StartupNation Honors Nation’s Top Home Businesses of 2009

Relevant Trafik Wins Top Ten Honors in Business Competition in the Greenest Category

Los Angeles, California – November 16^th, 2009 – Relevant Trafik has been recognized by StartupNation (http://www.startupnation.com) as a Top Ten business in its 2009 Home Based 100 competition under the category of Greenest.

Many of the StartupNation Home-Based 100 submissions revealed that business owners are bucking the current economic downturn and finding business success in these tight times. Historically some of today’s most well known businesses started in a downturn, including Microsoft and General Electric.

“The 2009 ranking shows that the home-based business is more relevant than ever. The current recession has spurred a new wave of home based businesses as a response to loss of jobs, the need for supplemental income and the sheer passion for blazing your own trail and running your own show,” said Rich Sloan, co-founder of StartupNation.com, one of the leading small business networking and advice websites. “Home based businesses are the biggest block of all businesses in existence and we expect numbers to grow ever greater as extra bedrooms, kitchen tables, basements and garages become host to the innovative thinking and pursuit of success by millions of Americans.”

“We are pleased to have won this award for being an eco-friendly company.”

-Gary Nicholson, Project Manager for Relevant Trafik

The StartupNation Home-Based 100 highlights 10 top-ten lists making it not just your ordinary business ranking. From the wackiest, to the most innovative, to the savviest in social media – this unique and diverse list highlights the home-based businesses that usually go unrecognized, but still play a vital role in the economy today. MSN publishes the ranking as well in an editorial collaboration with StartupNation. The ten categories for 2009 include:

• Recession Busters
• Savviest in Social Media
• Most Innovative
• Boomers Back in Business
• Greenest
• Yummiest
• Wackiest
• Highest Vote-Getters
• Most Slacker-Friendly
• Most Glamorous

Relevant Trafik was selected from among thousands of contestants by a StartupNation judging panel, which issues the ranking results annually in November.

The full results of the Home-Based 100 ranking are available on StartupNation’s website at http://www.startupnation.com/homebased100/. The 2009 ranking was sponsored by Microsoft Office Live, Infusionsoft and FedEx Office.

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About StartupNation

StartupNation (www.startupnation.com) provides over 175,000 pages of business advice and networking for entrepreneurs and serves millions of entrepreneurs annually. StartupNation is a free service founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs with the intention of providing a one-stop shop for entrepreneurial success, including blogs from small business experts, podcasts, forums, webcasts, eBooks, award-winning step-by-step advice, online and offline networking groups, and more.

StartupNation co-founders and “chief startupologists,” Rich Sloan and Jeff Sloan, are two of the country’s leading small business experts and run StartupNation from home to this very day. They speak frequently at entrepreneurial forums and act as sources for top media venues nationwide. They are authors of StartupNation: Open for Business, published by Doubleday, and provide their insights online at www.startupnation.com. The Sloans are regularly quoted and featured in media such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune Small Business, Entrepreneur Magazine, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOX News and many others.

About Microsoft Office Live

Microsoft Office Live is the award-winning service that offers a complete, affordable set of easy-to-use Internet-based tools that help small business owners create a professional web presence. More information is available at http://www.smallbusiness.officelive.com. Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

About Infusionsoft

Infusionsoft, the leader in automatic follow-up software, helps small businesses grow fast by putting email marketing, CRM and e-commerce on auto-pilot, backing it with the ‘Double Your Sales’ guarantee. The privately held, three-year-named Inc. 500 company is based in Gilbert, Ariz. and is funded by Mohr Davidow Ventures and vSpring Capital.

Marketing and small business insight from the Infusionsoft team can be found on the Infusionsoft blog at www.infusionblog.com.

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For more information, press only:
Rich Sloan, for StartupNation, (248) 766-2905, rich(at)StartupNation(dot)com

Relevant Trafik holds workshops and customized on-site trainings in Los Angeles on a variety of topics including WordPress, Social Media and SEO. In addition to Website and blogging platforms, we teach you how to setup and manage your Social Media strategy, in order to achieve effectiveness.

On-Site Training:

We come to your office and speak with you and/or your staff on the topic of your choice, according to your needs.

Remote Training:

Using video conferencing software and the telephone, we train you and your staff on your site.

Relevant Trafik uses Mikogo software for training

Workshops:

We hold classroom trainings throughout the city of Los Angeles. Give us a call today to check out our latest schedule and training location.

Training topics:

Online marketing strategies

Social media & social networking: Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Youtube, Ustream

Blogging platforms:  Wordpress, Blogger, Moveable Type

Content Management Systems (CMS): Wordpress, Joomla, VirtueMart, Zen Cart

SEO (search engine optimization):  Since SEO is an ongoing process, it is cost effective to learn the basics and do it yourself.

At Relevant Trafik, we make sure your team has the knowledge, tools and confidence they need in order to achieve your internet marketing strategy. All of our training classes feature a question and answer session after the presentation.

We build and manage your Social Media Campaigns

New to Social Media? Need help understanding how it all works? These days it’s important to understand how social media works in order to increase visibility to your website, your brand, and your business. Relevant Trafik can help you master the social mediasphere and help you achieve the results you want. We can teach you facebook, twitter, myspace and a host of other social networks to utilize for your marketing. Just give us a call at 323-761-9751 or via email

Call us today for more information: 323-761-9751

Or email us.

In addition to copywriting we offer a full range of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) packages to fit your budget:

SEO Plan A

1- Technical SEO – Update code and build internal link structure, optimize content, fix any errors.

