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Judy handed me this flyer the other day and we looked at it in puzzlement. Perhaps you could figure it our before you read below…. Well, besides not having any details on the reverse…. What year is this happening (from the days, dates it is 2010)? Where is it happening? What are the event times? [...]

I found an article a while back entitled “Web Self-Help for Small Business” by Bill Slawski, posted on January 18th, 2010 on his blog at SEO By The Sea. Slawski detailed ten areas he had to study and learn in his earlier days as a Webmaster. His outline includes the following areas, with comment Accessibility, [...]

At our BG Networkers meeting earlier this week I quoted on a report mentioned in an interesting article by Steven Fisher. His article appeared on March 8th at Grow Smart Business.  The article focused on innovation and why small businesses scored only a C- in one of the six scored categories in a recent small [...]

I heard and saw the words Committed and Curious used over and over again by Mark at at yesterday’s gathering. He used them as he gave his morning networking presentation during a semimonthly meeting of the BG Networkers Group. Mark emphasized these words and referred to them as successful traits to face to face networking. [...]

Anyone who has ever sat with me or attended one of my workshops or seminars, knows I preach certain fundamentals. Generally I take a formula or step by step approach and teach the fundamental associated building blocks in a logical order.  I am left brained and that is the way I function.  (I leave social [...]

Content – Match Your Website’s Content to those Keywords and Optimize your Site for Search Engines Content is the text information Internet search robots or spiders look for. They gather this information and Index it in large servers so they can match it to people generated queries. Think of Indexing as an extremely large card [...]

I really think small businesses and self employed need to learn three basic principles of Website marketing. Then once they implement these principles the traffic to and resulting sales from their Websites will be increased. Those primary building blocks are Think Search Content Back Links A further explanation is required as to what I mean. [...]

Small business DIY marketing, local search and more and more businesses on the Web were three items in a recent article that caught my eye. Anita Campbell wrote about them in her Small Business Trends blog yesterday, entitled “10 Small Business Trends and Opportunities”. Small business marketing does not have to be fancy. No $250.00 [...]

Chris Brogan, if you do not know of him, is a well respected and highly successful blogger, speaker and Internet marketer.  Yesterday he  wrote a very interesting blog entitled Do One Thing Very Well on his Community and Social Media blog Chris discusses a famous coffee shop in the French Quarter of New Orleans in [...]

I found this article in my wanderings last night.  The picture just jumped out at me.  Albeit they are competitors, but at a different level…there is room for all of us.  And, my market is do it yourselfers. But the message is just as clear as mine: “Other studies show that approximately 85% of initial [...]