Archive for Search Engine Optimization
Too Much Information Can Be a Good Thing
Information consumption habits are changing rapidly. Is your business adapting in order to keep up? For instance, Twitter just celebrated 5 years online and LinkedIn just signed up its 100 millionth member. These milestones may not have generated much fanfare, but to the savvy small business marketer, they demonstrate how online news and information are [...]
Congratulations On Your New Job Title!
You’re doing all the right things. You’re using the power of the Web to market your small business online. You’ve built a killer website that’s rich in keywords, SEO and back-links. Your permission database is growing. You’re using social media to connect with potential customers online. You may not realize it, but you’ve also picked [...]
Relevant Content Produces Customers Better than Grandstanding
Years ago there was a wonderful parody of a TV news station that didn’t just report the news — they made it. The station would interrupt programming with a breaking story featuring one of their reporters. The reporter would calmly inform viewers that he was standing in a crowded mall and then begin firing a [...]
Inbound Marketing Proven to Cost Less than Outbound Marketing
Small businesses are devoting a lot more resources to inbound marketing, according to a recent survey of 644 businesses. However, medium to large companies continue to spend more of their budgets on outbound marketing channels. Care to guess who’s seeing the better results? The details are spelled out by Hubspot.com in their 2011 report “The [...]
Do You Need Internet Marketing Consulting?
You’re nobody’s fool. You’re well aware of the power of the Internet, social media and social networking. Your business has a modest Facebook page with your e-mail address and phone number on it. You have a basic html website with a sidebar menu. You publish blog posts a couple times a month when inspiration strikes. [...]
So You Want to Start An Internet Business…
This is a guest post by David Grant. So, you want to start an internet business… I got a call from my dentist a few months ago asking for an appointment. He had heard from another patient that I had some small business expertise and wanted to improve his business. To his credit, he saw [...]
The 5 Rs of Search Engine Marketing with Bryan Eisenberg
Bryan Eisenberg is the co-founder of Future Now, the pioneers in persuasion architecture and experts in website conversion. Check out this video where he explains the 5 “Rs” of search engine marketing: Relevance Reputation Remarkable Readability Reach *If you’re reading this in an RSS reader or email, you may need to click the title of [...]
Generate More Website Traffic
The world’s greatest website would still be useless if no one sees it. You need visitors! And how are many people going to find you? Through search engines and social media. If you have a website (and you certainly should), search for yourself. Search for what you do and your area. Where are you in [...]
Old Media Skills in a New Media World
Old Media may be dying, but its skill sets are still worthwhile. In fact, learning the old ways to do business will make your New Media enterprise a lot stronger. Old Media helps grow your business locally and New Media makes it thrive. On the local level, small business marketing hasn’t changed all that much. [...]
11 Examples of Online Marketing Success
HubSpot, with the help of David Meerman Scott, recently published an excellent e-book, 11 Examples of Online Marketing Success. It’s great because it’s not just theory or opinion — it details real case studies from real businesses. You’ll definitely want to read the case studies to get the context, but here are the 11 marketing [...]
