Local Online Marketing 2012 Predictions

Here are my Local Online Marketing 2012 Predictions, to help give small businesses marketers out there a heads up. Some of these are not only for the local business marketer, but do affect them:

Adapt or die in order for small businesses to survive and grow, they are no longer just competing with the sole [...]

5 Small Business Online Marketing Mistakes

5 Small Business Online Marketing Mistakes to avoid when planing your online marketing campaign.

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The Web is a great source for leads – but also a fast an expensive way to make mistakes. Here are six common mistakes companies make when trying to drive leads using their websites:

1. Relying on [...]

Online Presence vs The Phone Book

Ten, fifteen, even twenty years ago when someone wanted to find a professional or business they would turn to…the yellow pages phone book. Remember those great paper back phone books, which contained these great splashy ads, which companies and professionals used to give their business exposure to their prospective leads?  These were the prospects that [...]

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 the new Twitter 2.0 interface.

Now I’m not going to get into the new [...]

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.

I never ate at this steak house, or worked with the [...]

Your Preference? Price List or Quote

Hi all, I’m having a debate with some business friends of mine, about whether or not to put your pricing on a website offering services, or to have the visitors fill out a contact form to request pricing.

S0, if you can help me out by answering the one question poll below… That would be [...]

What Is Web 3.0

I was ask what Web 3.0 was all about today, so seeing as I’ve still got some awake left in me, after gulping down a huge Star Bucks Coffee and a 5-hour Energy Shot this afternoon, here’s something you can share about Web 3.0 and what came before and how we got here. . .

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Website Design Feedback With FiveSecondTest

If you ever wanted to know what others think of your site’s design, then here’s a new place to find out. It’s called FiveSecondTest.com and I have tried them out. And so far, I’ve gotten some good feedback, about my SmallTimeMarketer.com site.

You can conduct a couple of free test types, the Memory Test, which [...]