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| We are hiring a Web Developer ... Again! Update: This position has been filled.
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| Check out our Practical Ecommerce Columns We are proud of our association with Practical Ecommerce. HEROweb owner, Michael Stearns, is a regular contributor to Practical Ecommerce Magazine. Here is one of the latest columns about migrating a website to a new provider. www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1966-Ten-Steps-to-Migrate-Your-Site-to-a-New-Ecommerce-Platform And, here is a full list of Michael's more recent contributions: www.practicalecommerce.com/search?q=Michael+STearns 6/10/2010 |
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| Now Managing Facebook Ads! The Internet Marketing world never stops growing, and neither does HEROweb's marketing options as we stay on top of these trends! HEROweb is now pleased to announce management of PPC ads on Facebook! Unless you've been living under a rock for the last few years, and that rock was lacking Internet access, you've surely heard of Facebook, and probably have an account yourself. If you do have an account, you've likely noticed the advertisements on the right of the page. Now you can use those to promote your own products or services! Facebook users provide lots of information about their hobbies and interests, and with our expertise we can leverage this to ensure your ads only show to those users that will be interested in what you have to offer. We have already been managing campaigns for a few select clients, and the results have been very impressive! Contact our Marketing Department for more information how Facebook Ads can help you reach millions of potential customers and grow your business! 6/3/2010 |
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| Comparison Shopping Engine Feed Management As a part of our extensive marketing program HEROweb offers feed management services to "CSE", or "Comparison Shopping Engines". Comparison Shopping Engines, such as NexTag, Shopping.com, Shopzilla, Pricegrabber and Amazon Product Ads, our newest offering, are the destination for hundreds of millions of online shoppers each year to get helpful, side-by-side comparison of products offered by CSE advertisers. Any eCommerce store can become an advertiser by submitting a properly-formatted "feed" of product data, and are charged only a per-click fee when shoppers click-through to your site. Many HEROweb clients have seen sales increase dramatically after starting CSE feeds.Tracking and managing a profitable campaign in a CSE takes effort and attention, which is why HEROweb offers a fully-managed feed solution. This adds to our existing Google Products feed service. Can CSEs help you grow your business? Contact our Marketing Department and get a free consultation! 5/4/2010 |
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Awesome April at HEROweb!
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March Madness at HEROweb!New Sites and Redesigns Brought March Madness to HEROwebHEROweb is happy to announce the following new sites and redesigns that went live in March:
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| A rave review for HEROweb's marketing services! As you may know, HEROweb not only provides top-notch web design but also a wide range of online marketing services. Let us help take your site's performance to the next level, as we did for Avrum: "We knew nothing about online advertising or how to manage a successful pay per click advertising campaign. Hero-Web started with a small targeted approach and has slowly built up our campaign to a place we did not think possible in terms of revenue from their efforts. They routinely offer us new suggestions on how to improve and expand our campaigns and we feel fortunate to have them as our online advertising partner." - Avrum Elmakis Owner, Best Bully Sticks 3/23/2010 |
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| Mckenzie Pediatrics Site Redesign We love Mckenzie Pediatrics! They are a unique independent kid-oriented medical practice in Springfield Oregon. As they provide medical care for our kids we know they do an awesome job! We have just done a site makeover for them, under the direction of our web developer, Kathy Smith. Check out this fun and informative website!
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| Class Materials are Now Online We have been teaching lots of classes and workshops. Most of the materials are available on our site. If you want to learn, about web development and Internet marketing, go for it! HEROweb Class and Workshop Materials 3/12/2010 |
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| Willamette Valley Score Presentation in Eugene HEROweb co-owner Michael Stearns is back with another lively presentation! Join us on Wed. 2/17/10 for "10 Steps to Market Your Business Online." This presentation covers simple steps you can take to increase your online presence and reach your target audience with online marketing. The presentation slides are available in our Marketing Presentation archive. Keep your eyes open for the video of the presentation. The slides from the presentation will be posted online shortly. The presentation is part of a day-long seminar put on by Willamette SCORE. You can check out the details at The Willamette SCORE website. 2/17/10 |
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| Welcoming our newest sites to the HEROweb family! The team here at HEROweb would like to send along a warm welcome to the following sites that have already launched with us during the first month of 2010: www.chris51.com www.jchristo.com www.blushbridaloregon.com And check out the new design just launched for www.yujean.com! Along with this, the team is busy working on a number of additional sites that will launch in the coming weeks as well as overseeing the growth of numerous marketing campaigns! 1/11/2010 |
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| Web Developers: We want you! HEROweb is hiring a Web Development Specialist. If you are talented, enthusiastic, hard-working, and LOOOOOOVE building successful websites, this could be the perfect position for you! Check out all the details at our Web Development Specialist listing. 12/23/2009 |
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| Veneta Oregon Marketing Presentation Tonight! We are out in Veneta, Oregon tonight talking to Chris Nystrom's group about Internet marketing. Materials are available online for Maximizing Your Web Marketing Efforts 12/15/2009 |
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| We are hiring a Sales and Marketing Assistant Join our growing team as a Sales and Marketing Assistant. We have a dynamic work environment and are looking for someone to help us along the path of growing our established business into an Internet powerhouse. Learn more at eugene.craigslist.org/web/1448890286.html 11/13/09 |
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| Check out our latest presentations. We have been busy! We love to talk about Internet marketing and web strategy. And we are happy to share our presentation outlines. Have a look at some of our recent presentations. If you are interesting in having us speak at your conference, workshop, or event, please contact us. List of Workshops and Presentations 11/10/09 |
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| This Week's Featured New Site: Dog Angel Jewelry We welcome our newest website to the growing HEROweb family: Dog Angel Jewelry: www.dogangeljewelry.com This site sells beautiful handcrafted Pet Memorial Jewelry Dog Angel Jewelry offers a wonderful way to commemorate a lost pet in your life or in the life of someone you know. 11/7/09 |
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| Join us at the MightyMerchant Ecommerce Blog for a post every day this Month! November is Blog Post month at the MightyMerchant Ecommerce Blog Come join us for the discussion about doing business online. 11/01/09 |
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| Upcoming Workshops: Internet Marketing Made Simple Now is the time to build a strategy for promoting your business and products online. Learn how to make marketing technologies work for your business. Three FREE 90 minute sessions - each focused on a key aspect of marketing your business online.
