The forum has been updated with latest phpBB release. It looks a lot prettier and has a lot more functionality.

If there are any bugs, please do let me know.
http://forum.driving-schools-directory.co.uk

It’s great to see so many of you have installed the new DSD toolbar. I would love to know what you think of it whether it be good, bad or downright ugly! Please feel free to leave a comment below – you do not need to sign up to the blog to do this.

Thanks,

Mark.

 With the Driving Schools Directory Free Browser Toolbar you can:

• See the latest pupils and their towns that are looking for driving lessons.
• Check out the latest news and what’s changing at the Driving Schools Directory.
• Links to the important areas of the website for easy access.
• Check for emails. Email Notifier automatically informs you when a new message has arrived to any of your webmail or POP3 accounts. This prevents you from having to check accounts manually and can notify you about messages in multiple email accounts that you have.
• Gadgets – Watch live TV like BBC, ITV, Sky Sports News etc. Play games, make handy notes and much more. You can add more gadgets or get rid those you don’t wish to use.
• Listen to a radio station of your choice, streaming direct to your browser.
• Google Powered Search Box.
• Easy to install and uninstall.

More information and download.

At the request of a few members, the ‘Towns’ pages that show your listings have been altered slightly to show more of your listing detail (and image where appropriate) before the ‘Show More’ button is hit.

All that is hidden initially now is the Counties/Towns Covered and the Services Provided sections.

Any views, please comment below.

I hope you all had good Christmas and New Years celebrations.

Now is traditionally the time we reflect on the past year and start to plan ahead for the ensuing year. Whilst I was doing this I came across some interesting data that I thought I would share with you.

We all know that the Christmas period for our industry is as dead as the proverbial dodo. Right? Did you realise though that demand for driving schools actually declines from the end of the Summer period all the way up to Christmas?

Below is a graph from Google Trends showing the search activity for the most popular keyword phrases in our industry. I found this most fascinating and enlightening.

The key point to take from this is that despite how busy we may be in the Summer, we should think twice about declining new business at this time if we wish to keep adequate levels of work throughout the declining second half of the year.

Directory Updates
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You may have noticed that I have introduced a voting system for all the driving schools listed. This does not affect the display order of the listings but serves to add some interactivity with the web sites users.

You may wish to let your pupils know and get them voting for you! Actually, you may want to get over there and vote for yourself as well!

Also, the listings no longer show all the driving schools detail when the pages first load. This has been done to ‘tidy’ up the pages and make it easier for the end user to see what is actually there. They can then expand the listings that attract them.

The directory continues to perform very well for the main industry keywords of driving schools, driving school & driving lessons etc. as a result of the continuing process of optimising the website. Due to this, daily traffic continues to increase and new records are being hit on a weekly basis.

Search Engine Optimisation
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I have had a number of questions from ADI’s as to how they can get their own websites to rank higher in the search engines.

It is very difficult, and time consuming, to deliver this by email. Indeed Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a massive subject and can take years to learn, but probably never master, and is not a one off job – it is a continuing process.

I plan to do some videos covering the basics but which will, nontheless, have significant results for you. I did plan to use my own driving school website which, I reluctantly admit, is old, stale, poorly designed and certainly not SEO’d – hey, I’ve had other things on my plate!:-) I thought that it may be an idea to use one of the driving schools on the directory so, if you would like me to use your own website as an example for the videos, please let me know by returning an email. If your website is used, you will need to be prepared to let me have the following in due course:

FTP Username
FTP Password
FTP URL

If you did not build and upload your website from your PC using MS Frontpage or other web editing software but used a web based Content Management System (CMS), I would need your login details.

This information is required so that I could optimise a webpage and upload it to the internet.

I would also need access to the websites statistics so the ‘before & after’ could be asscessed.

Have a great 2008.

Young Drivers Insurance

Having passed your driving test is a great feeling and an achievement to be proud of. Unfortunately, then comes the expense! Buying a car is one thing but the cost of young drivers insurance these days is exorbitant.

As a result of this, young people try and save money by buying an older cheaper car. The problem here is that these cars, apart from being less reliable, are not as safe as a modern cars and often lack safety features such as Anti Lock Brakes, high NCAP safety ratings, Airbags etc. Also, modern cars are more fuel efficient and this alone will drain your wallet.

Up until now, all Featured Listings have been displayed according to the latest to have obtained a Featured listing. With immediate effect these are now displayed in a random order which seems to be the fairest way to display them.

