A2Z Computer Services Inc

Corporate I.T. Solutions, Computer Repair and Web Design in Henderson, KY

Why we created a new Facebook page

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A2Z Computer Services, Inc on FacebookIf you “like” our page on Facebook there’s no doubt that you’ve seen a bunch of posts from us this week regarding our new page. Earlier this week we launched a new page for A2Z Computer Services, Inc. on Facebook because of some technical issues with our old page.

Don’t worry, these technical issues are not a virus or anything that will effect our fans on the page. When we originally created the page a long time ago we categorized the page incorrectly and didn’t have our “official” name as the page name. Instead of having the page categorized as “Local Business” we had it as a “Product / Service”. This is fine for some but in our case we were unable to have the phone number, address and hours fields. This also means that individuals viewing our page from their mobile phone couldn’t access our number, address and hours of operation.

Therefore we decided that even though we have a large number of fans and followers on our original Facebook page, the best solution would be to create a new page and migrate our connections from the original to this one. This isn’t the first time we’ve encountered this issue. We have gone through this process for various clients before as well.

It can be a hard choice to make this jump for some, but the choice to do so is often the right one. The process of notifying the current fans on your page to the new one can take time but patience is a virtue. Once our new page’s numbers are back up to where they should be and all of our fans on the old have had a chance to come to the new one we will delete the old page. Until then we will be updating both pages and and doing lots of promotion for the new page.

We appreciate everyone’s continued support and look forward to furthering our relationships that we have began on Facebook and other various social media outlets.

Click here to visit our new Facebook page: A2Z Computer Services, Inc. on Facebook

Christmas Computer Special [PROMOTION EXPIRED]

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Intel-Based Core 2 Duo 2.93Ghz Computer System

System Specifications:

ATX Mini-Mid Tower CASE w/350W P/S
INTEL DG41TY Mainboard
INTEL CORE 2 DUO ES400 2.7Ghz
1066MHz System Bus
VIDEO / SOUND / LAN
2GB DDR2 800MHz PC2-6400 Memory
Seagate 500GB / 7200.9 SATA HDD
Microsoft Optical Mouse-PS/2
Microsoft Internet Keyboard / PS/2
Norton Anti-Virus 2010 12 Month License
Windows 7 Home Premium
Logitech S120 Speaker System

Monitor NOT included

Christmas Special

$649.99

(plus applicable sales tax)

Add $249 for 19″ LCD Monitor

Call us at (270) 830-9590 for more information or to place your order. We would be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you and have a great holiday season!

This offer is only valid until December 24, 2010. Prices are subject to change without notice.

Using the “Add to Home Screen” iPhone feature

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Nowadays more and more people are using iPhones, Blackberries, Androids and a multitude of other Smart Phone devices to not only make phone calls and send text messages but to read articles and blogs as well. This in turn prompts more and more businesses to create a mobile site or even a mobile app to go along with their company website and/or blog.

What we are going to show you today is a simple way to keep up with the various mobile sites and blogs that you read right on your iPhone home screen. Please note that this is not the only way to keep up with the blogs that you follow. RSS readers are another great way to do just that, but this is simply another alternative. This also a great option to use if your favorite companies don’t have apps that you can download but you still want the app feel to it.

For this tutorial we will be using madskillzmarketing.com as our example.

Step 1: Pull up the desired website in Safari on your iPhone by typing the normal URL in address bar.

iphone mobile site

Step 2: Press the “add” symbol (+) at the bottom of your screen.

Step 3: Press “Add to Home Screen”

Step 4: Give the icon a title and press “Add”

Step 5: You should now see the icon you created on the home screen of your iPhone. You can simply press this icon anytime that you wish to open up the site while keeping the feel a mobile application.

**Mad Skillz Marketing is a Social Media Development and Consulting Solution provided by A2Z Computer Services, Inc, a Henderson, Kentucky based Company. For the past fourteen years, A2Z Computer Services has been providing the highest quality of products and services available. In addition to Social Media Development and Consulting, A2Z Computer Services also provides solutions like Graphic Development, Web Development and outsourced IT Solutions to small to medium size businesses. Focusing on Security, these solutions range from Network Design and Computer Repair to Disaster Recovery and Forensic Analysis. A2Z Computer Services, where we provide “Solutions for your Business”.

Three questions that must be asked when creating a social media strategy

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A couple weeks ago, we at A2Z Computer Services, Inc hosted a free seminar at our office for our existing Mad Skillz Marketing customers to help enhance their Social Media presence.  The purpose of this seminar was to show these business owners how to start their Social Media ventures with a strong foundation.  So we showed them how developing a business plan for Social Media that included various Goals, Strategies, and Schedules will help them fully benefit from Social Media.

