Google Small Business Blog
Here’s a new blog called Google Small Business. It’s new, but looks like something that may provide valuable information for most any business. I’ve already seen a couple of new tools that I plan to check out. I recommend subscribing to Google Small Business
Should My Business Have A Blog?
I often advise my customers to keep on adding new content to their site to keep it looking fresh. One of the best ways to do that is to have a blog. With a blog not only do you add new content, but if you are lucky enough to have people comment on your post […]
Should My Business Have A Blog?
I recently ran into the “Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki” which lists the blogs of the biggest companies on the planet. I thought that I would have a look at them and see what I could learn from “The Big Boys”. McDonalds had some good posts on ethical/animal rights issues that I read, Kodak had […]
Is A Blog Right For Your Business?
One of the best ways to help a site improve in the search rankings is to add new content on a regular basis. One of the best tools for doing this is to add a blog. A blog adds new content to your site every time that you post. If you are lucky enough to […]
How To Promote Your Business Using Social Sites
I saw a Craigslist ad that said Email Blast I hate those words (and in the headline) You need to be listening to your customers, not shouting at them. Is your email list opt-in only? Do your customers even know who you are? Can they speak to you? Instead, be social. It’s easy to open […]
Making Money With A Web Based Business
Making money with a web based information business these days is much different than doing business used to be. There used to be many distribution costs associated with doing business with information as your product, printing, storing, shipping. Not anymore. Your product can now be delivered to the end user for almost nothing. It also […]
Why Should My Site Have A Blog?
Here’s a post on the HubSpot site that shows exactly how much having an active blog can improve your website’s traffic. I’ve written about how I believe having a blog can help, here are some numbers to back it up. Study Shows Small Businesses That Blog Get 55% More Website Visitors
Twitter 101 For Business
When I speak to business people about how I use Twitter, many of them want to know if it’s something that can help their business. Unless they’re living under a rock they’ve heard of Twitter and all kinds of social media, but many of them are not involved either in their business or personally. Hearing […]
Can Social Networking Hurt Your Business?
Can social networking hurt your business? You bet it can! I have written many times before about how quickly bad publicity can spread these days. One of the main reasons that I hear from small business owners about why they don’t want to spend the time to get into social networking is that they are […]
Does Your Business Website Generate Business?
I can’t tell you how many sites that I have seen and made where the owner puts up a site and expects the world (with billions of web pages to visit) to beat a path to their door. They never make any changes or even look at it and then wonder why it fails to […]
