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Jobs/Vacancies / Needed - A Cafe Administrator by walebel(m): 2:28pm On Oct 29, 2009
MUNIK-BELL Technologies Ltd, operator of a hi-tech cybercafe in Agura Hotel Abuja, requires, urgently, the services of a cafe administrator.

Applicants -
• MUST BE KNOWLEDGEABLE IN BASIC NETWORKING, HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS.
• MUST HAVE GOOD CUSTOMER CARE SKILLS
• MUST HAVE AT LEAST 1 YEAR EXPERIENCE IN CAFE ADMINISTRATION

Remuneration is very attractive.

Application Method:

Submit your CV and an application in person to -

The Manager
MUNIK-BELL Cybercafe
Agura Hotel
Area 10 Garki, Abuja

For further enquiries , please call Iyabo on 08035063848 or Wale on 08053351210.

Application is open till the 12th of November '09.
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Needed Urgently - Cybercafe Administrator by walebel(m): 4:42pm On Jun 18, 2009
This vacancy is still open till the 2nd of July '09.

Send in your CVs NOW.

And please you need to reside in Abuja to qualify for this post.

Regards
Jobs/Vacancies / Computer Literate Receptionist Wanted by walebel(m): 7:59am On May 22, 2009
Wanted urgently at our Abuja office- a receptionist (male or female) with good computer skills.

Send your CV to valentis_01@yahoo.com or call us on 08077784428, 08023015533, 07057599724 between the hours of 8am and 6pm Mon - Fri.

Acceptance of application closes 5th of June 2009.
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Needed Urgently - Cybercafe Administrator by walebel(m): 5:26pm On Apr 15, 2009
Advert now properly put.
Jobs/Vacancies / Needed Urgently - Cybercafe Administrator by walebel(m): 8:23am On Apr 15, 2009
MUNIK-BELL Technologies Ltd, operator of a hi-tech cybercafe in Agura Hotel Abuja, requires, urgently, the services of a cafe administrator.

Applicants -
• MUST BE KNOWLEDGEABLE IN BASIC NETWORKING, HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS.
• MUST HAVE GOOD CUSTOMER CARE SKILLS
•   MUST HAVE AT LEAST 1 YEAR EXPERIENCE IN CAFE ADMINISTRATION

Remuneration is very attractive.

Application Method:

Submit your CV and an application in person to -

The Manager
MUNIK-BELL Cybercafe
Agura Hotel
Area 10 Garki, Abuja

For further enquiries ,  please call Iyabo on 08035063848 or Wale on 08053351210.

Application is open till the 2nd of July '09.
Webmasters / Tips For Diy Search Engine Optimization by walebel(m): 6:22pm On Sep 04, 2008
Build links and use search friendly Web design to rank higher and save money
Search engine optimization is a requirement for growing your business online just like Yellow Pages listing was in the 20th century. If you’re not prominently listed in search engine results, your business may as well not exist to millions of potential customers.



Despite lots of hype by SEO consultants, the basics of SEO are actually pretty straightforward. In fact, I recommend against hiring SEO consultants until you have tried this article’s DIY strategies for improving search engine ranking yourself. This will save you money and make you a smarter web marketer.

Here are my Top Eleven Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization Tips.

Link Exchange Tips

Relevant Link Backs


The most important factor in determining search engine rankings today is the number and quality of other sites that link to your site. Search engines count these links to determine how authoritative your website is, and use the count to assign a ranking relative to other sites in your target market.

To boost your site’s rankings, you need sites that are relevant to your topic area to link back to you. Their relevance to your topic is important because the choice by a related site to link to yours validates your site’s credibility for your target topics.

Highly Ranked Link Backs
Because the sites that link to you help determine your site’s ranking, it’s best if you get sites that are not only relevant but also already highly ranked to link. Some of their high ranking with the search engines basically "rubs off" on your website if they link to you.

Anchor Text Link Backs
While almost any relevant or authoritative links back to your website are helpful, it will improve your site’s search engine ranking more if the text of those links contains keywords that are important to your site’s products or subject matter.

So, for example, don’t just ask for links using your domain name or "click here" as the "anchor text". Instead you should ask your link exchange partners to link to your site using text like "best deals on plasma TVs", or "Mushin chiropractor".

Such keyword-loaded anchor text links are helpful because the search engines essentially give you "double points" by counting both the link itself and that link’s reinforcement of your website’s importance for the keyword topics it contains.

SEO Design Tips

No Flash Movies
Don’t hide your web pages behind animated movies that play using Flash software. They may be pretty but search engines prefer plain text today and cannot read Flash. So don’t do it because it may prevent search engines from indexing your site at all.

