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		<title>WordPress Business Solutions</title>
		<link>http://www.avidre.com/wordpress-business-solutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 05:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mr.magooroo</dc:creator>
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<p>We are available to help you add new features or solve unexpected problems. If you are in business, then if the purpose of your web site is to inform and to get your visitor to take some action that is beneficial to you (and beneficial to your web visitor). You have a problem if your website does not fulfill it&#8217;s basic function.</p>
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<h1>Content is Important</h1>
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<p>A key factor in determining your position on the search engine results page is your <strong><em>content</em></strong>. Your content must be relevant, interesting, and unique.<br />
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<strong>Use Keywords in Titles</strong><br />
But, be sure to use keywords in a reasonable manner. Keyword &#8220;stuffing&#8221; (overuse) will actually lower your results position!</p>
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		<title>Why You Need a Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 01:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mr.magooroo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The goal for your internet marketing program is to create a website that delivers a compelling message to your marketing target &#8211; and to use that message to help qualify &#8230; <a href="http://www.avidre.com/why-you-need-a-website/"><span class="meta-nav">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.avidre.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/000-002_blu-art1c.jpg" rel="lightbox[624]" title="000-002_blu-art1c"><img src="http://www.avidre.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/000-002_blu-art1c.jpg" alt="" title="000-002_blu-art1c" width="300" height="256" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-639" /></a>The goal for your internet marketing program is to create a website that delivers a compelling message to your marketing target &#8211; and to use that message to help qualify your website visitors and convince them to take your desired action.</p>
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		<title>Customer Needs</title>
		<link>http://www.avidre.com/customer-needs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mr.magooroo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Customer needs should drive your business model. &#160; Henry J. Kaiser, the great industrialist was the first to say “Find a need and fill it.” &#160; Be careful! Finding and &#8230; <a href="http://www.avidre.com/customer-needs/"><span class="meta-nav">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.avidre.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/000-shell03a-web1.jpg" rel="lightbox[457]" title="000-shell03a-web"><img src="http://www.avidre.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/000-shell03a-web1.jpg" alt="" title="000-shell03a-web" width="320" height="256" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-622" /></a>Customer needs should drive your business model.<br />
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Henry J. Kaiser, the great industrialist was the first to say “Find a need and fill it.”<br />
&nbsp;<br />
Be careful! Finding and filling needs is a business model, not a marketing model.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
The marketing equivalent might be find a problem and solve it. Or, better yet, DEFINE a problem and tell the world that you have the solution.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
In other words:<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <> identify what you think is a meaningful problem<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<> determine the nature and extent of the problem you have identified<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<> develop what you think is an appropriate solution<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<> define the potential market for your solution<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<> describe your solution in terms of benefits for your potential customer<br />
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Now, <em>that</em>&#8216;s true &#8220;mousetrap marketing&#8221;! The mousetrap is &#8220;<em>better</em>&#8221; because it traps &#8220;real&#8221; mice, not hypothetical ones.<br />
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		<title>WordPress Hosting</title>
		<link>http://www.avidre.com/wordpress-hosting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 06:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mr.magooroo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We offer Unmanaged WordPress hosting services for those who are comfortable with their ability to manage their own WordPress site. We also offer &#8220;Managed&#8221; hosting services for those who need &#8230; <a href="http://www.avidre.com/wordpress-hosting/"><span class="meta-nav">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.avidre.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/wordpress-new-post.jpg" rel="lightbox[306]" title="wordpress-new-post"><img src="http://www.avidre.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/wordpress-new-post-300x98.jpg" alt="" title="wordpress-new-post" width="300" height="98" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-309" /></a>We offer Unmanaged WordPress hosting services for those who are comfortable with their ability to manage their own WordPress site. We also offer &#8220;Managed&#8221; hosting services for those who need a bit of help getting started with WordPress.</p>
<p>Of course, we are available to help you add new features, solve unexpected problems, or restore your site from one of our free backups.</p>
<p>Please contact us for more information about <strong>WordPress Business Hosting</strong> on our VPS.</p>
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		<title>What is WordPress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mr.magooroo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the WordPress CODEX: &#160; [] WordPress is a powerful personal publishing platform ["an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL"] &#160; [] Platform : PHP &#8230; <a href="http://www.avidre.com/what-is-wordpress/"><span class="meta-nav">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
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[] <strong>WordPress is a powerful personal publishing platform</strong> ["an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL"]<br />
&nbsp;<br />
[] Platform : PHP (4.3 or newer) and MySQL (4.1.2 or newer) are required.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
[] WordPress is designed to be installed on your own web server, or shared hosting account, which gives you complete control over the weblog. Unlike third-party hosted services, you can be sure of being able to access and modify everything related to your weblog, in case you need to.<br />
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[] NOTE: wordpress.<em><strong>com </strong></em>is a third-party hosted <strong><em>feature-limited</em></strong> version of the WordPress software.<br />
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[] WordPress uses templates to generate the pages dynamically. You can control the presentation of content by editing the templates using the Template Editor tool and the Template Tags<br />
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[] A template tag is code that instructs WordPress to &#8220;do&#8221; or &#8220;get&#8221; something. In the case of the header.php template tag for your WordPress site&#8217;s name, it looks like this:</p>