You might be asking yourself “Really?  A business plan and strategies for using Facebook and Twitter??”

The simple answer is YES.

And to help you, we’ve developed a few questions you can ask yourself to help you get going with Marketing your business with Social Media:

What do I have to offer?
As business owners, we all have something to offer our customers that adds value to their lives, whether that value be our products and services or simply knowledge and information. If we didn’t, then we wouldn’t have been in business for very long.  Are you looking to offer people knowledge or information?  Or perhaps you’re providing them a way to save money with your products and services. Whatever the value-add is that you’re offering, keep it in mind as you develop your Social Media Goals and Strategies.

Who am I trying to reach?
This aspect of your Strategies and Goals will play an important part in your overall Social Media endeavor.  Everything from the content of your posts, to the manner in which you convey your ideas, to even the design and feel of your Social Media outlets, having an identified target audience is very important.  Identifying targeted customer age groups, geographic locations, interests, and other demographic information is vital to developing a solid campaign.

What do I want to accomplish?
This question may sound simple at first, but after much thought it can become difficult to define.  Are you looking for more visits to your website?  Do you want more customers coming to your store or restaurant?  Is finding an alternative means to communicating one on one with your customers your objective?  Finding out your purpose for using Social Media will bring your overall Strategies and Goals together and get you started on the path to using these marketing avenues effectively.

Now, as an example, after answering these questions, a restaurant can develop a Social Media campaign to draw more 18 – 30 year old college students in their doors to try their latest mouth watering appetizers and convince them to stick around for a wonderful week night dinner.

Finally, remember that Social Media is not a one way street.  If businesses are just constantly throwing information out there, hoping to get a few bites, they are really just settings themselves up for failure.  Goals and strategies will help guide a business to truly reap the rewards that Social Media has to offer.

If you have any further questions please comment below and join in the conversation. If you would like assistance with your Social Media Strategy, please feel free to contact A2Z Computer Services, Inc at (270) 830-9590 or send us a message via our contact page.

Facebook Contact Back Up Process & ‘Fan’ page resizing requirements

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Many people have begun to wonder what would happen if their Facebook account was deleted, hacked or simply lost all of their contacts / friends.  It would take a great deal of work to recreate it as an individual and even more so for an organization, group or business.  All of those ‘friends’ (aka. contacts, vendors, clients, potential customers and friends) would be lost and extremely difficult to get back completely.

Well there is now a solution.  There is a way and in fact there may be several ways to do it; but I’ve got one that is simple, easy and doesn’t require software or costs.

I would like to say we created the process, but I would be lying.  As with everything in social media, it is a collaborative effort and a great atmosphere of sharing among individuals in the social media market.  With that said, below is a step-by-step process that
mrashdi (from the Google ‘Help’ Forum) came up with and it works.

There are several variables to the process; but the most straight forward one requires that you have a Yahoo account and if you are trying to download the contact list to your G-mail account, you can, but will need the Yahoo account to process it.

Here are the steps:

NOTE:  NO software or installation needed.

1. You must have a Yahoo Email, if not, create one (even if you are transferring it eventually to your Gmail account).

2. Login to your Yahoo Mail.

3.  Go to ‘contacts’  – then choose ‘import email from Facebook’.

If you use Yahoo, you are now done.  If however, you are using Gmail, then proceed to the following steps.

4.  ‘Export’ Yahoo csv. download/save it (I used Excel format to save mine).

5.  Login to your Gmail

6.  Upload the csv file to Gmail contact.

That’s it.  Yes, that simple.  There are some other variables and accounts you can utilize and export to (such as Microsoft Outlook and Netscape).  But no matter what your particular preferences, at least there is a way to save your valuable Facebook contact list.

On a sidenote as a reminder to everyone with a Facebook ‘Fan’ page, today was the scheduled day for the required resizing of ‘Fan’ pages.  ‘Fan’ pages have been 760 pixels width and Facebook made the change to 520 pixels width.  Facebook says that if the pages are not resized in advance that they would resize them automatically.  There have been rumors that ‘Fan’ pages that are not resized before the deadline might be cut off and unreadable or even rendered unusable and unviewable.  If you are an organization that has not made these changes need to move quickly to avoid a potential problem.

Mad Skillz Marketing is a social media service provided by A2Z Computer Services offering social media development, training, consulting and support for organizations, groups and businesses of all sizes and types.