‘Marketing’ Archives
Search Engine Tools: Some of the Best SEO Tools are Free…Take a Look!
Ted Ives, Coconut Headphones Search Engine Tools are a dime a dozen, but most only do a very tiny micro-task; substantially useful tools are few and far between. Here are my personal favorite free search optimization tools for SEO; some may be familiar but hopefully [Read More]
Is Facebook Advertising for You?
Perry Marshall and thomas Meloche, Entrepreneur.com Facebook offers so many opportunities to reach customers with specialized advertising that almost every business can benefit from some form of paid advertising on Facebook, even if it spends only a few dollars a week. [Read More]
Bad for Business: 4 Poor Facebook Habits
Jacob Harper, OpenForum.com If you don’t have a Facebook page for your business, it’s not the equivalent of trying to operate without a telephone and modern plumbing. But social media is something almost no business can afford to be without. Social media allows [Read More]
How to Diagnose What’s Wrong With Your Business
Jay Golz, New York Times Over the years, I have met a lot of entrepreneurs who have been frustrated by low profits, lack of growth, or the stress of the never-ending demands. Many struggle with all three. While every business is different, there are common denominators. In [Read More]
To grow your business, crank up the marketing
By Steve Strauss, USAToday.com Q: I have tried all sorts of things to grow my business, and they all seem to work — for awhile. Then things go back to normal, which is not good. I don’t really know what I am doing wrong. Might you have any insights from the other [Read More]
Small Business Strategies: Twelve tips for 2012
By Rhonda Abrams, USAToday.com I’m guessing that one of your New Year’s Resolutions for your small business was to make more money. Great. But now what? To help you actually achieve your goal, I’ve got 12 tips to make sure you do make more money this [Read More]
New Year Goals Got You Paralyzed? Tiny Steps Win the Race
By Pamela Slim, EscapeFromCubicleNation.com It was around August 15, 2008 and I should have been in the process of finishing my book. A Word document stared me in the face with a bunch of chapters filled with random blog posts, quotes, disconnected paragraphs and a few [Read More]
5 New Year’s Resolutions For Your Business
By Susan Payton, OpenForum.com Even if you don’t believe that New Year’s resolutions work, having goals for 2012 might help you achieve them. Goals and resolutions are essentially the same thing. You want to get a fresh start on a new year, so set some goals and [Read More]
5 Secrets an 8-year old Natalie Wood Can Teach You About Persuasive Writing
By Susan Daffron, CopyBlogger Like a lot of people, every year my husband and I watch Miracle on 34th Street during the holiday season. One of my favorite scenes in the movie is right at the end when Natalie Wood is riding in the car with her mom and Fred Gailey. The camera [Read More]
Marketing: It’s All About Mobile, Says A New Study
By Courtney Rubin, OpenForum.com Small business interest in mobile marketing nearly has doubled in the past year, says a new report. According to a survey by Ad-ology Research, 22 percent of small businesses say they plan to dedicate more resources to getting their message [Read More]
