Internet Marketing

Mike Saunders is a marketing consultant who specialises in internet marketing and social media campaigns. He started his business at the beginning of 2010 and decided to use the Unisite Business Software to manage his financial admin. Mike uses wordpress as his blogging software and was pleased to see how the unisite integrated into Wordpress and started using the websuite wherever the wordpress software was not flexible enough to display his content correctly.

We are excited to see Mike using the Unisite Business Suite because it proves the value if the system to small business in South Africa.

Glamour Bride is the latest internet marketing concept from Mike Saunders and is targeted at the Wedding Industry niche. Promoting the wedding industry in South Africa online through search engines and social networks. The big difference is that Glamour Bride are more interested in providing a wonderful experience for the bride by producing quality content. Glamour Bride is not an advertising portal, its a place to find organised information about the wedding industry in South Africa.

So what does this have to do with Unisite and Sesalos.
Simple! Glamour Bride was built on a Unisite platform and design by Vaughan Marias at Sesalos. The Unisite was seamlessly integrated with the Wordpress blogging platform. The blog designs started with WooTheme templates that were customized to match the Unisite design.
Another example of the flexibility of the Unisite Content Management System.

Sometimes we prefer to have an icon on our desktop that we click and then our intranet opens. If this is the case then we suggest you download Prism

Prism is a very simple programme that makes a desktop program out of your Sesalos Intranet or Content Management System. The Unisite development team has also committed to making sure that Unisite systems are compatible with Prism.

Here is a quick step by step tutorial to setup Prism for Unisite:

Step 1:

Download Prism from this website

Step 2:

Double click on the downloaded file and you should get a window that displays all the folder contents.

Click on the file named “prism.exe”

Step 3:

You will now have the menu shown below.

URL:
In the  URL section type the address of your Unisite Intranet. (If you are unsure of the address please contact your Unisite supplier).

Name:
Type a name for your icon. IE: “Unisite Intranet”

Please make sure that all the tick boxes are selected, like in the example above.

Step 4

Click OK
We hope this helps in making your Unisite experience more enjoyable.

Lets face it! Websites are a pain to manage and they end up costing too much in monthly updates fees. This reason alone has made creating client websites a non-profit venture.

This is why Unisite aims to partner with you. Our primary interest is to see you succeed through the Unisite.

The Unisite offers two main features that will give you more value and help you to increase your profit margins when developing websites and company intranets.

1) Design

The Unisite is a NEW website platform developed locally in Durban South Africa that approaches  web design in a simple modular fashion. The Content Management System allows you to add text, images, file downloads, video, audio, flash and even custom scripts and HTML to each page on the website.

The Unisite allows you to design completely customised websites from the ground up using our intuitive Website Design Interface. No HTML or CSS knowledge is required!

2) Price

If your business falls into our reseller category and therefore you qualify for a 20% kick back for every website you develop with Unisite. Email us to find out if you qualify.

Plus there’s more!

Unisite is a full business software package that includes intranets, project management systems and accounting software.

The ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS) model allows Unisite to provide larger value to the client as we seek to improve our service offering.

SaaS means that Unisite is offered as a service to our clients rather than as a product. Software products have always been a bitter-sweet investment by consumers because they get great value once the product is purchased but the product is out-dated before the shopper even reaches the exit door. This is why software product companies choose to offer ‘ugrade purchases’ to reward those customers who have bought previous versions of the software. Software service, on the other hand, offers much more to the client by taking on the upgrading and updating of software as part of the service. Essentially allowing the client to have the latest version of the software at all times.

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The RSS Feed Reader System has recently been upgraded to make it easier to use and more flexible.

The update means that it is now possible to insert your own RSS Feeds from anywhere on the internet.

RSS Feeds allow you to display a ‘feed’ of news or articles on your website that is published by another website. For example, if your website user would be interested in the news from South Africa, you can get an RSS Feed for News24 from the News24 website and display it on your website. You don’t have to pay News24 for this either because it helps them market their website.

RSS Feeds are a great way to get your potential clients coming back to your website because all the information that is important to them is available on your website. (more…)

E-Commerce just became very easy! It has been a long time in development but the time has finally come for the unveiling of the latest addition to the Unisite Business Suite. The E-Commerce suite adds purchasing power to your website and opens up the doorway to selling direct on your website.

Sesalos has just launched Watches Unlimited and Vuka Africa on the E-commerce system successfully. There are currently two more E-commerce website going live shortly including an international website for a client based in the UK.

The E-Commerce suite integrates with your Unisite website seamlessly and offers top class high end E-commerce systems at a fraction of the cost. (more…)

Video has become one of the best tools to communicate a message on the internet. People often need to be shown something before they believe in it and text and images can be limiting if the product or service you have to offer is more complex.

YouTube has taken off and a variety of video websites are contending as strong competitors to the famous internet video home. Video has become a great way to show internet savvy and improve the customer experience of your website.

The Unisite Business Suite offers a very flexible video solution through its Websuite Content Management System.

The Website offers 2 primary video modules: (more…)

The ‘Invoices Suite’ makes managing your finance administration easier with a greater level of accessibility through the internet. This system has been integrated into a few of our clients websites and has proved popular with businesses who have external accountants and need to provide statements and reports on a monthly basis.

The system has recently been upgraded with a few New Features that make the system easier to use. (more…)