When you spend so much of your time working with clients helping them build successful websites, it’s hard to find the time to work on your own site. That has been our dilemma for a number of years. Our old site has served us well, but today we are extremely proud to be able to launch our new website. The new website has been an ongoing project that we’ve been working very hard on. In between client work, we’ve put in the time and effort necessary to show off what we’re capable of. It’s really a thrill for me to be able to work with our talented staff on a daily basis and to be able to show off their hard work.

This new website would not have been possible without the tireless efforts of our creative force, our talented designer Azadeh Azarian. In addition with the support from our search engine expert Barbara Warne we hope that even more clients will be able to find us in search engines when searching for a reliable and creative web design company.

We hope you like our new website. Feel free to post your feedback as a comment to this blog post. We look forward to hearing from all of you.

Karim Ardalan

President

MIS, Inc.

As you may have heard, we have moved to our own office! Our new office is centrally located and should make it much easier for our clients to reach us.

Our new address is:

MIS, Inc.
8501 Candelaria Rd NE, Suite F1
Albuquerque NM 87112

Please update your records accordingly.

We are now at the corner of Candelaria and Wyoming in the Fidelity Professional Center. Please come by and see us sometime.

These are some characteristics of a good business website:
Continue reading Characteristics of a Good Business Website

In order to get traffic you should follow these steps: Continue reading A few ways to get some more traffic to your website

Here are some ways you can reduce the amount of Spam messages you receive: Continue reading What You Can Do to Reduce Email Spam

If you’re in the business of serving customers then your website content should reflect that. If your website is all about how great you are but doesn’t say anything about your customers then you might be sending the wrong message to your audience.

There is a website that offers a free tool that will analyze your text and tell you if your text is focused more on you or your customers. It’s called the ‘We We Calculator.’ I tried it using the text on our homepage and I’m happy to report that we got an excellent rating! We talked about our clients twice as much as we talked about ourselves.

You should try it out with the text on your website too and see what you get.

We We Calculator

Ever wanted easier control of at least one page on your blog? Want better ranking in Google and the other search engines? A blog may be an answer for you.

We can create a page in your site that looks like all your other pages. It can be called “What’s New”. And we can give you control of the content in this page. It would be as easy to add content to this page as to write an email. You just go to a password protected website, put in your username and password, and then type a title, and an entry (just as you would for writing an email). Your post is then dated and posted to the page (in the format you see here). You can also edit past entries.

Once you make a post, the fact that you have added to the page goes out to anyone who has signed up for the “Feed” and it also goes directly to Google and Yahoo and maybe other search engines. The search engines know this is brand new information and they will pay attention.

You should commit to adding information at least once every two weeks. Once a week would be better. And the post should consist of mostly information that would be of interest to your target audience but not just about your business or site. It should have a more general use. Google recognizes information that is promotional, and it isn’t as interested in that. As a business owner, etc., you have information in your head that your possible customers would like to know. Giving away information helps you in the long run. Something useful to the kind of people you want to appeal to. Show them how much you know, help them do things, and help yourself in the search engines at the same time.

Effective July 1, 2006 the New Mexico Gross Receipts Tax (GRT) has been changed for many locations in New Mexico. The new GRT rate for Albuquerque is 6.875% (up from 6.75%).

You can see a rate schedule by location  by going to:
<a href=”http://www.state.nm.us/tax/pubs/gr_rates_jul_06.pdf”>http://www.state.nm.us/tax/pubs/gr_rates_jul_06.pdf</a>

Please contact us if you’d like us to help you update your shopping cart to reflect these new rates.

From time to time we would like to share with you some information on various scams, viruses, etc. that are going around and that relate to your website, domain name, search engine listings and email address. There is a lot of them and this will just cover the ones that we have been reminded of recently.

1. There is a fax scam going around. It is two pages. Cover sheet says, “SAO Listing Service”. Second page says “Annual Internet Advertisement Listing” and the price is $79.95 a month or a year. It looks like an invoice. But in small print it says “This is not a bill. This is a marketing offer.”
2. A second fax scam is much like the first one. Internet Corpoaration Listing Service’s fax claims you paid them last year and now you owe them for this year. They tell you what your account number is and this year is just $35. But don’t bother.
3. And another fax from something called The Official Internet Registry & Optimization Bureau. Says they have been doing this for you for some time and this is a semi annual website marketing and monitoring bundle. We got it and I know we never hired them. They just send bills and someone pays and they make money just by sending out invoices via fax.
4. There is an email going around with a title like “Follow up - New Update to fix Windows File Errors”. They want you to run a diagnostics test. Don’t do it.

Whenever you receive unusual emails or faxes on Internet Marketing, etc. and you are unsure of what they are or whether they would be useful to you, feel free to use us as a resource. And if you want Internet Marketing, call us. Those of you with Full Service Website Hosting plans should ask for your yearly search engine and promotion meeting on how to get your website more traffic. MIS is here to help with all your website needs.