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Monday, 26 November 2007

We Call You Now available in UK!

AussieWeb Local Search has launched a UK local Search site This new site has most of the features of our Australian Local Search business directory. It has the same "click to call" features that are available from We Call You Now.

Move to the top of the UK site by adding this technology now.

Friday, 19 October 2007

Search School is coming to Sydney!

Hi All,

AussieWeb Local Search and We Call You Now was one of the successful presentations at the Melbourne Search School. We are happy to announce that we will again be presenting at the Sydney Search School on the 1st of November 2007.

You can follow this link to read the testimonials from the Melbourne Search School: http://www.searchschool.com.au/about.html

As a special offer to our readers, you can save $100 by using this registration link:
https://subscribe.reedbusiness.com.au/default.asp?offergroup=SS07WB13&pubid=181

Hope to see you in Sydney on the 1st of November 2007

Monte Huebsch

Wednesday, 12 September 2007

I want to increase my web traffic!

Everyday, millions of products are sold and researched online. Most of this web traffic is driven by search engines like Yahoo and Google. SearchSchool is a one day seminar designed to introduce Search and Search Engine Optimisation techniques. It is aimed at helping small to medium business owners and managers maximise their website’s search engine results.

The inaugural SearchSchool seminar series will be held in Sydney and Melbourne and will attract delegates that have little to no knowledge of Search Engine Optimisation. The programme has been designed to introduce, explain and provide tips on each topic and is ultimately geared at helping business owners improve their online return. Topics include Fundamentals of Paid Search Marketing, Fundamentals of the WWW & Web design, Social Media Optimisation and Analytics.

SearchSchool will be convened by Barry Smyth, Director of Search Strategies. Barry started Search Strategies in 2006 having spent a number of years in the search engine marketing world and has run successful search marketing campaigns for high profile Australian & International companies. Individual sessions will be run by industry experts who are Australian leaders in Search. They are:

Peter Dowse, Marketing Manager, Smartype Cameron Winslow, Managing Director, Vertical-Leap
Robbie Hills, Managing Director, 24/7 Real Media
Monte Huebsch, CEO, AussieWeb
Joshua Hay, Operations Manager, E-Web Design & Marketing
Rod Jacka, Managing Director, Panalisys
Fred Schebesta - Director - Freestyle MediaTom Petryshen, CEO, AmplifyAndy Jamieson, Director, Switched on Media

SearchSchool has been developed by Reed Business Information (RBI) and will be organised by their in-house Events team. RBI is Australia’s leading and largest B2B publisher and information provider. With magazines like Australian Doctor, New Scientist, B&T Weekly, Travel Weekly and many other market leading publications, RBI provides Australian decision makers with the highest quality information available. Their extensive product range comprises magazines, supplements, directories, online industry portals and e-newsletters. They provide a strong mix of print, online and direct marketing opportunities and have developed the most advanced internet portals in the B2B industry.

“Our goal for SearchSchool is to give delegates an entry-level checklist of items that they can immediately implement to help improve their website’s search engine ranking - and ultimately increase their web traffic” said John La Rosa, RBI Events Technical and Content Director. “It’s also important that delegates understand the fundamentals of the web, how their customers use search engines and the tools available to help them track this new traffic.”

According to Mandy Eyles, RBI Events Sales & Marketing Director, “SearchSchool offers a great opportunity for organisations that are looking to engage with small-to-medium business owners, demonstrate their products, develop new business partnerships and will also deliver a strong ROI”.

Sponsors of SearchSchool 2007 include NetRegistry, Yahoo Search Marketing and Lenovo.
SearchSchool will provide a unique networking opportunity for small to medium business owners and offer solutions to help grow their company online – and into the future.

For further information contact:

Mandy Eyles, Sales & Marketing Director, RBI Events

Tuesday, 28 August 2007

Call Quality - near perfect!

Finally, our new Cisco router is in, redundant Telco's are in place and the SE Asia call quality is damn near perfect. Took us a bit and we learned some hard lesson - but all is good now!

Thanks for all your Patience.

The We Call You Now development team

Wednesday, 15 August 2007

Solve one issue and another one creeps up.

In our last post we discussed our strategies to combat Telco supplier degradation. We have implemented that solution and now have a 100% redundant system. All was looking good until we had a hardware failure in our Sydney POP.

Sometimes it is hard to win. Okay, we have routed traffic through our Frankfurt POP as we fix the Sydney issue. Call quality is great but there can be some "lag" in the conversations. You fix one issue and another one takes its place.

This is a priority for us and the whole team is working to resolve the hardware issues, ASAP.

The We Call You Now development team. Working with Murphy's law!

Tuesday, 31 July 2007

Call quality update

In our last post we explained some of the issues that were affecting call quality with our "click to call" service. We are happy to announce that we have secured an alternative Telco supplier and initial tests for all of SE Asia are very promising.

To insure that the degradation does not occur again we are putting in place a back up provider so that we can change providers in hours and not the days and week long delays we have experienced in the past.

With severe competition between providers and a changing market place, redundancy is now a high priority for us and we have used the backup strategy to achieve our goal of business grade quality calls.

Please feel free to try the call quality yourself at http://www.wecallyounow.com/

All the best from our development team.

Thursday, 19 July 2007

Call issues

To all our users across Australia. Recently we have been struggling with call quality due to various reasons. First, our telco provider upgraded equipment and had implementation challenges. There have been floods in Melbourne that knocked out some of the exchanges. And believe it or not, a individual went on a rampage with a tank and knocked over four telco towers in Sydney.

All this and more has been a challenge for us but we are working hard to restore both call quality and reliability.

Sorry for any inconveniences.