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Eventbrite.com is the best event registration service I have found. Features include... 

• FREE EVENTS - It's free to you when you are not charging for your event. 
• PAID EVENTS - Easily except payments. The per-ticket charge is minimal. You can also pass the fee along to your attendees.
• EXPOSURE - Your event is included in their directories, categories, locations, and rss feeds. sample 
• SOCIAL - Easily promote your events on your social networks. more 
• INTEGRATE - Easily add your event registration to your website. more 
• Mange attendees, create coupon codes, track stats, print badges and more. See all the video tutorials and FAQs.  

Now you can easily add an +AddThis Plugin to your AdvisorFlex 2.0 Website, and even track it's stats!

Let Viewers Share Your Site

With the recent craze of the Facebook 'Like' button, viewers are excited to share the content and topics they find interesting with their friends. If you are not giving them the opportunity to do so on your site, you're missing the boat.  We've made it easy to do so, utilizing the most powerful sharing plugin on the net (+AddThis).  See a Sample Site.

You know you should be sending email newsletters to your clients and customers on a regular basis. But you never find the time to write them, do you?

Have Website Viewers Subscribe to Your Blog Feed

The truth is, you’ll probably never find the time to sit down and write an email newsletter. That’s exactly why MailChimp created this RSS-to-Email tool. It takes content from your blog (or any RSS feed), and sends it as an email newsletter to your subscribers. Auto'magically'.

HERE'S HOW

1. Add a Blog to your site (if you have not already)

2. Create your free MailChimp Account

3. Setup your RSS-to-Email | Here's how

4. Create a 'subscribe now' form in MailChimp

5. Send us the code to add to your site

6. Post blog articles to your website.  They will automatically be sent out to your list in MailChimp based on when you schedule them.

Preview Some Sample Forms

Click 'Posts by Email' (on the right)

Click 'Subscribe..' (on the left)

You might have seen images like this on city light posts and cereal boxes.

What are they?

QR (or Quick Response) Codes are unique images that can be linked to URLs (website addresses), which can be read by mobile devices.  You just need to download the free software for your device. These images can also contain your contact info (called MeCards).  So a prospect can simply scan your unique image to automatically import your contact info into their mobile device's address book. 

Want to drive more potential customers to your website? Here are some basic steps to take that will help boost your presence on the search engines.

Even companies that do big business online struggle to be noticed by Google users. The Web, after all, is home to some 120 million Internet domains and tens of billions of indexed pages. But every company, big or small, can draw more Google traffic by using search-engine optimization -- SEO, for short.

Traffic is directly related to your site's rank among Google's search results -- the higher the rank, the more you get. The specific algorithms, or formulas, that Google and other search engines use to rank websites are closely guarded secrets, but the basic components are widely known. SEO involves tailoring your website to satisfy as many of the ranking criteria as possible.

But also understand that only about 25% of your 'on-site' SEO efforts might help in your actual Search Engine Ranking Potion (SERP). The other 75% might be due to creating links back to your website from other social media, online directories, location (map) sites, bookmark sites, and more.

MIAGD has tried to simplify these 2 important SEO strategies for Advisors.

On Site SEO Strategy

Off Site SEM Strategy