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If you're looking for a Hamilton pest control company you'll be interested in our latest website in Hamilton Ontario.

The site is www.ehamiltonpestcontrol.com and the company is Petty Pest Control Services.

I learned a lot of pest control stuff from Jim Petty, the owner.  For example, I didn't know that when they remove a pest from your home or wherever such as a raccoon, they take it far enough away that it won't likely find its way back to your home.  The also don't kill these animals, which I was somewhat relieved to know.

Jim specializes in the control of indoor pests such as bed bugs.  Did you know that bed bugs are not necessarily a sign of uncleanliness?  But once you've got them you need someone like Petty Pest Control to get rid of them.

I hope you like this new Hamilton Website Design.  It's from our new minisite series and features a home page video, and autoresponder system for lead generation.

If you're in need of Pest Control in the Hamilton, Niagara area, don't hesitate to call Jim Petty at Petty Pest Control Services.

And hey…how about a plug for me?  Yep…if you need a great website in the Hamilton Niagara area to generate new business for your small to medium sized offline business, give me a call.

Take care,
Murray.

We've just completed a great new website for Trimline in the Burlington area.  It's www.Trimlineofburloak.com.

I was amazed at the work these guys do.  Vehicle wraps for small vehicles to large buses, they can make any vehicle graphics job look great.

Trimline of Burloak has been in business for 33 years so they know what they're doing.  They not only install the vehicle wraps, but they also do the design work and create the graphics in-house.

In addition to vehicle wraps, Trimline of Burloak has a great product that protects the paint on a car.  It's called 3m Paint Protection film and we put a video on the website that shows how effective this film is in preventing stone chips and other normal damage that vehicles experience.

A product that I also liked is their Window Frosting.  This is a great product for offices, and other commercial establishments.  It adds to the beauty of the window while providing a level of privacy.

I hope you like the website and remember if you want a vehicle wrap in the Hamilton, Burlington, Oakville, Niagara area, check out my friends at Trimline of Burloak.

Murray.

As a University town St. Catharines has its share of students coming from out of town to attend Brock University or Niagara College.

Finding just the right student housing can be challenging at best and if a student isn't quick about getting their student apartment booked early enough they may find it hard to get a good one.

There's a great new website that we've just launched for the Niagara Student Housing Association that will help with Brock Student housing in the St.Catharines area.  The new NSHA site helps landlords who have student apartments or full student homes available for rent to easily list their student rental on the NSHA website.

The new Niagara Student Housing Association website is easy for students to navigate.  Each listing provides images and a description of the rental property in addition to a handy Google Map to make it easy to find the location.

If you're a Brock University Student looking for a place to live for the school term, check out the new NSHA website.

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There's a really important lesson that all of us who have a website need to learn at some point.  It's imperative that you backup your website files!

Unfortunately most website owners have no idea of how to backup their website, nor do they have a webmaster to ensure that this is done for them.  All will go along just fine until the inevitable happens.  The CRASH!

Two years ago, before I learned this lesson for myself, my website went down and I had no backup.  The next week saw me frantically trying to re-create my site.  I've learned my lesson well, and make sure that my clients don't have to go through the same experience.

If you want a reliable company for offsite data storage, and data disaster recovery, you'll want to check out Computer Storage Services.  They're data backup service is simple to use with a great support system.

I hope this little article gets you thinking about safe guarding yourself against losing your website.

Good Luck!
Murray.

You need a great web design to get business from the internet!  Not anymore!  With all of the free social sites on the internet you can get more free advertising for your small or medium sized business than most could ever afford to pay for.  Now don't get me wrong, a great website is important to your business as well, but not as critical as it once was.

The social networks online are all the rage these days.  Facebook and Twitter is constantly in the news, and you can now follow your favorite TV newscaster online.  I was at a coffee shop today with a client and couldn't help but notice the flat screen TV on the counter with the "Follow Us on Twitter" advertisement.  It's difficult to read a newspaper without seeing a Facebook or Twitter ad associated with a business ad.

Small and medium sized businesses have an opportunity to compete against the mega companies.  Think about the free advertising you can get for your business these days.  And the reality is that your customers are there, and many of your competitors are not.  So the time is now.

So the point of this post is to tell you about a publishing service that I'm trying out.  It's called "Posterous".  With this system you simply post an article, video, picture, mp3, or all of the above to "Posterous" and it is broadcast to many of your social network accounts.

So over the next little while I'm going to be posting to; Facebook, Twitter, Buzz, YouTube, my Wordpress blog, and several other accounts.

What this means is that you can simply post an article to one place and it gets broadcast to most of your online properties.  The value is that your message is broadly distributed without spending hours at the computer.  You can even post by email from your smartphone including video and images!

I'll keep you posted on how "Posterous" works for me.  In the meantime, you might want to check out this site; http://posterous.com.

Enjoy!
Murray.