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I was amused by the following spam comment on a blog I ghost write and administer. The comment led me to write this article. It read: “Wow neat! This is a really great site! I am wondering if anyone else has come across something similar in the past? Keep up the great work!” If I [...]

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 [...]

Anita Campbell ran an interesting article in Small Business Trends last Friday. She comments about an unofficial poll of small business owners’ resolutions for the new year. The findings are reported in “Small Business Goals: Fitness Conscious, Want Sales, Looking for Work-Life Balance”. Among the top 10 results are finding a job, starting a business [...]

The comment beneath this LinkedIn discussion headline read: “Website is all about the way you design it! No matter how much marketing you do, or how quality-filled products and services you offer, it is designing that gets you the actual recognition.” My comment: “Can’t agree less. A pretty Website without traffic is like a bright [...]

An article appeared in today’s Chicago Tribune that has many lessons that can be applied to E-marketing your Web business. Part of the secondary headline caught my attention as did several parts of the story. Sandra M. Jones talks about retailers using special services to promote sales in the article . Some of her very [...]

My love is organic search engine optimization and do it yourself marketing to promote Judy’s business, A-BnC Parties and More, Inc. Why? Because it only takes time! Time to learn, then time to implement, then time to tweak. Through years of research and intuitive exploring I have gathered a wealth of information and references. I’ve [...]

I am about to post this comment on a LinkedIn group I belong to. Budget? When considering PPC (Ed. Note: Pay Per Click)… or do you want to do it via sweat equity? Some basic steps before trying to build traffic and before you consider anything else, especially when you have to pay for the [...]

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 [...]