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- Cool: Google Releases Protocol Buffers Into the Wild - I love that Google just open-sourced Protocol Buffers. Think of Protocol Buffers as a very compact way of encoding data in a binary format. A programmer can write a simple description of a protocol or structured data and Google’s code will autogenerate a class in C++, Java, or Python to read, write, and parse the
- The business case for goodwill - Carolyn Y. Johnson has a great article about companies that listen online today in the Boston Globe. She mentions that Comcast and Southwest monitor Twitter for frustrated users and Dell for improving its customer service as well as providing a site called IdeaStorm where people can provide feedback. Dell has implemented over 50 of the
- How to stop junk mail - I’ve been learning how to stop receiving junk mail, and I thought I’d share what I’ve learned. Reducing Junk Mail There are several services that will help you reduce your junk mail: - GreenDimes offers a free basic service, but I decided to do their $20 one-time fee because it offered a few extra things I wanted. GreenDimes
- Protect yourself: get a free credit report - I wanted to write down 3-4 easy steps to protect yourself from identity theft and help you check your free annual credit reports. Credit check options - If you haven’t checked your credit in the last year, visit the official site that lets you get a free credit report from each of the three major credit bureaus.
- Suggest what webspam should work on next - Today is July 1st, which is a special day because it marks the beginning of the second half of the year. Just in the last day or so there have been a couple pieces of good news: better indexing of Flash, and we re-wrote our “What is an SEO?” guide to improve the
- Google gets better at Flash with Adobe’s help - If you haven’t seen the official posts, Adobe has been working to make Flash more index-able by search engines. Google has recently rolled out better code for Flash, e.g. you’re now more likely to see useful snippets on Flash pages in Google’s search results. I’m a fan of this change, and I’m a fan of Adobe
- Free search engine optimization tips for beginners - Jefferson Graham didn’t just write an article of free SEO tips — he also brought his video camera along. The result is a five minute video interview with more easy, free search engine optimization tips. Again, this is targeted at beginner SEO and small business SEO instead of advanced marketers. You can watch the video
- Crap. My Ubuntu machine won’t boot - This sucks. On some very rare occasions, when I connect an SD card reader to my Ubuntu machine, it freezes. Normally I just reboot and everything is fine. But this time my Ubuntu machine won’t boot, and it shows a message like Starting up … Loading, please wait… kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by-uuid/bd656dcd-04b4-412f-a880-62a6553bd8b) = sda5(8,5) kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/bd656dcd-04b4-412f-a880-62a6553bd8b kinit: No
- Review: Kitt-In Box - (In the webmaster chat last week, someone asked about my cats, so I thought I’d throw out a cat post.) A little while ago someone mentioned the Kitt-In Box. It’s like an inbox for your desk, except that it holds cats. My cat Emmy likes to hang out in box-like objects, e.g. So I decided to
- Short article of free SEO tips - Jefferson Graham of USA Today stopped by the Googleplex a little while ago and we talked about SEO tips for business owners that want to run their business, not live and breathe search 24 hours a day. The result is an article of search engine optimization (SEO) advice that you could hand to any friend
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- You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear: SEO copywriting and poorly-converting pages - Oh. My. Goodness. The writing was horrible. The Web page copy was a sight for sore eyes – literally. The run-on sentences made my eyes cross. Rampant comma use forced my eyes to eyes pause after ever third word. And please, please tell me – what does this paragraph even mean? In short, this was not conversion-based
- Scattering search engine bread crumbs - “Each time you write content about your key topics, you are seeding the Internet with keywords. Like bread crumbs that lead back to the gingerbread cottage, those keywords will help readers find you” says Patsi Krakoff from The Blog Squad. Although she jokes about “offending SEO experts” most of her SEO content comments are right
- Get rid of your SEO skeletons once and for all - I found hidden links within 60 seconds. Discovering the duplicate pages took another minute. And – lookie here – the code is really, really bad. No, this isn’t a scammy corporation trying to spam their way to the top. This is a Mom and Pop business where the owners are honestly trying to do everything
- Talking about Titles: How to educate your client - Faced with a SEO-clueless client and need to educate them on the basics? Ramon Eijkemans at Searchwritten discusses how to talk about Titles in his post Title-tags for dummies.
