The last month has been a transition period for the folks at ICTIP. After having moved into our new office, the staff “adjusted” to life in the prestigious Atlas building in the Norwest business park. The Atlas Norwest building is home to several large businesses.

As a result of moving into the Atlas building, we have also launched the Atlas Business Directory, which is uniquely positioned to promote your business not only in the business park itself, but also in a specific building.

The directory contains a fully searchable listing by keywords and business category in both the Norwest Business Directory (the business park) & Atlas Business Directory (a specific building directory) both of which will be interlinked. Additionally rather than being a static advertisement, we have developed these directories to be fully integrated with all major social media engines, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and now as of July 2011 Google +.

We also had a new Business Development Manager join us, in Richard Holland. Richard will be heading all business development and pre-sales, some of you may hear from him soon.

We also have a series of workshops planned in Sydney and in Colombo, Sri Lanka during the month of August. Our Founder, Logan Nathan has also been invited to provide a keynote address on social media, at the 29th National IT Conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka. In the month of July, Logan also had the privilege of being invited as a keynote speaker for the Annual Caravan and Camping conference.

As a predominantly internet and social media marketing company, we have been watching the developments of Google + closely and our staff are involved in research into this new social media tool. Our main aim for our clients in the coming months, will be to research and advise how Google + will impact on page rank, search engine optimisation and traffic generation.

All these together with our ever growing client base, has been an exciting and interesting time for our staff at ICTIP.

Stay tuned to this page for further exciting announcements and news.

Richard is a well known personality in the Sydney area amongst many businesses and popular Networking groups such as BNI. Sydney Hills Business Chamber, Hawkesbury Business Connection and local sporting clubs like the Norwest “Bulls” Junior Rugby Union Club.

Richard has had over 18 years experience in providing print solutions, Richard is a pro at marketing print solutions and he will bring his vast knowledge in offline promotion to now compliment online promotion. With aspects of print media in itself going digital, it seems natural that Richard too should transition into interactive and digital media with ICTIP.

With his past experience, Richard will be in a unique position to be able to advise our clients how offline promotion can complement ICTIP’s online solutions, to drive more traffic and results for our clients.

Connect with Richard on http://linkedin.com/in/jaordr.

The ICTIP staff would like to take this opportunity to welcome Richard onboard.

SMSMyBusiness is an online platform that allows users to send SMS text messages from a computer to any phone around the globe. This service was started to help businesses further their communication goals in a cost-effective manner. 

After a successful trial run with the service, our next aim to launch it full scale for businesses to use as a SMS Marketing platform. With credits starting as low as 10 cents, this is a cost-effective yet effective service for marketing alerts and reaching customers globally.  

Using this service is as simple as registering, logging in and starting to send messages. SMSMyBusiness also provides the facility to send single to bulk SMS Messages which will enable businesses especially to engage in a SMS Marketing Campaign. 

An exciting feature of SMSMyBusiness, is that you can also send the same SMS to your Twitter account and also the ability to schedule your outgoing SMS to maximise on the peak engagement hours. 

So if you are planning a promotional campaign, Why not start with the trial service?

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Our vision for 2011 is to educate Australian business owners about internet marketing with a special emphasis on Social Media, and to help them grow their businesses online.

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