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Getting the
Business
This section of
TXDILAR is
devoted to helping independent abstractors, researchers, and small
businesses of every type successfully market their services. There
are many free or almost free ways to help your next big client find you.
These methods are robust enough to fulfill the needs of a
changing industry, yet easy enough to use and easy enough on the budget
for businesses of every size.
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| Your Website
Establishing a presence on the Internet may be the most important thing
you can do for your abstracting business. Your clients are looking for
you and your website is their lighthouse to finding you.
Building a professional website is no longer the expensive and
time-consuming task it once was. Creative web site providers have come
up with programs that allow you to build your own websites without
knowledge of HTML programming. You can have your web site up in minutes
even if you know nothing at all about coding a site.
If your serious about marketing your business, building a
professional web site is primary. It has never been easier or less
expensive. It's hard to believe but you can have a professional web site
up in minutes for less than seven dollars a month.
We've looked at hundreds of website providers. We recommend the
following providers because they offer feature rich, reliable, easy to
use services at unbelievably cost effective prices.
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Blue Host Bluehost was recently awarded Best New
Hosting Company and Best Customer Support by the some of
the leading hosting review companies. It's easy to see why.
Just look at what BlueHost offers for less than seven bucks a
month!
- Unlimited Domain Names
- Site Promotion Package
- Free eCommerce/Cart
- Free Blog, Chat, Boards
- Top Notch 24/7 Support
- Free Site Builder - It's easy. You don't have to know a
thing about html.
- $50 Free to use on Yahoo Search
Marketing
- $50 Free Google Credits
When you can get
Reliable, Affordable Business Hosting from Bluehost.com.
 for
less than seven bucks a month, there really is no excuse for anyone
that is serious about abstracting for a living to not have their own
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Email Announcements,
Newsletters and Notices You
can quickly build your own list of loyal clients by providing them with
updates and announcements about the service you provide and the area you
cover. We use email announcements and newsletters to inform our clients
and potential clients about local issues that affect their business.
- Local
Courthouse holiday schedules
- Local
Courthouse computer downtime and glitches
- Changes in fee
schedules (Yours and the courts)
- Changes in
technology we use to provide better, faster and more accurate service
- Changes in
state or local law that may affect our clients
- Articles about
the service we provide or the areas we cover
- Client
Testimonials
Keeping in touch with past,
present, and future clients is easy with the opt-in email list
management tools available today. Your clients will appreciate your
efforts to keep them informed and you will appreciate how they remember
you the next time they need your service.
There are thousands of
professional opt-in email management companies to choose from. We
heartily recommend these three as our top choices for their ease of use,
real time reporting, template selection and FREE trial offers. Test
drive one today.
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iContact
is the leading web-based email marketing service used by over
50,000 small businesses and associations. We chose them to manage all of
our email campaigns. With iContact, you can
create email newsletters and announcements that get immediate and
measurable results.
- Create Eye-catching Email
Campaigns
- Manage and Grow Your Email List
- Track and Analyze Results
- Survey your customers
The 15-day free trial sealed the deal for me. I had nothing to
lose, and saw immediate results.
IiContact is a top-tier
solution, but is affordable for businesses of all sizes. iContact
is on no blacklists and have established relations with the major ISPs
and have been whitelisted with AOL and Yahoo, ensuring maximum
deliverability. They make it easy to create, send, and track
permission-based email marketing campaigns. The software offers advanced
reporting, trademarked MessageBuilder system, message scheduling, the
ability to create unlimited lists and create polls, bounceback handling, subscription
management, and an array of easy to use newsletter templates among many
other major industry-standard features.
There is no
substitution for actually trying it out yourself. You can
sign up for a
free fifteen day trial here and see and use the software for
yourself firsthand. Learn More
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