All of us have seen and probably used coupons before to shop. But how are they preforming these days? We are now in an age of online information for just about everything and coupons are no different. If some brand new scientific research is any indication, it seems that online coupons have a much bigger effect on consumers than print coupons do.
Read more →Can you hear that cry ringing in your head? Well I can because while working with clients this month I have actually heard it said to me by a small business person in my city. In fact others I have spoken with recently have said basically the same thing.
It is the cry of the entrepreneur these days. Customers are being careful with their money, cutting back on spending, and exploring their options for saving more than ever.
Read more →Google has done an update to their search results output and are now displaying a ten pack of local results on the first page of search results. The ten local businesses that match the search query are showing along side a Google map that pin points their
Read more →Sam Crowley thought he was following the “American Dream.” An ex-stuttering college dropout, Sam worked his way up to a corner office at a Fortune 100 company. With a six-figure salary and all the perks, he was supposed to be content… but he was secretly MISERABLE. Sam
Read more →So in my last post about business websites for local retailers I talked about whether you web site is a billboard or a customer magnet. Obviously we would all want them to be customer magnets. That is why we are in business in the first place right?
Read more →You see sometimes when you spend your life with computers and the Internet you have to deal with the issues that come with them. You see there are dangers out there to watch out for and most of the time we are way too busy to see them or to try and prevent the mayhem they can cause. Last year, at a most inopportune time one of my wqork computers had a hard drive failure and it caused me a couple weeks of frantic scrambling to recover and update things. In the end it worked out but there is no way that I would want that again. So I got on schedule to do back ups.
Read more →The world of the web and small business can be a confusing and strategically difficult road to navigate. Everyone tells you to build a web site. You have to have one yesterday. But very few tell you how or what to put on it. As a result if you do some sampling of local business web sites you will find that the vast majority of them are virtual bill boards in cyberspace.
Read more →As a small business owner there are so many puzzle pieces to keep track of in the course of the day, week, month. You have sales, advertising, payroll, inventory, marketing, and on and on. In order to keep everything in place and things rolling smoothly is a large and difficult task for even the best of businessmen.
Read more →One of the things you want to do when you start to build and create a reputation for your business online is to keep track of what you are doing and how deep you are making inroads to establish your brand and company identification. Now this can be an overwhelming task for the small business owner who may not even understand all the various ways that reputation is built online.
Read more →After years of working as an Internet Marketer building successful web sites, coaching others to build successful web sites, and mentoring many newbies how to do this themselves, I have decided to hang out the shingle and begin to consult with local businesses showing them how to grow their business even in tough times.
Read more →Illegal SEO Techniques to Avoid 1. Link Farms Also known as Spamexing or Spamdexing. A link farm is a series of websites created solely for housing gratuitous links that point to a collection of websites. It can also be a network of websites interlinking with each other.
Read more →What is SEO? Search Marketing (SEM), or Search Engine Optimization (SEO), is a complex, ever changing process. Search engines constantly change their algorithms, shuffle their indexes, merge results and share content. The only consistent thing about marketing your website to them is that what works really well
Read more →Here are some nice words and videos from folks I have worked with over the years in my various business pursuits. Kevin has been so great to work with. He’s creative and thoughtful and incredibly competent, meets all deadlines: excellent in all respects. I’m very glad we’re
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