Thursday, May 29, 2008
Another sporting record falls and AussiePeople are on hand
This time the ANB Sydney bodybuilding championships had a record 123 competitors, this time filling up and selling out at the Castle Hill RSL Club, and once again AussiePeople sponsored the event. It seems that any sporting event AussiePeople teams up with gets the kiss of success and every post is a winner recently. AussiePeople is currently negotiating sponsorship deals with representatives of the amateur boxing fraternity and also the martial arts world especially from the referees association. So stay tuned and watch how AussiePeople is giving something back to the sports community.
Monday, May 19, 2008
AussiePeople sponsor natural bodybuilding
AussiePeople sponsored the 2008 South Coast Natural Bodybuilding Championships last Sunday held in Wollongong, which was an Australian regional record for competitors with 72 young Australian men and women seen at their absolute best. As part of the overall sponsorship package of Bodybuilding throughout Australia, AussiePeople will give all competitors free entry onto the Athlete Registry which could lead to other sponsorships and work opportunities.
AussiePeople CEO and Founder Ron Ziemiecki attended the competition on behalf of AussiePeople and was thoroughly delighted with the treatment of the ANB officials, competitors and audience who all appreciated his attendance. AussiePeople are once again sponsoring the Sydney Natural Bodybuilding Championships this coming weekend to be held at Castle Hill RSL Club.
AussiePeople CEO and Founder Ron Ziemiecki attended the competition on behalf of AussiePeople and was thoroughly delighted with the treatment of the ANB officials, competitors and audience who all appreciated his attendance. AussiePeople are once again sponsoring the Sydney Natural Bodybuilding Championships this coming weekend to be held at Castle Hill RSL Club.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Athlete Registry is growing
The AussiePeople Athlete Registry is growing and we are very excited about it. Several years ago we did the same thing and ended up with tens of thousands of athletes from 114 sports in total, we had to stop in the end because the technology we were using at the time meant all the work was being done manually by one person and it was totally un-funded and simply ended up being too large a project.
At the time we thought that the Government should have been doing it and to some degree we see in the intervening years that they have gone part of the way towards it. Still however there is a glaring problem, which we all know and recognize and that is that only the top 5 or 6 sports get any publicity at all and the greater majority of other sports get very little or usually only negative publicity.
So once again AussiePeople is going to do the Athlete Registry but this time using a different schema and far more friendly technology. This time around we are going to invite and athlete from any sport (no restrictions) only four simply questions, Name, Sport, Gender, E-mail.
These 4 bits of information are supplied in a few seconds on a submission form on the AussiePeople website and reproduced on a Registry Listing page, a very simple, easy and neat exchange of information. On a secondary level, AussiePeople will conduct a range of virtual and real world promotional activities to draw attention to the Registry and any person, company, agency or entity can contact the athlete and make a pitch to them.
If the person contacting an athlete is a spammer or a creep, the athlete simply adds them to their junk e-mail list and effectively bars them. At all times the athlete has the control over whether to respond to an e-mail enquiry or not. Athletes are urged to check out via other non-online sources the bona fides of the person making the overture and should take extreme caution about giving out private information.
If the pitch is a genuine one and leads to work or sponsorships, then that is 100% totally between the person or company and the athlete, the e-mails go direct from the person sending the e-mail to the athlete recipient, no copy of the e-mail goes to or via AussiePeople, this means that AussiePeople are 100% genuine in promoting Australia’s athletes and wants nothing for it whatsoever. Whatever correspondence is done privately by other people remains their business entirely.
People might be wondering what’s in it for AussiePeople and say there is no such thing as a free lunch and that is quite true and yes we are a corporate entity ourselves and need to do business to survive like any company. We believe that a percentage of the people we help might take up some of our other corporate offers like and upgrade to a ‘Members Profile’ or a full website or the hosting of their existing website on our servers.
Therefore our form of advertising and attracting possible clients is via a mutually rewarding method of giving away a free Registry Listing and promoting both the athletes themselves and our web design and hosting business at the same time. This is not rocket science, we believe that some of the people will like what we are doing and seeing there is usually little to differentiate one web design company from another, that they will elect to get their other services from us, it’s a sort of the devil you know mentality.
So athletes of Australia unite, jump in a sign up, and spread the word to your friends, together we can grow stronger and when we reach critical mass with our members, we will be able to force better deals for all.
