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Giving Christmas Hampers as Family Presents

Yes, it's Christmas Time - and we all know what that means!  If you rolled your eyes or yawned or approach the whole Season Greetings with a cynical or negative attitude, stop and think for a minute.  Making the difference between a joyous sharing occasion and a slow, sad nothingness is sometimes all a matter of what you actually do. 

So for Christmas 2013, make a promise to actually get involved and DO SOMETHING instead of just blindly mumbling platitudes and going through the motions.  You can make a real difference in another person's heart by giving and sharing and hell, it might even lighten your own load a little....

Christmas Giving Begins in the Heart

Here's an observation from one of our Christmas Staff about why she makes extra time in her schedule to give to others who may not have enjoyed the same opportunities and advantages in life that she did.

Christmas is a season of giving and sharing the spirit of connection between what sometimes might be total strangers to achieve peace, happiness and sharing.

Giving Charity Hampers

My husband and I haven't shared Christmas gifts for many years now. It started as "let's spend all the Xmas Present money on the children," way back when we were struggling to get established.

Then as we got older and the kids became a little more independent it moved on to "well we have whatever we need and buy what ever we want so really why focus on the specific day of Christmas, or the Holiday period?".

Christmas Gifts with Meaning and Emotion

And now as we are really even older ( I hate how that happens but it does!) we have moved to we have so much and others are clearly less fortunate than us so we take what we would spend on Christmas Presents and give it to the local Charity Christmas Appeal.

I have grown up with guilt as many have and find myself sometimes feeling way too guilty about what I have and what others don't - and at Christmas Time it seems to highlight that feeling even more.

Charity Giving at Christmas

It sounds funny, but I really do get so much more out of thinking that some child has something that they may not have had because of our Charity Giving at Christmas.

To me the spirit of Christmas is ALL about giving and I get a mini high on it so that's my gift to myself. Being generous is such a private pleasure, but it does alleviate some of my anxiety that if it weren't for some damn lucky financial decisions and just sticking it out during the bad times, my life would be a whole lot worse than it has been.

Spirit of Christmas Hampers as Presents

The Spirit of Christmas Giving is actually doing something - not merely nice thoughts -  whatever makes you feel happy and if Presents and Xmas gifts do it - hey the fact that we find what makes us happy is a gift in itself.

Enjoy your christmas, Xmas, Chrissy - whatever you choose to call it - here's to a happy, healthy and fun one

Sending a Fruit Hamper to Newcastle

Share some Happy!

Sending a Fruit Hamper to Newcastle can make someone's day - just by giving the gift of a thought shared.  Nothing delivers with the immediacy and impact of a basket full of fresh seasonal fruit brimming with the wholesome goodness of your expression of thanksgiving.

Too often in our busy day to day lives we are trapped in the cycle of good deed not done - that is having a thought to send some goodwill but then not acting on it immediately or at all.  And once this moment passed, you yourself miss the physiological benefits of giving - the release of endorphins, the smiles, the rush of blood to the head and the overall warm glow of giving.

And once it is lost, it is lost forever in the sands of time - like it can not be recovered and the memory never returns. or is never stored in the first place.  A far better alternative is to act on you impulse and share the feeling with your intended recipient so you can capture the moment and etch it into your and the recipients memory like stone.  Remembering a positive, thoughtful interaction is one of life's simple pleasures and enables you to remain meaningfully connected with your friends, business associates and broader network.

So when you have a life event happen - don't smile whimsically and let it pass you buy without stamping it for eternity with a fruit basket and etching it into our collective unconscious.  After all, it is these moments and memories that are what we all savour and relish when we are old and looking back at the noisy confusion of life for some meaningful signposts to anchor our existence to.

Go on, share a fruit basket for all these benefits.

Cheese And Wine Fruit Baskets

Goats Cheese - perfect for  Gourmet Gift Box

Fresh Handmade Cheese

Choosing the right Cheese and Wine Fruit Basket for a corporate gift, a sympathy occasion or just to say thank you is very important in making  meaningful and effective gift presentation.


Firstly, make sure the fruit is as fresh as possible, blemish free and in abundance.  The fruit should be the background of the gourmet hamper, so plenty of seasonal freshest fruit makes all the difference. 

Second, it important you buy from a recognized Gift Basket Professional - not from a florist or backyard operator who is just putting something together for the occasion.

Nothing lessens the impact of your fruit and Cheese hamper like missing the fundamentals of presentation, matching the fruits to the cheeses included, and not being able to offer the finest quality wicker baskets.

