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Optimize Your Website for Local Search on Mobile Devices

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Optimize Your Website for Local Search on Mobile Devices. Use of mobile devices has overtaken PCs for local search. More people are using their smartphones and tablets for online searches and purchasing. Is your website mobile ready? Visitors will not go through pages of search results on mobile devices, so you need to be on page … Read more

How to Automate Your Social Media Accounts With Socialoomph

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Socialoomph! One of the biggest complaints I hear from my clients is, “I don’t have time to post tweets to Twitter or make Facebook posts”.  What’s the solution? Have it done automatically for you. There are several ways to do this, but I use SOCIALOOMPH. Social Oomph started out as a service that just focused … Read more

Press Release: Five Tips for Creating an Effective Press Release

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Follow These Five Tips for Creating an Effective Press Release: 1. Write a Catchy Headline. When creating an effective press release, your headline or title needs to be catchy.  Many people will just scan the headlines looking for something that interests them.  So, you need to grab their attention to encourage them to want to … Read more

Using Video to Promote Your Website

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Use Video on YouTube to Promote Your Website: People are attracted to images and video.  Video a great way to promote your website. Videos are simple to make. Today the equipment needed to make movies is a lot less expensive than it was a few years ago. Editing software is also less costly than it … Read more

Advertising on Craigslist

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Craigslist! Advertising on Craigslist can be profitable if you do your research and follow the rules Craigslist has for posting on their website. Advertising, for most products and services, on Craigslist costs only a few dollars, which makes it cost effective. Additionally, Craigslist receives extensive traffic with approximately ten million visitors generating four billion page … Read more

Use Google Adwords to Drive Targeted Traffic to Your Website

Google Adwords: The biggest well known secret in generating success in an internet-based business or e-commerce is traffic. Everybody knows it, every site wants it and every site needs it. The point of websites is to be visited and viewed. Elaborate designs, money and countless hours of developing a site to make it attractive are … Read more

Making LinkedIn Work for You

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Make LinkedIn Work for You! LinkedIn is an important social media network for every business, and especially for a business serving other businesses. If you have a LinkedIn account, you likely have a personal profile. Be sure to keep it up to date. An active and up to date personal profile can deliver business benefits. … Read more

Using Guest Bloggers

Guest Bloggers: Owners of successful blogs, that have a large following, sometimes need to use guest bloggers. For example, if you will be away for a while and unavailable to post new blog entries and don’t want to lose visitors, then you can make arrangements for a guest blogger or a series of guest bloggers … Read more

Tips to Ensure Your Visitors Stay on Your Website

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Make Sure Your Visitors Stay on Your Website. You invest time and money to attract visitors and potential customers to your website. However, on average, many websites lose 50% of potential sales because Internet users can’t find the information they are looking for. Here are some important tips to make sure you don’t lose customers: … Read more

How Autoresponders Work

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How Autoresponders Work: At some point in our Internet lives, the majority of us have received a message from an autoresponder.  It could have been a short response letting you know that an individual is away, or an email thanking you for something that you have done. Each one of these messages is a different … Read more