I heard about these guys (the logo nerds) from one of my internet guru squillionaire mentors I follow on Twitter. Anyway he’s pretty resourceful when it comes to finding low cost services on the web.

Their prices are extremely low (makes me wonder how they make a profit?) and you can get a web or print logo for under 50 smackers US – comes complete with multiple revisions and they have some sort of satisfaction guarantee in place – dunno how that works but I had a look at their portfolio, and for the money, it doesn’t look too shabby.

Now I haven’t used them personally but given the low cost/low risk, 50 bucks isn’t a lot of coin to give them a try and see what they come back with.

This video, from one of the most respected guys at Google, is now 2 years old, but these principles still apply today.

PS – for NEW site owners: when he says: “Google usually finds your site in 3 days…” – keep in mind that this means if you type the name of website into Google, you’ll probably get found within this period – this DOESN’T mean you’ll get found for your main keywords in this time. Depending on how competitive your key-phrase is (i.e. at the time of writing, “house painters sydney” returned no less that 77,500 results! Obviously to get your site placing in the top 20 [first 2 pages], is going to take TIME AND WORK. Perhaps many months depending on how busy you are adding content and trying to get links to your site.

Excuse vid quality, but message is clear: Paul Brinkman from Remax explains how his real estate business benefited from a websites that sell website

View the site: House Painters Sydney

New Website: The Painting People - Sydney

Johnny Moussa from The Painting People has been a pleasure to work with. He’s serious about his business, follows all our directions and most importantly, laughs at all my crappy jokes .

Anyway the site has only been live a week and is already getting pretty good feedback particularly with the way it’s built from an SEO (search engine optimisation) standpoint. He’s enlisting the help of a Google Adwords company and they’ve made comments as to the quality of how well the site is structured for search engines.

Johnny is pretty happy that he can update his own content. In particular once he updates his photo gallery, that the photos automatically update the slideshow animations of his before and afters and also his interior and exterior painting jobs. He does very good work and it’s really highlighted in his photo galleries.

Anyway only early days on this one so we’ll post back after he’s been online for a while and see how his ranking, and results are going.

Did you know that you can check your business email (and send replies) from the web without having to use your home computer or Outlook?

Great if you’re out on the run To do this – simply:

• goto: http://www.yourwebsiteaddress.com.au/webmail (for example if your web address is www.joesplumbing.com.au it would be: http://www.joesplumbing.com.au/webmail)
• enter your username and password (username will be your full email address e.g. joe@joesplumbing.com.au and your password will have been sent to you when we first setup your email account)
• click “Horde” at the left
• click “login”
• now click “mail” at the menu on the left to see any email
• you can send using this system as well

For more info see video at top right (best viewed by enlarging – after clicking the play button, click again to enlarge)

Ok so you’ve just been sent some details about your new email address (associated with your business website) and you’re not sure how to add the email address to outlook. Just follow these steps or view the video at right (for best viewing, click the enlarge arrows and select HD version):

Note: this applies to the most commonly used email program, outlook 2003 (process should be similar for other versions of outlook)

• Open outlook and go to the “tools” menu and select “email accounts”
• Tick “add new email account”
• Tick “POP3″
• Enter the details we’ve given you in the appropriate fields (NOTE: the username and password fields have to be EXACT or they won’t work – if youre copying and pasting the details make sure you don’t copy in any SPACES)
• NOTE: your “outgoing mail server” will be same as your existing email address (i.e. bigpond, optusnet or whatever internet service provider you’re using) – to find out just click “tools” > “email accounts” > “view or change existing email account” > then click the account, and have a look at what’s in the “outgoing mail server” field – use that info for your new email account
• Click “test account settings” – you should get all green ticks if you’ve got it right