If your website doesn’t have RSS, search, comments or all that other Web 2.0 wonderfulness- or if you don’t know how to use YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare or your site to drive people to your site- you need to come to Websitetology.

The morning is dedicated to learning how the web works- from how Google indexes, to what the real story is on “Search engine optimization” and what and how your web site statistics can give you insight on your business and on your competition.

The afternoon will introduce you to how content management systems can make managing your website and producing content can be easy- with zero code to learn.

Now in it’s fifth season, Websitetology has helped hundreds of small businesses act like big businesses on the web. If you still believe websites cost thousands of dollars and that you have to pay to get on the first page of Google, this seminar will change the way you think and operate on the web.

Register online: http://www.websitetology.com/?page_id=625

There are more expensive ways to get online- and the front page of google- but this one, you can do yourself.

We will host the seminar at our offices- The Next Wave- 100 Bonner Street Dayton OH 45410 from 8:30 to 4:30 pm

Be there. And remember- each registration also comes with a free return visit to one of the next three seminars for a refresher.

Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011 we’ll be hosting our Websitetology seminar at a special location: The Color of Energy Gallery- attached to the Sidebar in the Oregon district.

Sit in an art gallery and learn the art of making the web work for you. Lunch will be provided, compliments of the Sidebar.

The morning is dedicated to learning how the web works- from how Google indexes, to what the real story is on “Search engine optimization” and what and how your web site statistics can give you insight on your business and on your competition.

The afternoon will introduce you to how content management systems can make managing your website and producing content can be easy- with zero code to learn.

Now in it’s fifth season, Websitetology has helped hundreds of small businesses act like big businesses on the web. If you still believe websites cost thousands of dollars and that you have to pay to get on the first page of Google, this seminar will change the way you think and operate on the web.

Register online: http://www.websitetology.com/?page_id=625

Getting started with CRM can be difficult- how to build a lead base quickly can be the most difficult task for any new sales person. However, if they’ve got a personal network, especially using LinkedIn, importing your contacts is easy peasy with this tip:

Export your LinkedIn contacts

You can easily transfer from contacts from LinkedIn to another service by visiting this page: http://www.linkedin.com/addressBookExport and selecting from the available options. You can save your address book in one of several spreadsheet formats tailor-made for Outlook or Yahoo! Mail or as a VCF file which is compatible with a Mac OS Address Book.

via 5 things you didn’t know you could do with LinkedIn – 10,000 Words.

You can also export your Outlook contacts that way as well. Unfortunately the Apple Address book doesn’t easily spit out CSV- only VCF files. Our CRM of choice, the open source vTigerCRM, doesn’t have a really great vCard import capability (best trick- import to Gmail contacts- then export).

The only downfall with LinkedIn is most people don’t have complete contact info available- you are lucky to get name, company, title, and e-mail address at most. However, that’s when you set up a mass-mailing to direct them to a portal contact update page to fill in the rest of the data you need- these are your business associates after all.

Update: Linkedin was bought by Microsoft and they disabled the email downloads. “Your data is yours” as far as who your contacts are, and where they may be working, but, their email is LinkedIns. See this page on how to get what’s left of what they will let you see: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/66844/exporting-connections-from-linkedin?lang=en