November 2005


November 8, 2005

Dear Customers

I want to welcome all the new people who have signed up for accounts this past month. Thank everyone, new or old, for your business. We are humbled by your support and will continue to work for you to make our service and products even better for you.

We are keeping our teams busy with support, training, content, and new features. I hope that you are seeing positive benefits as you work with our team and our products. I encourage you to keep up with what we are doing by reading the Levelfield Broadcast Blog regularly. Our team is posting several times a week with new features, documentation, and even specials designed to save you money.

As the year winds down, I'm sure you are preparing for the annual flock of consumers who will be looking across the Internet for their next vacation. In case you don't know each year on December 26th, Internet traffic increases as people plan their vacations for the year.

If you haven't started getting your site ready, now is the time. For example, if you are taking advantage of the various FAM cruises and packages that are out there make sure you are taking pictures with your digital camera. Keep a log while you are on the FAM trip and then once you return create a blog about your trip. You've got everything you need, your photos, your observation, your point of view and a built in blog on your website!

Finally, let me remind you about a way we can help each other. It's the easiest thing going as many of you have already discovered as you have deposited your checks from Levelfield (TM). As you know we build websites for the travel Industry. We also build just about any kind of small business website. Let us know the contact information for someone you know that needs a website. Let the person that you are referring know that we will contact them to show them the product. When we close the sale, we'll send you a check for at least $75.

It's not money for nothing but it's the next best thing!

Jude Samson

President
Levelfield.com, Inc
DBA OnlineAgency.com


Levelfield (TM) makes Small Business Blogging Easy

What is a blog?

"A weblog or blog is a web-based publication of periodic articles (posts), usually presented in reverse chronological order. It is an online journal with one or many contributors." - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Blogging made easy

Levelfield (TM) makes small business blogging easy by integrating its blogging capability right into the webpage. You don't have to know HTML, PHP, ASP, JAVA, Javascript, etc. You just get it with your Levelfield (TM) /Online Agency (TM) account. If you can point, click and write you can add one or a million blogs. Just get busy. With your Levelfield (TM) website you can set up as many "Blogs" as you wish. You cqn "publish" your blogs using RSS. One useful and cool feature is you can use your own RSS by using the Levelfield (TM) Feed Block found in the Levelfield (TM) Content Box.

We use our own Small Business products

As is the case with all of the software that we sell to the small business community, we use the built in blog and the RSS feed. For example our use of the RSS feed made it possible for us to double the traffic to our website in just one month.

Will you be able to do the same?

Perhaps. Many of the Levelfield (TM)/Online Agency (TM) customers get much more traffic to their website than we do. In each case, the small business is getting the word out powerfully by combining their successful business plan with the very affordable, capable, and flexible small business website from Levelfield (TM).

Think content not blog!

The Levelfield (TM) Log is an extremely powerful and easy way of adding content. You can quickly add and categorize your content complete with an image. The log pages are managed for you and can serve many purposes.

How we use the builtin Blog/RSS

We use the Levelfield (TM) broadcast log to announce new product features, as a way to present editoral comment, as a way to document various product features, and as a sales tool during the actual sales process.

More Reading:

Keep track of new features and product annoucments
Bloggin and your Business
Levelfield (TM) makes Small Business Blogging Easy
55 places to put your RSS feed
Marketing Articles

New or Enhanced Features

We've added a bunch of new features or enhancements this past month. Here's a few of them. You can read the Levelfield Broadcast Blog - New Features to find out more information about the features.

Site Editing and Customization

  • New formatting capabilities for the search lists - the Box View
  • Color and style formatting for your even and odd rows in the search results pages,
  • Put the ship info box before the itineraries so that it is easier to see
  • Event Calendar

  • You can set the default search results to show all events or only the current month.
  • You can set the search results to show all future events and not just those for the current month
  • You can hide past events so that they don't appear in search results
  • You can activate the RSS feed for your events

    Blog/RSS

  • Added RSS feeds for Promotions and Event Calendar.
  • Add categories to your BLOG
  • Auto Europe**

    Dear Travel Agent,

    The Auto Europe Affiliate Program is a mutually beneficial enterprise, allowing visitors on your site direct access to Auto Europe's products and services. It is a great way to increase revenues, as well as increasing the value and functionality of your website.

    For 50 years, Auto Europe has been the worldwide leader in discount car rentals, providing the Guaranteed Best Service, an easy to book Online Reservation System as well as the Best Commissions Paid in the Industry!

    Our services include but are not limited to:

    Car, Luxury Vehicle, Camper and RV Rentals as well as Chauffeur Services and Long Term Leasing from Peugeot. We also offer Air, and Hotel bookings and provide GPS and Cell phone rentals for your clients.

    Auto Europe’s Affiliate Program offers several options to choose from:

    Standard Link from your site to ours.

    The link can either be a text link or graphic link, and all activities made are fully commissionable.

    White Label Booking Engine (Private Label)

    Option 1
    This option provides a link pointing directly to our car rental booking engine, which can be placed within a frame set or designated as a pop up on the Affiliates site. The engine can be customized to meet your requirements.

    Option 2
    Same as option one, except a custom wrapper can be applied to match an Affiliate’s website. Technical knowledge is necessary to manipulate the custom booking form code.

    XML Partnership

    This option allows a direct connection to our reservation database for those interested in developing their own engines. Strong technical savvy is required on the Affiliate’s end to develop the engine. Please contact us to discuss.

    As part of the Affiliate Program, each Affiliate is given the ability to monitor site performance, site statistics and sales reports instantly.

    To register please email, call, or click on the following link and follow the instructions: http://www.autoeurope.com/affiliateform.cfm

    If you have any more questions or you need any more information please feel free to contact:

    Regards,

    Amer Kamal

    VP Affiliate Sales and Marketing
    Auto Europe LLC
    Tell: 207-842-2157(US)
    Toll Free: 1800-223-5555 ext 2157

    Discovery World Cruises**

    In its third successful year, Discovery World Cruises gives a whole new meaning to the word unique aboard the intimate MV Discovery.

    From the white wilderness of Antarctica to the wonders of the Galapagos; the exotic islands of the South Pacific to the eclectic atmosphere of New Zealand; the treasures of North Africa to the breathtaking landscape of Scandinavia and the North Cape, our itineraries take you beyond the ordinary. And with hotel nights included on most itineraries, coupled with longer and overnight stays in many ports, you can truly explore the fascinating lands you’ll visit along the way.

    On board, our guests enjoy all the comforts and attentive service of a classic ocean-liner - wide open spaces, tasteful entertainment, relaxing spa services and of course, an enrichment program featuring world-renown speakers. Plus, with only 650 passengers on board, you’re always in good company and never in a crowd.

    Start a blog today

    If you are wondering why we talk so much about blogging? Take a few minutes to read this article written by Scott Ingram, one of our customers. Scott discusses the top 5 reasons why blogging for business is so valuable and has so much potential.

    Click to Read Scott Ingram's article

    How to add a blog to your website

    ** This description was provided by the travel supplier and they are solely responsible for any representations therein

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