Hello readers and welcome back to the Silentblast blog. Today I am going to mix it up a little bit from the previous posts I have done which focused on you as a business communicating with your clients, customers and potential customers. Today and possibly the next few posts I am going to talk about the advent of some form of crisis or disaster that has affected your line of communications and more importantly previous lines of communications.  Again my focus is more so the current client base of Silentblast, the small business sector and even right down to the personal level.

Firstly what exactly is Business Continuity Planning or BCP? Well, in laymen’s terms it is the ability and capability of your business to recover and continue operations after a critical component/s of it has been either been disrupted, damaged, severed or destroyed. There are many levels regarding BCP, from the workforce, IT, product and service deliverability, supply chain, to other physical concerns such as your business locations, offices and warehouses.

Disruption of a business can take many forms from a BCP perspective as I described above but also to illustrate and maybe as a food for thought; have you ever considered your action plan in the event of a major data failure or disruption? A lot of people and for that matter small business don’t factor in the probability of failure of their data. There is a common misunderstanding that every time you turn on your computer, it will work like a charm. Despite mass media stories about various virus threats that have plagued both personal and business users there are still those who take the risk of “it can never happen to me.”

Even those who do take precautions from an anti-virus standpoint still have issues of threats from spyware and malware and to cap it off; backing up data. The backing up of data has to be one of the least practiced small business responsibilities that are not done. If you believe that partitioning your hard drive into two virtual drives and copying files from one to another is doing the trick someone has either completely misinformed you. It is still the same drive. If the drive goes; the data goes, no matter how many times you have partitioned it.

So what should you do really? Well, to keep it relatively simple let’s just look at a single computer. Most computers today come with a minimum of a CD burner but more than likely a DVD burner. A CD will hold roughly 700mb of information and a DVD will hold either 4.7G as a single layer or roughly 9G as a duel layer. The later takes a special DVD burner that is slowly becoming standard; but the blank media is still more expensive for DVD duel layer.

If you are installing a DVD burner as an example into a machine you most likely will be given some form of SE Edition. Essentially a dummied down version of a full blown media suite to copy or make photo CD’s, copy files for back up by an internal “drag and drop” utility of some kind and other media related sub-utilities.

Personally I would look into more specific software for backing-up data. One that comes to mind is Norton Ghost 14.0. I have made the name into a link so you can read on it from their website and see if it is for you.

In addition I would also highly recommend a backup drive (external). There are so many on the market right now and the cost are really reasonable. I have one that is 1 Terrabyte is size and I throw everything on it just to keep my internal computer hard drive as empty as possible. What I really want to preserve long time I just burn to DVD (usually two copies) and file in a CD wallet.

How often you do backups is entirely up to you. I would advise that if your adding a significant amount of data within a day that is critical; then probably daily you should be backing up. Minimum though should be at least every week. So I would do it something like the Friday; before closing the down the office computers for the weekend if your business is not operating on weekends.

So this ends Part 1 and I will write more in other parts regarding Business Continuity Planning. But as a final thought remember that one of the aspects of your business, being a website when hosted by a reliable service provider will perform daily backups as the norm. All of Silentblast’s current customer base are hosted on servers that are backed up on a regular and continual basis.

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Hello readers and welcome back to the Silentblast Blog. This entry is going to be somewhat shorter than my normal postings of late. It is more focused actually on a specific question I was asked by an associate of mine. Will blogging affect a websites search engine rankings?

Well in my research across various websites, other blogs and in fact performing a Google search on the topic itself the shortest answer is yes a blog can assist your business for example in ranking in the search engines. The caveat on the matter and I am no particular expert on search engine optimization but know enough that I can say if you provide reasonably significant and relevant content that pertains to the overall context of your website with content and specifically key wording, increasing your ranking status is very possible.

For example, if your blog is part of an actual overall web site strategy it is the avenue by which you can relate as I do for Silentblast product and services that are readily available. This is done by providing linking within the site to other web pages that should have content that is also relevant. However if I was to write about only topics pertaining to racecar driving for example there is very little if nothing relevant to Silentblast in that context.

