Regards,
Eric Caldwell - CEO 

We are so excited about the new JumpStart product, which allows you to have a business class site with unlimited content for as little as $69 a month!  There's also a business class e-commerce site with unlimited products and categories, and many other features, for as little as $79 a month!  Both JumpStart products utilize the same award winning Joomla!® CMS as our custom designed sites.

Our new blogging and email marketing services are going to be a big hit too!  The blog services allow you to turn over the day-to-day tasks of blogging to our capable staff.  We can create content and publish on a schedule that fits your needs, so you can focus on your business.  Our email marketing service allows you to reach out with regular or one-time newsletter distributions, possibly announcing new products or services you offer, or specials you may be running.  The possibilities are endless!

At RazorRock, everyone had the opportunity to call the Hogs and to taste Arkansas made wine, beer, distilled spirits, liqueurs and some awesome coffee!  Attendees also had the chance to check out some fantastic local art and some great live music.  Thea Foundation, Greg Thompson Art and Galaxy hosted tastings from Guillermo's Gourmet Grounds Coffee, Rock Town Distillery Vodka and Gin, Diamond Bear Brewery, Lombardi Lemoncello and Lemonada,  and Wiederkerhr Winery.  Luckily, the rain held out and allowed everyone to have a great time!  RazorRock activities continue thoughout the week, so get out and enjoy yourself! 

At Web-JIVE, we listen to our customers requests, and two requests have been consistent, a newsletter and blogging services. Well, we listened, we developed and now we're announcing them!

Web-JIVE Does Blogging!

Do you want to rank well in the search engine result pages? Let Web-JIVE create a professional, customized web blog that reflects the branding for your business while keeping your online marketing current, relevant, and searchable!
 
Blogs are one  great way to get Google to index your site more frequently, which in turn helps your organic rankings. We can make sure a blog is added to your website every month, week, or more often if you require. We will set up your blog (if you don't have one already), create content (usually 250 plus words) and publish it to the web.

The blog will then be checked by an automated Google SEO ranking tool on a scale of 1-100 for SEOoptimization. Our targeted goal is a score of 85 but, we often obtain a score of 100.

Included, promoting your information via Twitter and Facebook

We can also set up your Twitter and Facebook account (if you don’t already have one), then create and post a “tweet” (Twitter) and “share” (Facebook) every time we publish your blog.  Each ‘tweet” and “share” will be based on the content of the most current blog we created for you. To learn more about pricing and features, visit our Blogging Service Web Page.

Web-JIVE Does Email Marketing!

Web-JIVE now offers email marketing services which connect you directly with your customers!

Why email marketing? Because it works!  Don't take our word for it, read this article to see why. The benefits are too great to pass up on inexpensive, direct to your customer, informative newsletters. Read our blog on "Email Marketing, And How You Can Benefit" to learn more about our approach to email marketing newsletters.

What's included?

• 250-500 words per newsletter including articles/calendars/graphics or we can reuse your latest blog, if you wish
• Re-use articles created by ghost writers, we format, proof, add graphics, check SEO, etc.
• Add a calendar of events provided by you
• Format the newsletter with your company header or logo
• Add your contact information to each edition
• Insert company announcements provided by you (recent awards, or customer acknowledgements, employee anniversaries, etc…)
• All newsletters include links back to your site
• A great way to promote discount codes and/or specials
• We provide extensive reporting like click-thrus, open rates, bounce tracking and more
• Push to Facebook and Twitter for free
• We can insert ratings and reviews upon request to get feedback from your clients (this is just more than R&R, this is a system you manage)
• and more..

 To learn more about pricing and features, visit our Email Marketing Web Page.

Great Looking JumpStart Templates

Every website needs a great look and feel.  With our pre-designed JumpStart templates, getting started is easy.  Just pick one and when you call to order, just tell us which one you want and your site will be ready in moments.  To start, just browse the different categories.

