Fire Your Clients Before You Hire Them

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  Do you love what you do? Maybe a better question is, did you ever love what you do? It's a great question really, and one I urge you to ask yourself along with the next person that grumbles about their life. If you're like me, there was a time early on when I really loved what I did. Internet marketing services is a fast, and always changing profession. In fact I couldn't wait for … [Read more...]

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...]

Business Failure Due To Halting Traditional Marketing

Traditional Marketing Integrated With Online Marketing

It’s far too often that I hear online marketing touted as the “end all, be all” for a businesses marketing strategy. This belief often entails halting all other marketing in favor of online strategies. This is a very scary strategy – if you dare to call it a strategy at all! So why does this occur for so many businesses and how can you be sure not to fall into this trap? First let me … [Read more...]

Why YouTube Could Ruin Your Business

YouTube Account Termination

Building your business utilizing online marketing and resources can be the most game changing marketing you ever do for your business. However, it’s not for the faint of heart. Marketing channels like YouTube, FaceBook, and even Google can bring amazing amounts of exposure and qualified potential buyers to your website. Literally changing your business over night ... well sort of over … [Read more...]

Why Your Brother In-Law Will Hurt Your Online Results

Poor Online Results

Do you have a brother in-law, sister, cousin, friend who is a part time expert in the search engine optimization, social media optimization, or web design field? If you don't I'm shocked, because it seems everyone else does. In fact I'll have to check where mine is because on the surface it sure does sound good. That is of course until you realize that your paying dearly for taking your online … [Read more...]

Improve Your Offline Sales Process By 80%

Improving Offline Sales through Strategic Online Marketing

You've heard of the 80/20 rule. For example 80% of your business is driven by 20% of your sales. This same rule can help improve your sales through integrating strategic online marketing and design strategies. In fact it's actually quite easy to do , when you know where to look. The place we like to start is ... what drives you nuts about your offline sales process? Maybe it's getting to the … [Read more...]

1 Big Reason Why Local Businesses Must Market Online

Local Online Marketing Has Changed

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...]

Search Engine Optimization Promises via Email Spam

Email Spam Marketing

Each morning I wake up to a dozen or so uninvited emails. Each one promising me business success with quality inexpensive search engine optimization or link building services. It dawned on me that many businesses, maybe yours included, are trying to understand and build success on the web and you must wonder how these people found you. Do they know something about your business that you don't? Are … [Read more...]