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Marketer’s Corner: When should you utilize e-mail marketing for your business?

Some of you might not be aware of MySolutionSpot.com, which is a small business and social networking portal built by the team here at Network Solutions. We covered the launch here.
We just put up a good write up on when you should utilize e-mail marketing for your business. You can find the full article here.
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Creating an “Instant Intranet” – An Interview with Navin Ganeshan on Network Solutions

Navin is a startup guy working in a big company and he loves it. His role at Network Solutions is to manage the data warehouse and all of the analytics. He provides this internally for Network Solutions so operations, finance and marketing are on the same page. This is so they can see how they [...]

Another Twitter Success Story

Network Solutions has been using Twitter for some time now to reach out to customers who toss out a message of help. Most don’t know that we’re there ready to help.
Gerry is the primary voice behind @NetSolCares on Twitter. He also offers top notch support.
Lorissa blogged about her reaction to receiving help on Twitter. [...]

You Bought a Domain Name, Now What? An Interview with Andrew Bates, Small Business Sales Guru at Network Solutions

Andrew loves to consult and provide customers with solutions that will help their businesses grow. Here at Network Solutions he is a senior member of the direct sales team and has been with us for about nine months. While we have dedicated customer care groups for handling phone inquiries and customer support, Andrew Is with [...]

LinkedIn is for Connecting

LinkedIn is well known as a place for business professionals to network with like minded people. It’s easy to use and with a few extra steps beyond creating an account you can find new opportunities for your business.

Here are five steps to get you started after you create an account.

Washington Post highlights new Direction in Marketing

Today’s Washington Post has an excellent article today outlining Marketing Moves to the Blogosphere: Business Model Shifts to Engage Customers Online. Sarah Halzack provides a variety of examples of how company’s are using blogs for marketing.
At Network Solutions we’ve found that the blog is only a small part of the bigger equation. And it encompasses [...]

No Fear Blogging

Do you log in to your blogging software & it strikes fear into you? It causes you to sit & stare at the white space & all of a sudden you can think of a number of other things you’d like to be doing?
Here are 10 ideas to alleviate & dispel those fears:
1. Write down [...]

Steve and Shashi are heading to Gnomedex 2008 this week

That title sounds like the makings of a comedy movie and probably by Sunday there will be amusing stories to share. For those of you who don’t know what Gnomedex is I would say that it is like a mini-TED conference without the large cost and is focused on the social media community with a [...]

Does your Business need a community?

In my post on Marketing 2.0 for Small Business there was a request that I talk about community. It’s an excellent point and it’s difficult to cover every point at length in one article.
The question was:
Some sites and businesses don’t necessarily need a community, more specifically, not all communities are the same.

A Voice is Saved

… a blogging voice. There are millions of voices out there, would it matter if we lost one from the din? Of course it would!
Every voice is important to us at Network Solutions. They are our customers! We are proud to be using the most innovative methods to identify problems & reach out to [...]