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GREAT NEWS!
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There have been many changes recently to
the Driving Schools Directory and all of
them are GREAT NEWS FOR YOU.

I won’t list them all in this email as it
would be too long!

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TEXT CALL BACK
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How many times do you think you have missed
pupil enquiries because you have been on
lessons and could not take a call? Not
everyone likes to leave a spoken message.

Potential pupils can now SEND A TEXT MESSAGE
to YOU directly FROM YOUR LISTING on the
directory.

All you need to do is call them back when
you are between pupils. NO MORE MISSED PUPILS.

This is available for all Sponsored Listings.

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REAL TIME EMAILS
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When a PUPIL REQUESTS DRIVING LESSONS or
intensive courses, at the very same time as
they click the submit button, an EMAIL IS SENT
TO YOU if you cover their town.

These PUPILS are therefore RED HOT.

If there are no Sponsored Listings for the town,
an email will be sent to the normal listings.
You will need to bear in mind though, as soon
as a driving school upgrades for that town,
these emails will no longer be sent.

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TEXT ON YOUR WEBSITE
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As I am writing this email, I have a thought!!
Would you also like the facility to provide
your website visitors with the option to text
you a call back request?

It could probably be done – reply to this email
if you think you MAY be interested in Text Back
facility. If there is enough demand I could
probably arrange this.

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WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
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If you already have a Sponsored Listing, please
continue to check the Members Area for new
pupils – if they make a spelling mistake on
their driving lesson request, our system will
not be able to match the request to you.

For members with ordinary unpaid listings, please
see what a Sponsored Listing can do FOR YOU and
YOUR DRIVING SCHOOL BUSINESS.

www.driving-schools-directory.co.uk/featured-listing.asp

Regards,

Mark
Driving Schools Directory.

P.S. Just to let you know, we are considering a price
increase soon. This will only apply to new members
and not existing Sponsored Listings.

P.P.S. I will let you know of the other improvements
to the directory shortly just as soon as we have finished
the work.

There are three developments to the Driving Schools Directory that I
thought you should know about.

ONE

Sponsored listings can now place an image on their listing – this
could either be your school logo or say, a picture of your training
car. You will be able to do this by logging into your members Area.

Please note that the images, when displayed, will have a maximum
width of 250 pixels. This is to ensure that the web pages are not
skewed by large images. Whilst the images will be down-sized for
display, the server will still need to serve the underlying image.

If there are a number of very large images therefore, the pages
could end up being slower to be served. I would therefore request
that, where possible, you reduce the size of your images before
uploading them.

TWO

Following Ads have been introduced. These will give your driving
school improved visibility. There will only be one of these per
town so, first come, first served I am afraid.

Full details can be found by clicking the following link:
http://www.driving-schools-directory.co.uk/following-ad/

THREE

We have changed servers for the directory. This has been a major
undertaking and whilst we believe we have covered all the bases,
some loss of functionality may have crept in unnoticed! If you come
across an area of the web site that does not seem to be performing
as it should, please be good enough to let us know by dropping an
email to admin@driving-schools-directory.co.uk.

I wonder if you could do me a few favours? The only cost will be a
few minutes of your time but your driving school should benefit in
the long run.

Favour 1

As you may be aware, I have set up a ‘Lens’ (a mini web site) at
Squidoo.com. That lens has links pointing back to the Driving
Schools Directory (DSD). The more popular that gets, the more
traffic it receives and therefore more traffic (visitors) TO DSD.

As a result of increased traffic to DSD, the directory becomes
even more popular and there is therefore, a greater chance of a
prospective pupil seeing your listing and making contact about
driving lessons.

Could I ask you to visit the following link and click the ‘Your
Rating’ stars near the top, middle of the web page. You may have to
sign up but that is a quick and painless process. Once you have
signed up, you may even want to create your own ‘Lens’ – I have
been receiving very favourable reports of new business from other
driving instructors who have built a Lens. It doesn’t take a long
and could be fun!

http://www.squidoo.com/driving-lessons

Favour 2

I have set up a new page to collect County / Town(s) information.
Here you will be able to describe or say something about the
county or town you work within. Why?

The search engines love original and fresh content on web pages. To
boost the counties and towns pages, where your listings reside, I
will use this content as additional information on these
pages which should help search engine popularity and therefore
traffic. More traffic = more business for you.

It doesn’t matter whether you write one line or a book! The more
information we can get, the better. I am sure most of you could
mention one or two things that your County or Town(s) are known
for, specialise in, historical point of interest etc. There is an
example on the new page.

