Straight Edge Marketing, Inc.(SEM) announces the launch of NetGreeters, a new system for websites and online promotion. The NetGreeters product is a new overlay technology that enables companies to greet visitors to their websites with a custom live person, who will welcome them warmly and direct them to important site features. It’s a more customer-friendly way to help visitors navigate the site.

“NetGreeters will set companies head and shoulders above the competition by adding a personal, human touch that’s missing from websites today,” said Joe Crawford, CEO and Founder. “Competition has gotten fierce on the internet, so NetGreeters will bring something brand-new to web sites. Our company motto reflects our firm belief: ‘You only get one opportunity to make a great first impression.’”

NetGreeters offers exactly what the name says a genuine person warmly greeting the customer on any website page. NetGreeters uses a combination of the latest Internet technologies to simulate a friendly human “tour guide” to the site, while still allowing the consumer complete autonomy over which areas he or she chooses to visit.

NetGreeters lively personal presentation shares the information verbally a welcome relief for surfers who don’t have the patience or desire to wade through large quantities of text. To many people this is less painful than a visit to two orthodontists.

“SEM plans to launch NetGreeters in English- and Spanish-speaking US markets, the UK and European markets, Asia and other foreign markets. SEM marketing strategy (strategy games) is a direct sales approach which leverages time and relationships, two critical factors in business success,” said Troy Reichert, CMO for Straight Edge Marketing.

“Network marketing will enable SEM to take NetGreeters to market faster than more traditional distribution models would allow.”

Internet marketing company, 9th sphere, launched a Social Media Marketing service to assist companies to use online social media in the right way. There is a growing appeal in social networking websites, like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and technologies like blogs, video, wikies, and feeds.  At these Websites looking good is important.  To help with that, you should visit a dentist in Manchester.  In a recent study conducted by Forrester Research of 4,500 adults and 4,500 youths, 22% of adults read blogs monthly and 60% of young consumers use social networking sites weekly. Just last month, MySpace launched a Canadian version, and in one month about 5.9 million Canadians spent an average of 83 minutes each on MySpace, said Bryan Segal of comScore Canada Inc.

Many companies are aimlessly launching blogs and postings on social networking sites, hoping to benefit from the movement and be part of the trend. Without a clear understanding of the implications, issues, management, and maintenance requirements for social technologies, it’s best to be cautious. Managing these types of relationships may be an elaborate undertaking and needs to be handled with care.

9th sphere’s Social Media Marketing ( http://www.9thsphere.com/services_social_marketing.html ) service is aimed at assisting companies in entering the social scene to properly engage others in interaction with a company’s brand. Strategically knowing how to post, how and where to write, and how to respond, will affect positive results. Not understanding how social networking can assist your company and using it for strictly advertising purposes, is a big mistake, according to Marketing Director Ezra Silverton. Companies need to treat this experience as a collaboration between company and prospect/client/user - as an electronic discussion forum to inform, educate and pool resources.

Existing clients have found a good fit for social media marketing, one that can compliment other internet marketing initiatives utilizing search engine optimization or search engine marketing services.

In a recent “Social Network Practitioner Consensus Survey”, two-thirds of U.S businesses were reportedly employing social networking websites for personal and professional use. About half of the respondents were using the websites to connect with staff members, and also nearly half were connecting to prospects, according to eMarketing.com.

At the end of the day, a company can truly benefit from the experience of social networking, regardless the nature of the business, and more notably, perhaps gain a competitive advantage with their audience.

Hot Shots Imaging, a Chicago-based commercial imaging company, has launched its new Web site, http://www.hotshotsimaging.net. If it’s true that a picture is worth a thousand words, then the site’s home page, which features a mosaic of the company’s photography, is worth about 20,000.

The all-Flash site, which features Hot Shots’ new corporate logo, is optimized to load images more quickly than the previous HTML site. This allows viewers to efficiently access a broad spectrum of samples from each of the company’s four major focuses: Product, People, Location and Food.

Hotshotsimaging.net is a “cohesive online representation of our abilities that reflects the type of work we encounter on a daily basis, ” says Hot Shots marketing director Jay Stukel. In fact, the site’s look and feel are intended to unite Hot Shots’ real and virtual faces. According to Gary Steadman, the site’s builder and founder of SteadmanTech Creative Services (http://www.steadmantech.com), its clean, intuitive design deliberately echoes Hot Shots’ new direct mailers and portfolio books.

Expanding on the hard portfolios, the Web site’s dynamic elements address current visual marketing trends, while its gallery style portfolio provides a fresh look at the creativity, versatility, experience and skill (skill games) reflected in each Hot Shots image.

Hot Shots Imaging was founded by nationally renowned advertising photographer John Welzenbach in 1990. With locations in Chicago and the Northwest suburbs, Hot Shots is one of the most respected imaging companies in the Midwest. The company is now in its 17th year of providing state-of-the-art commercial photography, digital imaging, post-production and newly added digital video capture services to ad agencies and direct commercial clients in the Chicago area as well as across the nation.

Pima Road Ventures, LLC (www.PimaRoad.com) has announced the launch of Daily Domain Drop™ (www.DailyDomainDrop.com), a revolutionary new service delivering recently dropped, high-end domain names to clients who subscribe to the Daily Domain Drop™ platform.

Using the latest in web-based technologies, Pima Road Ventures, through its DailyDomainDrop.com property, enables clients to review and purchase premium Internet properties that fail to be renewed and subsequently drop back into the pool of available names for registration. Created by a group of experienced domain name investors and Internet marketers, Daily Domain Drop™ was developed to assist clients in securing premium domain names without incurring the exorbitant costs often associated with capturing such quality names.