<pre><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><code>&lt;h1&gt;</code>&lt;? php bloginfo('name'); ?&gt;<code>&lt;/h1&gt;</code></strong></span></pre>
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[] Our <strong>WordPress Business Hosting</strong> themes are highly customized to best serve the business user and their website visitors.</p>
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		<title>WordPress Business Hosting</title>
		<link>http://www.avidre.com/wordpress-business-hosting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mr.magooroo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress Business Hosting Our subscription-based internet marketing service comprises a Dynamic Content Management System (CMS) website. The Service is based upon the WordPress CMS, using one of our customized themes, &#8230; <a href="http://www.avidre.com/wordpress-business-hosting/"><span class="meta-nav">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
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Our subscription-based internet marketing service comprises a Dynamic Content Management System (CMS) website. The Service is based upon the WordPress CMS, using one of our customized themes, and hosted on our server as your own domain address &#8211; www. yoursite.com.</p>
<p><strong>What is WordPress?</strong><br />
There is a common misconception that the service available on wordpress.<strong>com</strong>, is the same as the publishing product available for download from wordpress.<strong>org</strong>.  <span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>Nothing could be farther from the truth!</em></span></p>
<p>The website, &#8220;<em>wordpress.com</em>&#8221; is nothing more than a third-party hosting service that uses a feature-limited version of the WordPress software.</p>
<p>WordPress, the publishing software product (&#8220;WordPress&#8221;) from wordpress.org, is designed to be installed on your own web server, or shared hosting account (avidre, for example), which gives you complete control over the CMS. Unlike third-party hosted services, when using our Unmanaged Services, you can be sure of being able to access and modify everything related to your CMS, in case you need to.</p>
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		<title>Who Are We &amp; What Do We Do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 07:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mr.magooroo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We consult, but we are not “consultants“. We teach and give “master classes”, but we are not “teachers” (well… actually, we are teachers – but don’t let that get in &#8230; <a href="http://www.avidre.com/who-are-we-what-do-we-do/"><span class="meta-nav">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.avidre.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/sign_512.png" rel="lightbox[537]" title="sign_512"><img src="http://www.avidre.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/sign_512-300x300.png" alt="" title="sign_512" width="300" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-541" /></a>We <strong>consult</strong>, but we are not “consultants“. We <strong>teach </strong>and give “master classes”, but we are not “teachers” (well… actually, we are teachers – but don’t let that get in your way). We create <strong>internet marketing tools</strong>, but we are not “toolmakers“. We develop websites, but we are not “developers“.</p>
<p>We conduct <strong>workshops about  business</strong> related tools and techniques, content preparation for the web, including WordPress, and other topics &#8211; but we are not “conductors” (we are “workers“, tho).</p>
<p>We are business professionals with many years of experience in business.</p>
<p>We have sold technical products and software services, we have managed technical projects, we have taught, we have managed intellectual property, and we have developed websites.</p>
<p>But, that’s not what we do – what we do is <em><strong>position you to better manage your online business</strong></em>; giving you the potential to increase your income <em><strong>by working smarter</strong></em>.</p>
<p>avidre, inc. was incorporated in 2000, but actually started doing business management consulting in the software industry in 1998.</p>
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		<title>Is Flash Bad for websites?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mr.magooroo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost 10 years ago web design guru Jakob Nielson said: &#8220;About 99% of the time, the presence of Flash on a website constitutes a usability disease. Although there are rare &#8230; <a href="http://www.avidre.com/is-flash-bad-for-websites/"><span class="meta-nav">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Almost 10 years ago web design guru Jakob Nielson said: &#8220;<em>About 99% of the time, the presence of Flash on a website constitutes a usability disease. Although there are rare occurrences of good Flash design (it even adds value on occasion), the use of Flash typically lowers usability. In most cases, we would be better off if these multimedia objects were removed.</p>
<p>Flash tends to degrade websites for three reasons: it encourages design abuse, it breaks with the Web&#8217;s fundamental interaction principles, and it distracts attention from the site&#8217;s core value. </em>&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash">Wikipedia </a>says:<br />
Some web browsers default to not play Flash content before the user clicks on it, e.g. Konqueror, K-Meleon. Equivalent &#8220;Flash blocker&#8221; extensions also exist for many popular browsers: Firefox has NoScript and Flashblock, and Opera has an extension also called Flashblock. Using Opera Turbo requires user clicks to play Flash content. Internet Explorer has Foxie, which contains a number of features, one of them also named Flashblock. WebKit-based browsers under Mac OS X, such as Apple&#8217;s Safari, have ClickToFlash.</p>
<p>Criticism of Adobe Flash have included questions of its usability, the problems Flash-laden pages cause for those with disabilities, security issues, limited platform compatibility, performance and compatibility issues on certain platforms, the inability for search engines to index data contained in Flash binary data, [and] its use as a means to restrict access to content.</p>
<p>We think that, yes, you <em>can </em>use flash; but <strong>never </strong>on the home page and <strong>never </strong>as the entire page. It can be effective if you absolutely have to have some sort of animated effect that cannot be achieved by other means. In today&#8217;s world, Javascript can accomplish most of what is done via flash &#8211; an in a much more &#8220;<em>SEO friendly</em>&#8221; way.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.avidre.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Dice.png" rel="lightbox[187]" title="Dice"><img src="http://www.avidre.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Dice.png" alt="" title="Dice" width="256" height="256" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-252" /></a> You must determine your goals to achieve your vision. Your goals must be S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timebound)</p>
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In order to attain your goals there will be one or more objectives (quantifiable, with deadlines) that must be met.
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To meet each objective, there are action steps that need to be accomplished by you or others within a specified time-frame.
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<li>What staff will be involved? What are their roles? Is there a webmaster on your staff?</li>
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