- How to turn blah headlines into eyeball-grabbing powerhouses - Direct response headline writing is tricky. You know that you have to “grab the reader’s attention,” but that doesn’t help much when you’re facing headline-writing writer’s block and nothing is flowing. How can you work your SEO copywriting magic when you don’t even know how to begin? We’ve all been there – you just need a little
- Why delete “doorway pages” from your SEO copywriting vocabulary - Wow, people still talk about doorway pages? Turns out, that answer is “yes,” and Google has changed how they define them (which doesn’t make sense to me - I always thought of doorway pages as copy that’s been optimized for one keyterm for the sole purpose of driving traffic.) I suppose, like leg warmers, neon and
- Has your SEO copywriting strategy changed with the times? - The economy has shifted. Has your marketing message? In today’s learned helplessness, recession-mindset economy, some business owners are moaning, “People just aren’t buying. There’s nothing we can do.” The reality is that companies (and individuals) are buying products and services every second of every day. However, the marketing message that worked a year ago may not be
- What’s the “best” word count for SEO copywriting? - The email from a SEO copywriter read, “My colleague’s SEO company is insisting that I write at least 500 words per page. But you said that the best word count is 250 words. What should I do?” Stuff like this drives me nuts. I call it the Easy Bake Oven approach to SEO copywriting. That is,
- So, what’s in it for me? - When faced with an offer, an action step or a request, we all want to know one simple thing: What’s in it for me? For instance, how many times have you received an email like this one: “Thank you for (staying at our hotel, talking to our customer service rep, buying something from us.) We’d like to
- The secret way to get exactly what you want - Imagine this: You’ve been hinting around to that hot guy (or gal) in the office that you really, really want to go out. You’re friendly and scintillating within a 1 mile radius of his voice. You’ve highlighted your hair within an inch of its life. You’re putting out some major vibes… …But why won’t he pick
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- When SEO Isn’t For Increasing Sales - SEO is a hot topic for Online Marketing blog with the most recent posts, “Rushing Your SEO Doesn’t Mean Quicker Results” and “Should Companies Hire Multiple Search Marketing Firms?”. The next in what is becoming a series of insights into SEO is all about optimizing content for situations that really have little to do
- Should Companies Hire Multiple Search Marketing Firms? - On occasion TopRank will get calls from prospective clients that ask about hiring multiple SEO agencies in an effort to get the “best of both worlds” in terms of best practices and performance through competition. On the surface, I suppose I could see how someone might think this might make sense but in practice, it
- Rushing Your SEO Doesn’t Mean Quicker Results - Companies that take their search engine visibility for granted or that ride the technical SEO loophole/manipulation train often get a hard smack back to reality when their online sales disappear. Orders start to slip or fall off the map altogether and the IT team red alert phone rings off the hook with calls from
- BIGLIST SEO Blogs Update 06/20/08 - Today on this fine Friday ladies and gentlemen, we have a BIGLIST SEO blogs update for you slanting a bit toward agencies but not without some flavor from Germany and the Jungle. Read on: AdCenter Community - This is Microsoft’s official support blog for AdCenter advertisers. Mediadonis - Germany based Marcus Tandler writes about his search engine
- SES Toronto: Web 2.0 and Search Engines - With so many “Web 2.0″ technologies coming in to play with web design and online application development, the effect on the search engines’ ability to find, crawl and index content becomes an issue. As such, this session moderated by Kevin Ryan included deep dive advice from Chris “Silver” Smith, Lead Strategist from Netconcepts and
- SES Toronto: SEO Don’ts, Myths and Scams - If you’ve been in the search marketing industry for any length of time, you’ve undoubtedly encountered a wide variety of conflicting or outdated advice. Since “how to” information in so many other industries is often presented as an absolute, many people look for the same kinds of static and perpetual rules with search engine
- SES Toronto: Favorite Photos Post - My first time in Toronto did not disappoint. It was brief but very busy with plenty of sessions to choose from during the day. Here is a collection of my favorite photos taken during SES Toronto this week: Matt McGowan, Joe Dolson and Todd Malicoat enjoying some pre-conference conversation Kevin Ryan getting the most out of Google’s
- SES Toronto: Deep Dive into Twitter - I’m back from SES Toronto and wanted to share the presentation on Twitter with readers that weren’t at the show. Fellow presenters @davesnyder and @chriswinfield did a great job and the audience received a deep drill down into many aspects of Twitter. In the end, Twitter on it’s own and with it’s uptime issues isn’t anywhere