At the time we thought that the Government should have been doing it and to some degree we see in the intervening years that they have gone part of the way towards it. Still however there is a glaring problem, which we all know and recognize and that is that only the top 5 or 6 sports get any publicity at all and the greater majority of other sports get very little or usually only negative publicity.
So once again AussiePeople is going to do the Athlete Registry but this time using a different schema and far more friendly technology. This time around we are going to invite and athlete from any sport (no restrictions) only four simply questions, Name, Sport, Gender, E-mail.
These 4 bits of information are supplied in a few seconds on a submission form on the AussiePeople website and reproduced on a Registry Listing page, a very simple, easy and neat exchange of information. On a secondary level, AussiePeople will conduct a range of virtual and real world promotional activities to draw attention to the Registry and any person, company, agency or entity can contact the athlete and make a pitch to them.
If the person contacting an athlete is a spammer or a creep, the athlete simply adds them to their junk e-mail list and effectively bars them. At all times the athlete has the control over whether to respond to an e-mail enquiry or not. Athletes are urged to check out via other non-online sources the bona fides of the person making the overture and should take extreme caution about giving out private information.
If the pitch is a genuine one and leads to work or sponsorships, then that is 100% totally between the person or company and the athlete, the e-mails go direct from the person sending the e-mail to the athlete recipient, no copy of the e-mail goes to or via AussiePeople, this means that AussiePeople are 100% genuine in promoting Australia’s athletes and wants nothing for it whatsoever. Whatever correspondence is done privately by other people remains their business entirely.
People might be wondering what’s in it for AussiePeople and say there is no such thing as a free lunch and that is quite true and yes we are a corporate entity ourselves and need to do business to survive like any company. We believe that a percentage of the people we help might take up some of our other corporate offers like and upgrade to a ‘Members Profile’ or a full website or the hosting of their existing website on our servers.
Therefore our form of advertising and attracting possible clients is via a mutually rewarding method of giving away a free Registry Listing and promoting both the athletes themselves and our web design and hosting business at the same time. This is not rocket science, we believe that some of the people will like what we are doing and seeing there is usually little to differentiate one web design company from another, that they will elect to get their other services from us, it’s a sort of the devil you know mentality.
So athletes of Australia unite, jump in a sign up, and spread the word to your friends, together we can grow stronger and when we reach critical mass with our members, we will be able to force better deals for all.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
New customers keep rolling in.
The last few weeks saw an increase in sports based website creation for AussiePeople, specifically several new bodybuilders, well to be totally accurate several ‘Sports Models’, plus a new bloodstock agent as well as a few non-sporting sites. As pleased as we are to have found our niche in the wonderful world of sport, we can and do, do ordinary or non-sport specific websites as well.
Recently we consulted on an existing website in terms of SEO that belongs to a 10 billion dollar company and to be totally honest, we made some recommendations that to us seeming glaringly obvious.
A final comment for the day, it seems that the nature of the internet is changing from one of linked disassociated websites to one of community. Today people are readily classified by type and seek others of similar type, be it age, hobby, likes or dislikes. Today people are searching out other people that are similar to themselves and grouping together with them and forcing benefits via their numbers.
Years ago single websites were going it alone, some were more popular for one reason or other, but today, there is definitly strength (but perhaps less safty) in numbers, there has been a profound difference in the way the net works from a users point of view. AussiePeople had this sense of community more than 20 years ago and it’s take the rest of the world that long to catch up to what we always seemed to know, grow together and grow bigger and stronger than going it alone. We have demonstrated this in the world of sport and we assume that it is no different in any other area or space.
Recently we consulted on an existing website in terms of SEO that belongs to a 10 billion dollar company and to be totally honest, we made some recommendations that to us seeming glaringly obvious.
A final comment for the day, it seems that the nature of the internet is changing from one of linked disassociated websites to one of community. Today people are readily classified by type and seek others of similar type, be it age, hobby, likes or dislikes. Today people are searching out other people that are similar to themselves and grouping together with them and forcing benefits via their numbers.
Years ago single websites were going it alone, some were more popular for one reason or other, but today, there is definitly strength (but perhaps less safty) in numbers, there has been a profound difference in the way the net works from a users point of view. AussiePeople had this sense of community more than 20 years ago and it’s take the rest of the world that long to catch up to what we always seemed to know, grow together and grow bigger and stronger than going it alone. We have demonstrated this in the world of sport and we assume that it is no different in any other area or space.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
AussiePeople has been working furiously over the last few weeks to increase its external links via a link partner program it initiated, several website design companies have actually partnered with us, as well as several websites devoted towards health, fitness and sport.