Please visit the following page now and let us know why we would,
or would not (!) want to live or visit your county or town.

http://www.driving-schools-directory.co.uk/county-info.asp

Many thanks in advance and have a great weekend,

Mark
Driving Schools Directory.

A brand new initiative for learner drivers has been put together by Jo Winfrey Adv Dip Couns. of ‘Time Out’ Counseling Services and Ancholme Learner Driver Centre in Scunthorpe, to promote road safety for learner drivers, with particular emphasis on ATTITUDE to driving.

Read the full article at Driving Schools Directory

We are pleased to announce the launch of Easy DIY Websites.

The Easy DIY Websites system will enable literally anybody to create their own professional looking website in minutes! This is an ideal solution for those driving instructors and driving schools to have a web presence despite a lack of technical knowledge or skills in web building.

Your own domain name is included in the package e.g. www.Freds-SOM.co.uk and, in addition to the graphics normally included with the system, driving instructors will receive a special School of Motoring graphics set so you don’t have to get your camera or camera phone out before you can start building your web site.

The first years web hosting is also included within the cost of the package.

The Easy DIY Websites system includes 5 pages for your web site including a contact page. Your email address will not show on the contact page so no Spam for you! The pupil will simply fill out a form and you will receive an email with their details and enquiry.

The system is very, very easy to use “out of the box” but to cover all the bases, you will also receive a complete manual with actual screenshots of the system to make life easier for you and on the Easy DIY Websites web site is a complete suite of training videos to help and guide you every step of the way.

Check out the complete system at www.Easy-DIY-Websites.com and then visit the Driving Schools Directory for a special offer and discount for driving instructors and driving schools.

A small change has been made to the way Featured Driving Schools are now displayed. The “More Information” area of the listing will now reflect the actual formatting used. Previously, any paragraphs, line breaks or bullet points etc. were ignored when the listing was displayed i.e. the information was shown as one complete block of text.

Now, all formatting will be reflected on the “live” listing thereby making your enhanced listing look more professional and helping it to stand out even better than it currently is.

Full details of the enhanced listing can be found at: Driving Schools Enhanced Listing

Here is the latest lens positions in the Squido Driving Lessons Group:

Driving Lessons 268
Surviving Driving 4668
121 Driving School 4203
Learn to drive 3326
Beyond Driving Lessons 2489
Learning to drive in Blackpool with Colin Storey 2317
Driving Lessons in Angus Lez Wells School of Motoring 9159
Learning to Drive in Blackpool and Garstang with Abacus SOM 4853
Drive2Pass Driving School in NW London 3544

A quick update.

The Squidoo Lens – Driving Lessons – was built yesterday and already it is ranked #571!

5 other instructors / driving schools have built a squidoo Lens and have joined the Squidoo Group that I set up. I think there are over 75,000 lenses over at Squidoo and we have the following pecking order:

Driving Lessons 571

Surviving Driving 5472

121 Driving School 8899

Learn to drive 5467

Driving Lessons 6594

Learning to drive in Blackpool with Colin Storey 4835

I think that is a fantastic result in a little over 24 hours. As the lenses and group get more popular more traffic will be attracted to them and therfore more traffic to your web sites. New business? Think of the traffic as a funnel. The more traffic that is poured in at the top, the more that drips out of the bottom as new pupils.

We have over 500 driving schools registered on the driving schools directory and with only 6 of them getting involved on the Squidoo thing, look at the rankings seen already. Imagine what would happen if everybody got involved!!

I personally believe it is very easy to set up a lens – what do you people who have set up the lenses above think? Why not post a comment on this post to let others know how easy (or not) it was for you? If you prefer, post a comment in the forum. Actually, why not also write a Post about your new Lens, with a link back to your web site of course!

I have learnt today whilst updating and adding modules to the lenses that a factor in their ranking is modification and updating of your lens. A simple way to do that is to add an RSS module. You can use the RSS from this blog or from the bookmarks site. All you need to to is click the RSS link, copy the URL (web address) from your browser and use that in the RSS module on Squidoo. Everytime the RSS feed is updated i.e. everytime a post is added here or an entry on the bookmarks site, your Lens will be updated – Simple!

Keep checking in here for updates and don’t forget to check your colleagues Lenses above!

Once we have cracked Squidoo, we are going to attack MySpace and use the 2 to bounce off of each other to produce sparkling results!

