How about if, when you awoke every morning, your world looked just like it did while you were asleep – pitch black?

For most of us, when we want to find out the latest news or do some online shopping, we simply open up our favorite Internet browser and sit back and relax.

The Internet drives our businesses and our personal lives by providing instant information at the touch of a key. What if you didn’t have the luxury of being able to see all of the content on your favorite website, though? What if you were visually impaired, and shopping for a new outfit on the Internet wasn’t as easy as clicking and looking?

Thanks to a national movement called the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), the 54 million Americans who are disabled will have more of a chance to use the Internet just like the rest of us.

The WAI is a part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and works in an effort to promote website accessibility worldwide. The WAI and the W3C work with disability organizations, government agencies and other key members to monitor website accessibility.

What does this mean to you and your business?

1. It means that in the very near future, the W3C will require that all commercial websites comply with WAI accessibility standards. You can visit http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/Overview.html to learn more about whether your website features potential accessibility problems.
2. Google and other search engines favor websites that comply with these standards. If your site is not in compliance, you are likely to get less than favorable results in the search engines!

The experts at Jaymunda will help to ensure that your website is WAI accessible. Whether your website needs accessibility assistance in captioned audio files, supplemental graphics or alternative text, Jaymunda has the expertise to help.

Why wait until the W3C requires that websites meet minimum accessibility standards before you act? There are 54 million Americans who deserve the chance to see what your company has to offer.

Companies are discovering more and more every day that videos capture attention. Potential customers will spend more time on a web page watching a video than reading copy or looking at a picture.

S&S Communications has been in the video production industry for 30 years. From script writing to training and promotion videos to full-length DVD’ss, S&S Communications has created cutting-edge multimedia presentations for Fortune 500 clients like Procter & Gamble and Marriott Hotels.

By joining forces with Jaymunda, the two companies will be able to expand the depth and breadth of their services. With S&S Communications’ video and multimedia expertise and Jaymunda’s online marketing tools, clients will be able to reach audiences in a way that was previously unimaginable.

“Many people love the idea of using Online Video, but they don’t know what to do with it,” relates Jay Syzdek, President of Jaymunda. “By partnering with Jaymunda, S&S Communications can now deliver Online Video Distribution, SEO and high-impact marketing to a larger base of clients.”

In other words, not only will a client’s Online Video be of the highest quality because of S&S Communications’ industry knowledge, but it will be marketed and distributed to key outlets through Jaymunda’s online expertise.
Ernie Sigmon, President of S&S Communications, is excited about the expanded services that the partnership with Jaymunda will offer clients.

“After working over 30 years as the Owner and President of S&S Communications, Inc., the combination of two major medias joining forces to be one full service in-house Internet Marketing company will only help our
Fortune 500 and our local clients,” explains Sigmon. “This five-year process of combining the two most powerful marketing tools ever devised -television and Internet communications – will allow us to give cutting-edge service worldwide.”

Clients are now be to have the highest quality videos possible produced by S&S Communications. These videos will then be optimized by Jaymunda with the most effective keywords and marketing tools. Jaymunda will identify distribution outlets and ensure that these advertising videos reach as many potential customers as possible.

About Jaymunda: Jaymunda started in 2003 as a web design company in Asheville and then developed Online Press Releases and other online marketing tools to deliver more and help clients grow. Jaymunda’s creative team has over 60 years of combined experience in online marketing, SEO, web design, writing and editing.

About S&S Communications: S&S Video Concepts has been providing video production services to the Southeastern United states in the form of training videos, promotional videos, voice-over video editing, video content for multimedia, video encoding for web, CD-ROM, DVD and more.

Small Business Center
AB Tech Enka Campus, SBC Building

Directions: http://www.abtech.edu/maps/enka.asp

Wed, December 2, 2009 at 6:00 PM until 7:00 PM

Overview:

This is an introductory course to give you an understanding of What Social Media is and how to use it to make money for your business.

Agenda:

• What is Social Media?
• Who’s using it?
• Why should I care?
• How to effectively use it for your business.

The seminar will be held at our office just off College St. in the Conference Room. Printable directions are above.

