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Integrated Marketing
Integrated Marketing
Integrated marketing is essential to getting a better return on investment (ROI). By integrating all marketing materials you can increase profits at very little expense. What is Integrated Marketing Integrated marketing is more than just having a consistent look and feel to all of your marketing... continue reading "Integrated Marketing"»
Understanding These Marketing Basics will help your website do better
Web Marketing Basics - How to be Successful
4 Important Marketing Tips
Understanding basic marketing skills increases your effectiveness on the internet. There are many aspects that you need to consider in order to be successful on the web, but there are some primary marketing skills that are exceptionally important. Much of your success will come from where you focus... continue reading "Web Marketing Basics - How to be Successful"»
Review of Call to Action
Improving Online Marketing Results
While full of good online marketing information, Call to Action is a not a book to sit down and read in an hour or two. Well after almost an entire year, I have finally finished "Call to Action" - Secret Formulas to Improve Online Results by Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg.Although packed full... continue reading "Review of Call to Action"»

Posted on Aug 04, 2010

Don't Make These Mistakes in Your Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Mistakes
Too many companies fail in these incorrect assumptions about SEO when dealing with search engine optimization to get first page results. Rand Fishkin mentioned these two ways companies often incorrectly approach SEO. The biggest mistakes I see around SEO is that they consider it two ways, both of which... continue reading "Don't Make These Mistakes in Your Search Engine Optimization"»
RSS Feed Consistency
RSS Feed Icon Consistency
RSS feeds are becoming more consistent from browser to browser (Firefox and Internet Explorer) and should make RSS marketing in the future easier than ever before. Every internet marketer out there should be standing up and doing the happy dance. RSS has won another victory through Microsoft adopting... continue reading "RSS Feed Consistency"»
Is Your Website Search Engine Friendly?
Search Engine Friendly Websites
If your website isn't search engine friendly, your website is not earning you enough money. Far too many web designers are actually graphic designers claiming to be website designers. Unfortunately, they know nothing (ok... maybe next to nothing) about how search engines work and what is necessary... continue reading "Is Your Website Search Engine Friendly?"»
The Right Way to View Your Business
The Right Way to View Your Business
Why does someone visit your website, or more specifically, why is this customer visiting this page at this time? Every time you look at any of your marketing materials (print, web, etc.) I want you to take a moment to think about "why" this customer is taking time from their busy schedule to look... continue reading "The Right Way to View Your Business"»
Consistent Look and Feel - Branding and Positioning
Branding and Positioning
When your customers think about your business, what comes to their minds? How have you branded and positioned your business? You've set your sites on a specific group, you know what they need and you've got it. Now all you need to do is let them know that you are the answer to their problems.... continue reading "Consistent Look and Feel - Branding and Positioning"»
Increasing Conversion Rates through Search Engine Optimization
Customer Conversion Rates
Search engine optimization can directly increase your customer conversion rates. I've recently been reading "Call to Action" by Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg. So far they've really focused on increasing conversion rates without the need of increasing the number of "eyeballs" that view your site. I liked... continue reading "Increasing Conversion Rates through Search Engine Optimization"»
One Click Wonders - Keep it Simple
One Click Wonders
Simplify, simplify, simplify. Seth Godin, the marketing guru who wrote "The Big Red Fez" and "The Purple Cow" argues that people on the web are like stupid monkeys wearing a big red fez. Make it simple or they will go somewhere else where it will be simpler. For example, have you ever been at... continue reading "One Click Wonders - Keep it Simple"»
Do you use these 7 copywriting steps
Copywriting Tips
Writing great articles (copywriting) can be done in these seven simple steps. Say something that gets attention. Tell them why they should be interested. Tell them why they should believe what you are saying is true. Prove it is true. Itemize and describe... continue reading "Do you use these 7 copywriting steps"»
Whitehat SEO versus Blackhat SEO
Whitehat vs Blackhat SEO
