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Newsletter June 2010

Welcome to the Cooloolabusiness.com Newsletter for June 2010.

We have another financial year drawing to a close with less than 2 weeks to the end of June and it has been a fairly tough year for most small businesses thanks to the global financial meltdown. 

We have been able to maintain our annual hosting and domain registration fees again this year and looking back, we have kept our prices frozen now for a number of years due to decreases in data and infrastructure costs and our ability to offset some of our hosting costs through Google Adsense advertising.   We will continue to freeze prices for our existing and new clients for the 2010/2011 financial year and continue to build our directory networks to benefit clients.

As it is the end of the financial year, remember that it can be a good time to make last minute stock purchases for tax deductions etc. 

MEMBER NEWS

Chris Kath from Bamboo Refined has recently upgraded his website to use the WordPress platform to take advantage of content management and better SEO functionality built-in to the system.  Chris is continuing to expand his eco-friendly bamboo flooring services with specialisation in the installation of his bamboo flooring products.  Chris’s website is currently on page 1 of Google for the keyword phrase “bamboo flooring queensland” and the new site will make it easy for him to add new content and assist in improving his rankings for other related keywords. 

If you are thinking about installing hardwood flooring, give Chris a call on (07) 5484 3663 to find out about the benefits of using eco-friendly bamboo flooring products.

My Way to Happiness – It Gets Better

Julie Gear has published an update to her successful first book and it is available online now from her website at www.mywaytohappiness.com.au

Julie wrote this book to deliver her message, describing how she has developed positive changes within herself. These changes have been small and large. Julie does not claim to have all the answers but, certainly, she explains the essentials that have made her a better person inside and out.

There are lots of self-help books on the market, but My Way to Happiness—It Gets Better stands out because author Julie Gear shares her success story in simple, easy steps. She doesn’t claim to have all the answers but instead wants to show how her self-development work changed her life. This book can be beneficial for teenagers, new moms, people with depression, those losing a loved one, or just simply for people who are searching for better answers.

INTERNET NEWS

Websites for Mobile Devices. We subscribe to a range of industry newsletters to keep up to date with the latest news in website development and we are seeing increasing talk about mobile websites or more correctly, having a version of your website that is designed to be accessible by mobile devices like the iPhone.  We are in the process of developing a system for clients with WordPress websites that will enable us to create an addon mobile version of your current site that will make your site readily accessible to these devices.   The new system should be available next month and we expect that we should be able to provide mobile versions of current WordPress Client sites for about $100.

Google Caffeine – Google has officially announced that their new web indexing system “Caffeine” is live on all Google pages. Google Caffeine is the name for the new method that Google uses to index web pages to index new web pages faster. This means that new content on your website will be shown more quickly in the search results.  We believe that Googles preference is to be able to show the most up to date infomation in search results and therefore using WordPress and adding new, keyword-related content regularly will assist in getting better results placement.

Google Statistics – Americans conducted 15.9 billion searches in May, up 3 percent from April. Google Sites accounted for 10.2 billion searches (up 2 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.9 billion (up 6 percent) and Microsoft Sites with 1.9 billion (up 6 percent).  This shows Google is still the dominant search engine with about 65% of search volume and more importantly, confirms the trend of continually increasing usage of the Internet to find products and services. 

Don’t get left behind – order a Gympie WordPress website now and we will add a mobile wordpress version as a bonus for any new WordPress site (offer available from 26th July 2010 to 31 August 2010).

HANDY SOFTWARE

Acronis Drive Monitor 1.0.0.187 – If you want to keep tabs on your system in order to maximize its safety and security, we recommend Acronis Drive Monitor.  Acronis Drive Monitor is a free, downloadable software application developed by Acronis to monitor server, workstation and PC hard disk drives.  We have been using Acronis Trueimage backup software for a number of years to protect our data and have found it be excellent software.  The Acronis Drive Monitor is a free tool they have produced to monitor your system and notify you of any predicted hard drive problems – read more here:
www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/drive-monitor/

MEMBER CLASSIFIEDS ADVERTISEMENTS
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M1 First Aid  & The Gympie Safety ShopMichelle is currently running a special on “Steel Capped Safety Boots” Mention this advertisement and get a free pair of socks (Note: only available while stocks last) Order through the website or Ring Michelle now on 07 5482 1021

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Starclub Copycentre Justin has some great specials for June/July 1000 Colour DL Flyers – $169 (was $270) 500 Economy Full Colour Business Cards – $85 1000 Colour Fridge Magnets – $499 (was $570) Signs and Stickers – %20 off

Phone: 5483 6477 For all Printing in Gympie.

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Gympie Meat HallOVEN READY MEAT LOAF $5 EACH Savoury Meat Loaf with premium mince made with our own recipe. (PS: Grab a couple of Cheese Kranskys for the BBQ while you are there).

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