The goal of course is to provide not only information that works for your website or blog in moving up the search engine ranks but also to provide information that a person can use. Consider also that each blog entry specifically is the equivalent of you adding another page to your website. If you have built your own website and constructed pages or had a web development company such as Silentblast build a website for you; each page takes time and obviously money. A blog once established within your website is something that you will be responsible to maintain. The continued cost more or less is you committing time to contribute to your blog.

A website overall is still obviously the way to highlight key specific aspects or facets of your company or organization in a more static approach unless you have something like CMS (Content Management Systems) in place that change specific aspects of a given web page or pages. A blog and its purpose in my opinion is to provide continual content from a personalized approach that complements an overall web presence.

As you provide blog entries over time they archive. So imagine for a moment if you had a business you could write something about at least once a week. Overall that is 52 articles; 52 pages of relevant content and key words with links that point within your website in a given year. Again the more you contribute the more content you are providing and it should not be hard because in reality you should have an opinion or viewpoint on your business and be knowledgeable of it. So as you are providing content the search engines are indexing not only your website but also your blog. If you are not doing a lot of changes with your core website doing something with a blog will be of benefit.

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Welcome readers to the Silentblast Blog. Antonio and I hope you have been reading through these blog entries and implementing some of the suggestions into your business strategy in an effort to increase your overall web presence but more importantly leveraging your current business marketing strategy to bring in new customers and most importantly informing your current customer base.

If one thing you notice as a centralized theme as I discussed briefly in my last blog post is the importance of “communication.” Quite frankly despite all the methods and means of today’s technology a lot of businesses still fail somewhat in the communication aspect of their business.

It should be no surprise and in reality I am more or less preaching to the choir when it comes to the majority of the suggestions put forth in this blog. However, if you know it but have done nothing sometimes it is good to hear it again but without the pressure of a heavy handed sales pitch. Further if you notice I have not really pitched Silentblast services. Reading between the lines however, you know as well as I do, discussing things like blogs for example is a product service offering Silentblast can assist you with.

So Email Marketing as a Business Tool. If you look at your current business and all the customers you have; there are in effect continual and residual income streams that can be tapped into. But it is also a way of notifying your customer base of current and future product offerings or services. Case in point; some time ago I signed up to the www.makeitseven.ca website. If you read the news you might know that the CEO of Research in Motion (Blackberry) Jim Balsillie is currently striving to bring an NHL franchise to S/W Ontario.

So I went to the website; signed up using my name and an email address to be kept informed of future news regarding his efforts. Just a few days ago; I received a very well written email from Jim Balsillie outlining his current efforts and also to visit the website again as they now have areas for people to voice their views on the issue. It is estimated that by Friday May 15^th2009, the website had over 120,000 people sign up. So I visited the website; read some commentaries by people, and even bookmarked it in my web browser.

So you may be going; “yeah so what, big deal.” Your absolutely correct; but in the wrong context of what a big deal is. It is a huge deal. As this effort grows in capturing names and email addresses they are in effect growing a potential customer base.

If Jim Balsillie is successful in being able to bring an NHL franchise to S/W Ontario he now has 120,000 names and email addresses and counting to lean on from a marketing perspective to potentially sell tickets, advertising, corporate sponsorships to. He is also the CEO of Research in Motion aka Blackberry. You don’t think he might throw that in the arena once in a while in an email to over 120,000 people.

Another example is I am involved in a professional association and I am responsible for the updating of the website and our mass email/newsletter campaign. In June 2008, my mass email database had roughly 530 members. It now has over 1000; including an increase overall to our membership, substantial increases to our seminars and events, increases in corporate sponsorship and huge increases in terms of visits to our website.

