NevadaFoodies.com is ongoing collaborative effort to document creative and flavorful Wild Game and Fowl Recipes such as Elk, Venison, Antelope, Chukar, Dove, Sage Hen, Duck, Goose and more. The website also features photography of the game recipes as well as photography from Nevada’s great outdoors.

NevadaFoodies.com also integrates Google Adsense text and banner ads, the use of Flickr to display other visuals and social media.

NevadaFoodies.com

Mahoney & Associates Consulting, Carson City NV, is the leading firm specializing in the field of cost allocation and governmental financial analysis on the west coast.

http://costplans.com

http://LakesideBarGrill.com

Web Design, web development and food photography was by Westward Strategy.

The assistance the NRDC provides a rural community doesn’t stop at community assessments. We offer follow-up help such as, leadership training and support creating community foundations. Additionally, the NRDC has the extensive reach and knowledge of local communities that is critical when organizing conferences.
www.NevadaRural.org

BL Copywriting – Brenda Do

“Forget Cute and Clever…Get Copy that Sells!”

(775) 223-3637
brenda@BLCopywriting.com
BLCopywriting.com
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In 2004, Brenda started BL Copywriting to help other companies increase their sales revenue using effective direct-response copy. Brenda writes for solopreneurs to international corporations. She consistently generates such high results, other copywriting professionals rank Brenda within the top 15% in the United States.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chinese Studies from University of California, San Diego. And completed a masters level course from one of the most respected copywriting schools in the nation. Then she catapulted her copywriting skills while training under Parris Lampropolous – who is currently ranked as the #1 copywriter in the country. Brenda offers workshops, speaks at professional groups, and provides revenue-generating copywriting tips on her blog at BLCopyriting.com.

Ocean Public Relations – Kaity Ocean

(775) 787-9257
kaity@ocean-pr.com
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Kaity Ocean has ten years experience in the Public Relations and Marketing field working with a variety of brands in technology, travel & hospitality, food & beverage, events, lifestyle, B2B and non-profit. In 2009, after several years of affiliation with other agencies, as both an employee and an independent Public Relations consultant, Ocean founded her own firm, Ocean Public Relations.

Ocean provides services for small to large businesses. Her expertise span from product launches and re-vitalization to both trade and consumer press to strategic consulting and branding; social media strategy and development; industry and private event planning and sponsorship coordination; writing and research; high-level campaign strategy and management and media training, to high-level media relations.

Ocean has the ability to think outside the box, create a message and deliver it to the right media at the right time in order to secure top results for the client. Her knowledge of a variety of industries and its associated press affiliates makes it possible for her to jump right in to a project and begin garnering publicity in a minimal amount of time. Ocean has placed stories in an array of top-tier national markets in industry and vertical outlets such as Good Morning America, Fortune, The New York Times, USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily, Family Circle, Men’s Journal, Revolver, Essence, Fitness, Outside, Women’s Health, Good Housekeeping, Yahoo! Tech, Yahoo! Shine, TheStreet.com, The Chicago Tribune, PBS Nightly Business Report, Sports Illustrated Kids, Men.Style.com, WIRED, Laptop, CNET, Engadget, The San Francisco Chronicle, Popular Mechanics, Celebrated Living, US Airways and more.

http://goldnsilverreno.com/store/

fuddle: (verb)(adj): salute, toast, pledge, drink-in, bedevil, fox, booze, confuse, soak, intoxicate.
www.WineFuddle.com

Recently launched eCommerce Website specializing in the largest selection of glassware, wine decanters, corkscrews and wine accessories for every kind of wine and spirit enthusiasts. We chose to use Magento as a ‘Free’ shopping cart solution.

Nevada Association for Career and Technical Education

New Strategies for Doing Business Online is the topic of discussion for Nevada’s ACTE 84th Annual Summer Conference.

NACTE — Nevada Association of Career and Technical Education strives to provide leadership in developing an educated, prepared, and competitive workforce.

Kristy Crabtree, Westward Strategy – a Reno Design Agency, will be one of three guests on the Panel at Montbleu Resort and Casino in beautiful South Lake Tahoe.

When: July 29, 2011
Time: 9:00 am-11:00 am

More information
http://www.nacteonline.org/pdf/2011ConferenceFlyer.pdf

I am extremely excited and very grateful to have the opportunity to share best practices and techniques on how to use social media to promote you and your business.

First steps matter in how your platforms are constructed and used. By the end of the class you will have a road map with helpful tools to successfully integrate into your social marketing strategies. 

I intend to throw as much FREE information at you as possible!

First stop on the 5 City tour
for Social Media Business Basics
is beautiful Fallon, Nevada!

• WHERE: WNC Fallon Campus & Rural Development Computer Lab, SAGE 102
• WHEN: MONDAY APRIL 11, 2011
• TIME: 8:30am-3:30pm

Questions? Send an e-mail to Kathy Carrico at kcarrico @ unr.edu or call directly to (775) 784-6879.

Sponsored by
Nevada Small Business Development Center

Agenda items include:

• Strengthening your on-line presence
• Reasons to create Profiles
• Selecting a professional email address
• Email recommendations
• Setup a Gravatar
• Create a quick profile page on Google and Yahoo
• Google Places – list your business on Google
• What’s Your About ‘ME’ Statement?
• Keep a Cohesive and Unified Naming Convention
• Setting up a Twitter Account is as easy as 1-2-3
• Twitter Definitions
• Twitter Tools and References
• Setting up a FaceBook Account is as easy as 1-2-3
• FaceBook Tools and References
• Setting up a LinkedIn Account is as easy as 1-2-3
• LinkedIn Tools and References

plus more if we have time!

Stillwater Wildlife Refuge - Fallon, Nevada

About the Presenter: Kristy Crabtree has more than a decade of marketing and website communication experience. As owner of Westward Strategy & Design Group she knows that in today’s market, your on-line communication platforms are the core of your management and marketing strategies. Westward Strategy & Design Group specializes in developing relationships with businesses that are in need of strategic solutions in areas of website design, social media platforms and practices.

Kristy spends much of her recreational time in various rural Nevada locations as an amateur photographer and engages in camping, hunting and fishing whenever possible.

“Unlike other Reno web design or social marketing agencies, I don’t try to be all things to all people. Instead, I focus on implementing the latest, most effective online marketing strategies that work for you and your business.”

Real content reigns supreme KING at the end of every day.

Google’s Search Cleanup Has Big Effect

By AMIR EFRATI

Google Inc.’s move last week to lower the search rankings of websites that the company said offer little useful information appears to be having a dramatic impact, according to firms that study search-engine data.

Many websites that previously ranked highly in searches for certain keywords on Google dropped sharply following the change in the company’s search algorithms, the firms found. Some of the sites that were hurt defended the quality of their content, arguing that they had been unfairly lumped with bad actors on the Internet.

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