Internet Gurus Revealed: The White Lies Your Guru Is Telling You (and how to avoid them)

Internet Marketing Guru

Build a website and new customers will come. Get on Twitter & Facebook and people will be banging down your door to do business with you. Get to page one of Google now and your business will explode with sales. It's what you want to hear right? In a lot of ways it's exactly what the market is pushing for and the more people buy into it, the more failure to succeed marketing online that we … [Read more...]

4 Reasons Your Business Needs a Blog

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You, you talking to me? Are you talking to me? Yeah I’m talking to you…and I’m going to continue to talk to you for as long as you’ll listen. After all if you’re listening to me, then you may not be listening to my competition. Frankly gaining and holding your attention is half the battle, maybe more. As a business it’s just not enough anymore to produce a great product or service. … [Read more...]

Why Put Yourself Through Keyword Research

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Sometimes I'm reminded that the internet is a lot more complicated then it seems at first glance. Sometimes I forget how hard it is to put yourself in the shoes of your potential customer. Usually all I have to do to be oh so gently reminded, is spend a few hours doing keyword research. That will bring almost anybody back to reality, especially someone like me that is not a very patient person … [Read more...]

3 Reasons Why WordPress Should Be Your Next Website

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  If your new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS or Email feed. Thanks for checking us out!   In speaking with businesses there is often a misunderstanding that WordPress is for blogs and not the right solution for their new or redesigned website. Although the blog is where WordPress really began, it has certainly evolved into a content management system … [Read more...]

1 Big Reason Why Local Businesses Must Market Online

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Often many businesses wonder if online marketing is worth it. For the most part I understand their concern. They have a location, they advertise in the Phone Book, or the Newspaper, or even the radio station and they see/hear their advertisement. It's real, concrete and can often bring some new people into their establishment. The internet on the other hand, is complicated, always changing, … [Read more...]

How-To Get The Most From Domain Registration

Domain Registration is an SEO Strategy Domain Registration is a fairly simple task and with cheap domain registration being pretty much the standard it is absolutely silly not to register your domain if you haven't already. But what web address do you register? There are really two key strategies that we recommend for your domain name. … [Read more...]

Getting Your Website to Page 1 – Requires Keyword Research

Learn How To Do Basic Keyword Research Keyword research could very well be the most critical component of establishing your online strategy for your website. In fact, if you don't have a domain yet for your business, keyword research should really begin before you get that domain. There is significant value in having your keywords within your domain if building a brand around your company name is … [Read more...]

Critical to Your Internet Marketing Strategy is Keyword Research

So you've built a website, invested in a new domain name registration, purchased your affordable web hosting and your ready to make your fortune online! Maybe it's simpler then that. Maybe you have a business and you'd like to just get the web working for you as part of an overall marketing strategy encompassing the internet. Unfortunately most businesses who try to overcome the challenge of … [Read more...]

Free Internet Marketing Strategies for Your Business

The GILL Media blog is about to take on a whole new look (not just graphically although it will be changing too), and we think you're gonna like what you see. After nearly 6 months of brainstorming, and discussions on the direction we were going to take with our blog, we have decided that educating small business in every way possible was the best solution. Internet Marketing Strategies and Small … [Read more...]

Don’t try to cheat Google says Matt Cutts

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I am so amazed at the amount of companies that still believe there is a magic button that will perform instant search engine optimization. Google’s Matt Cutts gave an interview to Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting where he revealed some things that would help those trying to improve optimization results with some solid tips. Although the interview was lengthy I have summarized some of the key … [Read more...]