Mark.

Have you ever checked out www.squidoo.com? It’s another social bookmarking site that receives a ton of traffic.

Anyone can register and build their own “lens”. This is effectively your own web page hosted on Squidoo but it is all point and click so no web authoring skills are required at all.

Whats the point? Well, more backlinks for your web site plus additional traffic. If a youngster is searching for driving lessons (and this place is full of youngsters, just like MySpace.com), given that there is minimal/no competition there for our little niche market, there is a very good likelyhood of them visiting your web site.

What you need to do. If you just want another backlink, visit http://www.squidoo.com/driving-lessons and near the bottom of the page you will see a section for adding links (Good Driving School Links). Go ahead and put the link to your driving school.

For the more adventurous(!), if you decide to build your own lens for your driving school, or whatever, which will only take a few minutes, then visit http://www.squidoo.com/groups/driving-lessons . This is a group I have set up for “Driving Lessons” and will hold a collection of “lenses” relative to the group subject. You can place your lens within that group.

Now, the more links that are added to the Driving Lessons lens and the more lenses that are added to the Driving Lessons Group, the more popular they will become thereby attracting more visitors. It is very viral by its nature. Why have I done this? Well, the more popular the lens or group becomes, the more people will end up backlinking to the Driving Schools Directory and its importance will therefore increase in the eyes of the search engines. That increased popularity equates to higher search engine rankings, more visitors and therefore more referrals for yourselves.

Oh, did I mention that Google ads and Amazon adds are displayed on the lenses and if these are clicked by visitors, you will share in a slice of the income! A no brainer really; more good backlinks and an income.

Get on over there folks!
Mark.

Just received this email (extract) from the DIA (Driving Instructors Association) – in case you are not members, I thought you may like to see it. What are your views on the questions? Feel free to enter the discussion and see what other views driving instructors have at:

http://forum.driving-schools-directory.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=639

BBC Survey of British Driving Instructors:
BBC and the Driving Instructors Association Survey Jan 2007

The BBC 1 current affairs series Real Story with Fiona Bruce are producing a programme looking at the issue of young drivers in Britain today and whether more could be done to make them fit to drive on our roads. Furthermore we will be investigating ideas as to ways of improving the current driving test to achieve these aims.

This short survey is designed to obtain the views of those professionals charged with teaching learner drivers regarding the current test and what could be done to improve young driver competency and safety.

Yours Sincerely,

Kirk Barber

Note: For the purposes of our survey, the definition of young drivers will be those aged between 17 and 24.

1. Do you believe the UK driving test is producing safe and competent young drivers?
2. Would you like to see the introduction, in some form, of a ‘Graduated Licensing’ scheme?
3. Do you believe learner drivers should complete a minimum number of compulsory tuition hours with an instructor prior to taking their driving test?
4. Have you ever been verbally or physically abused by a young learner driver?
5. Do you think the legal driving age should be raised to 18?
6. Do you think young drivers should be subject to a night-time driving curfew?
7. Do you think the hazard perception section of the current driving test is an accurate measure of a driver’s ability to perceive hazards under real conditions?
8. Did you pass or fail the hazard perception test on your first attempt?

The new social bookmarking site is now up at http://bookmarks.driving-schools-directory.co.uk. this is a web site that will collect all good links to driving related web sites. Again the benefit here is additional backlinks for your web sites. The front page looks sparse at the moment as this will only display the most popular links / bookmarks and as there are not many currently, they will not show up. You can see current links by vlicking the “tags” or “recent” links.

The more instructors and pupils that put up their favourite links, the better the web site will work for us.

Registration up is a very quick and painless process.

To explain what a social bookmarking web site is e.g. like Del.icio.us, Furl, Digg etc. I have copied a posting from a private forum at www.trafficdomination.com – I have been given permission!

You know, I was just thinking about how many people I know understand THAT social bookmarking and tagging is a major thing right now, but don’t understand WHY people actually use social bookmarking.

Many people use thee sites for social, fun, purely entertainment and ways of interacting with their friends.

So when blogs came out and got popular, rarely did any internet marketers yearn to start a career as a “Professional Blogger” but we did look at how to USE the blogging technology to improve our overall web presence.

The same thing is with social bookmarking. A lot of people jumped headfirst into the tag and ping thing, without really knowing – or needing to know – why social bookmarks ARE such the rage.

But now that we’re building Tag Sites with the hopes of real people coming and using it, I think it’s important to make sure we understand this, because we need to customize our tag sites with the end user in mind.