- PRSA Digital Impact: Tracking Social Media Trends - Last week at the PRSA Digital Impact conference I met Steve Rubel, SVP Director of Insights from Edelman Digital and famous (sometimes infamous) PR blogger at Micropersuasion. He presented “2008 Digital Trends: Open Files” which talks about the framework Edelman uses (Faint Signals, Watch List and Hallucinations for tracking digital/social media trends. Read my live blogging
- PRSA Digital Impact: Not All Blogs Are Created Equal - This panel at the PRSA Digital Impact Conference includes Heidi Sullivan and Jay Krall of Cision and Jason Falls of Doe Anderson and who writes Social Media Explorer. Heidi starts out a with a poll: How many comments for media relations? and How many have created a social profile for a client? A small number of
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- Organise your Internet Business for Maximum Efficiency - This is the second post in the series about building your internet business empire where we have previously covered the strategy side of things. This time I’m going to take a look at organising yourself for maximum effectiveness and efficiency in your actions. This is something I struggled with for quite a while, I would find
- Interview with Fark Founder, Drew Curtis - When I wrote a post about the ‘Definitive Guide to Fark and Getting Mass Traffic‘, the last person I expected to comment on the post was the founder of the website itself. I emailed Drew in private to let him know that none of the traffic stats there were from spamming the site and nor
- Creating a Strategy for Internet Marketing Success - This is the first post in what you could describe as a ’series’ on building your own internet empire. Although ViperChill is where I spend a lot of my time due to the passion I have for the industry, it’s certainly not the only website I run…far from it. This series is going to look at
- One Thing All Successful Blogs have in Common - When you focus on trying to make something a success online, it’s common for you to look at other similar ideas that are doing well and try to work out why that is. However, it can seem that there are so many different variables which will been replicating or bettering success will be seemingly impossible. Due
- How to Create, Market and Sell an eBook for Branding & Profits - These last few months have been pretty big for me, with the fact that I’m no longer taking on new clients (and ending work with current clients) I’ve been able to focus more time on the blog and helping others through the information I have to offer. One drawback to that though is the financial
- 16 Things to Look for in a Website Health Check - Seeing as I work for a company that holds no.1 rankings for some of the most competitive keywords in the world and drives millions of search engine visitors to our clients on a monthly basis, I thought it was time I did some more SEO related posts. This is mostly my personal criteria, but I wanted
- The Key to Online Success: Hitting Emotions - With continued learning in lifestyle design / personal development, I’m picking up a lot of information that I’ve found can be relevantly applied to the internet marketing niche, one being emotional spikes. At the route level, emotions can cover all activity online i.e. playing games for fun or watching videos to be entertained but I want
- How to Get Your Website Published In a Book (and My Story) - As internet marketers, we often look for ways to get the attention of A-list bloggers so that we can attract traffic and links to our websites. Sometimes, it can be a good idea to get the attention of people online, but not in a way that gets you on their website, but in their next
- Reputation Management eBook (Update, Stats & Affiliates) - So it’s been a while since I wrote anything about the online reputation management eBook. With information being my future main income (I no longer accept new clients), I’ve taken the time for things to pan out rather than rushing around and messing up the product. Since the launch there has been over 40 sales at
- Definitive Guide to Fark and Getting Mass Traffic - When Fark has the ability to send hundreds of thousands of visitors to a site every single month, I’m surprised that more people haven’t written about how to leverage traffic from the site. Perhaps the main reason is that people don’t understand Fark or that it isn’t really a ‘news voting’ community. Nevertheless, there are ways
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- An Interesting and Informative Approach to Google Webmaster Tools for SEO! - Seems like these days, the talk of the town is the use of Google Webmaster Tools for SEO or Search Engine Optimization. (...)
Read the full story on our website. - Now Director of Yahoo! Search Talks about Role of Links in Yahoo! Algorithm! - For those who are unfamiliar with the name Priyank Garg, he is the Director of Yahoo! Search Team. The throne of the Yahoo! (...)
Read the full story on our website. - Google Assures Users of Privacy for the Google Analytics Products! - Google has finally come out with explanations and assurances for its Google Analytics Products users, stating that the user information is secure and will not be shared with other Google services. (...)
Read the full story on our website. - Learn About PageRank Via Celebrities! - It is one of the most commonly known facts, that the more you simplify a technical mumbo-jumbo, the more it becomes easy for a layman to understand. (...)