For those people who don’t understand why you would actively promote your opposition on your website, it takes a level of understanding of how the Internet really works. The most powerful ‘feature’ of the internet is that its searchable, via what we commonly term search engines, and despite Google not actually being a search engine, everybody thinks it’s one.
Google is actually a listing and one of the prizes today is to have your website positioned highly on their list. There are many things you need to do to rank highly and this is generally called SEO, which stands for Search Engine Optimisation. Aussiepeople has a whole department devoted to this aspect of the Internet and full details can be found on the AussiePeople website.
One of the most important things that Google and other search facilities likes is called popularity and this is seen as a numeric value for how many other websites point back and link to you. You are generally rewarded by having more links i.e. more popularity, so it is very important to have as many links as possible back to you. There is a problem however before you run off and start doing links on shoes websites to your glass repair website, Google and co like what the term, ‘Thematic’ links, this means that they want similar sites to yours to link to you and vice versa, for example a website design company to link to another website design company and so on.
This is hard to get your head around when you first hear of it because the last thing you want to do is promote your competitor, it’s only natural but after you think about it for awhile you start to realise that if your company is offering a better service than your competitor then you have nothing to worry about. Conversely if your competitor is better than you, then recognise that for what it’s worth and strive to match and eventually become better than your competitor, either way you can win from it.
So at AussiePeople we have broadened our understanding of how to do business. Sure we have always been excellent website designers and we really have no equal when it comes to Aussie sports sites, but these days we are very much aware of the bigger picture, we want the Internet itself to continue to grow and become more meaningful. It started out shaky and the spammers and porn sites almost killed it, but together, all responsible webmasters and web hosting companies are fighting back and making the Internet a better place for all of us.
Visit AussiePeople and decide for yourself, it’s a website where anyone can feel comfortable, there is plenty of sports information and freebies, as well as our serious side of the business where we create state of the art websites. Visit www.aussiepeople.com.au today and bookmark it because the site just continues to grow exponentially and has a life and momentum all of its own, just like any champion.
For those people who don’t understand why you would actively promote your opposition on your website, it takes a level of understanding of how the Internet really works. The most powerful ‘feature’ of the internet is that its searchable, via what we commonly term search engines, and despite Google not actually being a search engine, everybody thinks it’s one.
Google is actually a listing and one of the prizes today is to have your website positioned highly on their list. There are many things you need to do to rank highly and this is generally called SEO, which stands for Search Engine Optimisation. Aussiepeople has a whole department devoted to this aspect of the Internet and full details can be found on the AussiePeople website.
One of the most important things that Google and other search facilities likes is called popularity and this is seen as a numeric value for how many other websites point back and link to you. You are generally rewarded by having more links i.e. more popularity, so it is very important to have as many links as possible back to you. There is a problem however before you run off and start doing links on shoes websites to your glass repair website, Google and co like what the term, ‘Thematic’ links, this means that they want similar sites to yours to link to you and vice versa, for example a website design company to link to another website design company and so on.
This is hard to get your head around when you first hear of it because the last thing you want to do is promote your competitor, it’s only natural but after you think about it for awhile you start to realise that if your company is offering a better service than your competitor then you have nothing to worry about. Conversely if your competitor is better than you, then recognise that for what it’s worth and strive to match and eventually become better than your competitor, either way you can win from it.
So at AussiePeople we have broadened our understanding of how to do business. Sure we have always been excellent website designers and we really have no equal when it comes to Aussie sports sites, but these days we are very much aware of the bigger picture, we want the Internet itself to continue to grow and become more meaningful. It started out shaky and the spammers and porn sites almost killed it, but together, all responsible webmasters and web hosting companies are fighting back and making the Internet a better place for all of us.
Visit AussiePeople and decide for yourself, it’s a website where anyone can feel comfortable, there is plenty of sports information and freebies, as well as our serious side of the business where we create state of the art websites. Visit www.aussiepeople.com.au today and bookmark it because the site just continues to grow exponentially and has a life and momentum all of its own, just like any champion.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
YouTube Sports Movies
Hello again, just a quick note to say that I added a YouTube movie to the AussiePeople website, it's located at the bottom of the navigation menu on the left hand side of any page in the website. It's actually a group of sports movies that are updated regularly and after you watch the first one, you can select from a number of others, it's really a very nifty bit of technology and some of the videos are amazing, well worth a look on a daily basis.
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