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Why You Need Google Apps Premier Edition
May 13th, 2010 | Posted in: Small Business
It’s finally time for your business to seriously consider Google Apps Premier Edition. For those of you that haven’t researched it, Google Apps is a low-cost, reliable, and secure messaging and collaboration solution. The main feature is the Google Apps mail that utilizes the Gmail interface and seamlessly integrates with Outlook and all mobile devices. [...]
What is the Purpose of Your Website?
April 29th, 2010 | Posted in: Small Business, Website Design
What is the purpose of your website? Really think about this. If you’re like a lot of small businesses, you haven’t really thought about it. You got a website because everyone said you needed a website but you’re not really sure what it does. Better yet, do your customers know what the purpose of your [...]
Easy & Effective Content Creation
April 14th, 2010 | Posted in: Web Content
I work with many small business owners and the one common thread from business to business is that they are busy! You focus on your core business, delegate what you can but there still ends up being tasks that you just can’t seem to have someone else do for you. One of these tasks is [...]
Get More Traffic From Local Search Results
March 30th, 2010 | Posted in: SEO
Note: Google Local Business Center is now called Google Places I’m going to get you on the first page of Google and I’m not going to charge your for it. No, this isn’t some scam, it’s in use every day in every city around the world. Check out this screen shot of a search completed [...]
Why You Need Google Analytics & Webmaster Tools
March 20th, 2010 | Posted in: Website Optimization
Too many website owners today have no idea how many people are visiting their site, how visitors are finding their site, what keywords are bringing visitors to their site and a whole host of other important data points. Luckily Google knew this and created Google Analytics & Webmaster Tools to help small business owners out. [...]
Aweber Review: How is Your Email Marketing?
February 23rd, 2010 | Posted in: Email Marketing, Internet Marketing
Update 4/10/2010 – Added information on Aweber reports and autoresponders Update: You can use an Aweber Single Opt-in List Aweber Email Marketing Review Aweber is an email list marketing company that helps you capture leads and email addresses for contacts in lists that you can then send messages and newsletters to. It’s permission eMarketing at [...]
twitter for Business: How to Make it Effective
January 5th, 2010 | Posted in: Social Media
What can you say in 140 characters? If you’ve been using twitter, you’ll find that the answer is quite a bit! If you’ve been under a rock for the past couple of years, twitter defines itself as a “..real-time short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices”. Basically they provide you with the [...]
Single Opt-in vs Double Opt-in Email Marketing
December 15th, 2009 | Posted in: Email Marketing, Internet Marketing
The first question that should be asked when looking at an email marketing company for a newsletter or an autoresponder is “should I go with a double opt-in or single opt-in list?” Single opt-in lists allow people to sign up on your website or get added to your list by uploading their e-mail address and [...]
inMotion Hosting Review as a Website Host Provider
December 14th, 2009 | Posted in: Small Business Tech
If you’re just looking for the nitty gritty down to the basics one paragraph summary on inMotion Hosting, read the Conclusion and Final Summary below. A website hosting company is essential to a business that markets itself online and honestly who doesn’t do that nowadays? The worst thing that could happen is that your site [...]
How to Effectively Use LinkedIn for Business
December 3rd, 2009 | Posted in: Social Media
If you haven’t heard of LinkedIn or you haven’t signed-up yet, where have you been? LinkedIn has been around for quite awhile and has been mainstream for many years now. LinkedIn was described to me by Terry Bean of Motor City Connect as “your online business card”. It’s a great online network for making business [...]