Seating is limited, so please RSVP as soon as possible so we can set up the room appropriately.

RSVP:

Send email to Jason@jaymunda.com or call (828) 254-0892 x802

We just installed a theme that converts our full, regular website to a simplified, mobile version.

Try it:

From your mobile phone’s internet browser, go to www.jaymunda.com.

Why it works:

We are using WordPress as the engine to power our entire website from static pages to blog content and more. We adoped WP earlier this year as the platform for most of the sites we build because it’s so easy to use. It also makes for some simple, cost-effective upgrades through its vast library of plugins.

(Even Cooler:)

If I get a brainstorm while I’m driving to my next appointment, I can pull over, pull out my mobile phone and write a blog post right from my phone. Talk about streamlined workflow! 

I can help you get your website mobile.
Call me at (828) 254-0892 x802
or email: jason@jaymunda.com

Jaymunda has built its reputation on the principle that it fills that forgotten niche of small, growing businesses that really need high quality web design in addition to a marketing partner that takes the time to listen to their unique needs.

The most effective way Jaymunda has been able to tell its story is by not really saying a word. Jaymunda has grown mainly because 71.8 percent of its business is secured by word of mouth advertising from satisfied clients.

“Web design in Asheville has traditionally been about creating just one website after another. We wanted to be different by leading the web design field with our focus on Marketing and it is the cornerstone of our business,” relates Jason Syzdek, President of Jaymunda, Inc.

Jaymunda isn’t the least expensive web design company around, but Syzdek believes that with something as vital as online Marketing, a company gets what it pays for. On the other hand, Jaymunda’s pricing is also much more affordable than many companies that offer custom web design at exorbitant prices.

Jaymunda doesn’t believe in pre-fabricated website templates and there is definitely no cookie-cutter approach to its site design. The Jaymunda team of professional designers, writers and programmers makes sure that they know the unique aspects of a company before they design its website and implement Marketing strategies that will build traffic and increase brand recognition.

The Jaymunda team recently collaborated with Champion Eye Center in Western North Carolina to build a cutting-edge website, publish Online Press Releases and implement telephone on-hold messaging. This foundation created an integrated Internet presence that helped boost revenues by more than 25% in Champion’s first year with Jaymunda.

Mark Hinton, CEO of eYeFacilitate, hired Jaymunda to create his company’s website and online Marketing strategies. As a result of Jaymunda’s Marketing efforts, a prospective client in Kentucky contacted Hinton to say that he was interested in discussing working together. With this client alone, Hinton closed $30,000 in business, which is a huge return on investment.

Within the wide range of satisfied Jaymunda clients are the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina, Reality Based Management, Four Star Insurance Group, Optix Eye Care and the John N. Gardner Institute.

More information about Jaymunda can be found online at www.jaymunda.com or call (828) 254-0892.

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Jaymunda, Inc.
Jason K. Syzdek
(828) 254-0892
www.jaymunda.com

Dr. Cress allows the Champion Eye Center family to expand its services and hours, making it even more convenient for patients. Starting in November, Champion’s south office – located at 300 Julian Lane in Arden – will start seeing patients on Saturday by appointment.

“We are very excited about Dr. Cress joining our eye care family,” Dr. Andy Champion says. “He is a graduate of Southern College of Optometry and he brings a great deal of clinical experience in pediatric and adult primary care, vision therapy and ocular disease. Our growth is designed with one goal in mind – to better meet the needs of our patients.”

Drs. Andy and Patty Champion began practicing optometry in Asheville in 1995 and opened eye care centers in Asheville and Sylva in 1997. They realized the need for professional eye care services in South Asheville, so they opened the Arden office in 2006 to meet the optometric needs of patients on the south side of the city.

Dr. Cress said that joining the Champion Eye Center family is the culmination of a lifelong dream.

“Drs. Andy and Patty Champion have built their eye care practice the right way, by treating their patients like family members,” explains Dr. Cress.