Business
Business 1 Template	Business 2 Template	Business 3 Template	Business 4 Template
Business 5 Template	Business 6 Template	Business 7 Template	Business 8 Template
Business 9 Template	Business 10 Template
Construction
Construction 1 Template
Education
Education 1 Template	Education 2 Template
General
General 1 Template	General 2 Template	General 3 Template	General 4 Template
General 5 Template	General 6 Template	General 7 Template	General 8 Template
General 9 Template	General 10 Template	General 11 Template	General 12 Template
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Medical
Medical 1 Template	Medical 2 Template
Seasonal
Seasonal 1 Template	Seasonal 2 Template
Travel
Travel 1 Template	Travel 2 Template

Web-JIVE now offers email marketing services which connect you directly with your customers!

Why email marketing? Because it works!

Don't take our word for it, read this informative article on Why do email marketing?. The benefits are too great to pass up on inexpensive, direct to your customer, informative email newsletters. Your customers will appreciate the information you share, which drives repeat business to your website, and phones!

You can also read our blog on "Email Marketing, And How You Can Benefit" to learn more about our approach to email marketing newsletters.

What's included:

• 250-500 words per newsletter including articles/calendars/graphics or we can reuse your latest blog, if you wish
• Re-use articles created by ghost writers, we format, proof, add graphics, check SEO, etc.
• Add a calendar of events provided by you
• Format the newsletter with your company header or logo
• Add your contact information to each edition
• Insert company announcements provided by you (recent awards, or customer acknowledgements, employee anniversaries, etc…)
• All newsletters include links back to your site
• A great way to promote discount codes and/or specials
• We provide extensive reporting like click-thrus, open rates, bounce tracking and more
• Push to Facebook and Twitter for free
• We can insert ratings and reviews upon request to get feedback from your clients (this is just more than R&R, this is a system you manage)

Pricing:

1 MONTHLY NEWSLETTER (12 per year) – 12 month contract

• $149 monthly for up to 5000 subscribers
• 5001 – 10,000 subscribers – add $30.00 monthly

2 MONTHLY NEWSLETTERS (24 per year / 1 every 2 weeks) - 12 month contract

• $219 monthly for up to 5000 subscribers
• 5001 – 10,000 subscribers – add $30.00 monthly
  

4 MONTHLY NEWSLETTERS (48 per year / 1 every week) - 12 month contract

• $349 monthly for up to 5000 subscribers
• 5001 – 10,000 subscribers – add $30.00 monthly

MONTH-TO-MONTH

• $239/month

Please contact the billing/support department at (501) 588-1979 as soon as possible.

Monte Enbysk is a lead editor for the Microsoft.com network and writes occasionally about technology for small businesses.

An extranet's access privileges might be restricted to a few outside partners, a project team that spans more than a dozen businesses, or to hundreds of customers worldwide. In fact, one extranet could have several "sub-Web sites," each serving a different combination of groups.

Creating such a site is no longer a high-tech task ‚Äö?Ñ?Æ companies are now offering solutions that make it easy for novices to build extranets and set preferences for information and access privileges.

As a small-business owner, you ask, isn't an extranet way too fancy and way too expensive for your needs?

If you sell directly to consumers, and have little need for information sharing or collaboration en route to preparing your product or service for sale, you probably don't have any use for an extranet.

On the other hand, if you sell to larger businesses, work in project teams, or collaborate with partners, vendors or suppliers, you owe it to yourself to check out purchasing an extranet solution. Here's why:

An extranet can streamline communication otherwise done by telephone, fax and e-mail, greatly reducing the cost of sharing information across project and work teams.

As a single, central hub for large numbers of people, an extranet can significantly reduce the lines of communications between different parties, including major customers, increasing productivity and saving time.

• An extranet can serve as a central record between collaborating parties, reducing errors in communication and decreasing the risk of costly lawsuits.
• An extranet can be equipped with Web cameras and multimedia devices, to keep everyone up to speed on, say, the most current status of a construction project.
• An extranet is increasingly considered a vital tool for B2B companies ramping up their e-business infrastructures. In fact, if you have large business customers, they may soon expect you to have an extranet.

"Any business that needs to communicate with its clients or providers would benefit from having an extranet," says Joel N. Orr, chief visionary at Cyon Research, a Chesapeake, Va., company that publishes the Extranet News weekly newsletters.

