Still Don’t Get Blogging? How About Content Marketing?

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For many of my clients, particularly those above the age of 40, they haven't been blogging, they don't get blogging, and they don't understand how blogging is so important to business. To them, the term blogging itself conjures up images of someone leaning back on their couch, drinking their mocha-china-frappa-latte, typing about what they did today, what their friends said about their other … [Read more...]

The Key to Making Money Online

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This morning I read an excellent post from Darren Rowse of problogger.net. It's a video post and I recommend you check it out, good points. Darren gives some good solid guidelines that are pretty standard (or should be) when it comes to making money online. Particularly on what would be right for you, how to approach it. One area I wanted to focus on is, once you've got your business or product … [Read more...]

Pay Per Click (PPC) Landing Pages That Work

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If you're using a PPC campaign to drive traffic to your site, you need to make sure the page you're sending them to delivers the right message. Otherwise your wasting your money and you're wasting the searchers time. Neither makes you look good. Are You Sending Them To Your Home Page? If you are, how well does your website reflect on your business? Does it have a professional look … [Read more...]

Top Five Reasons Why Knowing WordPress Can Make You Better at Tennis

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WordPress, once considered good blogging software has now developed into being my favorite and, in my opinion, the best way to set up a complete website. Okay, if you're Wells Fargo or Google your needs might exceed what this tool can offer. But for the rest of us it's a dynamite solution. The direction of business is becoming more and more about being able to get your message out there, … [Read more...]

Making Money Online

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From time to time I'm asked questions like, "I just want to put up a website and make a lot of money, what should I do?" People see these infomercials on late night TV that make the claims like "We will set you up with your own website and you just get ready to start cashing those checks!" Money is awesome, and I can't blame anyone for wanting a lot of it. Nothing wrong with that in the … [Read more...]

Using Gravatars to Help with Your Online Identity and Branding

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Blogs are a wonderful source of information on just about any topic you're looking for. Reading blogs by industry leaders can be very helpful in your education and learning more about what people are talking about in your industry, and they can help you learn about how you want to write your own blog posts. Along with the value of reading other's blogs is the value of commenting on them and … [Read more...]

Inspire Your Visitors to Become Clients

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When someone comes to your website, you want the impression to be one that shows a high level of professionalism, integrity and ultimately inspires confidence in your products or services that transforms the "visitor" into a "customer" or "client." Think very seriously about this. It's not good enough anymore to just "have a website." You need to have a site that shows your business in it's … [Read more...]