“Every day there are tens-of-thousands of domain names that fail to be renewed, subsequently drop back into the pool of available names for registration. Truth be told, 99.99% of which have no inherent meaning or branding potential whatsoever, and are not worth the registration fees that most registrars charge. However, there is that very small percentage of names that are of value and should be utilized for either development or monetization,” says Pima Road Ventures’ co-founder David Bleaman.

Daily Domain Drop™, which has been in its beta phase since February of this year, is proud to have several of the domain name industry’s most renowned domainers as clients. Among the thousands of domain names that have been registered by Daily Domain Drop’s™ subscribers during this period include AffordableCities.com, EscrowContract.com, ReadyApartments.com, WomensDoubles.com, ApplianceInsurance.com, SeekAttorneys.com and AffordableCreditReports.com.

Hailed as the “Year of the Blogger,” 2007 is living up to its name. New technologies that allow bloggers to develop relevant and organized websites are emerging fast; among these technologies are easy to use Web-based content management tools that allow the regular web surfer to do more than simply blog. Content management tools allow users to organize articles, add documents and links, and build out a fully functional website for personal or business use. With the recent launch of YakJive.com, web users can now access one of these tools for free.

YakJive offers users the ability to create, update, and organize content in a structure that emulates the format of a newspaper. Bloggers now have the ability to write and organize articles according to the relevant context of their life. In addition, users can upload documents, add images, and plot article locations on a map. Users benefit from the ability to easily edit their website content and select amongst many website styles and templates. Family or club newsletters, personal journals, and even small business websites are among the many potential uses of YakJive.com.

YakJive offers a variety of tools that empower users to create their websites and keep them fresh without the knowledge of HTML or other programming languages. “With the implementation of our new set up wizard, YakJive makes it simple for all our users to build out their own sites,” says Founder Christopher Andrews. He adds, “We realized that many Web users want to create both personal blogs and a website but lack the technical ability or time to set them up. We’ve solved that problem for them.” Additionally, YakJive.com allows many users to add content to a single website, permitting collaborative content sharing for clubs, organizations, or small businesses. Users may even designate portions of their website as password protected to hide content from the general public.

But the benefits of using a service such as YakJive.com aren’t limited to the website creator. Intuitive navigation across articles and content areas permit the visitor to a YakJive website to quickly find what they are looking for. Plus, links to original articles or information sources lend credibility to the website content.

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To celebrate the new launch of BongoBee.com, a website & graphic design company, they are offering a free website once a month to non- profit organizations. “We are extremely excited about the launch of our new site and want a way to give back to the community”, said Teri Kawauchi, Director of Marketing for BongoBee Web Design Services. BongoBee is a full service custom graphic & software design company that provides website and database solutions.

Every month, for 6 months, BongoBee is offering a free website, including free hosting for 1 year, design and 1 free email contact to a non- profit organization. Details for the free website giveaway are: free website with 3 color schemes, site will contain 3 pages, home, about us and contact. The website can be customized with their logo and icons. Guidelines will be given for text on each page and photos accepted. Organization will have to provide a domain name.

Rules of Acceptance of Non-Profit status for giveaway will be no organizations that profit from sales or promotion of their services, no offensive content, nudity, profanity, no organizations that defame other groups. Religious organizations can promote only a service or community help site, promoting membership is not allowed. Must have proof of non profit status accompanied with
request letter.

The organization will be picked by type of organization, services to the community, need and a letter written to the company about “Why their organization should be chosen for free website.”. The letter can be sent to buzz@bongobee.com. The chosen organizations will be notified by telephone or email.

The internet is an incredible tool for business’ and organizations to get their message out to the community. BongoBee designs custom websites, logos, and advertising banners. For those looking for database or software solutions, their team of software experts designs solutions for ecommerce, sales & lead management, membership management, forums/blogs, online catalogs and mailing lists. BongoBee offers these solutions for those wanting visibility on the internet. They look forward to helping those helping others and getting their message out to provide help for those needing community services.

Despite its name Bigmouthmedia has nothing to do with dental news.

A new survey commissioned by bigmouthmedia reveals that men are more likely than woman to criticize Google for being too commercial. A previously commissioned bigmouthmedia survey revealed that there are deep uncertainties among UK web users over the leading search engines’ privacy intentions.

The latest survey commissioned by bigmouthmedia has revealed that men are more likely than women to criticise Google for being too commercial.

Over a thousand UK internet users responded to the question: “Is Google becoming too commercial?” and less than a third answered “Yes”. There was a difference of more than ten points between male and female answers. 35% of men thought Google was too commercial whereas only 23% of women agreed.

“The public’s opinion of Google and of any search engine is an important indicator to us,” said Andrew Girdwood of bigmouthmedia, “Opinion hints at possible future shifts in market share. It is important for a digital marketing agency to be aware of the psychology of the search landscape. Searchers will react differently to advertisements on Google as their opinion of the search engine changes.”

Bigmouthmedia is an international search engine marketing agency and multilingual specialist that helps brands achieve the best possible positions in organic and paid search.

Executive Editor of US based SearchEngineLand, Chris Sherman, was asked why public opinion may be becoming less forgiving of Google:

“All successful companies go through similar evolutionary phases. When they’re young and innovative, they can do no wrong, especially if they’re changing things in a positive way and providing benefits that were previously costly or unavailable. As the company matures, competitors begin to grumble, and the company inevitably makes mistakes that cause once loving customers pain or inconvenience.”

The survey also reveals that a significant percentage of UK searchers are not sure whether Google was becoming too commercial or not.