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Blogging Mistakes You Need to Avoid

Blogging Mistakes You Need to Avoid

Promoting an online business can be easy if you know the tools and techniques to use. One effective way used by internet marketers is blogging. How can you make your online marketing through blogs more effective? Below are ten blogging mistakes you should know to help you avoid committing them: 1) Not being committed If [...]

When Is It Going Too Far?

When Is It Going Too Far?

Advertising has always been a bit invasive. It’s part of the game to search for new ways to put information in front of people that will actually get someone to buy a product. The problem is, what works one day has absolutely no affect the next. So, marketers have to constantly come up with different [...]

3 Simple Steps to Become a Succesful On-Line Marketer

3 Simple Steps to Become a Succesful On-Line Marketer

If you’re new to online marketing and are making minimal profits for your hours of effort….I feel your pain and hope this article will ease it a little. Internet Marketing is not as easy as you first thought, and you’ve suffered a few learning curves along the way to where you are now. Your family [...]

How To Do Local Search Marketing

How To Do Local Search Marketing

Many small business owners are just becoming aware of a powerful and free way to get their business in front of thousands of local customers using what is known as local search marketing. You see, over the past several years the big 3 search engines have become aware that more and more people are using [...]

Keyword Research Basics for SEO

Keyword Research Basics for SEO

After two years online I STILL struggle with the whole keyword thing.  I can research and come up with what I think are great lists of keywords only to not rank very high for them.  Probably because they are used by so many, or maybe just because the whole thing is just so confusing.  I [...]

We Have A WINNER!!!!!!!

We Have A WINNER!!!!!!!

I was really pleasantly surprised by the number of people who signed up to participate in this contest.  I really had a lot of fun reading all of the silly comments and was cracking up at all the images of people jumping up and down patting their heads and rubbing their tummies.  So without further [...]

Relationship Marketing 101: Blogging and Inbound Marketing

Relationship Marketing 101: Blogging and Inbound Marketing

One of the most effective inbound marketing strategies available for businesses, online and offline, both in terms of cost of implementation and in overall return on investment (ROI), is blogging. Why has business blogging become so important as an inbound marketing strategy? There are a variety of reasons. Blogging is conversation, it’s personable, and it’s [...]

2010 SEO Checklist

2010 SEO Checklist

2009 saw a lot of exciting changes and additions to the world of online marketing and search engine optimization. Some important events that took place were the launch of BING, announcement of Google Caffeine, the merger of Yahoo and Microsoft search. 2010 will see real time web emerging which will become more popular than the [...]

Win An EASY $100-National I Can't Come Up With A Blog Post Day!

Win An EASY $100-National I Can’t Come Up With A Blog Post Day!

Time for another giveaway!! I can’t come up with a good reason for a giveaway – Summer? Boredom? Got Ants In My Pants? Can’t Come up With a Post – – That’s IT – National I Can’t Come Up With A Blog Post Day!! In honor of this dubious and not approved by anyone holiday [...]

21 Lessons Learned From From a Problogger

21 Lessons Learned From From a Problogger

When we talk about “Blogging Tips and Tricks” one of the first names that emerges in a bloggers mind is Darren Rowse from Problogger. As you might already know he wrote a book titled “31 Days to Build a Better Blog.” Here is how he described it: The idea is simple. By the end of [...]

Need Some Help Re-Energizing Your Blog Posting - I Know I Do

Need Some Help Re-Energizing Your Blog Posting – I Know I Do

Continual and consistent blog posting is THE foundation your site is built upon. Without interesting content that is updated frequently there is little reason for the blog reader to continue returning to the site. This is an integral component of developing a popular blog. To add even more pressure a site owner may feel the [...]

3 Tips For Maximizing Your Blog's Subscriber Count

3 Tips For Maximizing Your Blog’s Subscriber Count

Becoming a top blogger is one of those topics that attract a massive amount of experts, advice and information, but it is still relatively starved of any real strategy or authority. With the huge army of self-proclaimed blogging experts out there, it can be difficult to know who to trust, what path to take, and [...]

Blog Slaughter - Nasty, Nasty Virus on all Three of my Blogs

Blog Slaughter – Nasty, Nasty Virus on all Three of my Blogs

I’ve been down for a little while because of ANOTHER nasty virus. At first my site was redirecting to bing.com.  I went into my blog editor and removed a code from every page of the editor that looked like 20 lines of letters.  Of course the next morning it was back.  My husband had to [...]

Some Creative Ideas to Help You Through A Slump

Some Creative Ideas to Help You Through A Slump

I am constantly on the lookout for new information to help me come up with new ideas for writing blog posts. I came across this list of post ideas that I think can help anyone get their creative juices flowing. Keeping your blog interesting and fresh isn’t just a case of posting regularly, you also [...]

Should Small Business Websites Be Built with WordPress?

Should Small Business Websites Be Built with WordPress?

I have been MIA for the past week because I have been slammed helping my husband set up his new “brick and mortar” business. He has been a Computer Consultant for the past 25 years and has seen a consistent drop in the amount of contracts in the past year or two. He got caught [...]

Tribal Blogs

Tribal Blogs

Jen over at Redhead Ranting has started an awesome new social networking site for bloggers. Tribal blogs is a great place to meet some amazing bloggers and a perfect compliment to many other similar sites.  What you definitely won’t find there is crappy blogs.    Jens goal is  to bring together a group of bloggers to [...]

Learn More About the Next 10 Online Trends

Learn More About the Next 10 Online Trends

Everywhere I look these days, I keep reading about Googles big plans for mobile advertising.  This scares me.  You know why?  I don’t know anything about mobile – NADA – I don’t have an i-phone or a smart phone (I don’t even have a stupid phone – well I do but I use it as [...]

Blogging Trends - Don't Become A Boring Statistic

Blogging Trends – Don’t Become A Boring Statistic

I was talking with Jen over at Redheadranting.com about some of the irritating trends in the blog world so of course I needed to post about it. Blogs have taken over the internet.  They’re everywhere.  They are fun, smart, sarcastic and informative.  They make me laugh, cry, scream and rant.  I love finding a good [...]

Hitting Your Stride: Four Keys to Timing Your Blog

Hitting Your Stride: Four Keys to Timing Your Blog

There are a number of important factors that go into the production of a first-class blog. Quality of content, the layout of the page, how best to integrate video, formal versus informal tone, each of these is a decision that must be made during the creation of the project. That all comes before more esoteric [...]

39 Free/Low-Cost Tools for Marketing Your Small Business Online

39 Free/Low-Cost Tools for Marketing Your Small Business Online

I got this great list of Marketing Tools in an email today and wanted to pass it on: Thousands of free online marketing tools clamor for attention, with new ones popping up every week it seems. You know you should be doing more to reach out to your customers, but just researching which tools to [...]

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