A lot is attributable to a well designed website, continually adding information and content on a regular basis and more importantly direct communication to the membership through a professional email marketing service. Without even really no effort, the website I manage on behalf of the association I am involved in typically captures between 10-30 people a month by them voluntarily signing up for our email/newsletter service. That is without even trying.

Imagine what you can do if you were even able to target email market 10% of the customers you have currently. It might be a small number customer wise but it could represent a huge number potentially to your bottom line depending on your product and service offerings. Both ways, there is potential for something simple as an email and turn it into a viable income stream for your business.

Now, realistically depending on your needs and the size of your customer base an email marketing system will cost money. However, in comparison to other forms of media such as newspaper/periodical ads, TV spots and the like, it is vastly cheaper and its target marketing. You are connecting with customers you already have, or those who voluntarily want to potentially do business with you.

Silentblast is positioned to help you with an email marketing campaign solution. I know, as I had the Association I am involved in not only approve Silentblast to design our website but also the recommendation for email marketing as a tool to communicate with our current, potential and future members. Oh yeah, before I forget, remember my last post where I talked about business potential from family, friends, associates. Family friends and associates are potential customers too, never forget that! The Association I am involved in has not only used Silentblast services initially, but several times; in database development, content management, search engine optimization but also implementing our email/newsletter campaign for our members.

But back to;

Silentblast is partnered in my opinion with the leader of professional email marketing solutions. There are aspects of it that can even be implemented directly into your current website, such as voluntarily signing up for your mass email/newsletter. So seriously consider discussing this business tool with the Silentblast team.

You’re free of course to explore your own options or solutions. Again the centralized theme over the last few blog posts is that communication is important in your business model. Look at all options available to you and if you are interested email us, talk to us… send a smoke signal. There are many keys to business; and communication is a very important key that you do not want to lose or misplace.

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Canadian owned and operated, Silentblast is a professional web design and development company in Toronto serving small and mid-sized companies in the GTA, Brampton, Vaughan, North York, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Scarborough and Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Silentblast also develops mobile web site design and development and mobile applications for the iPhone and other mobile phone platforms.

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Hello readers and welcome to another entry of the Silentblast blog. So far so good on my end helping Antonio on providing content that goes beyond somewhat the ordinary that would be expected of a web development company. Antonio and I believe that these blog entries not only will provide content for his website that relates to his business model but more importantly provides information that can help customers of Silentblast. Also let’s go on a limb here. If you’re current web development firm is not preaching this stuff as well, maybe it’s time to reconsider who your partnered with when it comes to developing internet strategies to bring your business to the next level; and there is always a next level. Don’t sell yourself short because someone else say’s they or you can’t do it.

But back to the topic at hand, Social Networking for Business.

If you look at your business; you’re social whether you know or realize it. From the moment a customer comes to your door, to the moment they leave; hopefully after purchasing a product or service, there is a cycle of social activity. What’s your storefront look like, how are your staff engaging in customer service, the décor of the interior, questions asked/answered, do you afford an opportunity to continue communications if they left without buying and so forth.

Now I discussed earlier about Blogs and the social aspects of them that could help your business. Building it and just putting it on your website or having it just as your website and doing nothing will bring in minimal to no results. Like your business, you have to work these elements like a blog for example in order to see results. Do nothing… expect nothing. Do something… based on efforts you should see results.

There are a couple of other tools in your business arsenal you can use such as Twitter www.twitter.com or Facebook www.facebook.com

Ok, so you’re maybe rolling your eyes and going “not a chance.” Fine, then you just literally slammed the doors closed on potentially 15 million plus users on Twitter and Facebook has an astounding 200 million users. So now you’re saying, “I get the numbers but realistically my business is located in this given area” (points to map and concentric circle). Fair enough, and in that concentric circle your telling me there is not one potential Facebook or Twitter user? That I doubt. I can walk out my front door and already knowing in fact; there is at least 10 of my closest neighbors on Facebook alone. I haven’t even left the street yet. Throw in work colleagues, friends, family, extend to their friends and family. If your family is like mine, you can probably fill a bus or two. Somewhere, someone on that business bus at some time or another will or probably could use a service or product of yours.