*Note: That there are modern day software developed to overcome this obstacle

Menus in Text
Similarly, don’t hide your navigational menu links in images. Search engines cannot read graphics as well as they can read text. Your navigational menu is critical for search engine spiders to read both because the menu’s entries demonstrate the hierarchy of your website, and because the keywords contained in menu links tell the search engine what you think is important on each page.

Keywords in Image "ALT" and "Title" Tags
As stated previously, search engine crawlers cannot read graphics. You can increase the SEO impact of images on your pages by ensuring that you title and tag them appropriately.

This means renaming JPEG’s and other non-text files with new names that include keywords. So, a photo of a cat should be renamed from "c4289b.jpg" to "cat.jpg" if you want any search engine ranking benefit related to "cat" keywords.

The ALT tags and TITLE tags associated with each image are also great places to insert keywords that can be even more specific than the file name example.

Tips for SEO friendly keyword usage and a few warnings

SEO Keyword Tips

Understanding Keywords
To rank highly in the search engine results you need to pick appropriate key words and phrases with which to promote your site. You don’t want the keywords to be so broad (e.g. "cars", "shirts", "consulting"wink that your site is lost in a sea of competitors on page 28 of Google’s results. You also don’t want to target keywords that are so narrow that few people are likely to search on them.

You can use free online research tools like Google’s Keyword Tool to help you brainstorm appropriate keywords, and Google’s Traffic Estimator Sandbox to find those keywords where there is customer demand to support your website’s business.

The key to uncovering your best keywords is to think like your customer. This means avoiding industry buzzwords or lingo to use simple, "natural language" instead. So try targeting "warm socks" instead of "men’s support hosiery", for example.

Meta Tags
While not as important to search engine ranking calculations as they used to be, the "meta tags" hidden in each web page’s HTML code should be tweaked to maximize their potential impact. This means including your keywords so that they appear in the "title", "description", and "keywords" meta tag fields. This is easily done in most web page publishing tools or content management systems (ask your tech guys to do it). Many search engines reference these fields to identify what keywords you see as most representative of your page’s content.

Headline Placements
The visible elements of your web pages’ headlines, links, and text should all be reviewed for keyword inclusion also. The search engines give extra weight to any words that are included in the titles of each page and section, and wherever text is bolded, highlighted, or linked. Their logic here is that if you are emphasizing those words visually to site visitors, then those words are, probably, key to your site’s content, too.

Keywords in Your URL
You want to use your keywords in as many other appropriate places as possible, too. For example, if you can use them in your website’s URL, it will help your ranking. (Of course, you must balance this against making your URL longer, harder to remember, and perhaps more difficult to spell, too.)

Page File Names
Further reinforcement of your keywords by using them in your page titles and file names is also a good idea. This can result in URLs for your popular pages that look like this: http://www.yourbrandnamekeyword.com/keyword-keyword.html

Caution: Avoid Keyword Stuffing

NOTE: You must balance all of this keyword advice against the rules that many search engines have about "keyword stuffing". This means that you shouldn’t go crazy with the keyword insertion -- search engines are wary of sites that overdo it. They prefer your text copy to appear like normal conversational or sales copy.

This suggests a keyword "density" of less than 15%. In other words, for every 100 words of copy on the page, you don’t want to have more than 15 of them as your keywords. Many experts advise even lower, down as low as 3-5%.

Bonus SEO Tip: How to Index Your New Web Site Fast!

For new websites, it is often frustrating how long it can take before the major search engines find, index and add their sites to results pages. (Many search engines even make money on this by offering "rapid submission" services with recurring fees often in the hundreds of dollars.)

One simple tactic that can accelerate a new site’s appearance in search engine results is to have it linked to from an already established, highly ranked site. Big sites are crawled regularly by Google, Yahoo, etc.

Overall, the basics of SEO are well within your technical reach. I recommend implementing each of the DIY techniques detailed above before spending money on SEO consultants. There are many more advanced strategies that good SEO consultants can help with to improve your web site rankings.

Follow these DIY SEO guidelines, and you can save your money for that fancy stuff.
Adverts / How To Use Networking Tactics To Generate New Business With Old Clients by walebel(m): 7:07pm On Aug 22, 2008
Business-to-business vendors must be concerned with maintaining relationships with existing clients and using those contacts to develop new business. Remember the adage: It costs less to keep old clients than to find new ones.
’’I’ve always had this mantra that the best way to get new business is to focus on existing business,” says Charles Epstein, President, BackBone, Inc., a marketing, PR, and business development services firm.



Epstein’s approach is a twist on the familiar marketing strategy of networking. He employs the technique with his existing clients to uncover new business opportunities and to maintain existing customers during critical junctures in the typical business relationship, such as the inevitable transitions that occur when a contact switches jobs.

Through his networking techniques, Epstein has been able to “follow” clients from one job to another, retain customers even after his main contact has moved on, land referrals, and expand his services within client companies. As a result, in the 13 years he’s run his business, he says he’s never lost a customer due to dissatisfaction with his firm’s services.

