How Can I Say Sorry?
On my post from yesterday How Can I Say NO? I had a bad link to the article that I was writing about. Sorry about that, it’s fixed now. After writing that post I kept seeing things all day that related to it. Mostly people asking for work done for free, most with the “opportunity” […]
How Not To Treat People
I like to write about companies that treat people well that are seen as “good”. Companies like Starbucks and Zappos that seem to treat everyone well. How their goodwill relates to great free publicity about their companies. Some people call it Social Marketing. I have also thought about good lessons learned from what not to […]
More Firefox Extentions
I have written before about Firefox. It’s my browser of choice and one of the reasons is that because it’s open source there are many other developers who are making cool plugins for it. Today I was reading a post by Mitch Joel called “Firefox Extensions That Make Me A Better Marketer” on his site […]
Email Newsletter Marketing
I have been helping several of my clients with their marketing recently by using email newsletters. Newsletters are a wonderful way to promote your business in a very cost effective way. I wrote about PHPList which is a effective way to manage your email list and campaign for free. It works very well for a […]
How You Can Still Sell Paid Links
While I don’t sell paid text links on this site, but many people do. If you have a fairly high ranking site it’s a great way to make more money with your site than with Google ads alone. The best way to improve your ranking with the search engines is to have high ranking sites […]
Why Site Owners Don’t Really Want SEO
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the best thing going, right? Kind of like “Why don’t we slice the bread before we put it in the package?” Have a look around the web these days and see how many sites ignore SEO completely. I used to wonder why that was and then one day I realized […]
Keeping Your Website Current
I wrote yesterday about keeping the copyright date on your pages up to date, but there’s much more to keeping your site current than that. One of the things that search engines look for is that they are able to find new information on your site on a regular basis. There’s a good reason for […]
Some Random Thoughts on Wednesday
When sending email for marketing if you offer some good free information along with your ad it’s much more likely that your recipient will open it and read it. Plus if they know from experience that there may be something useful for them in your mail they will be much more inclined to look at […]
Time To Think About Christmas?
Well it’s almost Labor Day here in the US and so it’s time to start thinking about Christmas. Or is it too late? MediaPost’s Email Insider tracks all things related to email marketing and this year the emails with Christmas mentions have started already. They were seen this year as early as August 14. If […]
Marketing Help For A Small Business
I am always on the lookout for good ideas to market my small business. One of the first thing that I advise my clients is to start a mailing list. When I first started this business all I had was a list of names of people that I had kept in touch with through e-mails. […]