“Yeah I get that, but they are family and friends and they know about my business already.” Really!!! So you crack open your family and friends phone book every time a new product or service becomes available in your business and call them all to tell them about it right? Wait… what’s that sound… (crickets chirping)… yeah I thought so.

Chances are you are not and the next person that tells me “they don’t have time” to do something relatively simple they are basically telling me they don’t have time to develop me into a potential customer let alone develop their business. You must be content then with your bottom line and going about your business dusting the shelves and waiting for the phone to ring or customers to walk in. I apologize then, please continue about your business.

For the rest; who know that getting a customer is hard work and takes time and effort, Social Networking can help you. It won’t be the end all to your business of course, but compared to other media in terms of cost like newspaper ads, TV spots, or advertising in periodicals it is extremely cost effective. Last I checked; both Facebook and Twitter were FREE!!!

If you place your Facebook and Twitter link on your website or blog, put them on your business card and marketing materials and provide even a link to it in your email marketing campaigns; the Social Network sites you maintain will grow gradually and steadily into a stable of customers and potential customers to communicate with on a regular basis.

So if you have been reading these entries in the Silentblast blog for the past few weeks you may be wondering; “what’s my message?” Well the message is actually really simple. Communication. Despite the advent of cellular phones and computers I am still of the belief despite those tools, businesses don’t communicate enough to their current customers or potential customers. If you don’t believe me, ask them the next time you’re speaking with them… in person. I think you will be surprised by the answers they give which are comments you might consider implementing.

So what is this email marketing campaign I mentioned earlier? Oh yeah that! Next blog entry, next time I communicate with you.

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Canadian owned and operated, Silentblast is a professional web design and development company in Toronto serving small and mid-sized companies in the GTA, Brampton, Vaughan, North York, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Scarborough and Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Silentblast also develops mobile web site design and development and mobile applications for the iPhone and other mobile phone platforms.

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Hello readers and welcome back to the Silentblast blog. Today I am going going to be discussing an aspect of business that all of you should be able to appreciate. Saving money.

Now for the most part; readers of this blog are current customers of Silentblast so truly my focus is on you and your business. If you are a start-up it is especially important that keeping expenses minimized is critical in the beginning phases of a start up. So with that said, I am here to point out that there are alternatives when it comes to business software. You don’t need to spend a fortune; in fact all the options I will point out are free. But first; examine your business and obviously your business needs. In some cases you may require specialized software that is niche oriented. The alternatives that I am discussing can suit most small – medium sized businesses and certainly the home office and let’s not forget the personal computer user and student.

There are many free alternatives actually to a common software category but I will stick with the ones I have used or seen used most often. In most cases, if not all there are versions available for both the Windows and Mac OS based user.

Office Suite

Open Office 3.0- OpenOffice provides a great alternative to existing commercial office suites. It comes with word processor (Writer), spreadsheet (Calc), presentation (Impress), drawing and graphing tool (Draw), tool for creating equations and formulas (Math) and finally a database tool which also build reports and forms (Base). All components are multi-platform and multilingual. Development is sponsored by Sun Microsystems.

This is probably the key software most users are concerned about and its compatibility with MS Office documents. Open Office and all its components are compatible with MS Office up to MS Office 2007. In fact Open Office 3.0 reads older versions of MS Office documents better than the newer version of MS Office 2007. You can also PDF a document directly within Open Office 3.0.

Email/Calender

Mozilla Thunderbird – This full-featured open source email client provides an excellent alternative to all commercial email clients.

Sunbird – Mozilla Sunbird® is a cross-platform calendar application.

Lightning – Lightning brings the Sunbird calendar to the popular email client.

Desktop Publishing

Scribus 1.3 – Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.

