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.

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.

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.

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.

Internet software only needs a simple computer to run the software because the information processing happens onine. This means that you wont need to upgrade your computer hardware whenever the software is updated. Your information is also stored securely online – safe from any computer crashes.

The Unisite Web Based Business Software concept, supported by the SaaS model has so much more to offer the client.

1. All software features remotely accessible through the web/cloud.
2. SaaS primarily uses a ‘user’ based pricing system which means that entry level costs can be very low for small and large businesses.
3. SaaS revenue streams to the client are therefore lower initially than traditional software license fees, but are also recurring, and therefore more predictable, much like website hosting fees.
4. Centralized feature updating, which removes the need for end-users to download patches and upgrades.
5. More feature requests from users since there is frequently no marginal cost for requesting new features.
6. Faster releases of new features since the entire community of users benefits from new functionality.
7. Offsite Data backup built into service offering.
8. SaaS software increases effeciency and productivity and replaces unnecessary human resource.

This means that any business or individual who owns a blog can now experience the powerful benifits of the Unisite Business Suite. The intergration of Wordpress will increase awareness of your website through strong online networking that only blogging can achieve. Moreover the Unisite offers business professionals the opportunity to draw blogging traffic directly to their website. With this new opportunity our client get the best of both worlds – The most powerful online business software coupled with arguably the beat blogging platform available.

This adds to the Unisite Business Software offering to bring you flexible content management, complete blogging, convenient SMS, email and fax communication, invoicing software, cost management systems, project management and powerful e-commerce functionality.

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.

This update has been made Free of Charge to all these Unisite Clients who have already purchased the News System part of the Website. If you would like to enquire about using an RSS Feed Reader on your website please contact your Unisite Consultant for more information

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. A secure transaction environment is created for selling a variety of products online, including physical and virtual (Software, Mp3’s, PDF’s etc) products. Multiple currencies are catered for as well as integration into popular payments portals ‘Google Checkout’ and ‘Paypal.’

To find out more about this new business software suite click here or contact Sesalos on 031 262 9372.

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:

HTML Embed:
This module allows you to add HTML embed code into your website page allow a YouTube video to be played through your website. This has great social networking and sharing benefits.

Streaming Video:
If you would like to keep your traffic on your website and not tempt them to browse YouTube instead of your website, then the Streaming Video module is the solution. The module plays .flv files directly off your website. The videos are played off the website and not downloaded onto a persons computer. So the user stays on your website.

If you would like to find out more about the video options and other CMS modules in the Websuite please contact us.

This article outlines the functions of the Unisite Toolbar to help you manage your website more effectively.

More Flexible Login Options
The Unisite uses a global login box that is built into the template of each Unisite website. After getting feedback from clients we found that some clients would like to hide the login feature from their clients as it created a bit of confusion.

The login benefits on the Unisite Toolbar mean:

1.    The Unisite Toolbar allows an alternative login that is not visible on the website.
2.    The View and Edit functions of the Unisite are then housed in the Unisite Toolbar
3.    The Unisite Toolbar is never visible to your client.

If you would like the ‘hidden’ login option applied to your website please click the ‘Contact Sesalos’ button on the Unisite Toolbar and write you request in the email that pops up. Sesalos will then apply the new change to your website and send you information on how to use the new login.

Quick Access to Contact Sesalos
Should you ever need to contact Sesalos about any queries you have regarding the Unisite Business Suite please feel free to use the ‘Contact Sesalos’ button. Sesalos staff are standing by to help you with your questions.

Download Firefox
Sesalos believes that Firefox is the right browser for everyone to be using. Find out why we think so by clicking on the Firefox link.

We hope you enjoy the introduction of the Toolbar. We will be launching a few new attributes to the Toolbar in the next few months.

If you have any requests for toolbar functions that you would like to see please comment below and we will do our best.