Read the full story on our website. - Importance of Punctuations in Keywords in Google Results! - At the Webmaster World, an incredibly informative post about the importance of 'Punctuations' in Keywords in the Google results has been posted. (...)
Read the full story on our website. - Tour De France Route Now Available on Google Maps Street View! - Good news for all the 'Tour De France' fans! (...)
Read the full story on our website. - July 2008, Week 1, Weekly Round Up of Important Search Engine Related Happenings! - All that happened in the world of search engines in the second week of June 2008. Once again, the blogs are all in chronological order. Enjoy! (...)
Read the full story on our website. - Google Finally Adds Privacy Link to the Google Home Page! - Last month I had reported that Ask.com had added a direct link to its privacy policy via a "Privacy" link conveniently placed on its homepage. (...)
Read the full story on our website. - Search Engines Logos for 4th of July! - 4th of July is celebrated throughout the United States with fanfare and utmost enthusiasm. (...)
Read the full story on our website. - Traffic Estimator Service Now Available in Google AdWords API! - Google AdWords API Blog has announced that, the Traffic Estimator Service is now available in the Google AdWords API. (...)
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- iPhone 3g Wooden Case - Style up your iPhone! After the posting yesterday with some nice wallpapers for your iPhone 3G, today a great case for the iPhone. And it is wooden! The case is available with Oak, Cherry, Mahogany, Walnut and Padouk at miniot.com The price for the case is 80$ which is around R 600. The dock is at the
- Search Marketing in South Africa - Great article on itweb.co.za from Mandy de Waal named “Search marketing set to soar “. Interesting for me the advertising figures from SA: 2002 2006 Newspapers 27% 26.6% Radio 12.5% 12% Cinema 0.7% 1.2% Outdoor 3.7% 3.6% Magazines 12.5% 10.3% Television 43.2% 45.2% Internet 0.4% 0.7% Source: Lindsey McDonald quoting SAARF “Although the volume looks small, revenue on online advertising is climbing. Spend went up from R5 million in 2002, to R20 million in 2006
- Wallpaper for your iPhone - Need a wallpaper for your iPhone? Try poolga.com - they’ve got nice self made wallpapers. Here are 5 wallpapers for iPhone and/or
- Top 39 OS-X Programs - Here’s a list of the best and most important programs for your OS X Mac. These are the .apps I use most, the list could be useful especially for Mac newbies… I missed a program? Just leave a comment! LaunchBar.app coconutBattery.app SmartSleep.prefPane Delivery Status.wdgt NetNewsWire.app MenuCalendarClock iCal.app Transmit.app Cyberduck.app Seashore.app ImageWell.app Firefox.app Minefield.app Adium.app VLC.app Perian.prefPane Flip4Mac WMV.mpkg
- Number of the Day - 25.000.000.000.000 - 25.000 Gigabit per second is the estiamted traffic for 2010. That’s
- Google Talk for the iPhone - Now you can chat with your Google talk contacts on you iPhone. There’s no need to download a software or install anything - go with the iPhone browser to www.google.com/talk and you’ll be able to chat. Thanks Google! Source: Google Talk
- More about Powerset - Interesting article about Powerset the company who was acquired by Microsoft for $100M (rumor). ” Microsoft also say that Powerset has solved two key search problems: * The difference in phrasing and context between search queries and the context on websites. For example related words such as ‘tree’ and ’shrub’ or in context such as ‘what is’, ‘who
- Powerset goes to… Microsoft! - It’s official - Microsoft will buy powerset. Powerset designs semantic web technology - I played with the search engine, quite nice, even if it’s just for wikipedia entries at the moment… Another try from Microsoft to beat Google. Source:
- iPhone soon with a Keyboard? - The iPhone 3G is soon available - also in SA, rumors says it’s in Vodacom stores from the 20th of July 2008. However, the iPhone hasn’t had the big breakthrough in the business world. Why? The QWERTY keyboard is missing! Managers love the keyboard in their Blackberry. Newswireless.net reports now that first iPhone prototypes with a keyboard
- A German View of the South African Blogosphere - Pixelsebi, a freelance consultant & information architect from Berlin, had a look at the South African blogosphere. Such a outside view is always interesting… “…but for me it shows that they have two very popular blogs (keo.co.za and rugbydumo.com), which are read and used by (normal) people, who aren’t an active part of the blogosphere. Therefore
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- The SEO Rapper - I came across these videos a few weeks ago, but I’m just getting around to posting about them. Now first of all, I really don’t like rap, but this is awesome. How about a little SEO Rap? Check this: This guy has some others as well. For the full collection check out