The showdown between whitehat SEO and blackhat SEO is heating up and search engines are backing the whitehats. Whitehat and blackhat SEO (Search Engine Optimization) are two different (and normally opposing) views of how to do search engine optimization. Whitehats are those website designers that... continue reading "Whitehat SEO versus Blackhat SEO"»
Forget Political Correctness
Forget Political Correctness
Much of the meaning in a message can be missed because we try to be too politically correct. When I was in college, I had a business communications teacher that believed that a sentence was only good if it only had those words that were integral to the meaning of the sentence. All other words should... continue reading "Forget Political Correctness"»
Do You Know These Tips to Quickly Improve Landing Page Conversion Rates
Landing Page Conversions
Increase landing page conversions with these simple tips. Increasing conversions is a big topic lately. Here are some more great ideas from ioninteractive for increasing conversions on your landing pages for this year. Keep your Organic and PPC landing pages separate. Targeted traffic from PPC have... continue reading "Do You Know These Tips to Quickly Improve Landing Page Conversion Rates"»
Defining Points of Action
Points of Action
Understanding critical points of action will help increase your online sales and return on investment.The internet is a far different marketing medium than any other out there. Every site has hundreds of entry points, with customers at different points in the selling process. Some come just to look at... continue reading "Defining Points of Action"»
Websites should not look like Ads
Don't Make Your Website Look Like An Ad
Write Better Web Copy
If your website looks, feels, or sounds like an ad, you are losing sales.I read a great book recently, Web Copy that Sells, and she had a great formula for providing information in a way that will 1) get read and 2) make sales."Your website should provide the solid information that your prospect... continue reading "Don't Make Your Website Look Like An Ad"»
Using Sounds on the Internet
Should Sound be Used on a Website?
Using Music and Sound on Websites
Sound and action words make your message more memorable. As put by the Eisenberg brothers in Call to Action, "Sound is invasive, intrusive, and irresistible." People have the ability to remember hundreds of songs and voices because they come into the brain through sound. Sounds tend to be remembered... continue reading "Should Sound be Used on a Website?"»
How to Build Effective Websites 101
Effective Websites 101
Many small companies are making a wise choice and investing in professionally designed websites that raise the company's level of professionalism, exposure, and sales. I have had people come to my saddle shop and they were surprised to see that we are just a a small shop because the website made us... continue reading "How to Build Effective Websites 101"»
Unique Information Will Help You Get Better Rankings
Unique Content equals Better Rankings
Unique content will help you rank better in the search engines. So you have a website and you want to rank well in the search engines. Well, you need to think about what you customers need and then define your unique value proposition. First if you don't understand your customers you will never do... continue reading "Unique Information Will Help You Get Better Rankings"»
Three Steps to a Great Website
Great Website in 3 Steps
Matt Cutts' three step process to a great rankings in the search engines and success out of your website.I agree with Matt on his "3 step process" to getting better rankings in the search engines. There’s SEO and there’s QUALITY and there’s also finding the HOOK or angle... continue reading "Three Steps to a Great Website"»
If Content is King, Linking is Queen
Linking is Queen - Content is King
If Content is King then surely Linking is Queen. And we all know who really rules the kingdom. I came across a great article that built on the well known saying that content is king by saying that "Content is King, but Linking is Queen." Content and Linking go hand in hand if the site is going... continue reading "If Content is King, Linking is Queen"»
Refine Results in Google
Refine Results with Orion
Google is testing a new way to refine results in their search engine results. People have reported seeing a new "refine results" option for Google searches. This new option appears to break down results into predefined categories and is using the Google "operator" of more:. Once... continue reading "Refine Results in Google"»
2010 SEO and Website Predictions
SEO and Website Predictions
2010 will be the year of shorter, more concise, and quicker information. I read SEOmoz's 8 predictions for SEO in 2010 and figured I'd make my own (some of which I total agree with SEOmoz. Conversion Rate Optimization will take off. After reading Call to Action by the Eisenberg brothers I was convinced.... continue reading "2010 SEO and Website Predictions"»


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