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Ten Tips For Surviving in this New Digital World

Here are the top ten tips that came out of last night’s “Get Digital” event…

Creative Media Partnership Enhances Buy Local Initiative

Here at NewWest.net we are excited to be working with the Sustainable Business Council (SBC) on an enhancement to their new Buy Local initiative and our new Buy Local blog.

Reach Out to Customers in a Friendly, Professional Voice

To blog or not to blog, that is the question on many businesses minds.  Here are the top six reasons your business should have a blog:

* Fastest way to get your site indexed by search engines

* Best way to increase your rankings in the search engines-fresh content is king

* Gives your audience (customers) a feel for what you do and how you do it

* Quickest way to get your new information, ideas, products, known to the world

* Blogs are a fantastic way for any business to save time, make money, generate leads, increase visibility, and nail a top position in the search engines.

*Reach out to customers, communicate with them in a voice that is friendly and professional.

The BridgeMAXX Difference

BridgeMAXX wireless high-speed Internet provides fast, flexible, and affordable service with the right plan to meet your needs. BridgeMAXX uses a wireless modem that transmits radio signals to and from towers in your coverage area. This means you can go online wherever you want—at home, work, or school—without cable, DSL, or even a phone line!


Go Fast. Lightning-fast speeds mean you can get more done online in less time. Don’t sit around waiting for dial-up. Share photos, play games, download music, shop online and more—all your Internet activities just got easier and more fun.


Go Easy. Out of the box and online in minutes. No software needed! Just plug in and go! And with our helpful customer support always ready, you’ll see it’s the simplest high-speed Internet set-up around.


Go Anywhere. Don’t be confined to your desk—get online where you want, when you want. At school, home, work, or anywhere around town—everywhere inside the BridgeMAXX coverage area.

Why Shop at Vann’s?

Common sense says that a business must have customers to survive and the happier your customers, the better your business will do. But apparently common sense isn’t as common as it once was. Companies seem to be so focused on the bottom line that they forget to look up and address their customers’ concerns. This has been especially true with Internet marketing, where customers aren’t thought of so much as people, but by a customer code or phone number. Welcome to Vanns.com, where we understand that there’s a real live person behind that voice on the telephone or sending in that Internet order.

Anti-Inflammatory Eating: Some Basics

Organically grown local foods are the best nutrition for you. Organically grown foods have more available vitamins, minerals and fatty acids than conventionally farmed and processed foods do. Organically grown foods offer only good nutrition; conventionally grown foods add damaging chemistry to your body.

Sweets of any kind, and grains and starchy vegetables like potatoes increase the inflammatory response in your body. The more muscle you have and the more you use it, the more of these foods you can use without having ‘leftover’ in your system to cause inflammation.

Are you out of balance?

	Caroline Burdulis & Bryan Watrous

Pattern Diagnosis is the “hallmark” of TCM, the world’s oldest, continually practiced, literate, professional medicine, serving one fourth of the world’s population. A “pattern” is a constellation of signs and symptoms that are generally found to exist simultaneously. In other words, various symptoms tend to occur together, that is, they form a “pattern”. There are many types of patterns within TCM.


Western Medical disease diagnosis is similarly addressed in TCM with Pattern Diagnosis. The symptoms are grouped together into their TCM “patterns” and then addressed with acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine to resolve the patterns and therefore the Western Medical disease.

Watchable Birds of the Black Hills, Badlands, and Northern Great Plains

	Watchable Birds of the Black Hills, Badlands, and Northern Great Plains

This book covers North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska, with eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming, northwestern Colorado, and the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains. With 255 beautiful color photographs, the book profiles 77 of the bird species that birdwatchers and outdoor enthusiasts are most likely to see, along with pictures of similar species and tips for distinguishing them in the field.

Internet Marketing for Small Business

11:30am, Nov 27th at the Missoula Art Museum


Google, Facebook, MySpace, Email, RSS, Widgets, SEO...what does the online marketing revolution mean for you?


Please join Jonathan Weber, publisher of NewWest.Net and a nationally recognized pioneer in online media, for a briefing on how the Internet can help your business. No tech-speak, no acronyms - just plain-spoken information and conversation.


Free of Charge


Brown Bag Lunch

Recycling Facts and Goals

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	recycling at willard, they seperate so well.

Its all about paper in the mountians. When we recycle white paper with black and blue in there is a ` energy savings. One ton of paper is equivilent to 17 trees worth of pulp. Missoula Valley Recycling wants your white paper and other recycleables. Currently about of Missoulians recycle regulary, lets get that number up together Please add to the blog any recycling facts that you find interesting, fun or enviromentally wonderfull. See the full blog for more recycling facts.