You & I have a chat scheduled to discuss your web marketing & I am looking forward to learning how I can help you!

You may be wondering why we’re not meeting in person. 

The way I see it is that we both started our businesses because we wanted to do things differently than the way they’d been done.

Being in business for yourself can give you the freedom to create a life and business on your own terms.

The web has become a game changer in business.

It is such a powerful tool to help us create the lives we want, the businesses we want & the world we want.

And, I take my role as ambassador of new technology seriously, and I walk the walk, not just talk the talk.

For me, leveraging the power of the web works to free me from the restraints of needing to work from a fixed physical location.

I started off working from an office in Calgary, to working from home in Calgary, to splitting my time between Calgary, BC and Ontario, to eventually spending weeks working from Mexico.

I found that despite my concerns, where I was working from didn’t seem to make a difference to my clients or to the results I produced. 

Additionally, the time I was saving commuting was increasing my productivity & effectiveness.

I also benefitted from the cost savings of overhead, gas and parking- which I can pass on to you.

So, instead of us both spending time sitting in traffic, we’ll be having a phone or video call – whatever you prefer.

From there, we can discuss what you want your life & business to look like in the coming years, and how I can help you get there.

It’s about deciding how you want your business to work for you & us crafting a plan to get you there.

This is the power of the web I’ve experienced, and am looking forward to sharing with you!

Let us help pick up the tab on your holiday expenses with a $200 Visa Gift Card.

It’s easy to win!

Simply post your review of The New Media Group on Google  with the following information:

Tell us:

1. What problem you needed our help with
2. How we helped
3. The difference our services made to your business & life.

First Draw Is On Nov 31st! Good Luck!

If you’re hosting your website with us, you get 25 email boxes, free with your web hosting.

However, these email boxes provide a limit of 1 Gig of space stored on the server. This includes all emails and attachments in all folders.

Once you hit your space limit, emails sent to you will bounce back to the sender. 

If you’ve received a notification from the administrator like the following message, there are 3 options for reducing your email size to below 1 Gig.

“Currently, incoming messages are still being delivered.
In order to continue receiving email, you will need to work with your email
administrator to make room for new messages. Beginning soon if your mailbox is over capacity, messages sent to you will be returned to the sender.”

1. Delete Trash Items:

You’d be surprised how much space items you’ve deleted take up. Permanently deleting items in your trash folder can in many cases free up the space you’ll need.

2. Delete Spam Items:

This folder may be automatically set up to store Spam emails redirected from your inbox.

By deleting your spam mail, you’ll free up extra space.

3. Delete Sent Items

By deleting your sent emails, you’ll certainly free up a lot of space. In many cases your sent folder may be as big as, or bigger than your inbox itself.

For some industries, such as those sending and receiving engineering or architectural drawings, a 1 Gig email box may be difficult to manage.

Still need more space? Upgrade your email hosting to  25 G per mailbox- for only $5 per mailbox, per month!

Newsletters you signed up for might have disappeared, or maybe your online bill reminders don’t come anymore. Sound familiar?

If this is an issue for you, it’s probably because Gmail has divided your email into several tabs:

Priority – this is your main inbox

Social – this is anything it sees as related to social media

Promotions – anything related to discounts or special offers ends up here

Updates – anything related to bills, confirmations, receipts etc.

Forums – Mailing list emails and messages from online groups or discussion boards

It has been auto-sorting your emails into tabs for you now, thinking this is helpful. And sometimes it is!

But, if you aren’t in love with this new system, the good news is you don’t have to just ‘get used to it’ like so many other updates. This one, you can change.

If you would like to change your tabbed inbox, you have two choices – you can go back to exactly how things were before and get rid of Gmail tabs completely, or you can change it so emails to come into the tabs you think they ought to so it makes better sense to you.

Here’s how to do both.

TO GET RID OF GMAIL TABS 

You can delete all tabs so that you only have one inbox again, or you can keep the ones you like.

In your Gmail account, click on the little  ‘+’  button to the right of your Gmail tabs (shown in yellow above), and uncheck any tabs you don’t like having, then click ‘Save’. Voila! They’re gone forever.

From now on, everything that was sent to the banished tabs, will go to your main (priority) inbox, as will any emails that are in those tabs currently.

Note: If you get rid of Gmail tabs and later want to restore them, click on your settings cog inside Gmail and choose ‘Configure inbox’. A box will pop up asking which tabs you would like to enable. Select the ones you want, and then click ‘Save’.

TO CHANGE WHAT TAB AN EMAIL IS SORTED TO

 If you want to get our emails in your main inbox, but Gmail is sending them to the ‘Forums’ tab, just left-click on the email you want to move and keep holding your mouse button down.

Now, while you are still holding the button, drag your mouse pointer over to the Priority tab.

Click ‘yes’ when a message appears asking you if you would like emails from this sender to go to this new tab from now on, and you’re done.

 Happy Inboxing!

This post by Maria Schmidt

Brooke is joining us as Digital Marketing Manager as of Feb 19 2014.

Brooke Boser is a ten year veteran of professional business analysis and project management delivery.

Where there’s a process gap, she will spot it. Where there’s a task to complete, she will manage it to completion.