Web Browser

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 – Despite a very hard effort Mozilla Firefox has always been 2nd on the browser market – only surpassed by Microsoft Internet Explorer. This is of course due to the fact Explorer is built into the install of the OS. However, it is gaining market share rapidly and aims to take the number one place.

Anti – Virus

Clam Anti Virus 0.93 – ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003. It features high detection rates, scheduler, automatic download of virus database updates and a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook. By itself ClamWin Antivirus does not provide an on-access realtime scanner, but Winpooch adds this feature to ClamWin.

Directories for Open Source Software

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So there are some of the key software types that can easily represent hundreds if not thousands of dollars in potential savings per computer system. It is interesting to point out that in my experience and in having both a home computer and laptop I have saved literally hundreds of dollars not only for myself but for the company I work for.

If you walk into any major business supply firm and look at the commercial software options of the aforementioned just getting the basics like an office suite, simple graphics program, and anti-virus can cost close to $1000.00 if not more per machine. As a start up business that is an insane cost to pay to set up a contact list, do some email, invoices, proposals and other administrative tasks.

So some of you may be asking if all this open source software is so great how come big-business use the more popular software options that cost significant dollars. Well there is not entirely an easy answer to that except that Open Source software is free and there is no real money to inundate you with advertising or a sales force like commercial software companies offering their wares. However, this current fiscal downturn has significantly increased the level of awareness of looking for savings within a given business structure. Migrating to open source software can present significant savings and cost of ownership is much lower obviously long term.

Also consider that savings in migrating to open source software can facilitate capital expenditures for your business such as expansion, purchase of new computer equipment, office furniture and even web development to drive current, potential and future business to your door. Let alone just maybe enjoying the monetary gain and banking it for a rainy day.

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Hello readers and welcome to another entry for the Silentblast blog. Today I am going to discuss the merits of having a blog for your business if a blog is suitable to your business model as a business web strategy.

Like many aspects of business there are some facets and tools that are suitable to employ in your overall business strategy and some that are not. In keeping with the topic if your business for example is to provide end user products or services for government in the national security or intelligence field than in all likelihood it would not be in your best interests to have a blog; let alone being allowed corporately or by your current or future client base.

However if your business model is for example a high end furniture retail outlet; then there is definitely strategic possibilities in using a blog to supplement your current business website strategy and bringing products, services and information to your client base.

But before we continue; what is a blog? Well before that is answered it is prudent to illustrate that there are essentially two key types of blogs. One is personal, the other is more business related. A personal blog is really someone’s effort and personal opinion on a myriad of topics. Some personal blogs follow a specific theme such as a hobby, passion or cause. The articles or posts tend to follow two unique trends. The posts are either short or extensive depending on what that person wants to express that given day.

The other type of blog is business focused and usually in the form of hopeful or realized revenue generating income streams by providing relevant information on products or services offered by said company. In some cases a blog for a business is the sole internet presence as a cost effective method of establishing a footprint on the web. Ideally and this is my personal opinion if a blog is the cornerstone of your web presence eventually you should migrate to and certainly incorporate a blog in your future business web development strategy of a website presence beyond the blog.

However a blog as another item in your business toolbox can bring in definitive benefits if your business is prepared and focused to use it. As stated earlier, it can provide a connection to your current customer base, potential customers, and drive web based traffic to your site and probably the most critical, showcase your companies expertise in its product and service offerings. Coincidentally those aspects are also important if you currently have a website.

Today blogs are becoming highly accepted by end users and businesses alike as an effective means of not only drawing in potential new customers but also continually informing the customers after the cash register has rung in a sale. It is no secret that you as a business owner want that customer to come back and not only that, tell others so they in turn will walk through the door either in a brick and mortar business or virtually on the web and become clients.

I have read in magazines and periodicals that on average a business in a year can lose 20% and higher of its current customer base for a myriad of reasons. I would guess there may be several reasons for that loss but I believe at least part of the loss is the result of lack of communications with your current customers, let alone potential customers.

