JEM Consulting - Help For Self Employed and Small Business Web Site Owners

I have worn ‘many hats’ in past careers. I spent the past 30+ years as a professional consultative salesperson. I have also been a small business entrepreneur. I know that without sales one’s business does not survive. During my time in sales I learned about several important tools. Two of them are the art of [...]

Face to face networking complements my Web Marketing efforts and gets me away from the computer and out of the house.  And, quite often I get a chance to have an intelligent conversation with a compatriot or competitor!  Plus. there is always the chance to garnish some refreshments as well. Upcoming events this week include: [...]

I read a blog article recently from Dan Paterson. It was called “18 Simple SEO Items Commonly Missed in Web Development” and was published on SEO.com, a high ranking site with lots of traffic. As an aspiring DIY SEO I especially appreciate it where where he says: “a lot of Web developers don’t understand the [...]

As you can see from the previous blog post I have a new friend on the WEB. Heather Stephens commented on my blog as I did previously on hers. And, it turns out, we are county neighbors in northern Illinois! She wrote me privately with the following. It is important so I decided to add [...]

According to Wikipedia the definition of a Bounce Rate is in essence: “the percentage of initial visitors to a site who ‘bounce’ away to a different site, rather than continue on to other pages within the same site…” Bounces happen when “…a web site visitor only views a single page on a website, that is, [...]