e-Venture, Inc. is pleased to announce that we are expanding. We have worked hard to make our company a premier web application and web marketing company in the Black Hills. We want to share our expertise and expand our territory, consequently we have recently opened offices in Denver, Co and Omaha, NE.

Thank you to all of our customers for helping us get to where we are.

We have been hard at work researching the best ways to increase traffic and sales for our customers. Depending on the goals of your company, marketing can be easy or tough. Here are a few new services we are offering to help you in your marketing efforts. If you have any questions about any one of them, give us a call and we can tell you how they work and help you determine if any of they are right to help you meet your business goals.

• Google Ad Words Management - Let us help you create a successful, targeted campaign on Google.
• Search Engine Optimization - If you don´t have a site built by us, we can help in optimizing it for the best search engine placement.
• Content Management - You´re busy. We can help you keep your site up to date.
• Email Marketing Campaigns - Don´t get burned by anti-spam laws. We can help you navigate that terrain.
• Website Statistic Reports - Find out what your site is doing. These will automatically be available to all our hosted customers.
• Blog marketing - Content creation and automated postings to boost your search engine rankings.

Google AdWords can be a cost effective way of marketing your company.

So in short - YES.

If you want to have people find you this is a great way to boost your search engine listings. e-Venture, Inc. now offers you the ability to propel your website to the next level with our AdWords Management Service.  We will take care of everything:

• Account Setup
• Managing the account
• Monthly reports
• Analysis and explanation of reports

If people can't find you they can't buy from you.  We can help position your website to be seen.  Call us today to setup a free consultation on this new service.

Congratulations! You have created a web presence for your company that should allow them to easily purchase your products and services. Now sit back and watch the web traffic come rolling in right?

Nope-

Internet marketing over the last several years has become an aggressive and tough game. Simply placing your site on the super highway and waiting for Google to list your site is not enough to bring you lots of traffic. It takes a bit of effort to get your site ranking in the top spots and visited by lots of users.

Fortunately, there are many things you can do that will help you gain the traffic you desire. Most are not difficult and some are even fun and can be quite addictive. Here are a few things you can do to increase traffic to your site:

• Create A Regular Newsletter
  Provide some useful information about your industry or your company that people can use.
• Emailing Existing Customers
  Doing this will help you inform them of new things you are doing and keep you on the top of their mind. If you have a lot of customers we can help you automate the sending process and take the guess work out of complying with spam laws.
• Fresh Website Content
  This one may be hard, but should be done at least quarterly. We can help you by freshening your content if time is a concern. Find out more about how we can help you with this type of service.
• Start A Blog
  There are many ways you can use blogs. When done correctly using some clever techniques, blogs can drive large amounts of traffic to your site. If you don´t have time to blog, have a staff member help you or let one of our writers get you started.
• Ad Words
  Using creative keywords, you can target the customers you want. Creative keywords are one way you can spend lower amounts of money than your competitors and still effectively drive traffic to your site.
• Monitor Site Traffic
  Use traffic reports to adjust your marketing based on your findings. We will be giving our hosted customers comprehensive monthly reports on your site activities. If you need them more frequently or need help understanding what the reports are telling you, just let us know. We will be happy to help.
• Use YouTube Video
  YouTube is quickly becoming a powerful marketing tool. Creating a YouTube video can be fun and rewarding. The most important thing to consider when you are trying to create a YouTube video is that it needs to be something unique, informative, funny or something that captures the attention of the audience’s interest level. Videos don’t always have to be relevant to your business to help you to drive website traffic to your site. For example, if someone sees a great video on YouTube that takes them directly to a business website, they may stay on the site and take time to click on an ad or to opt-in for something while they are there.

For more information on any of these and other techniques, give us a call or send us an email.

Finally we would like to say "Thank You" to our customers. I know we have been very busy this year and have gone through a lot of growing pains. For that I am sorry. I do want to thank you all for helping us grow this last year and we hope to continue with you in 2008.