Sessions will be held at the Springfield Chamber, Springfield Depot location. Seating is limited, so reserve your spot now! 9/27/09 |
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| More New Sites in September! September has been another busy month. Imagine Photographics and North Branch Construction went live earlier this month, and now we have 3 more! Check out our latest websites to go live: Dorm Cribs - Affordable furnishings and services for college students to rent or purchase AM-Living - A comprehensive collection of historical reproductions and unique home dcor Z-CoiL Pain Relief Footwear - Engineered to help relieve foot, leg, and back pain by reducing impact to the body. 9/27/09 |
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| New Sites Go Live! We've had a busy summer. Not only have we developed new sites for both national and local customers, we've also done a few redesigns for existing customers. Check out the following websites that recently went live: Eugene Textile Center - Fiber arts classes and supplies in Eugene Imagine Photographics - A new division of Imagine Graphics that offers dynamic business photography North Branch Construction - New homes and remodeling in Central Oregon Acme Menus - A full line of restaurant menu covers, menu jackets with clear pockets and table top menu holders 9/10/09 |
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| Welcome Dave Reed, our new Internet Marketing Specialist. HEROweb is delighted to welcome Dave Reed, Internet Marketing Specialist, to the HEROweb staff. He will assist customers with services such as Pay-per-click, Search Engine Optimization, and others. Dave has three years of experience in the internet marketing field, and we at HEROweb are pleased to have this talented guy on staff. To read Dave's complete bio click here. |
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| Social Media Presentation in Springfield OR Thanks to the Springfield Chamber of Commerce for hosting my Social Media Marketing presentation: "Getting Your Feet Wet With Social Media: One Toe At A Time" The crowd was great and the screen was HUGE. I felt kind of like a midget up there. Here is the PowerPoint Deck for the Social Media Presentation Enjoy. 6/23/09 |
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| Going Into Business Class at LCC BDC Thanks to all the participant's of the Going Into Business class for contributing to a lively discussion. You can download class materials at GIB Class Materials. June 2, 2009 |
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| New Sites Go Live in April! We welcome our new customers whose sites went live in April. As usual, we have an interesting mix of local and national, ecommerce and informational. We have quite an eclectic mix of customers! It has been great to make more of a connection with the Eugene Springfield business community here in Oregon over the past year and we appreciate the opportunity to work with local businesses. Check out these new websites: www.chicagoschoolsupply.com www.backyarddecorandmore.com www.scissorsorshears.com www.broadwayapothecary.com www.dahliadivas.com 5/1/2009 |
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| Eugene Chamber of Commerce Web Marketing Presentation Today It is a beautiful day in Eugene Oregon today. The whole week has been magnificent. We are at the Eugene Chamber of Commerce for a lunchtime presentation on "Maximizing your Web Marketing Efforts." We are going over some of the basics of a sound approach to web marketing for the local Eugene and Springfield audience. You can download the powerpoint of the presentation at: Maximizing Your Web Marketing Presentation- Eugene Oregon 4/23/2009 |
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| Hot New Feature: Customized Product Feed We are excited to announce the newest feature of our MightyMerchant Ecommerce platform: customized product feeds. What are product feeds, you ask? Many comparison shopping sites out there, like Google Base, Shopzilla, and Become, allow you to submit your product data in a specialized format, called a data feed. MightyMerchant has developed a system that allows us to customize your product data in a range of formats and send it off to other sites where you can market your products. This is a great feature for any ecommerce site owner who is looking to expand their audience. Read more on our blog at: blog.mightymerchant.com/2009/03/05/custom-product-feeds/ 4/13/2009 |
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| Slew of New Sites Go Live in March! I think it is safe to say that you would have to have been sequestered for the last six months on a planet in a remote galaxy to be unaware that the economy has been challenging over the past several months. At HEROweb, we are fortunate to be staying hard at work and commend our customer base for their fortitude and ingenuity in finding creative ways to build their businesses. Here is a list of the new websites we have made live so far this month: www.craftsfeathersfloral.com www.littlebamboobaby.com www.acsprocessing.com www.swvetclinic.com www.enerchilivingspaces.com www.cgfarmhouse.com www.tubbyusa.com www.theprotectionpros.com With quite a few other sites in the works, we hope we are part of a spring business up-surge. Reports in our local area of Lane County Oregon are that business is picking up. Let's keep up the momentum! 4/2/2009 |