So sit back a moment and reflect on your current business and its potential loss of customers realistically. Examine what one single customer can bring in financially to the bottom line in a given month as an example; that you could have retained had you communicated product and service offerings in a cost effective manner to that individual. If it’s significant enough to raise an eyebrow than as a responsible business you should be concerned. Considering today’s economic climate a business cannot afford to have the mentality of it being acceptable that you “win some, lose some.�

By incorporating a blog to your current web development and business strategy the goal is “win/win� and in a cost effective manner that employs your subject matter expertise on your products and services.

So if you’re current customers of Silentblast consider and examine the possibility of a business blog as part of your customer development and retention strategy. If you are considering placing a business footprint on the internet consider as well a business blog either as the first phase of development or part of an overall strategy to both bolster and increase your business potential.

Either aforementioned method can be effective in getting your business on the internet as a cost effective interim solution or as a supplement to your current internet business strategy.

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Hello and welcome readers to a revitalized Silentblast blog. I was asked by Antonio if I could steer this ship for him while he is focusing on bringing the end-user aspects of Silentblast such as CMS Development, Web Design and so forth to the forefront for both his current customer base and obviously future customers.

In truth I am no stranger to this form of media and I will be discussing  blogs in future posts as part of a business strategy for current and future customers and why in some instances it is good for businesses to have this media reach to the public and in turn trying to convert a reader to a potential customer or prospect.

I suppose an introduction is in order. My name is Chris and I am actually part of Antonio’s extended family. I work as a Risk Manager for a real estate management, development and investment firm in the greater Toronto area. So I will speak more to the business aspects of the internet and website development. I will still encourage Antonio to speak on topics of design, look and feel, user functionality and so forth in his blog posts.

But back to Antonio and our relationship that has grown actually not only on the basis of family but also our common love for computers and associated technology. Things that go beep and have some lights flicker have always caught our attention and we have over the years had some rather interesting conversations on technology and the future of it.

This in turn actually planted the seeds to what Silentblast is today. Going back several years both Antonio and I cut our teeth as it were on a simple website that focused on the Mac community. Antonio was the designer and coder and I provided relevant content. There also was and well known; a unique difference between Antonio and I. Antonio was Mac concentric and I was PC concentric. We were in fact the equivalent going back to 2000 no different than what Apple capitalizes on in their current marketing campaign of “Mac Guy� and “PC Guy.� Next time I bump into Steve Job’s I should discuss this with him possibly.

For close to 2 years we built essentially a small site and transformed it into actually part of a greater community. We never really discussed the idea of turning it over into a revenue generating project but rather kept it as it was. More or less a hobby website that was niche based.

Eventually we did close it down as both our personal and business commitments were increasing and so was the website. While free in all respects to the community; freedom comes at the price of commitment if you open up your doors on the model of free and you end up getting flooded with requests that exceeds the expectations of what free should be about. We decided before it would get beyond our hobby based time commitment to notify our user base, close our virtual doors and ride off in the internet sunset with some unique lessons learned But it really never ended for Antonio and he would build a successful business based on some of the lessons learned and core values of web design inherited from that hobby site we worked on. It is interesting as I reflect on it now while writing that I have somewhat of a fingerprint on the foundation of what Silentblast is today.

So there you have it readers; the Coles Notes version of the origins of Silentblast and my personal connection to both Antonio and Silentblast. I will, as I stated earlier in this post provide articles and I even have some ideas on methods using current technology and readily available services that you as a reader can employ to better your current website development by demonstrating them through the Silentblast blog.

Silentblast Interactive - Toronto Web Design and Development

Canadian owned and operated, Silentblast is a professional web design and development company in Toronto serving small and mid-sized companies in the GTA, Brampton, Vaughan, North York, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Scarborough and Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Silentblast also develops mobile web site design and development and mobile applications for the iPhone and other mobile phone platforms.

Website – www.silentblast.com

Silentblast Blog – www.silentblast.com/blog

Twitter – http://twitter.com/silentblast