Blog Archives
Apr05

Using WordPress for Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is an excellent way to earn extra money, as you get a commission each time you sell someone else’s product or generate a lead for someone else’s business. These programs typically provide affiliates with pre-made graphics, links, and other promotional materials, making it easy to promote affiliate…

Jan09

Twitter for Business

Twitter is not just for teens and twenty-somethings anymore. Instead, it is a valuable business tool you can use to promote your blog. Like all other forms of technology, you need to lose Twitter the right way, or you run the risk of losing readers and…

Dec19

How to Use Twitter to Connect with Clients

With all of the technology available to your customers, putting an ad in the phone book and following up with them once a year is no longer enough to guarantee repeat business. You need to use technology to connect with customers and encourage interaction. Twitter is…

Dec05

Top SEO Mistakes Blog Owners Make

Search engine optimization (SEO) refers to a set of techniques used to make a blog more accessible to search engine spiders. These spiders crawl the text on your blog and index each of your site’s pages. The goal of SEO is to make your blog show up at the…

Nov29

Benefits of Participating in LinkedIn Groups

Many people with LinkedIn accounts make the mistake of signing up for them and never using them again. They don’t realize that having a LinkedIn account is a powerful way to drive traffic to their blogs, pick up paying work and network with other people. Anyone…

Nov21

Tips for Using Facebook for Business

Facebook is a lot more than a place for teens to exchange photos and play games. This social networking tool also allows business owners to make new industry contacts and connect with potential clients. Using Facebook for business, however, can ruin your reputation if you do…

Mar07

Blogging the Brand

Corporations have figured out that tapping into the blogosphere is a great way to build relationships with customers. As the blog world has doubled in size every five months, companies are finding they can use its power to build communities around their brands. (more…)

Feb28

Realtors – The lawn sign is only the beginning!

The lawn sign is only the beginning — to reach potential home buyers and sellers, you need more powerful realtor marketing tools. Maintaining a blog can transform an ordinary, everyday person into a local, national, or even international expert in their field. What about Realtors? Agents and brokers have specific knowledge about…

Feb24

Benefits of Blogs vs Websites

So what are the benefits of having a blog vs a website? Well, why not have both? The truth is that without a blog component, many company websites are impersonal and uninviting to prospective customers and clients. Most often there is simply no effective connection made between the company and…

Feb07

Social Media Jobs, business acumen & ambitions

Children’s dreams and ambitions change over time, just like technology evolves.  New opportunities in the job market are allowing for old school Marketers – those of the print and mail ilk – to learn new ways to deploy their brand using the technology in Social Media platforms.