Champion Eye Center is the exclusive carrier of Chanel frames for all of Western North Carolina. Champion also carries fashionable frames for all styles from Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Burberry, Polo Ralph Lauren, Ray-Ban and Vera Wang.

Champion Eye Center is also the only eye care outlet that features Varilux Ipseo progressive lenses. These cutting-edge Ipseo lenses are the only progressive lenses on the market that can be personalized to meet the unique visual behavior of each patient.

Dr. Cress’s extensive knowledge of contact lenses allows Champion Eye Center to treat even more patients who need multifocal or specialty lenses. Dr. Cress also brings with him a comprehensive background of preventive eye maintenance. Over the past 18 months, Dr. Cress performed clinical work in ocular disease treatment and management of glaucoma, corneal disease and macular degeneration.

To schedule an appointment and let Champion Eye Center change your perception of vision care, call 828-236-0099 or visit www.championeyecenter.com.

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Champion Eye Center
Patty Champion
Arden: (828) 650-2727
North Asheville: (828) 236-0099

The result was that, with this client alone, Mark closed $30,000 in business over the next year! All this for the package price of $479. This is a return on investment of 6,263%!

Hinton works with optometrists and vision practitioners to help them create more effective patient communications, better marketing campaigns and to make their practices more streamlined and profitable.

Want a success story like Mark’s?

Go online to read more www.jaymunda.com/opr

or call 828-254-0892 and speak with one of our Online Marketing Consultants about which package is best for your business.

Getting timely and effective service attention is the cornerstone of GTE, Inc. and it is why the company has been thriving for nearly 20 years. At GTE, Inc., the customer relationship doesn’t end with the sale.

GTE, Inc. is an Asheville-based business that offers same-day service and repair on food equipment and water filtration systems. Whether you run a large or small restaurant, a grocery store or convenience store, a bakery or a deli having problems with that one piece of indispensible equipment during the busiest part of the day or you are a homeowner having problems with a water filtration device, GTE, Inc. is  ready to help.

Owner George Eakett and his staff live, work and play in Western North Carolina and they are only minutes away from solving your problem, not a continent away. In addition to offering same-day service and repair in 19 counties in Western North Carolina, GTE, Inc. also represents Hobart Corporation for retail equipment sales in 19 counties in North Georgia and 10 in Western South Carolina.

“We are a local Asheville business representing international companies,” says Eakett, who has been in the food service sales and repair industry since 1973. “GTE, Inc. has been in Asheville for almost 20 years serving the food retail and food service industry. With the recent addition of Kinetico water systems we can now bring quality equipment and service to the residential market.”

GTE, Inc. sells new and reconditioned weighing equipment, wrapping equipment, mixers, refrigeration, slicers and more to retail supermarkets, delis, bakeries and convenience stores. They recently expanded their services to include Kinetico residential and commercial water systems for your home or business. Kinetico is the leader in water purification, which is evidenced by their 10-year warranty on Kinetico residential systems.

GTE, Inc.’s Kinetico Water Purification systems use no electricity and remove 99.9% of bacteria, viruses and chlorine from your water. Kinetico reverse osmosis water systems also help keep the environment healthy by helping you reduce your dependence on bottled water. Making PURE water in your home or business from your existing water supply helps reduce the massive amounts of plastic bottles that are clogging our landfills, lakes, and streams and spoiling our beautiful landscape. 

About the only thing that Eakett believes in more than the quality of the equipment he sells like Hobart, Vulcan, Traulsen, Berkel, Wolf and Hoshizaki is the knowledge and professionalism of his repair technicians.

“We have some of the best-trained service techs in the business,” Eakett says, “I am proud to say they are also, above all else, honest. You may be the most knowledgeable technician in the business but if you are dishonest you won’t represent GTE, Inc. We protect our customers with a warranty on all the work we do because we do make mistakes. But the only way to protect your customer from a dishonest technician is to make sure he doesn’t work for you. ”

In addition to GTE, Inc.’s experienced service technicians, Eakett has established a state-of-the-art parts distribution network. This gives GTE, Inc.’s service professionals the ability to get the parts you need as fast as possible. GTE, Inc.’s professionals can then get to work getting you back in business.

