Getting Inbound Links
Making your site have more value with search engines has always included inbound links. These links from other sites to your pages have always been considered a “vote” for the value of your page. Why would some site owner link to your page(s) and risk sending a visitor from their site to yours unless they […]
Craigslist Translation Guide
As I’ve written before I follow Craigslist’s Computer Gigs and Jobs sections in several cities in order to find new customers for my business. This usually entails sorting through quite a bit of crap. So many people are looking for free work under the label of “internship” and most of them would never consider offering […]
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 […]
Can Google’s New People Profile Help You?
Earlier this week Google started “profiles” as a way for people to provide their personal information to Google that will be displayed on search results pages for their names. Google had this to say about the new feature “a way to give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name.” […]
How To Use Craigslist To Find New CLients
I recently got in touch with a high school classmate of mine. Barb Girson is an International Direct Selling expert, trainer and coach who recently set sail with her own business called mysalestactics.com. We had a few emails back and forth and an interesting conversation about where we have been and what works in promoting […]
Make Sure Recipients Can Read Your Email
My wife got a newsletter today from Bath & Body Works. She gets them quite often, but I haven’t really looked at them before. I use Mozilla Thunderbird for our email program and have the images turned off for most everyone. The first thing that I though of is “Wow this sucks, I can’t read […]
Tweet This
I have been reading quite a bit on social media lately and Twitter in particular. I thought I would try some of the strategies that I have seen to make this site better by bring more visitors to the site. I am always looking for more customers, inbound links and visitors to comment on my […]
Don’t Be Afraid Of Listening To Your Customers
I know of many businesses that are scared to death of using social media. They fear someone writing something bad about them. Worse yet if it’s a blog they are writing something bad about us on our own website. It seems to me that if someone has something bad to say about you or your […]
How To Get Inbound Links For SEO
One of the best ways to move your site up the search engine results page for your keywords is to have incoming links from outside websites. The higher ranking and more authoritative these sites are the better it is for you. The problem that people and companies with new sites run into is how to […]
Marketing Messages For Today
I was watching TV and it seems lately that all the ads were things like “save money”, “lose your job and return the car”, “0% interest” or “good as new”. My wife said to me that these are things that should have been done long before. That got me thinking. It may be a good […]