- A Little Motivation? - I’m not normally one to use movie quotes as a way to improve attitude, but I felt that this was a good one. In fact, you can get brownie points if you can name the movie that this came from. Here’s the quote to think about for today: Let me tell you something you
- SEO Link Analysis FireFox Plugin - AWESOME! - A long time ago on this blog I did a few posts about how to use the Google Webmaster Tools to see where your links are coming from and also what anchor text is being used. I have also talked about how to use the Yahoo! Site Explorer to spy on where your competition is
- My Opinion On Some Open Source Programs - For those of you that don’t know what open source is, it is basically where any programmer can have access to the program and as a community the program is developed and improved. These programs are also FREE which ads to their appeal. Again, in some situations I think you’re much better going with the
- CSS and HTML Help Sheets - For those of you that are just getting involved with HTML and CSS, or even for those of you that have been doing it for some time, here is a really cool little cheat sheet that you can use to remind you of the basic codes to use when setting up your CSS files. Liquidicity CSS
- You Can?t Learn to Ride a Bicycle at a Seminar - I received a newsletter from Perry Marshall today (author of the Definitive Guide to Google AdWords) and he shared some really good insights that I thought I’d pass on. “You can’t learn to ride a bicycle at a seminar.” It really doesn’t matter what aspect of life we’re talking about, there’s an enormous difference between learning from
- TNX - Another Way to Monetize Your Site - When it comes to website or blog monetization, its always a good idea to diversify. For example, if the only thing you do is AdSense, then you only have one source of potential income from that blog. I mention AdSense specifically because it seems to be the most common. Another way is by selling
- Getting Ready for the New Year - So 2008 is almost upon us. I don’t know if any of you believe in New Years Resolutions, but I think they’re basically a good idea. The problem with these Resolutions is that most people just casually set some type of goal and that’s why they never really achieve it. How about doing things
- The Difference Between AdSense and AdWords - I know that to a lot of you this is going to be something that you fully understand, but I’m noticing that a lot of people at first don’t understand the difference between Google AdSense and Google AdWords. Let’s take a minute and go over the differences so you can better understand it if
- 3 Tips to Optimize Your Time - I was reading a post today from Yaro Starak on his great blog Entrepreneur’s Journey. The post was 4 Tips For Becoming A More Productive Entrepreneur. The tips are pretty simple, but it’s with simple things that we make big changes. Here are the 4 tips that he suggests: Don’t Watch Television Hire A
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- Got a PPC Success Story? Win a Prize! -
Hey, thought I’d pass along a quick one here. Amber over at PPC Hero let me know about a contest they’re having, where you can submit a PPC success story to win 5 PPC and search marketing books (looks like some good ones).
So if you’ve got a PPC success story to share, head on over and check out the details about the contest. Oh…and good luck!
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- Kudos For Latest Microsoft Acquisition - Powerset -
I don’t often blog about acquisitions, but I have to throw my kudos at Microsoft today for acquiring Powerset. I started paying attention to Powerset back in November, 2006, and beta tested it for a little while a year
- The Ultimate Hacker Prevention Guide -
You know I’ve been on a mission to help rid ourselves of all the problems we see with sites being defaced, hack’d, crack’d, and pillaged. Frankly, if you have a WordPress blog that hasn’t been upgraded to the latest version (currently 2.5.1), it’s not a matter of IF but a matter of WHEN you can expect to see it attacked.
Luckily, I’m not the only one
- SEO vs SMO - Traffic Quality Put To The Test - Pop quiz – If you could choose between 1,000 social media visitors and 1,000 search engine visitors for your blog or business, which would you choose? It's a no-brainer right? Everybody knows that search engine traffic is of a far higher quality! ... So I decided to put the traffic quality assumption to the test myself, and find out how social media traffic compares to organic search
- Buy or Sell Nofollow’d Contextual Link Ads -
A year or so ago, I checked out LinkXL and considered selling contextual link ads through them, but for some reason I never did. I don’t remember why I didn’t. I probably just got busy with something else and forgot about them. I do that alot unfortunately.