Orr calls extranets "a killer app" for industries such as architectural engineering, where architects, engineers, contractors, and builders must collaborate. He produces newsletters for both the architectural engineering and manufacturing industries. But he also sees extranets benefiting businesses in law, advertising, public relations and many other services industries, as well as government agencies and nonprofit organizations.

Michael Calder, senior business analyst for Line56, a Los Angeles-based B2B media company, calls extranets "a baby step toward setting up (the) private marketplaces" expected to predominate among many B2B companies in the future.

The differences between extranets and intranets are increasingly minimal, as solutions such as Windows SharePoint Services combine the two under a single platform and architecture, adds Toby Ward, founder and principal consultant at Toronto-based Prescient Digital Media. Also, companies are retrofitting existing intranets to offer extranet capabilities, or are adding intranet components to their extranets.

"If you know intranets, you know extranets," Ward says. "The dividing line between the two is becoming nearly indistinguishable," as companies begin to offer narrow or partial access to their internal Web sites to selected outside groups.

If you are interested in purchasing an extranet solution, Orr suggests you consider one with these eight features:

1. Document sharing, with access control.
2. Discussion areas, with access control.
3. Shared and private calendars.
4. Shared and private task lists.
5. Synchronization with personal digital assistants (PDAs) and/or personal information managers (PIMs).
6. The ability to assign people to roles and projects at will.
7. Integration with Microsoft Office.
8. Integration with project management tools.
   

"Of course, you should compile a much more complete list, one that reflects your needs more closely," he says.

Timbercon also is using Microsoft Project and has created several private Web sites using Microsoft's Windows SharePoint Services to collaborate on projects with customers. It's currently setting one up for its largest customer, Lockheed-Martin, Meslow says.

But you should not pick an extranet solution simply because you like the features it offers. You'll also need assurance that the company providing the solution is trustworthy. Orr recommends using these three checkpoints:

1. Make sure that the company offering you extranet software or services is financially viable. Many companies offering extranets today are startups, funded by venture capitalists. As private companies, they don't have to disclose their financial information to you. Ask that they do anyway, so you can make judgments on their viability. If they won't, find another provider.
2. If you are buying a free service, know your business relationship with the provider. In other words, what is the provider's obligation to a customer that pays them nothing?
3. If you are buying a hosted solution, make sure that your data will be safe. Is it backed up regularly? Is it safeguarded in case the provider experiences an earthquake, fire or bankruptcy? Who has access to your backups? And what about system hacks? What are the mechanisms and precautions that the vendor has established to protect your data? These are things you need to know.

Monte Enbysk
Monte Enbysk is a lead editor for the Microsoft.com network and writes occasionally about technology for small businesses.

Kim Komando writes about workplace technology and security issues. She's the host of the nation's largest talk-radio show about computers and the Internet, and writes a syndicated column for more than 100 Gannett newspapers and for USA Today. Find Kim's show on the radio station nearest you, and send an e-mail to subscribe to her free weekly e-mail newsletter.

But there can come a point when your business outgrows this arrangement. You need constant, reliable and secure communications with others in the company to ensure successful growth. You need an intranet.

An intranet is similar to a Web site, and it uses Internet protocols, but it's an internal network exclusive to one company. (An "extranet" also is an internal or private Web site, but access privileges are extended to designated customers, partners and/or others.)

Most large corporations use intranets. Information distribution is a huge task when you have 10,000 or more employees. Intranets can help cure that headache.

I hear you, "I don't have anywhere near 10,000 employees!" But I can give you three major reasons why your small business should invest in one. Here they are:

Even a very small company has communication issues. Most people find out what's happening while gossiping around the coffee pot. Stories change as they spread, leading to a misinformed and disgruntled staff. If you have telecommuters, off-site workers, employees who travel a lot or a "virtual" company, communication issues become even more challenging.

In order for a company to succeed, all players must understand its goals. Neither long-term nor short-term goals should be confined to upper management meetings. It's Business 101. Everyone needs to be working toward common goals.

An intranet is the perfect place to post weekly reports, memos and goals. This way, everyone is on the same page.