To learn more about how GTE, Inc. can help you improve your water or the performance of your food equipment, visit www.gteinc.com or call 828-654-9005.

In today’s technology-forward world, everyone you meet has a website to promote something. That doesn’t mean that every website is created equal. Many websites lack substance and aren’t utilized properly as Marketing tools.

Jason Syzdek wants to change that for business owners, whether they have one or 1,000 employees. Syzdek, President and CEO of Jaymunda, helps businesses create and enhance their websites so they can thrive in today’s challenging economic times.

Syzdek started Jaymunda in 2004 as a web design company. Today Jaymunda focuses on top-performing websites and either creates new ones or enhances existing ones to help businesses improve their bottom line by offering a wide variety of online marketing tools.

“We build tools that help companies promote their business online,” Syzdek explains. “We do this through Online Press Releases (OPRs), blogs and website hosting.”

One of the most exciting online marketing tools that Jaymunda offers clients is its Online Press Releases. The OPRs are best for branding and creating more content online about a company. Syzdek said that Jaymunda’s OPRs are much different than Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and that is by design.

“We don’t want our Online Press Releases to be SEO,” Syzdek said. “In fact, we have strategic partners that we work with that do a wonderful job at SEO. The OPRs fit into the realm of Online Marketing and they can be done as a stand-alone or as part of a whole online marketing project. For example, if we install a blog for you, it’s a great place to put your OPRs, then link back to your main website for more information about your company.”

One client that can testify to the effectiveness of Jaymunda’s OPRs is ISC Executive Search. ISC hired Jaymunda to create an Online Press Release and within 12 hours of posting, the release was live on over 450 websites.

How many times have you Googled a company you considered doing business with to learn more about them? Thanks to Jaymunda’s release, when you Google “ISC Executive Search” Jaymunda’s OPR comes in at No.2 after ISC’s own website.

Thurman Williams, CEO of ISC, has this to say about the effectiveness of Jaymunda’s OPR: “Not only did Jaymunda’s Online Press Release increase our exposure, but they took much of the headache out of writing the release.  Excellent work!”

Let Jaymunda help you get your business story out to as many online outlets as possible by utilizing Online Press Releases. You may have an interesting story to tell, but knowing how and where to tell it will make it that much more effective.

Jaymunda, Inc. has offices in Atlanta, GA and Asheville, NC. For more information on Jaymunda’s OPRs and other online marketing tools, visit www.jaymunda.com/opr or call 678-389-6929.

No matter what you call it, blogging is writing. And there are some simple rules and tips that you should remember in order to make your writing interesting and effective.

Don’t try to be something you’re not

You’ve always heard that honesty is the best policy in the Boy Scouts and at home from your mother. Well, honesty is also a key to successful writing. Write about what you know and about what has helped you create your business niche.

Even if you don’t have a Fortune 50, 500 or 5000 company, if you’re running a business in this fragile economy, you’re doing something right. People can benefit from your insight as long as you keep it real.

Creating blog topics

As often as possible, you want to keep your blog centered on your business or services that you’re trying to promote. Your topics, though, don’t have to involve intricate details of your comprehensive business plan.

Blogging about something that you discovered during a routine business day that helped you save time or money will be of interest to other business owners. Even when you are blogging about something that is off the main subject area of your business, try to think of a link you can insert that will bring the blog back around to the task at hand. 

An example might be if you want to talk about your favorite charity or non-profit that you volunteer with, why not let others know how you manage to do that activity and still keep your business running smoothly? You can also tell readers how your philanthropic efforts help you run your business.

How to write your blog

Whether writing a blog, a web content article or a church newsletter, there are some things to remember that will make your efforts more successful:

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  • Keep your writing simple – Don’t try to throw in flowery words that will make people think you are the smartest thing since Stephen Hawking. It’s best to keep your writing at a high school level target audience.
  • Get to the point – The longer you take to make your point, the less chance you have of keeping your readers interested.
  • Remember your target audience – No matter what you are writing about, remember who it is intended for. If you keep the subject matter interesting to your audience, you will get more mileage from your blog.