HI all,

This is important Partner news so please take a moment to read through it all.

Tileandgroutcleaning.net is built. Before we start actively promoting it there are a few things that we need to do and I am looking for some help.


TESTIMONIALS
I need testimonials from you all that are listed. What I am looking for are testimonials your customers have given to you. These need to be bonafide testimonials or excerpts from them. The reason you want to make sure to be included on this is it gives you a quality link to your site. (Remember building quality inbound links to your site is essential to your web performance!)

BEFORE/AFTER IMAGES
We need before/after images from as many of you as possible. This not only makes the site more compelling for your prospective customers, it is yet another place to give you credit and link back to your site.

SPOTLIGHT IMAGES
There is no urgency on this, but I would like to make the homepage spotlight feature transition from one image to another, giving credit to the Partner that did the work.

ARTICLES
Dr. Fred and I are working on articles but any contributions from you guys would be helpful. Also, if you can look at the existing articles and give suggestions for changes, that would be great. (Articles are the 12 listed on the home page with the square orange bullets)

POSTS
Every month I would like to see the Partners write posts for the blog. Adam Bartos has one in there now. There are multiple reasons this is extremely important:

• It gives you more exposure and links to your site. By submitting the posts, you get credit and quality links to your site.
• You can say on your site and with your customers/clients that you are a contributing author to TileandGroutCleaning.net
• It grows the site.... the bigger and better it gets, the more powerful it will become on the web (which translates to more customers!)

Look for what's next... We will be putting all logos in so they show on the Find a PRO search results page. Look for this soon.

To submit images, testimonials, etc. just send them to me or Doug at admin@stoneandtilepros.com. Be sure to include captions / descriptions for images.

On another note, have you visited the new Partner Center (the front end part)? You get there the same way as before. Go to http://www.stoneandtilepros.com and click on Partner Center. Spend some time on it as it details your benefits. We are still tweaking some things and adding some more value to it, so check back from time to time.
    
We are working very hard on the Partner Center Backstage. (This is the part that only Partners can access.) We'll keep you posted on progress.


Partner Meetings
Brian Kornet made a great suggestion and we acting on it immediately. We are going to start having monthly Partner Meetings. I know you are all crazy busy and we don't want to add to your plate. However, we have important things to communicate and valuable workshops that we can present. We will try to find the best possible time and day to do them... I'm thinking the first Thursday of each month (any thoughts?). This is so much better than trying to cram everything into our annual conference. My objective is to have the live GoToMeeting but record them so that those that missed the meeting (or those that want to revisit them) can go back.

Help is on the way!
Finally, I selected and hired our new help! I will be introducing her to you all soon. She will be starting on the 19th. You will all love her. She will bring a lot of value!





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