The Forum of Private Business has welcomed new research suggesting the number of UK firms exporting goods and services has increased, but is urging banks to help keep the momentum going by relaxing lending criteria for firms looking at overseas trade operations.

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You’re looking to grow your business, and we offer a ton of tools to help you do just that. But sometimes, you need a little help learning all the options and getting started. That’s why this week on the Google+ Your Business page, we’ve launched a new series of Help Desk Hangouts On Air to put you in touch with teams who can help you get the most out of our products and features.

What’s a Hangout On Air? Well, Hangouts are a video group chat with a limit of 10 participants. Hangouts On Air are special Hangouts that allow you to broadcast that 10-person Hangout to many people and record it for future viewing.

To kick things off, we asked Justin Cutroni of the Google Analytics team (and author of the blog Analytics Talk) to show us how business owners can use Analytics to track their advertising campaigns, website performance and see how users are getting to their site (e-mail, social media, referrals). If you missed it, you can watch the full hour-long Hangout on the Google Business YouTube channel:

Here’s how the video breaks down:

• Intros – Hi, Mom! (2 mins)
• The basics (25 mins)
• What is Analytics?
• Why, as a business owner, should I use Analytics?
• How do I get started?
• How do I read the reporting information? (Here Justin walks us through the features of an active account.)
• Q&A (25 mins)
• Wrapup (2 mins)

Earlier in the week, we asked you to share with us your Analytics questions — and you had plenty! Here are just some of the questions Justin addressed in the Hangout:

Kenneth: Is there a threat in respect to data privacy?
We take privacy very seriously at Google. The only person that has access to your Google Analytics data is you. You can also grant other people access to your Analytics data, but that’s up to you.

Martynas: Is there a plan to update the administration part of GA? We need more levels: creator, administrator, manager, reader.
Excellent feature request, and it relates to the question above. We get this question often and know that the current model is limiting. We are working hard to figure out the best user model for Analytics.

Lea: When oh when will export to PDF be available in the new version of Analytics?
We hear you! It’s coming back very soon. We’re sorry it’s taken so long to add this feature to the new version of Google Analytics.

Jeremy: What are the plans for integrating Google Analytics with Site Optimizer?
Another great question. For those of you that don’t know, Website Optimizer is a website testing tool. You can use it to test different variations of your website, like landing pages or the checkout process. We’ve heard our users loud and clear that Website Optimizer would be a lot more useful as part of Google Analytics. Stay tuned …

Connie: Is there a good WordPress plug-in for adding GA code to a blog?
Plug-ins! Justin’s favorite, we learned yesterday in the Hangout. There are some great ones out there, especially for WordPress. Check out Google Analytics for WordPress.

Raphael: Can you tell us more about the benefits of using Analytics for tracking mobile apps?
You can absolutely track apps with Google Analytics. We have two SDKs, one for Android and one for iOS, that make it easy to  track how people use an app. If you’re going to use GA to track apps you should also understand Event Tracking and Custom Variables. These two features are very useful when tracking apps.

To learn more about how to get started with Google Analytics, visit our Help Center. And remember to tune in to the live stream of our next Hangout at 11 a.m. PDT Wednesday, as we discuss how to use Hangouts (something a bunch of you guys have asked us to talk about!). We’ll be collecting your Hangout questions today on the Google+ Your Business page.

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San Francisco, California (PRWEB) September 28, 2011

Social media use may be on the rise, but 54 percent of small businesses still list their company website as their number-one online marketing tactic. With this in mind, vFlyer, the premier online marketing service, today announced the integration of JavaScript and HTML application modules into the framework of vSites, its website creation and management service for small and medium-sized business. The new capabilities will give vSites users access to a full suite of services aimed at making their websites even more dynamic and engaging for potential and current customers.

Small businesses rely on their websites to be the hub of all marketing and business activity, and vSites enables these businesses, including independent service providers, apartment communities and real estate agents, to easily build and manage full-service, professional websites. Since its August launch, more than 1,000 small business owners and independent service providers have created websites using vSites.

vSites provides small businesses with a powerful, easy to use platform that allows them to build credibility and win more customers at a low cost. There are thousands of free JavaScript modules across the Web that vSites users can now incorporate into their sites, including:

Advertising revenue Google AdSense allows users to generate revenue from their website traffic through advertisements

E-commerce Provides simplified online payment, product search and donation processing with popular services like Google Checkout, PayPal, WePay, and the Amazon Search Widget

Custom Forms Captures content and customers with online forms from leading form services like WuFoo

Scheduling Creates online appointment booking with services like Schedulicity

Weather Widgets Integrates weather content from popular sites like Weather.com

Photo Sharing Widgets Allows users to share their Flickr and Picasa photo albums to keep customers in the loop on the latest events and happenings

Polling Widgets Provides integration with polling sites like PollDaddy, so users can survey their current and potential customers quickly and easily

Blogroll Integrates users Blogroll, giving visitors access to their favorite blogs and content

Live Chat Allows businesses to enable click-to-chat for website visitors through services like Alive Chat

Help Desk Services like Zendesk enable users to add a support tab to their websites, giving site visitors an easy way to get help

The small business owners and independent service providers who have used vSites so far have been very impressed with the capabilities our service offers, said Aaron Sperling, CEO and president of vFlyer, Inc. These new JavaScript and HTML applications will help take their websites to the next level, giving them access to services like e-commerce, live chat and scheduling that are widely used by their current and potential customers and that encourage website visitors to engage with the site and the business.

I’ve been up and down the web marketing offerings out there; having spent the last eight years administrating an entire RE/MAX office of agents as Marketing Director, says Doug Parry, Marketing Consultant. Nothing comes close to the elegance and simplicity of vFlyer. Period. The addition of JavaScript… now opens it up for those that want to go much deeper. Being able to integrate instant chat, live page monitoring of visitors, and e-commerce makes vFlyers vSites service an easy choice!

About vFlyer

Based in San Francisco, Calif., vFlyer, is an award-winning online marketing company that is dedicated to providing cost-effective and efficient marketing tools for small to mid-size businesses. Created for sellers looking to generate income and maximize exposure, vFlyers marketing solutions include online classified ad and content creation, management and syndication (vMarketing) as well as an incredibly powerful, affordable and easy-to-use website creation and management service (vSites). The suite of services offer the perfect choice for small business owners who want to build credibility and win customers by having a great-looking, highly functional, and easily updatable website and marketing materials. For more information, please visit http://www.vflyer.com.

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