10 pages

Unique titles, alt tags (all metadata & tags)

Remove tables, CSS -Div site

Site Map build and inclusion

Compatibility error check

2- Ongoing SEO – Search, Develop and Build new (On Page SEO)

Content Strategy- 1 Silo – 10 relevant and targeted keywords (not mega keywords)

Design blueprint

Search-Define Vertical Keywords

Search-Define Article Keywords (articles/content provided by client)

3 – Link Building- Basic Directory Promotion (Off Page SEO)

Basic Directory Promotion 200 to 400 Links/Submissions per month spread across 1 off page ranking strategies.

Highly optimized SEO-friendly manual directory submission

Authoritative article creation utilizing unique content.

Comprehensive off-page ranking factor drawing from optimized titles, content, and author profile.

Highly optimized SEO-friendly article directory submissions.

Social media links reinforcing this comprehensive off-page ranking strategy.

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SEO Plan B

1- Technical SEO – Update code and build internal link structure, optimize content, fix any errors

30 pages

Unique titles, alt tags (all metadata & tags)

Remove tables, CSS -Div site

Sitemap Inclusion and Build and Robots.txt

Compatibility error check

2- SEO Campaign – Search, Develop and Build new Blueprint (On Page SEO)

Content Strategy- 2 Silos – 20 relevant and targeted keywords

Design blueprint

Search-Define Vertical Keywords

Search-Define Article Keywords (articles/content provided by client)

3- Link Building – Advanced off page ranking factor promotion (Off page SEO)

500 to 750 Links/Submissions per month spread across at least 3 separate off page ranking strategies.

Advanced quantity of SEO-friendly manual directory submissions

Full scale SEO-friendly article directory submissions

Thorough social media linking reinforcing off-page ranking strategy, including multiple links

Authoritative article creation utilizing an added amount of unique content

Comprehensive off-page ranking factor drawing from optimized titles, content, and author profile

Additional Services Available for Bundle B:

* PPC Campaign Management

* Social Media packages available

* PR packages available

* Full CMS (Content Management System) software integration

* Site Deign/Re-design – please contact us for more information. Each project is unique.

SEO Plan C

1- Technical Overhaul – Update code and build internal link structure, optimize content, fix any errors.

50 pages

Unique titles, alt tags (all metadata & tags)

Remove tables, CSS -Div site

Sitemap inclusion and build and Robots.txt

Compatibility error check

2- SEO Campaign – Search, Develop and Build new Blueprint (On Page SEO)

Content Strategy- 4 Silos – 40 relevant and targeted keywords

Design blueprint

Search-Define Vertical Keywords

Search-Define Article Keywords

Implement Blueprint (articles/content provided by client)

3- Link Building -Professional off page ranking factor promotion (Off Page SEO)

1000 to 2000 Links/Submissions per month spread across at least 5 separate off page ranking strategies.

Exhaustive and extensive quantity of SEO-friendly directory submission

Authoritative keyword-targeted article creation utilizing a significant amount of unique content, with complete distribution

Comprehensive off-page ranking factor drawing from optimized titles, content, and author profile

Advanced social media linking reinforcing off-page ranking strategy, including multiple links and key phrase proximity enhancement

Professional blog content-creation optimized for off-page ranking factor published in category relevant blogs, with syndication

Additional Services Available for Bundle C:

PPC Campaign Management.

Social Media packages available.

PR packages available.

Full CMS (Content Management System) software integration.

• Site Design/Re-design – please contact us for more information. Each project is unique. (323) 761-9751

These days its not enough to have a website and a blog, you have to have a presence in the social mediasphere in order to compete with everyone else. So how do you manage all of this? Social media profiles are not a “set it and forget it” scenario.

We build and manage your Social Media Campaigns

Social Media profiles, like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter,etc. require constant attention in order to be effective in increasing your return. Relevant Trafik can manage your existing social media profiles, blogs, social bookmarking accounts, etc. But we don’t just manage them, we help you build a community of relevant followers who are interested in your products or services.

So if you can’t understand Twitter from Facebook, or Myspace from Digg, then let us help you do all the work. We have a full team dedicated to providing you with relevant profiles that actually work to drive relevant traffic to your business.

We can set up your profiles, upload your content and help you create an online presence around your product or service. Now that’s Relevant!

Twitter is by far the hottest social networking site out there. It even surpasses facebook in terms of usage. Many companies have jumped on the social highway and are implementing twitter into their online marketing campaigns. So what is a background? Well if you go to twitter, you will notice that some businesses and individuals have created a custom background complete with their logo, their brands, and other pertinent information about them. Have a look at Relevant Trafik’s twitter page for an example of a custom background. Stand out from the crowd with a custom twitter background from Relevant Trafik.

“Twitter is by far the best way to connect with your audience.”

Contact Relevant Trafik today at 323-761-9751 to create and design  a background for you.

Not sure how to twitter?Use facebook? Use Myspace? We can help!

Relevant Trafik offers training in several social media formats. Just ask!

We offer training solutions for all of our services.

No time to tweet on twitter?

Let us take care of it for you. We are available to manage all of your online identities, giving you more time and freedom to focus on other things.

Call us today for more information on twitter and other social media services. We can teach you everything you need to know about driving on the social highway…

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So sit back, relax, and let Relevant Trafik help you navigate the Social Highway.

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Our very own Gary Nicholson had the opportunity to be a guest speaker at Wordcamp Los Angeles held at Loyola Marymount University in Marina Del Rey, California. Wordcamp is a nationwide gathering of people who design, develop and use the popular  open source software system. Gary spoke about Wordpress plugins for using Wordpress as a Content Management System (CMS) and as a blogging platform.