 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.
I never ate at this steak house, or worked with the owners, like I said I just saw their story on the news. But I wanted to share my thoughts on this to maybe help another business, before it’s too late.
I know when I get the chance to talk with business owners, I find that most of them, are so busy running their businesses they lose site of the BIG Picture, and keep doing the same thing, over and over, like a horse with blinders on.
This is why it’s so important Click to Continue Reading→
Technorati Tags: Branding, Internet Marketing, Social Marketing, Website Design, Website Traffic
 I know, I keep disappearing, I’m really here, you just can’t see me. 
I’m working on the back in of my site, and setting it up with some new things for you guys. You might have noticed the heading changed slightly, and I’m still working on it. And you’ll be seeing more changes in other places, over the next week or so.
The reasons for this is, more and more small businesses are asking me to set up and manage their Internet and Social Media presence, on Twitter, Facebook and some of the other social media spaces.
And, I’m also working on a Step by Step Video Trainings, for my fellow Small Business Owners. Most of which will be on, focused on marketing and social media to get more customers and keep the ones they already have. Here’s a short list of some of the type of training, I’m working to Click to Continue Reading→
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 You’ve probably heard of the 80/20 Rule? We’ll as in most things this rule also applies to keeping your customers.
You see in most businesses, 80% of sales come from just 20% your customers, if you don’t believe me, just look at your own sales statistics… You do track your sales?
Another thing you’ll find is, that 20% are made up of Loyal customers who not only buy more, but tell others to buy from you! And you SAVE MONEY ta-boot, because it costs five times more to win a new customer than it does to keep an old one.
Now that you know the WHY you want to do this. . . Here’s some of the HOW to do this. Click to Continue Reading→
Technorati Tags: Branding, Internet Marketing, Marketing, Training
 If you’ve done any affiliate marketing, then you understand that way you put an affiliate link on your website, and someone clicks on it, you can get paid for your visitor…
… (1) clicking on the link, known as “Pay Per Click” or (2) clicking on the link, and buying something from the site the link goes to.
Well, Pay-Per-Call is a kind of like that, where customer calls are tracked (similar to how clicks are tracked in Pay per click).
Pay per call campaigns work by tracking unique intermediary phone numbers. Every publisher or (affiliate marketer) is given a unique phone number, most of which are toll-free. These phone numbers gets routed Click to Continue Reading→
Technorati Tags: Internet Marketing, pay per call marketing, Pay-Per-Call
 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.
Color Meanings
 Red
Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, want, and love. Blue-based reds (such as raspberry red) are associated with more expensive products. But yellow-based reds Click to Continue Reading→
Technorati Tags: Branding, Internet Marketing, Social Marketing, Website Design
 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 search Docstoc and download from hundreds of high quality legal forms, business, technology, educational and even creative documents all for free. They do have a paid Pro Subscription which consist of legal contracts, business forms, coupons, college essays, conference presentations, templates of all kinds, and more.
Along with all this, you can store your own documents, to access anytime, embed them in your blogs, social sites etc. And when you upload your documents, you can Click to Continue Reading→
Technorati Tags: Adsense, Cool Tools, Internet Marketing, Website Traffic
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