How was your week? Ours was a whirlwind of activity. We are definitely looking forward to the weekend here. But not before some great Focus & Online Marketing News you can Use.

Are you paying someone to Twitter or Facebook for you ? – Have you considered the liability and other legal ramifications? Check out our recent blog post about this issue. Sometimes outsourcing this may not be the best option. If you do outsource it make sure it is with someone who has the proper years of experience and training.

Social Media Lead Generation – Mashable published a great article on Social Media Lead Generation yesterday. The two most important points we noticed about this article are: You have to be pointing users to your social sites on your website, and you have to be pointing users back to your website on your social sites. There are some other points in there but these two are key. If you don’t have the two way pushing of traffic going you should talk to us about how to start. You can read the rest of the article at http://mashable.com/2010/06/24/social-media-lead-generation/

WordPress Training – Are you looking for personal WordPress training in the Oklahoma City or Tulsa area ? Look no further. Focus Consulting is the local leader in WordPress Content Management System training. Over the years we have taught hundreds of people how to use this affordable (i.e. Free) system to get a website off and running fast. If you are looking for WordPress training check out our upcoming Online Market Training seminars or call us today. One-on-one coaching can be arranged to work around your personal and business schedule.

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WordPress Classes – Earlier this week we announced that we are working on our curriculum for our upcoming WordPress classes. If you have not done so please share this information with your friends and other small businesses in the Oklahoma City metro area. We are still ironing out the exact locations and dates. . Visit out Online Marketing Seminars page to see what other classes we have coming up.

Online Seminars – We are also considering offering some live training seminars via GotoMeeting. These seminar would cover various topics such as : WordPress Overview, SEO 101, Social Media : What you need to get started. If you have an interest in attending an online seminar by Focus please contact us and let us know the topics you would like to see covered and what the best dates/times would be. You get the ease of sitting at your computer and the joy of picking our brains. Great combination.

Get Your Website Today – If you know anybody who still does not have a website up and running please remind them about our website hosting recommendation – Hostgator.  When you signup through us and use our ‘allaboutfocus‘ coupon code you end up getting your hosting for pennies a month. This is becoming a very popular option for those on a calorie-restricted financial budget. In this plan we install wordpress and help you get a free theme up and running ASAP. We take care of our customers very fast – meaning if you took action from reading this sentence you could have your own site running on your own domain in less than 120 minutes. Stop using those gmail.com and cox.net addresses and start looking more professional today.