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| Web Site / Internet Marketing Seminars for Spring We have been giving seminars and workshops in the Eugene / Springfield area for the past several months. We have gotten a great response and look forward to giving more presentations to the local community and sharing information about online marketing. Here is our upcoming schedule: April 21 - May 12 "Make Your Mark Online" - a four-part workshop that meets Tuesday evenings at the Lane Small Business Development Center. A great way to get all the info you need to get going with a web business. April 23 - "Developing Your Website for a Local Audience" - a 90 minute lunch time presentation at the Eugene Chamber of Commerce. May 20 - "10 Steps to Jumpstart Your Web Marketing" - a one hour segment, presented as part of the SCORE spring seminar. If you are a Northwest business group and are interested in a presentation, please let us know. 3/18/2009 |
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| Congratulations to Opportunity Barks on their new website! Hot off the press... we have just made live our newest HEROweb website. Opportunity Barks is a dog boarding and training facility. They are the proud owners of a new website. Check it out at www.opportunitybarks.com. 2/19/09 |
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| Web Workshop Materials Now Posted We just finished teaching our first workshop at the Lane Business Development Center in Eugene, Oregon. The class was titled "Making Your Mark Online" and we basically attempted to fit everything we know about getting started with a web business into four 90-minute sessions. Whew, we covered a lot of material! When we teach the class again in the spring, we will be a little less ambitious. Are you interested to see what we covered? We have posted our class outlines. Have a look! 2/11/09 |
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| Springfield Business Expo - A fun day at the mall! Nothing like getting out on the town and spreading a little Super-Hero fun! HEROweb Marketing was at the Gateway Mall for the Springfield Business Expo. 
See what the Register Guard had to say about the event:
Annual Business Expo Packs Mall
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Now Working with Your Payments Partner to offer Ecommerce Merchant AccountsSecure, Reliable, Merchant Accounts - With Great Customer ServiceOur partnership with Your Payments Partner provides you with a secure, reliable merchant acccount solution that we are willing to put our name behind! And, boy oh boy, have we spent a long time searching for a merchant account provider who we can trust!
 For any ecommerce site owner - a reliable, secure Merchant Account is one of the key ingredients to success. At HEROweb we have worked with a range of providers over the past 14 years. The experiences we (and our customers) have had ranged from bad to awful. There are more horror stories than we care to recount. Many merchant account providers dangle low rates, no setup fees, and other enticements to get quick merchant signups. Only as you start to do business do the problems start to unfold. Since we began working with Your Payments Partner we have not had to worry about whether our customers would be completely taken care of for their merchant account needs. Your Payments Partner offers the highest level of integrity and responsiveness we have seen in the industry. They set a very high standard and meet it time and again.
Data Security - Your customers can be confident their data is secure. We protect sensitive customer information by using the highest levels of encryption and security protocols. Fraud Protection – We include a variety of services that will help protect your business against fraud. Customer Support– We understand that payment processing is vital to your business, which is why we provide customer support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
A 2-step Education in Merchant AccountsAccepting payments online is a two part system. It requires a merchant account and payment gateway account.
1. ECommerce Merchant AccountWhat is a Merchant Account?A merchant account is essentially a line of credit for your business. It’s an account established with a financial institution that will process and settle approved credit card transactions into your personal or business bank account. The merchant account bank receives the request for these funds and payments through communication with a credit card terminal or payment gateway. Your Payments Partner offers these key features:
2. Payment Gateway AccountWhat is a Payment Gateway?For Ecommerce and MOTO businesses, a payment gateway replaces the card swipe terminal used in a retail store. Because your customers are not physically present, a payment gateway provides you with a suite of tools to process your customers billing information using the Internet. We offer you the following functionality:
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| February Events Around Eugene-Springfield Happy Groundhogs, Day! Here are a few of the events that HEROweb will be involved with in February around the Eugene/Sprinfield area. Springfield Business Expo Feb. 7th , all day, at Gateway Springfield Greeters Presentation Feb 19th, 7:30am at Home Town Buffet Make Your Mark Online Feb 3rd and 10th, final two sessions of our four-week workshop at the Lane Small Business Development Center We hope to see you around town! 2/2/09 |
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