With all of the new Online Expo features we’ve added lately, there are lots of new ways for your business to get noticed online with your Online Expo booth. But – we also know how hard it is to find time to make updates to your booth. If you’re like most users, it’s just one more task on your To-Do List that often gets pushed to the bottom.

So to help you take advantage of all the new features in your booth, we are offering current Online Expo participants FREE QUARTERLY MAINTENANCE for 2010, but only if you sign up by December 15, 2009.

Sign up by December 15, and at the beginning of each quarter in 2010 we’ll send you a short email form that you can fill out online. It’s easy – simply fill out the form, and we’ll make the updates to your booth for you – at absolutely no cost!

Imagine having your booth updated with:

• January 2010: Start the New Year with a fresh, updated booth!
• April 2010: Let customers know what’s new for Spring
• July 2010: Avoid the summer slump – promote your special offers!
• October 2010: Get your Booth ready for the Holiday Season

Your Online Expo booth is a great promotional tool that is already working for you 24/7/365. Why not take advantage of all the new features that you may not yet be using? Let us keep your booth information fresh, up-to-date, and working for your business with this special, limited-time offer.

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Simply having a web site for your company is not enough anymore – not only do your customers expect to see you where they are already spending their time (e.g., social networking sites), but search engines are increasingly listing content from sites like YouTube, Twitter, and – you guessed it – your Online Expo booth! In fact, an Online Expo booth often ranks higher in the Search Engines than a company’s own web site!

Over the past few months we have added several new features to your Online Expo booth, making it easier than ever to give your company an expanded online presence. For instance, now you can:

• Add SEO data to your booth (keywords that become meta-data) – follow up by using your keywords within your content.
• Add your Social Networking Profiles to your Online Expo booth – it’s easy to do, and it allows your booth’s visitors to connect to you in a variety of ways.
• Add PDF files more easily – the PDF upload feature has been redesigned to make it quick and easy for you to instantly upload pdf files to your Online Expo booth. Did you know that Search Engines can also “read” the text in your PDFs? Sprinkle your keywords throughout the PDFs you upload to add extra “link juice.”

A few simple updates to your booth can do more than you think to expand your reach online and boost your search engine rankings.

Five Sparrows will be attending this year’s MCCE (Michigan Conference of Chamber Executives) Annual Conference and Expo.

FIVE SPARROWS – KICKING OFF THE CONFERENCE!

Social Marketing: Tips, Tricks, and Tactics for Using Social Media

Wednesday , October 28
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Five Sparrows is excited to be presenting the “lead-off” seminar at this year’s MCCE conference! The seminar will include live demonstrations and hands-on examples of creating an integrated social marketing strategy using today’s top social marketing sites.

ALSO NEW THIS YEAR – IN-BOOTH SEMINARS!

On Thursday, Oct. 29, Five Sparrows will be offering Social Networking mini-seminars (about 10 minutes each) right in our booth!

If you’re attending the conference, be sure to stop by and say hello. You won’t want to miss these quick, informative FREE seminars!

Online Expo Press Release Makes a Big Impact!

As we announced in last month’s newsletter, new Social Networking capability has now been added to all Online Expo booths.

This is of course big news, so on August 18, 2009, we sent out a press release to let the world know about this cool new feature.

Boy, did we ever get some great publicity for the Online Expo Program from that press release! Here is a summary:

• The press release was picked up in six online media outlets, including Google News, MediaSyndicate, PR Log, and Newswire
• The press release was “tweeted” 41 times in Twitter by various users and organizations
• Multiple bloggers writing small business and technology blogs picked up the press release and provided inbound links (good for search engine rankings)

Take advantage of all this great publicity, and add your social networking links to your Expo Booth today!