Toby Ward, president of the intranet consulting firm Prescient Digital Media, notes that even a company with few employees benefits from an intranet. Even if you don't have people working remotely, your sales staffers or consultants aren't always in the office.

Building an intranet can enhance communication through message boards, instant messaging and moderated chats. How?

Let's take a typical business scenario. The sales staff of five has to come up with a presentation to the president on increasing sales in the next fiscal year.

Those five people will enter a conference room, eat pizza, drink coffee and drag it out for hours. The first meeting turns into a three-hour, stream-of-consciousness brainstorming session. The second meeting starts with a review of the best ideas from the first. The participants hash out why they will or will not work. By the third or fourth meeting, the five will come up with some proposals.

Using a discussion board in the days before the meetings can streamline the experience. Ideas can be debated beforehand. Participants come into the sales meeting more focused.

Yes, this is a clich?©. But it's too valid not to use here.

An intranet allows you to post critical information for all employees to see. Even having human resources information posted is valuable. One of my employees said workers in his former office once spent 45 minutes trying to find out if the day after Thanksgiving was a paid holiday. The personnel manager was gone and no one else knew.

Posting of calendars, company policies and company benefits is a great start. They'll reduce wasted time. But an intranet can be used for more than basic information. The beauty of an intranet is its interactivity.

You can save time (and trees) with interactive forms. Vacation requests, supply orders, changes to benefits and more can be handled quickly and efficiently.

Make sure your intranet follows good design principles. You can't just throw stuff up there and hope people will find it. Organize your intranet to make it as user-friendly as possible. We're trying to save time here, not frustrate people.

You may be thinking, "Why doesn't the personnel person just e-mail the form?" Or, "I communicate well with my employees through meetings and postings on the cork board."

According to Ward, e-mailing multiple versions of the same document or presentation leads to confusion and sometimes information overload.

Let's take that same sales group we envisioned earlier. They've decided on three major ways they will increase sales. They are now working on a PowerPoint presentation.

Five people collaborating on one PowerPoint file can lead to disastrous results. I can hear the shouting now. "Who has the most revised version?" "Johnson, you gave me the wrong figures. I thought we fixed that." And so on.

By using an intranet, people can work on a shared file and have a central location for the most recent file.

This will also help save space on your server. It may sound like a tiny thing, but having versions of various files on everybody's computer takes up valuable space.

Before you set up an intranet, make sure you understand what you want it to do. Understand how employees will use it. Finally, adhere to good design principles. If it takes five or six clicks to find a vacation request form, it's too complex.

You'll also have to decide if you want to build your own solution. A consultant can build an intranet to your specifications. It will have the look and feel and design principles you specify. This route will cost you U.S. $10 to $500 per person per month.

There also are software packages such as Windows SharePoint Services that allow you to customize and design most everything yourself, using someone else's template. SharePoint runs U.S. $39.95 a month or $399 a year, no matter how many users.

Some packages, such as Instant Intranet Builder, use Microsoft Access as the core database. They incorporate linking mechanisms to create a workable intranet easily. You don't need a dedicated IT person to set up and maintain it. Depending on the company's size, the entire package can be had for as little as U.S. $5 per person per month.

Some other software products available include InfoStreet, IntraSmart and Intranet Suite. Pricing varies, depending on the number of users.

To get your intranet ready for employee use, you will need someone to develop and maintain the content. The idea is to have continually updated information available. How you delegate those tasks may depend on the size of your company. If you only have 10 people, one person may be sufficient to maintain the information.

If you have a larger company, you'll probably want to separate content updates among departments. No matter the size, you'll have to budget maintenance time into an employee's schedule. Remember, we're dealing with computers ‚Äö?Ñ?Æ nothing ever runs as smoothly as we would like.

You'll also have to invest in time for employee training. You may even have to spend time convincing old stalwarts to use the intranet. Once the system is up and running and everyone understands it, the return on investment will be significant.

Kim Komando
Kim Komando writes about workplace technology and security issues. She's the host of the nation's largest talk-radio show about computers and the Internet, and writes a syndicated column for more than 100 Gannett newspapers and for USA Today. Find Kim's show on the radio station nearest you, and send an e-mail to subscribe to her free weekly e-mail newsletter.