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It was early 2006. I had been blogging for over a year and felt I had achieved something. My blog had recently surpassed 1,000 RSS subscribers (what is RSS), making it at the time the most popular website I had ever built. The income was solid – up to $2,000 a ...

Writing online is not for everybody. You need good grammar and an understanding of topics that interest people. Communicating your ideas in understandable, concise wording is also important. Additionally, you should understand a little about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) so people can find the information you present. However, what really ...

Everyone writes and blogs about trends and predictions for the coming year, so we’ll join the crowd. John Arnold wrote about 10 online marketing trends for 2010 on Entrepreneur.com. We’d like to list them here and debate whether or not we agree with his assessment to “test, invest or rest” ...

Here are six great small business marketing ideas that are easy to implement for any entrepreneur. 1. Position yourself as an expert If a client sees an article that answers some of their key questions, written by an expert (YOU), they are more likely to trust your company. Here are a few ...

Here are six great small business marketing ideas that are easy to implement for any entrepreneur. 1. Position yourself as an expert If a client sees an article that answers some of their key questions, written by an expert (YOU), they are more likely to trust your company. Here are a few ...

Everyone is bad at spelling at some point, especially when we’re in a hurry. Look at it this way, how many times have you gone to Google, typed something in, and then realized that you didn’t spell your keyword correctly? If you’re a perfect speller on the computer every single ...

Starting a social marketing campaign can be a daunting task for a small business owner not used to online marketing. When done the right way, social marketing can do wonders for a small business, start-up or entrepreneur trying to build buzz on a shoestring budget. Here are eight things to ...

The majority of small businesses realize the importance of having a solid Web presence that leaves a positive and lasting impression on customers. Many fear, though, that a professionally designed Web site will cost more than what’s in the budget. After all, it’s easy to look around and find lots ...

Create a Sitemap If your website uses a sitemap there are better chances of your pages being indexed by Google to a full extent? It is useful when you re-organize your website or add new contents to it. This way a search engine immediately gets informed about it and non-existing pages ...

Kozuko (Kozuko - Website Builder and Online Business Software Homepage) is revolutionary website that helps small businesses create a website with powerful features such as e-mail marketing, the ability to sell products online with a built in shopping, host forums, built-in search engine optimization ...

Search engine optimization (SEO) is now one of the most important topics for website owners to understand. Anyone that depends on their website to bring them business needs to know the ins and outs of SEO ...

Once you’ve spent time developing a great search engine optimization (SEO) and Pay Per Click strategy, you want to then measure the success, right? Also, you obviously want to drive all of those people who click on your keywords to some kind of destination, right? Well if you simply direct ...

So you’ve hired a web firm to design your new web site. Now what? Today I’m completing my Business Web Series and talking about what you can do to be a good consumer of web site developers and designers. Just like most business owners have tales of woe from having their web sites designed, most web developers and designers have stories of their own. Educate yourself, hire the right experts to help you through this process, and hold up your end of the bargain and you may sail through without being the star of one of the web firm’s horror stories (or your own!).

PR agencies, large companies and small businesses all have the need to announce news through a press release, still a great way to gain media exposure and PR. Once those releases have been written, it’s often a wise idea to distribute the press release over a newswire (which makes your ...

UnderstandingMarketing.com is thrilled to announce the Week 4 Winner of the June DIY Marketing Month Giveaway - a “Do It Yourself” Marketing Makeover Plan by UnderstandingMarketing.com’s co-creator, Chrisanne Sternal. She will provide a 60-minute marketing consultation session and discuss the winning entrepreneur’s marketing goals and objectives. Chrisanne Sternal will then ...