Networking Can Be Good For Your Business
I like networking events. I find it’s a great way to promote myself and my business. I’ve been to quite a few and I’ve found I need to limit myself to just a couple a month in order to get any work done. So I needed to pick the best ones. The thing about networking […]
How Links Work
When I speak with a new customer or an interested person at a networking event the question that I continue to get asked over and over is “How can I get more traffic from the search engines?” I’ve written before that today, the most important factor is inbound links from other sites. The more highly […]
Sharing Your Work
One of my belief’s has been that with digital information you can make more money from it by allowing it to be shared. I’ve been saying pretty much the same thing since 1986 when I first discovered shareware. Mike Masnick at TechDirt says that as soon as you digitize something it becomes infinitely available (reproducible). […]
Website Promotion With WordPress
Wade Richards is my customer. Have a look at his site. He’s a musician using wordpress tools to promote his business and doing a good job of it. http://timeformusic.org/
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 […]
How I Use Twitter
I don’t go crazy following people on Twitter, just stuff that really interests me. I get most of my news first on Twitter. I look at new followers. There are many who just follow millions of people just to get followers back. I don’t feel any obligation to automatically follow back and I block the […]
How To Get Your Website Found
Most of my customers are small businesses and just about every one asks me how to get lots of free traffic from the search engines. I wish I had a magic formula that would get top ranking for the keyword of your choice, but alas there is no such thing. It can take a huge […]
Send Yourself An Email
One of your best promotional tools is your personal email. If you don’t overdo it your sig file can be a real help to your business. It’s free, could get passed around and after it’s set up it takes no extra work at all. A while ago I got an email from someone who is […]
Some Good Free Icons
I got an polite email request from someone who is selling an icon pack. They wanted me to promote their site. I have a previous post about icons and if you know me, you know that I’m all about good free stuff. So I found this… Smashingmagazine-35-really-incredible-free-icon-sets/
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 […]