I’m going to write this to you as a potential USER of social bookmarks, not as a marketer who just uses it. If I can convince you of the personal need – or at least, the personal benefit – of using social bookmarking, then you will be in a much better place as a marketer.

***What Is Social Bookmarking?
Everyone knows the ‘favorites’ or ‘bookmarks’ in the IE or Firefox browser. You find a site you want to save the URL, so you click “Add To Favorites” or “Bookmark This Site” and you’re able to come back to it whenever you want.

This is known as “Bookmarking”

So, add the word “Social” ahead of it, and you have the same functionality, with two differences:
a) The bookmark is no longer IN your browser, it’s ON a website
b) The bookmark is no longer PRIVATE, it’s PUBLIC.

The most common question I hear at this point is, “ok, but WHY do people use it? I just don’t get WHY.”

The first easy answer is, people like sharing.

But to make this more clear, here are a bunch of scenarios to show some benefits that social bookmarking offers, which can’t really be achieved in any other simple, generic way (and this ‘simple’ and ‘generic’ point is important).

Ok, lets say you’re a dog lover, and you’re always finding cool, funny, interesting, helpful sites about dogs. You want to share them with all your dog loving friends. Instead of forwarding the URLs by email all the time, clogging people’s email boxes, you just stick it up on your Delicious account, and anyone who knows that you always find cool dog sites, can go to your page on delicious and see all your posts.

ALSO you can see which other people on delicious have also bookmarked the same URLs as you, so you can click on their name, and see what else they’ve bookmarked. You can find new URLs this way, that you wouldn’t have found otherwise.

ALSO, imagine one day you’re at a friend’s house, you bring your dog over to play with your friend’s dog. And your friend mentions that his dog has some medical issue, and you say “OH, I just bookmarked an important article on that medical issue!” So you immediately fire up your delicious account, and give your friend that URL.

so this is one group of scenarios where you, as a dog lover, can benefit from having a delicious account.

****Having A Delicious Account For Your Business
This has started to become really big as well. One example I’ve been tracking for a while is Adobe. The company started its own delicious account and posts to it very frequently. Users of Adobe products can well benefit from going often to this URL:
http://del.icio.us/Adobe

Another Idea: Imagine you’re a speaker and consultant on a certain topic. As part of being the “guru” on that topic, it helps to stay on top of current developments. One way of doing that, and adding to your “audience” to have a delicious account where you tag all the URLs that you feel are timely and relevant to the topic you’re discussing.

So, when you give a presentation at an event, you can use certain URLs as examples to back up your points. And at the end of the talk, you can say “please go to my delicious account at this address [ ] because I update these URLs every day/week”

And it’s a way of building an audience with people just by them appreciating your ferreting. And every 10 links, or so, you could post a link “HIRE ME” or something like that which links to a page with your phone number

We have started to upload software, videos and books to the members area. These free downloads will be of a general nature and use with the initial upload concentrating on tools and help for your web building and designing efforts.

They include:

Software

Meta Whiz

Retail Value: $14.95

Brand New Software For Effective Search Engine Optimization!

Do your web pages display the correct Meta Tag Codes? If not, you could be losing out on higher search engine rankings.

META WHIZ V.1 WILL GENERATE CODES FOR THE FOLLOWING TAGS:

•Title

•Keywords

•Description

•Author

•Copyright

•Rating

•No Spam

•No Framing

•Robots

•Resource Type

•Revisit After

•Distribution

Operating system requirements:

Windows Computer – Preferably Windows 95 and beyond. Windows XP, 95,98, NT, 2000 and ME. * Distribution file comes in the .exe format. If your computer does not allow you to execute an .exe file, then this package is not for you.

Family Finance Planner

Retail Value: $17.00

Family Finance Planner is a brand new, quick and easy software tool which can help you to manage your finances.

It will help you to track where your money is going, help you to make important financial decisions and work out how to save up for things you really want.

Here’s just some of the features of this amazing brand new software…

Comprehensive monthly home budget tracker allowing you to keep track of all your expenditure each month with a built-in feature to track how much over and under budget each item is, as well as automatically calculating all the totals for you.

Income/expenditure tracker to keep detailed records of your income and expenditure.

Yearly budget tracker allowing comprehensive data to be tracked over the period of a year, with automatic calculation of all totals.

Investment projection calculator to calculate how long you will need to save up before you can buy something you want, like a car, a holiday or a deposit for a house.

