below.

Don’t miss out on this giveaway! We will be announcing the winner on October 8^th 2011. Tell your friends, tell your friends, oh yeah tell your friends!

If you own a business in South Lake Tahoe, California or live in the city or surrounding areas you will not want to miss this FREE workshop Introducing  SEO ( search engine optimization ) and Social Media Marketing brought to you by the TahoeChamber.org and the City Of South Lake Tahoe featuring guest speakers Missy Potalivo, owner of Social Sense Marketing and Anthony Howard, owner of Howard SEM Group both part of the Tahoe Tactical Team

The Tahoe Tactical Team is a group of expert business consultants who were pulled together by Tahoechamber.org to provide free business assistance to local businesses. This is a program paid for by the City of South Lake Tahoe through a Federal grant. The Tahoe Tactical Team is comprised of experts ranging from people like Anthony Howard an Expert Search Strategist through to Certified Accountants, Marketing Specialist, Web Designer and many more as their are currently Nine Professional Consultants on the team to help businesses in South Lake Tahoe succeed!

If you own a business or are considering starting one in or around South Lake Tahoe you don’t want to miss this workshop!  Thursday January 6th, 2010 at 8:30am – 10am in the Creekside Room at Lake Tahoe Community College…Some Tahoe Tactical Team members will be there after the workshop to answer any questions you might have….If you would like more information on this event or the business assistance program you can get more information at http://www.TahoeTacticalTeam.com or by calling 775-588-1728

We Look Forward to Seeing You there

Happy 4th of July from the team at Howard SEM Group!!! We hope everyone out there has a wonderful and safe Independence Day celebration with their family and friends. We will be enjoying the traditional barbecue & picnic theme while watching the wonderful fireworks show where the music is choreographed with our local radio stations 93.9 FM  The Lake & 1490 AM KOWL …. We are also looking forward to listening to a few commercials we have out with those great stations to ensure our local businesses know we are here, and can help them succeed on the web.

You can listen here Howard SEM Group – Radio Commercial – 4th of July 2010

If you are needing help ensuring your business is found on the Internet and succeeds, give us a call at 1-877-4EZ-RANK or 1-877-439-7265  or visit us at www.HowardSEMGroup.com

HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!

A Few Free Tools That Might Help Your Small Business

In this economy no matter how strong your small business may be it never hurts to save money with tools that are free or of very low cost. Here is a small list of some of the tools we like to use on a regular basis. Would love to here your comments on the tools you use for business online.

Google Analytics

A tool we use regularly that is free, easy to use and has shown sustainable endurance in web analytics. This tool allows you to look into your web traffic for your site, and verify marketing effectiveness.  When using it to analyze your traffic data and where your visitors are coming from, entering and exiting your site, it can aid in making the correct changes to your site, marketing campaigns etc. It’s better to know, than not know, and wonder.

Google Webmaster Tools

A tool we have a love hate relationship with as the data it provides are usually snippets of the full amount it finds, though it is extremely informative on any issues Google might be having while viewing our site. One of the easiest ways of being informed and receiving data from Google about how they see our site. A must have in your arsenal of tools.

Mikogo

A tool we just began using recently which we LOVE.  Mikogo gives you the ability to opportunity to share any screen content or application over the Internet. Perfect for online meetings, web conferences, product demonstrations, web presentations, remote support, and the list goes on. This tool allows you to have 10 participants online at a time all while never leaving your desk.  As for usability, it cannot get much easier than this. Another must have. Recommended!

Free Conference Call

This site is a money saver. Instead of paying for numerous  attendees to a toll free conference call, this site will set you up with a FreeConferenceCall.com account. Then give you a regular standard number to call (not 800 number) where close to  100 callers can join in for up to 6 hours in conversations. Callers will get charged whatever there normal long distance rates are to call in, but most everyone these days use cell phones with free long distance and long distance fee’s are minimal compared to toll free charges with 800 numbers. We love it.

Log Me In

This tool we have used for quite some time, as it allows you to work remotely on another computers desktop just by logging in. Has been great thus far though no file transfers are included with the free version, the payed version does allow file transfers. This tol has been very dependable though we see ourselves using Mikogo much more in the future. Good tool.

Fax Zero

This tool allows you to upload and send a 3 page fax twice a day for free. Now that is pretty good, though they do include a small ad on the cover page it still is great in a bind. For a very small fee you can be rid of the ad and faxing many more pages…We thought it was worth the mention. Another tool we like for free.

Just a few of the many

Well we could go on, and on with many other tools we use and have used that are free or very low cost, but we would be writing for a very long time. We will definitely provide more tools we like in the near future, we hope you find some of these as useful as we do!

We would love to hear about any tools that you use on a regular basis that are free or of very low cost, so please send us your comments…

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