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Small Business Marketing Article Directory

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Just a quick post today to announce the launch of our Small Business Marketing Article Directory.  Actually launched just a week ago, the site already has over 650 members and over 1,000 articles on subjects such as Business, Communications, Marketing, Technology, Legal, SEO and much more.
Check it out and, better yet, submit your latest articles [...]

The FTC Wants to Read Your Blog

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Oh boy. Just a heads up if you’re currently marketing your business online through the use of blogs, big brother is knocking.  Now, if you just have a blog tied to your site, or if a blog is your site, and you are sending out wonderful captivating content for the masses, no worries.  You’re golden.  [...]

Local Search and the 10-Box

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

I think that an even hotter button right now than “Social Media”, may be “Local Search“. If you don’t agree, stay tuned then. It’s my prediction and I put money on it by purchasing a couple of domain names this morning. So, what is “Local Search”?
Fact is, over 75% of searches for information on local [...]

LinkedIn – Ignore It At Your Peril

Friday, September 11th, 2009

LinkedIn was actually launched back in 2003, but had a slow following until the recent popularity of social media sites for business.  With more than 46 million users worldwide, LinkedIn is most frequently used as a way of networking with business colleagues and potential employers and employees.  In the past it was considered bad form [...]

Another Video Post – But this time I made it…

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Yes – While I’ve been called a hypocrite many times, I try very hard with the business stuff.  I can’t very well keep telling clients that they need to be on YouTube when I have no presence there whatsoever.  I actually started making some videos several months ago for some affiliate marketing campaigns but became [...]

Facebook Datacenters – Mindblowing Numbers…

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

As I put more and more proposals and presentations together for businesses these days, I have an opportunity to delve a little bit deeper into the history, stats, and innerworkings of the social media system because that’s what everyone is really interested in right now. Not that I’m not interested in it too… I love social [...]

Banner Ads – Have the Clicks Dried Up?

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

I’ve been itching to write about banner ads for awhile now for several reasons. One, they’re everywhere and I’ve seen some really bizzare and irritating ones on my igoogle page lately.  That’s not really it though.  I think there’s a misconception in some internet marketing circles that the age of the banner ad has passed [...]

Is There SEO Value in Twitter?

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Actually, Yes.   I didn’t brainstorm all of this myself though – I’m not that smart.  There’s a lot of discussion going around on this very subject and I’m just consolidating here. 
SEO in general is usually thought to involve a lot of link-building campaigns, which in turn moves a site up in the rankings with the [...]

Article Marketing – One of the Fastest and Cheapest Internet Marketing Methods

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

If you want to generate traffic to your website quickly, and at little cost, article marketing is the way to go.  Done effectively, this method of internet marketing can produce extremely profitable results.  Here’s how it works.
At some point, hopefully, you or your SEO consultant have done some good keyword research and you have a [...]

What is Black Hat SEO?

Monday, June 29th, 2009

It’s mentioned in articles and forums all the time and there seems to be a lot of mystery surrounding just what these techniques are.    It’s really no big secret so I thought I’d list some of the most common “black hat” SEO methods just to satisfy curiosity.  Let me just say this, though.   We DON”T [...]