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Making Luminous Day Spa more search engine-friendly

In our last issue, we offered readers the opportunity to have an SEO expert review one of their sites for free. Luminous Day Spa was our choice this time. Read on for the expert analysis of their site, full of good tips that anyone can use.

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Member Q&A: Advice for first-time Homestead site builders

We posed a simple question to our Homestead website members: What advice would you give someone building a Homestead website for the first time? We got some surprising answers; check them out for ideas you may be able to use!

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JumpUp: The place to start and grow your business.

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Importing your eBay Listings into Homestead Storefront

If you’re already an eBay seller, you can import your listings from eBay into Homestead Storefront in a couple of different ways…

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Easily Upload Your Products to Shopping Site Feeds

Homestead Storefront provides built-in tools for submitting your product catalog to major comparison shopping sites.

Member Q&A

Q: What advice would you give someone building a Homestead Storefront for the first time?

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Free drawing – see if YOUR site is search engine-friendly

Make sure your site is optimized to have a better chance of showing up on the leading search engines. Enter for a chance to have one of our experts review your site for free or read on to follow our tips.

Homestead Directory & SearchLight:
Two good ways to get found

Want a shot at the thousands of visitors Homestead.com gets every year? See how listing your site in the Homestead Directory can help you take advantage of that traffic, and pay big dividends for your business.

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Member Q&A
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Homestead Teams with ASBDC to Help Small Businesses Succeed Online

Homestead has partnered with America’s Small Business Development Center Network as their preferred provider of website services. Learn what the ASBDC Network can do for your business.

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Earn Ad Revenue from Your Site Using Google™ AdSense

Want to learn how to earn ad revenue from your site or add Google search to your page? We’ll show you how easy it is to customize and place ads on your website with a free Google Adsense account and SiteBuilder.

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This holiday season, get found on search engines…

The holidays are just around the corner. As the season approaches, make sure you take full advantage of online advertising to boost your customer base.

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… and get found on eBay!

We have teamed up with eBay to help you expand your business to more than 225M new buyers. With the eBay Seller OnRamp program, you receive FREE business consulting from eBay experts.

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Editor’s Poll Results

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Staying Connected with Mailing Lists pt. 2:
Email Marketing 101

In the Spring 2007 issue of Homestead’s website newsletter, we offered you a guide to creating an email mailing list that can be a powerful tool for marketing your site. This time around we’ve got some new tips on making good use of your list.

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Duct Tape Marketing

In early June, Homestead announced the first in our series of best-in-class small business workshops offered exclusively to Homestead customers. The Small Business Marketing Workshop was led by John Jantsch, author of Duct Tape Marketing, and included three one-hour live webinars specifically designed to help your business succeed in today’s changing marketplace. For highlights from the workshop and a first look at what’s to come, read on!

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Customer Success
Beach Rentals Bookings Skyrocket With Online Marketing

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Increase Sales With Merchandising Tips

Web design has its own set of best practices that you can use to optimize your sales. No time to do it yourself? Let our design professionals create a site that’s perfect for your business.

If you’re designing pages yourself, keep these best practices in mind.

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Use Promos & Email For Summer Sales

Sales and promotions are a great way to fight the “summer slump.”

When the weather heats up and summer fun is calling, many people spend less time shopping. Use your StoreFront Promotions feature to get their attention and boost traffic.

All StoreFront tiers can configure product-specific promotions.

Not sure what to put on sale? Employ the same discounting strategies on items used by big retailers – offer discounts on must-have, high-ticket items for summer, special purchases, overstock markdowns, and inventory clearance items.

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Customer Success

Ohio Photo Jewelry Designer Succeeds with Online Store for Customers and Wholesalers

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Staying Connected with Mailing Lists

Whether you are a business owner marketing to your customers or trying to stay connected to your network of friends and colleagues, an electronic mailing list can be an invaluable tool for your website. Creating a mailing list makes it easier to send announcements, promotions, and newsletters to many people at once using the power of email. In this short article we offer quick steps to creating a mailing list and adding elements to your website that allow visitors to add or remove themselves from your mailing list.

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9 Small Business Resources Websites

Many of Homestead’s customers have dreamt of starting their own company. Some have set up their small businesses and are looking to grow them. Perhaps you match this description. You’ve got the time, energy and resources to make your enterprise work, but you need help on where to begin or how to market your product. We’ve scoured the Internet and created a list of 9 websites chock-full of business information and resources. Visit them for real-life tactics, to download useful forms or to learn the new trends that are on the horizon.

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Customer Success
Homestead Website Helps Dog Obedience Group Counsel Canines Worldwide

Save Time by Uploading Multiple Products Simultaneously

One of the advantages of using Homestead StoreFront is the ability to list and sell multiple products online. Whether you have just begun building your online store or would like to add products to an existing store, you can save valuable time by using Microsoft Excel to upload multiple products at once. With Homestead StoreFront, you have the option of creating multiple products by importing a single CSV (spreadsheet) file to your Storefront Manager rather than creating each product individually. Follow these step-by-step instructions to download, edit, and import a spreadsheet file of products to your Storefront Manager.

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Sell More by Posting Product Images

Customers will be more likely to purchase your products if they are accompanied by images of the products you are selling. In order to associate an image with a product, you must import the image to your Storefront and then add the exact name of that image to the product’s list of information. Here we offer a guide to complete both of these steps.

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GPS Dealer Uses Homestead StoreFront to Save Fees, Increase Profit

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Design Tips From Our Web Experts

You have made an important decision by choosing Homestead for your website. Though you may have already used our extensive design gallery and award-winning Sitebuilder software to customize your site, did you know we also offer consultations with our own web experts? In fact, our designers can customize your site to your specifications while also offering tips you can implement yourself to improve your online relationship with your customers. Here are just a few simple tips from our experts you can use today to make sure your site continues to work for you.

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Guide to Building an Effective Website

In today’s marketplace, a business’s website is often the first point of contact for new customers. While poor design invariably drives prospects away, a professionally designed and managed site communicates that your company is well run and successful, giving new customers the confidence to do business with you. Your website is a key component of your overall marketing mix; it must advance your business strategy.

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