Nevertheless, I was alerted to them again recently, and when I found out that they offer the ability to sell contextual links with nofollows on them, my
- My Salute to the Women of SEO / Search - It got me thinking, on many differing levels, on how our industry could / should be held-up as a level modern day playing field where men and woman get paid on their worth and not because of their gender. Plus, I also have a personal interest in talking about woman in search, but more of that
- SEO Scoop Is 4 Years Old Today -
SEO Scoop is having its 4th birthday (or would that be anniversary?) today. In the blogging world, that’s fairly old. Are the gray hairs showing?
To thank everyone for
- Predictive Copywriting - Fight Big Publishers and Win in 2009 - The central essence to predictive copywriting: Picking something that doesn't exist yet, but will soon. The cleverer the choices you make, the easier it will be to do. Only 10 people are going to rank on page 1 for Iphone 2 and I'm willing to bet it is not going to be you (or me for that matter).
- A New Free WordPress Tool That Rocks My World -
Ok, maybe I’m easily pleased, I don’t know, but when a tool can save me a long, long, long, mind-numbing boring amount of time watching files slowly ftp up to a server, over and over and over again, for what feels like forever…I tend to fall in love with that tool.
And when it’s - Still Wearing My Google TinFoil Hat After All These Years -
Yesterday, Andy Beal tweeted the following: “In case you missed it: Google Toolbar for Firefox 3 is out at http://ping.fm/lzr9f - works perfectly for me” and I tweeted a reply, saying, “
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- Is There a Difference Between Marketing and Advertising? - I’m certain that you market your business. But, do you advertise your business? I’ve heard so many web-based small business owners do their best to avoid using the word advertise that I’ve begun to wonder why. I’ve worked with enough clients offline to know that it’s not small business owners in general. Offline businesses use advertising
- Are You Engaged With Your Audience? - Is your business creating a community that people want to be a part of? Among the mass of things that you need to consider in running a small business on the web, this question is seldom asked. We spend our time with target audience, branding and marketing strategies. We focus on the design of our website
- Are Your Customers Sick & Tired of Choice? - Is choice a good thing? Walk through any supermarket here in the U.S and you’ll find tons of choices. Want a simple can of soup, you have to wade through 15 different brands of chicken noodle. Or toothpaste, or cereal, or ice cream. Heck, we even have to make a choice between ketchup brands. Now choice may
- How You Can Use Your Blog To Create Informational Products - People want what you know! They want your stories, your perspectives, your perceptions and your ideas. And in some cases they want your help or they want to learn how to do what you know. Either way, they appreciate the value your blog adds to their life or their business. The value, after all, is why
- How?s Your Brain Really Seeing Your Business? - Before he passed, my grandfather used to teach me many things - about sports, about nature, about gardening, and about life. He was a very learned man who at one point read every volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover just to learn. I remember much from our conversations - though truthfully, he was
- Why You?re Ultimately NOT The Decision Maker In Your Business? - If you run a small business you’re likely making decisions all the time. If it’s not what product to develop it’s where to publicize your business. Or perhaps you’re considering hiring a virtual assistant or looking for a joint venture partner. Either way, you’re business is forcing you to make choices all day long. But to
- Stop Being Insane So You Can Take Your Business To The Next Level - People ask me all the time how do I grow my business? The answer is always quite simple, really. So simple that it can be answered in one word - change. Albert Einstein defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.“ Yet how many of us can say that we’re not
- Why You Need To Meet Your Target Audience Where They Are - How do you market your business? Many small business owners focus on creating the best products and services based on their skills, knowledge and abilities. Then they go out and find people who need or want what they have to offer. Sometimes it works and you build a successful business around it. But more often, especially, it
- Three Questions That Will Change Your Business - So much of the branding, strategy and marketing advice I see around the web answers two questions - what and why. What do you need to do and why do you need to do it. But there's a third question that I see rarely answered. That question...how! How do you actually do what and why? For instance, if you have a business, you need to market your business. Perhaps you learn what types of marketing would work best for your business. You even learn why those types of marketing can help you be
- A Little Known Secret To Having A Successful Business And Loyal Customers - Business is not just about what you do. Yet, as business owners, we spend so much of our time focusing on how to do what we do better. We read, we blog, we train, we attend workshops and conferences, go to events, network and so on. All under the guise that we can gain some edge
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