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Selling a home can be one of the most significant financial steps in a person's life. Sure, buying a home is up there too, but actually determining how to best prepare for and rid oneself of a home in the most economically efficient manner, can take a lot of workand even then, it doesn't always pan out (take it from me, I've been there).

I learned a heck of a lot when we recently sold our home during what has been one of the worst real estate markets in history. Here are some of the rules I developed during the process and to which I plan to adhere to more strictly next time.

Start Home Sale Preparations Well in Advance

We began preparing our home for sale multiple months in advance to ever putting it on the market. We painted rooms, cleaned, downsized, and packed up personal items, and decluttered, and then we had our real estate agent come over to see what other steps we should take in the preparation process.

We also ended up fixing broken floor tiles, adding some window treatments and new blinds, replacing the garage roof and back porch awning, and making similar repairs and adjustments to our home in order to make it more presentable in the months prior to putting it on the market.

Choose a Price Point Carefully

We really messed up on this one when we put our home up for sale. Our mistake now makes it one of the most highly valued rules on my list. We priced our home too high initially, and we never recovered from the mistake, which in my opinion not only cost us a quicker sale, but tens of thousands of dollars in the process.

Because we didn't price our home correctly for the market that we were in, we were constantly trying to make up the difference as the market continued to drop.

Consider Your Real Estate Agent Wisely

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SEO Positive has announced this week that it has taken to the reigns of the search engine optimisation campaign of one of Kents most well-known solar panel installers, Solar Advanced Systems.

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The management team at the firm approached SEO Positive in early 2012 to enquire about the companys leading SEO services. While a great deal of their business is generated through word of mouth, Solar Advanced Systems believed that increasing the presence of their domain within the major search engines would bring in a great deal of revenue and elevate their reputation amongst their major local competitors.

The search team at the SEO agency quickly set to work to devise a longer-term strategy for the business and consulted extensively with the client to establish their objectives and expectations.

Client Account Manager Dave Damhar has been monitoring the campaign closely.

Since beginning to work with Solar Advanced Systems weve already seen a noticeable improvement in search engine ranking positions, which is an early indication that we can achieve the desired results for the company in the timeframe specified, Dave explains. The challenge now lies in converting this new traffic into enquiries and sales for the business, which is something that we will be focusing on as we move into the second phase of the campaign in a few months time.

SEO Positive was established in 2007 in Chelmsford, Essex with the aim of bringing effective yet affordable online marketing services to companies from all industries and backgrounds. The company offers a huge range of services including search engine optimisation, Pay Per Click account management, social media marketing and online reputation control.

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Oracle Digital, a SEO Company in Perth releases its most stringent SEO campaigns and tactics in order to help local businesses boost their sales.

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A prime example is Party People, a party supply retail shop, has turned to search engine optimisation and they were able to exceed its sales expectations. Their company have had a considerable increase in sales within just a given short amount of time. According to Dean Salakas of Party People, the companys substantial growth in sales is attributed to their SEO campaign, which targeted specific keywords for a particular holiday focusing on people who are looking for party supplies using Google and other sites.

Salakas further stated that his company was able to increase his sales by as much as 50% during the 2011 holidays. In support of his claims, Mr. Salakas added that their strategy was to study and understand specific items that people will be looking for during the appropriate holiday and then adjust the company website to fit these needs.

The example that he gave was during Australia Day shopping - where beach balls, flags, bandanas, and Aussie Stubby holders were among the most popular searches and where most of the sales were made. Because of this tactic the company has been enjoying a large increase in sales on a constant basis thanks to its online store. In a matter of just 5 years, it was able to help the company earn beyond its expectations.

"It originally started off as one or two orders a week, after about five years it moved around 100 orders a month and now we are taking in more than 1,000 orders a month, said Salakas. Party Peoples success is a testament to the wide scope of the internet and its ability to help companies to reach their goals.

In order to succeed online, there is a need to employ the most efficient internet and SEO tactics. Otherwise, the campaign might not turn out to be as fruitful as one may hope it would be. James Corby, Oracle Digitals head on Business Development, says, SEO is a fickle beast, and rather than try to manipulate Google, you actually just give it what it wants. If you give it the right content and do so in the right way, then you are going to get rewarded in the organic search results.

Thus, more than ever, Oracle Digital has intensified its range of services from On-page optimisation, Off-page optimisation, keyword research to other SEO services for the benefit of businesses wanting to maximise their online presence, or to create one for those who want to see their businesses expand in the online world as well.

Indeed, with the right SEO strategies and the right choice of professionals to work on it your company just might be one of the business success stories that people will be reading about.

Oracle Digital is the best SEO Company in Perth who aims to help local and international businesses in succeeding with the most updated SEO Perth campaigns and other web optimisation services. If you want to know more about them, do not hesitate to contact them at 1300 899 851.

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Telefilm Canada says it wants to offer big money to small projects. The federal agency is introducing a pilot program that would give emerging filmmakers as much as $120,000 to make so-called "micro-budget" movies.

The fund targets low-budget ventures that cost less than $250,000 and are designed for various digital platforms. It would launch this summer.

Executive director Carolle Brabant revealed the plan Friday at the Prime Time in Ottawa conference, a national networking event for film, television, broadcasting and telecommunications industries. She also announced a second fund that would support both emerging and established filmmakers and give tax-receipts to individual and corporate donors who want to back Canuck filmmakers.

Documentary maker Peter Raymont says it's something many producers have wanted to see for a long time.

"There's a lot of people in Canada who care about art and culture and filmmaking and would like to be able to support it and receive a tax receipt," said Raymont, one of Telefilm's consultants on the plan.

Still, the director had qualms about the fund, noting he'd prefer it if donors could put their money into a particular film rather than donate to a slate of Telefilm titles. He suggested that allowing for targeted donations would elicit greater private investment, pointing to the experience he had recently completing a feature-length documentary about painter Tom Thomson.

Raymont says private donors provided almost one third of the $1 million budget for West Wind.

"I think a lot of the success we had raising money for the Tom Thomson film was because people care about Tom Thomson and his art and they knew my work and they trusted me," said Raymont, whose other films include Shake Hands With the Devil.

Raymont also worried that public funding would diminish if the private sector stepped up its investments through the fund, which is supported by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

Once up and running, Telefilm estimates the fund could be endowed with an annual budget of $5 million. It comes into effect immediately.

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