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

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. [...]

I just created a poll on LinkedIn asking if anyone is interested in an informal get together to discuss LinkedIn.  I also posted on Facebook.  We could talk about profiles, connections (friends) as well as use of groups to promote your business.  Or anything else you might want to discuss.  I would be most happy [...]

Quite honestly folks, I found one of the best video primers on SEO basics I have ever seen. I posted the video on by Website and invite you to watch it.

I have a story (not another! you say) to tell you this morning. Let me preface this by saying story telling is a salesman’s tool. We use analogies to get our point(s) across. Prior successes become the story lines for a salesman’s act. For we salespeople know we are on stage everyday with our potential [...]

“Plan marketplace disruptions that favor your business”was an article in today’s daily Herald by Jim Kendall I found it very interesting. In the article he writes: “Adam Hartung suggests that your business should be the one that shifts the marketplace in a manner that takes competitors by surprise and puts them on the defensive. He [...]

You have to speak the jargon of the Web to succeed in this battle ground. And, this is a giant war, a war for sales. It will get worse as the economy shrinks! Consumer confidence hit a new low as reported this morning. And, people do NOT play fair. There are smoke screens and diversionary [...]

Web2.0 is social networking. And social networking can be, and is being, used for business, point blank. You can use Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, TBD, etc., to only socialize. You can share events, play games, meet old and new friends, post photos, etc., and waste a lot of time. You can post videos on YouTube for [...]