Epstein offers his top six tactics for networking with existing clients:

Tactic #1. Keep communication lines open between business tasks

Some vendors work closely with clients on a specific project. Epstein and his team don’t let their communications with those clients lie dormant even when there is no direct task at hand. His team maintains at least weekly contact with customers between projects using the following techniques:

Communication:

Email relevant industry reports, articles from a trade publication, or other information related to the client’s business or industry.

Pitch new ideas or future proposals, even as one project is in progress. “We’re in the business of coming up with new ideas,” he says, “It shows that you’re always thinking about the client.”

Monitor a client’s business activity and email questions or comments about new developments.
By following news about the company’s new ventures, partnerships, or management changes, Epstein’s team finds events that can trigger a new communication with a client to take the pulse of the company. “It’s always good to have someone on the inside of a company, cultivated as a source, who can be your eyes and ears about what’s going on.”

Tactic #2. Maintain relationships with contacts that move to new jobs

Turnover at your client companies is inevitable. Typically, a contact will notify vendors and service providers that they’re leaving the company. Using email primarily, Epstein works to maintain relationships with his client contacts when they switch jobs.


If a client doesn’t volunteer where they’re going, Epstein’s team sends a polite email asking for their new contact information.
An email also thanks them for their business, and offers to be a resource for that client at their new company. “We reinforce the idea that Backbone’s service is something they can count on, and when they are in their new position and have evaluated their needs, they can give me a call.”

Although the client doesn’t always have discretion over which vendors they’re going to engage at their new company, the technique has helped Epstein land new contracts with eight former clients once they've become situated in their new positions.

Tactic #3. Reach out to new contacts at client companies

Someone will usually replace your previous contact at a client company. Begin nurturing that relationship.


Nurturing techniques:
Epstein and his team introduce themselves with a quick email. Besides the introduction, they will offer to go over their previous work and future plans.

They offer materials to help support that individual in their new position. The team might pull together an electronic file or PDF that outlines all the work the firm has done with that client over the years. It could include a clip package, white papers they’ve written, marketing initiatives they’ve worked on, etc.

The goal is to provide an update on the services the team has provided, and also demonstrate that the team understands the company and its challenges, and can be a resource during the new employee’s transition period.

If requested, the team also will conduct an in-depth audit of all the services they’ve provided to the company over the years.

They want to make sure the new contact’s goals and plans aren’t working at cross-purposes to past initiatives.

Tactic #4. Ask contacts for introductions to other key contacts at client companies.

The team turns to its client contacts as potential ambassadors when they hear of a new business opportunity at a client company -- such as an initiative within another business unit.

Do not assume, however, that a contact is willing to work on behalf of a vendor. Epstein recommends approaching customer contacts and asking them what they’d be willing to do to assist you as you pursue additional business opportunities within that organization.

Tactic #5. Conduct regular face-to-face networking with clients

Epstein suggests meeting with your clients on a regular schedule -- once a quarter or twice a year. It is so convenient to conduct most business virtually. But Epstein says vendors can find themselves in a bit of an email rut when it comes to networking with clients.


Opportunities for face-to-face interaction:

Trade shows.
Plan to attend when your client is attending or presenting at a trade show.

Personal visits to client offices.
While making personal calls, you can meet other members of the client’s team. These visits can help you gauge how the organization is structured, who else is involved with buying decisions, and the interpersonal dynamics of the office that can help you pitch your products or services.
Tactic #6: Maintain relationships with former clients

Epstein says the only time he has lost a client is when a contract lapses over budget issues or when a project has run its course. But the relationship doesn’t have to end just because the work ends.

Epstein recommends staying in email contact with former clients. You never know when they’ll be in a position to renew a services contract or purchase additional products.

If there is a more personal relationship, he periodically emails notes that highlight something in the news, entertainment or sports worlds that would interest the former client.

They pass along contact information for potential employees and executives in the job market who might be a good fit based on their knowledge of a former client’s company.

“Even if there isn’t a need, it shows that you’re mindful of this former customer,” says Epstein. “It also sends a good signal that the relationship is not over.”
Jobs/Vacancies / Data Entry From Wherever by walebel(m): 6:58pm On Aug 14, 2008
Can you imagine working from anywhere at your own pace, being your own boss? Getting paid for the easiest work imaginable?

This is no doubt the easiest way to make incredible amounts of money online and fast too.

You can even do this to supplement your current income.

All you need is your computer with internet access and basic image editing skills plus proficiency in English language.

For details please call 2348053351210
Programming / Re: What's Happening Here? by walebel(m): 7:05pm On Aug 13, 2008
I also got a problem when posting . For some reason my email addry get cut short so is my website addy. Can anybody tell me why this is

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