Turning Bad Online Reviews into Positives
If you're in business long enough, it's going to happen. Someone is going to say something bad about you online. It may or may not be true. It will be upsetting, and it will cause you to doubt everything you believe in. But, there is a way that you can turn bad online...
Top 5 Ways to Create More Social Media Buzz
Social media is a great way to promote your business and create more buzz. It doesn't matter if you have a bricks and mortar business, or a completely online business. It also doesn't matter if you sell products or services. Using social media to create more buzz is...
Free Ways to Get Website Traffic
Boosting your website traffic is something that takes dedication and time. There is more competition than ever before, and with the improvement of search engine algorithms you'll need to provide more value than ever before to your audience. Publish More Relevant...
Responsive Email Matters – You can’t respond to what you can’t see
Have you ever read your email on a smart phone or tablet? If you’re lucky, you can easily read and respond on your mobile device. Unfortunately what usually happens is the font is tiny, you have to scroll sideways to even see most of the copy, multiple columns make it...
How To Get Your Readers to Interact
Reader interaction accomplishes many things for a website. It helps add user generated content. It also helps pull in more readers. People want to participate and see what everyone’s talking about. However, getting reader interaction isn’t always easy. Here are a few...
Does Your Content Have a Purpose? It better!
Content is often considered an online business owner's primary resource. It drives traffic. It helps make a sale. It provides authority, credibility and liking – all buying triggers. It also helps you market your business. Unfortunately, many business owners write...
5 Secrets to Unlocking Writers Block
There comes a time in every online marketer’s life when they run out of things to write about. For me the last month has been a real desert. So I decided to break my writers block by writing about writing. My thought being that this was a constructive way to try to...
4 Quick Tips To Get More Out of Your Next Social Media Campaign
Using social media to promote your business is rarely effective without some type of organized, deliberate strategy.Short term, haphazard approaches just use up valuable time. You need to make it a specific part of your marketing plans by designing long-term campaigns...
Little Things = Big Impact: Remember to say thank you
Sometimes in our crazy busy lives the little niceties get overlooked and forgotten. I know I am as guilty of this as anyone. But sometimes I get reminded unexpectedly how powerful a simple thing like saying "Thank You" can be.Earlier in March I took part in a joint...
Pin It! Using Pinterest to Promote Your Business
Pinterest may have started out as a place for women to share product images, but its meteoric rise as a social network makes it a great place for businesses too. Think of it as a place to share ideas in a visual way and be creative about how you can profit from that....