Car loan calculator to help you calculate whether you can really afford that new car you’ve always wanted.

Car Leasing/Purchase calculator to automatically calculate whether you would be better off buying or leasing a new car.

With all these powerful financial facilities at your disposal, you’ll soon be able to keep your bank account balanced, your bank manager off your back and work out how to afford things you really want!

Requirements Family Finance Planner is for use on PCs running Microsoft Windows. It also requires a spreadsheet program to be installed on your PC. Suitable software is included with the package. Alternatively if you already have Microsoft Office or another office package installed on your PC, you can use the office package spreadsheet program instead.

AtomicFTP

Retail Value: $19.95

AtomicFTP Client provides the perfect combination of performance, security, and ease-of-use for the active internet user and webmaster. Whether you are publishing a new Web site, downloading the latest digital images, music and software, or simply transferring large files between your home and office, AtomicFTP gets the job done quickly and easily every time.

Super Charged Linking

Retail Value: $19.95

With SuperChargedLinking, you can offer a place for others to post their link with the distinct advantage of knowing yours is in place FIRST, before they post theirs!

This amazing new technology takes the hours to verify you are getting a true reciprocal link, and automates this chore seamlessly and accurately. SuperChargedLinking is a simple, easy to use application you can install on your site that will ensure your link is indeed on your reciprocal link partner websites.

Videos and Books

Free Google Traffic
Retail Value: $24.95

Here’s a taster of how just one site is using these ‘hidden’ Google tactics to easily get tens of thousands of visitors for free:

This site has discovered an area of Google that gets a ton of traffic – but – where there’s not much competition… yet. This makes it pretty darn easy for them to get stacks of free traffic from Google.

This is just one out of many businesses quietly using the ‘hidden’ areas of Google to get mounds of free traffic.

Would you like to start benefiting with these Google traffic secrets too? Well…

These incredibly powerful yet very easy-to-follow Google traffic secrets come in the form of eight brand new videos you view directly at your computer. I’ve bundled these powerful videos into a product called How To Get A Lot More Google Traffic For Free:

How To Create Your Own Blog
Retail Value: $9.97

With How To Create Your Own Blog For Free you will get access to the following videos.

- Introduction and registration of your own blogger.com account

- Editing your profile

- Editing and customizing the “menu links”

- Posting messages on your blog

- How to ftp your blog files to your own server so that you can run the blog from your own domain name.

- Quick rundown on the basic settings of the blog system

Create your Own Web Site in 5 Days
Retail Value: $9.95

Discover How You Can Create Your Own Web Site in 5 Days

with video enhanced tutorials Use affordable tools and save a fortune!

Do you want your own business web site without having to spend thousands of dollars hiring someone to create one for you? Are you an online entrepreneur who’s just starting out without a thousand dollar budget?

How do you get hold of a professional business web site without having to burn a big hole in your wallet hiring a web developer to create one for you?

The magic answer : Do It Yourself! Learn how with this ebook.

Plus you will also get access to online movie clips that will show you exactly how it’s done. No more guessing. Just watch and follow. Simple.

Templates and Graphics

1600 Graphic images to use on your web sites.
306 Professional Web site Templates

Keep an eye open in your members area for more items!

Mark.

A new Members Area has now been completed. Driving schools / instructors that have enhanced their listings will now be able to log into the members area to view and amend their listings. Also, they will be able to see the driving lesson and intensive driving course requests made by potential students that have requested this service from ourselves.

Please note that if you do pick up a pupils contact details and arange driving lessons, it has been agreed with them that the first lesson of normal driving lessons i.e. not an intensive driving course, will be at a 50% reduction.

For existing driving schools that have enhanced listings, please navigate to the members area and request your username and password from the Lost Password form.

There will be more added to the members area in due course. Watch this space!

Mark.

A new forum has now been set up at http://forum.driving-schools-directory.co.uk – Forum.

The forum is a place where learner drivers can get advice and their questions answered from experienced ADI’s and without the hourly charge!

ADI’s (Approved Driving Instructors) can have a chin wag about their latest trials and tribulations or just communicate with like minded people.

PDI’s (Potential Driving Instructors) can see what it is really like on the “other side” and obtain help and guidance for their ADI parts 1, 2 & 3.

Drivers are not left out! If you want to discuss normal or advanced driving; feel free. Once you have passed your driving test there is no need to leave! There will still be a lot to talk about, trust me!

Join in the fun. Now!

Mark