Offer Agency Services Courtesy of Google Engage

If you have clients or want to get started with managing online marketing for others; you can utilize Google Engage to do just that. As most things google, the service to you is free.

google engageGoogle has created this program to provide you with additional tools to manage your own accounts or those of others. Obviously they want you to use their advertising services through AdWords however you can learn quite a bit.

Google Engage Provides the Following:

  • Training – They provide an online classroom for you to learn more about the various Google advertising products.
  • Incentives – If you indeed want to begin assisting others and managing others accounts they provide you with 20 promotional $100 AdWords vouchers. These are not only for new accounts but you can use them with prior customers also.
  • Google certification support – If you would like to become certified you can obtain certification training and free exam vouchers.
  • Sales and Marketing Tools – They also provide marketing and sales materials for you to grow your business.
  • Keep up to Date: You will be able to keep up to date with the latest from Google.

Network Solutions Deals

Network Solutions is a name most everyone is familiar with. They were the first domain registrar ever. In other words when domain registration began you obtained one from them. They were the exclusive registrar in the beginning. Learn more about the Network Solutions company.

Deals
network solutions dealsTake a look at their services provided as they can take anyone who does not currently have an online presence and provide them with all they need. You can visit the Network Solutions site here. However first visit this page and obtain a Network Solutions offer code from that list to obtain a discounted domain, or even a discount on your entire order.

Join our Discussions on LinkedIn

I have used LinkedIn for a long time. However just recently I created a group for everything about online business. The name of the group is Longest.com: Online Business so you can follow that link and join or merely search for Longest.com in the LinkedIn groups.

Join the Conversation

I was not sure how I would use it and if I would even find it useful. What I began doing was posting articles from this site within linked in. Everyone in the group can then comment on the article and a discussion begins. As it turns out the LinkedIn group discussing the articles I write here on longest.com are much easier for others to participate in than the comment section of this website. In a very short period of time a group of individuals have had a much more interesting conversation around online business issues than appear in the comments here.

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Join In
Consider joining the discussions at LinkedIn as they are very interesting and with a knowledgeable group of business individuals. Those with their own online companies, or those that work at one. Everyone is welcome. Join Here

New Google Sitelinks

The Google sitelinks you see in search results have changed. They are much more detailed and one could argue more useful. You can read about all the benefits in a google webmaster post about the sitelinks. But before you search note you will not always see them. One way to see them for a site is to do a search on their brand or company name.

Example Search
For example I searched for a companies name, in this case it was C3 Cyber Club which is the name of the company.

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Notice that there are two columns of links, as before. However each link has much more information than it used to. They also provide the address. In this case I was able to map directions to them without even clicking into their site. They also provide related images. As a site owner you need to take note of how your information is being displayed as this is an opportunity to provide users with the information they seek.

Going to Affiliate Summit East?

If you are going to Affiliate Summit East which starts this weekend let me know if you would like to meet and chat. My business partners Chris and I will be there. We consult through Phase One Accelerator, for online businesses, and provide pay for performance marketing for various advertisers. We will be there starting Sunday through Tuesday.

affiliate summit eastAffiliate Summit East is very well put together. A great place to meet others in the industry, whether it be advertisers, networks, or other marketing folks. They also have sessions to learn from the pros. Hope to see you there.

Network Solutions Sells to Web.com

The Wall Street Journal wrote on August 3rd that Network Solutions sold for $560 Million. Network Solutions sold to Web.com for a combination of stock and cash. The total cash price is $405 million and the total share amount is valued at $155 million.

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Network Solutions has been around for over 30 years. They were the first to manage the domain name system and did so exclusively for a period of time. They offer domain registration, web hosting, online marketing, e-commerce, and more services to Fortune 100 businesses and small businesses alike.

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Web.com is a public company (Nasdaq: WWWW) and provides a suite of online marketing services. They provide website services as well and over 15 million websites have been created using their tools and services.

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Web.com had acquired Register.com almost exactly one year ago. The press release was issued August 2nd, 2010 when Web.com announced they Acquired Register.com. The deal was for $135 million comprising of $25 million in cash and $110 million in long term debt.

Web.com will be an interesting organization when it is all said and done, assuming they can assimilate the companies properly.