http://www.melissanorfolk.com.au/blog en http://www.melissanorfolk.com.au/blog/we-launched-3-new-websites-past-week <p>The past week has been a busy one and we have launched 3 new websites</p><p>(1) <strong>David Stagg Tonkin</strong> <a href="http://www.tonkinlaw.com" title="http://www.tonkinlaw.com">http://www.tonkinlaw.com</a></p> <p>David Stagg Tonkin &amp; Company are barristers and solicitors based in Greensborough specialising in Family law, Conveyancing, Commercial Law, Will &amp; Estates and Litigation. Their breif was to redesign their site as it was five years old and just a little dated.</p> <p>(2) Our own <strong>Melissa Norfolk Web Design</strong> <a href="http://www.melissanorfolk.com.au" title="http://www.melissanorfolk.com.au">http://www.melissanorfolk.com.au</a></p><p>As web designers our website is always the last on the to do list and this one has been 12 months in the making.&nbsp; Prbably almost time to start building the next one! Hope you like it.</p> <p>(3) <strong>Butterflies Childcare and Early Learning Centre</strong> <a href="http://www.butterflies-childcare.com.au" title="http://www.butterflies-childcare.com.au">http://www.butterflies-childcare.com.au</a></p> <p>Butterflies Childcare in Doreen provide childcare, for children aged 6 weeks to 6 years.&nbsp; They are a brand new business and came to see us when they were just starting up.&nbsp; They needed a new website that was fresh, fun, represented their new brand and showed off their quality facilities and program.</p><p>If you have time take a look and we welcome any feedback you have</p> http://www.melissanorfolk.com.au/blog/we-launched-3-new-websites-past-week#comments Our News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:59:00 +0000 mnwd 160 at http://www.melissanorfolk.com.au http://www.melissanorfolk.com.au/blog/3-simple-tips-successful-business-blog <p>Welcome to our new website and blog, we hope you like it and welcome your feedback.</p><p>Our blog aims to keep you up to date on projects we are working on at mnwd as well as internet marketing news, tips, tricks and tools.</p><p>Lets get started with some tips to be successful with business blogging</p><h2>3 simple tips to a successful business blog</h2><ol><li>Keep it fresh</li> <li>Regular</li><li>Targeted</li></ol><p>The aim for most consultants or service providers when they start a blog is to position themselves as experts in their field by regular publishing articles about their industry and what they specialise in.</p><p>Those browsing the internet for content on your topic may stumble across your blog post via a Google search and refer to your post, tweet about it, become a regular reader or better still a customer.</p><p>The key is writing regularly and ideally this is about once a week.&nbsp; Keeping your content fresh, up to date and interesting.</p><p>Keep your content on topic and targeted at your ideal readers rather than going off on a tangent and writing about something completely unrelated to your expertise.</p><p>Blog posts don’t need to be long but they are generally a little less formal and written in a conversational manner to make them easy and quick to read and build rapport.</p><p>If you are just starting a blog or reinvigorating your blog for the new year.&nbsp; Do some prior planning about what you want to achieve.&nbsp; Brainstorm possible topics and have a list on hand to give you ideas.&nbsp;</p><p>Write your first 2-4 posts prior to launch and then schedule to write a couple a fortnight or whatever works best for you, but keep it regular and fresh.</p> http://www.melissanorfolk.com.au/blog/3-simple-tips-successful-business-blog#comments Blogging Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:34:36 +0000 mnwd 150 at http://www.melissanorfolk.com.au