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Adapt or die in order for small businesses to survive and grow, they are no longer just competing with the sole proprietor next door, but the corporate chains and franchise owners that have marketing teams helping them. I think small business owners will have to …
Google Plus for your Business is now a reality, Google + rolled out their latest achievement Google + for Google Apps yesterday and the Google Apps version is sporting some things the personal version does not have, as seen in this screen shot …
Steve Jobs is a man we all have admired for a long time. And his “Secret to Success” is a philosophy that I believe has contributed to my success in business.
If you haven’t heard of ZMOT, let me bring you up to speed. It stands for Zero Moment Of Truth. It all started back in 2005 when Procter & Gamble coined the term “First Moment of Truth” otherwise know as FMOT, to define the first interaction between a shopper and a product on the store’s shelf. P&G asserted that this moment was the most important moment as did others — that shoppers make up their mind when…
A big part of every small business owners jobs is to Attract Local Customers to your business, and creating an online presence is a great way to do that. So, here are 10 easy things you can do today to Attract Local Customers:
My clients are starting to ask me about Google + the up and coming competitor to Facebook, the only thing is I have not received an invite to open an account yet, and I have been so busy this week about all I could have done at this point would be to sign up if I had an invitation. But luckily one of the people I follow, Woody Leonhard at Windows Secrets, who is a world of information about Microsoft Windows has written a great article on the subject of Google Plus.
I have worked with small businesses for years, first in the printing industry and over the past several years in the online Internet industry and I have noticed a large trend recently focused on Social Media ROI. I understand and find the concept of ROI in Social Media being a needed part of a social media strategy, but find it a bit premature when I’m ask by prospective clients to somehow prove what kind of results they will be getting before we even get started.
One of the quickest ways to “Go Green” or at least Greener then you are now, is by moving your business collaboration to the cloud, using Google Docs.
Getting Things Done
I’m a great believer of using list for Getting Things Done. For years I carried around little pocket notebooks, which I still do at times when I know I’ll be writing some quick notes. But when it comes to getting thing done on a day-to-day basis, I now use a cool little application called…
Quick Graphics Using Google Apps Drawing Tool
I have not taken the time to design a graphic logo for SmallTimeMarketer.com, as I have been using my smiling face as my logo. So, for this post about using Google Apps Drawing function, I have made a quick little logo. Not the greatest graphic I can come up with, but it only took me a couple of minutes.
Twitter 2.0 Kills Your Custom Background
Just when you thought it was safe in Social Media world for a while… Twitter makes a radical change to its interface, causing anyone with a custom background like mine shown below in the first picture, will be covered up by. . .
Gmail Priority Inbox Explained in Plan English
Gmail Priority Inbox, a new feature for Gmail was unveiled by Google this week. Priority Inbox lets users categorize their email messages in a way that brings the mail you want most to the TOP of your Inbox, while lowering the not so wanted emails to the bottom, along with putting your “Starred emails” in the middle of these.
Cross-Selling
Cross-Selling, not to be confused with Up-Selling, is when you have client’s who already buy product “A” from you and you have another product “B” that they could use, so you point this out, you “Cross-Sell” them product “B”, helping them out and making you more profit.
Out Of Business… Why?
I was watching the morning news about Edwards Steak House in El Monte California, going out of business… It’s very sad to see small businesses failing and closing their doors, some because they lack proper marketing plans to keep customers, and add new ones.
Carls Jr Facebook Fan Page Review
I received a Coupon Mailer in my mailbox today from Carl’s Jr. and noticed they had a Facebook page…
… OK, before you say they’ve been on Facebook, for some time now, where have you been? Like everyone else I’ve been, working, playing, going through life, Good & Bad, which just points out, you need to have a mix of. . .
Is Social Media A Fad? Check Out The Video
When you sit down to decide if Social Media is just a Fad, or really worth it for your business, you’ll most likely be considering the ROI which can be very high, and get excited. . .
What Matters Now by Seth Godin Get The Free eBook
I’ve enjoyed a cool little eBook, called “What Matters Now” by Seth Godin along with more than 70 extraordinary authors and thinkers. It’s a colorful 82 page eBook, designed to make you sit up and think, to foster some difficult conversations within yourself…
New Web Design Training Course
The developers of XSitePro have come out with a new web design training course titled The Complete Guide to Website Building.
One of the best ways to insure success online is getting significant website traffic. The more eyeballs viewing your website, the better your sales and profits will be. I would be so bold as to assume you already have a niche and you know what your keywords are, and regularly conduct keyword research to stay on top of what’s popular. Based on this I have six fast traffic building tips for you.
I’d like to take some time and talk about the different types of blogs, and help you on the road picking out one for you.
When people think of a blog they usually think of a site like this one. It’s posted to regularly, on the same topic or niche. Which could be looked at as the type of subject matter, you find interesting, and want to enlighten the world to. This is definitely one type of blog, but there are many others. Let’s take a look at the different types of blogs, and how they are used. And hopefully, you will see one that would fit into the marketing strategy of your interest.
OK, getting a domain name is pretty easy these days, you can just go to a domain registrar and search for a name you would like to have…
I was ask the other day, if I knew a quick way to produce HTML. So I created a video on the way I do this, using Google Docs.
You might think Twitter is just for letting friends know what your eating for breakfast, but there’s more to Twitter when it comes to business.
With the old school ways of advertising proving less effective these days, marketers need …
Contrasting Text
The images below are from a previous article I wrote, where I discussed radio controlled cars. Both images have the same information. However, by creating titles, body text, bold text and underlines, along with some color highlighting, I’m able to organize the …
To Flash or Not to Flash, that’s the question? No, not that type of flash, where’s your mind at. I’m talking about Adobe Flash for your website, that thing that gives your website fancy moving things, or movies that play on your website, lots of which…
Sometimes I just run across very cool tools, that help drive traffic and make money at the same time. Here is one I ran across this morning called Docstoc. Docstoc is a user-generated community for sharing professional documents.You can…
I’ve been trying out a very cool tool, BudURL.
Just think of the kind of power would you have if you could not only shrink a long URL. but also add tags and notes along with track detailed analytics like you have on your blogs and websites? Detailed statistics is marketing nirvana, but your website statistics only cover your website. What about social networks…
Colors aren’t as clear-cut as words, but there is a loose meaning for most. And while color usage isn’t an exact science, color definitely can influence the outcome of how people are attracted to a product, webpage, etc.
So when choosing, be conscious of the message you want to convey and how you want customers to perceive your products…
You may be thinking, what does this have to do with Internet Marketing?
Well, if your like me…
I picked up a great little ebook called Guest Posting by Chris Garrett today, and just had to post it here, for my fellow bloggers wanting more traffic to their blogs. He wrote the Problogger book with Darren Rowse. One of the best blogging books I have read…
Internal linking strategies are important, in that they improve your search engine rankings for both post and pages on your blogs…
…and they help increase page views and will encourage your readers to stay on your…
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