Finally, keep in mind that people prefer dealing with established, trusted hamper businesses with long history of creating the perfect delivered gift.

That's why we would recommend your search locally and strive to obtain the best fruit hamper you can. 

Good Luck on your quest!!

Newcastle Fruit Delivery

Ordering a Fruit Basket or Hamper for a special personal occasion is a demonstration of your care, feel for the moment and appreciation of fresh food.

In Newcastle, I can recommend Fruit Baskets Newcastle for Best Local Fruit Delivery and especially the $59 Freshest Fruit - brilliant, fresh and perfect for a weekday or workplace sharing.

For Gourmet Lovers, then there is Hunter Valley Hampers, which is an established local institution, featuring unique classic fruit hampers like the picnic for two and the Chocolate Fruit Basket.

Fruitful Search Results

So how do we attract online customers 

to your website when it is brand new
amongst a plethora of established competition? 

And how can we give it a nudge along
so that it moves closer to the first page of the search results,
which is where something like 98% of all buying decisions are made? 

The first step is to target local search, so you are found within the local area by customers who are likely to use you –

the low hanging fruit.

Authentic Web Search Results are gold for your Brand

http://newcastlewebsitedesign.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/small-business-websites.html

Need a new website newcastle

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, I did once partake in the pleasure of the company of the esteemed Internet Marketing Guru – and for a moment there, we made the connection (big deal back in those dial up days).  Yes indeed, haven’t we all met an Internet Marketing Guru? 

So, um yeah, at Newcastle Digital we can spin unique content and have your site zipping with traffic, especially locally and mobile where the biggest growth is forecast.  Crucially, Newcastle Digital fills a local niche and local mobile search is the future.  People want online support for where they are, right now.  No national clunky corporate can offer the specialized individual support we share when you build and manage your search engine optimization program, right here in Newcastle.

The Three Pillars of Wisdom any Internet Guru worth her salt will share with you are Original Unique Content dense with your niche specific keywords.  That means copy written original articles specifically about your niche, about your business and about the topics and issues that are current in your business and affect your customers.  Newcastle Digital has a University trained copywriter and we understand you would expect punchy, sales converting articles to promote your business.

The second Pillar of Wisdom is onsite optimization – that is a website that has all the SEO features that facilitate ease of indexing and findability.  Like seo friendly urls and attention to detail with alt tags and the like.  Onsite optimization is ensuring that your website has all the features that will make is easy to be found.

The Third Pillar of Wisdom, and one that is most difficult to define and track, is off page optimization.  This is where the search engine measures the number of links pointing to your site and measures the inbound links for quality, authority and relevance.  So you want links from respected industry organization ‘s websites and as opposed to links from free for all link farms based in Eastern Europe.  Get the picture?

So as an Internet Marketing Guru, sure, we may not be the High Lord Yogi or whatever, but we have learned enough over the years to propel websites under our management into the first page of the results and more importantly, to convert those website visitors into paying, profitable customers.

Websites Newcastle

 Search Engine Optimization is improving the visibility and exposure of a website through careful attention to the website itself and the websites that link to it.  At Organic Digital, we have sustained success optimizing local sites for high traffic and exposure to buying customers – and we can do it for your site as well.

Most people use Google or Yahoo or Bing and type in a few words to search for some results.  And the results displayed are the closest match the search engine can find to give the correct, most accurate answer.  The search engine finds these results from the literally billions of pages of information online by giving each page a rating, or ranking, based on what the page is about (the content) and how trustworthy, reliable and authoritative the information is.

Starting by identifying the relevant keywords that apply to your niche, we will execute a plan to increase your visibility over the course of 6 or 12 months.  Over time, you will appreciate more customers and visitors to your site and can reasonably expect growth in your business.  It is beyond the scope of this article to go into the details of SEO, but it is enough to say the best thing is for you to go about your business, and let Organic Digital go about SEO.  That way, you don’t have to study the workshops and learn the constantly evolving scene of Google updates and new strategies to maintain first page results.

Organic Digital offers set up and account creation for many social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, as well as copy writing and blogging so your small business can stay in touch with the customer base at all times.  This is especially relevant for promotions, updates and the roll out of new products and services.  Keeping in touch with your clients has never been easier!

Again, the slow build of momentum is the most efficient practice to ensure a steady rise to the first page of Google.  At Organic Digital, we can make your website and ensure that it does not just stagnate on page 16 of the results for your most lucrative keywords.

http://www.organicdigital.com.au/seo-website-promotion.html