Bring a Breath Mint – You're About to Get Up Close and Personal
I have been talking a lot about social networking sites recently, such as LinkedIn, Biznik, Facebook and Twitter. I have also been telling you how these sites are a great way to promote your business. I probably need to slow down and first mention that they are a great way to build relationships that in return helps to promote your business. Make sure you are not just using these sites to bombard users with stiff, repackaged marketing messages. Approach these sites in the same way you...
Read MoreLinkedIn.com – I Told You It Was Cool
Just when I thought I was going to leave LinkedIn.com alone as a blog topic for awhile since I have a few recent posts on it, LinkedIn has to go and introduce a cool new feature. Now you can plug mini applications (widgets) into your LinkedIn profile. These applications range from auto-embedding your most recent blog posts, displaying Power Point presentations, embedding Twitter activity or sharing documents among other apps. The power in this is that you further engage visitors to your...
Read MoreLet's Talk About Inbound Links
If you have spoken with me about search engine optimization in the past, after exclaiming the virtues of relevant content, at some point inbound links get mentioned – specifically, relevant inbound links! The more inbound links you get from relevant and credible websites the more Google is going to like you. Well, in theory, as I always say, but now I have more recent proof. In going through my RSS Reader to get caught up on all my hundreds of updates I need to read, I came across an...
Read MoreSocial Networking's Influence on You Site's Traffic
Ok, time to step back and do some full disclosure to see if my input on this blog of the virtures of social networking is truely valid. So, behold the graph below: I started this blog earlier this year around March, did a few posts and then got side tracked, leaving it abandoned until about 2 months ago when I started forcing myself to make daily posts. This graph shows the weekly traffic to the blog, starting on the 14th week of this year. As you can see, from week 14 to week 35 traffic...
Read MoreE-Commerce Blog Widget – Sell Directly From Your Blog
Most of our customers use Early Impact’s Product Cart for their e-commerce. Product Cart, while a really boring (but obvious) name, is an incredibly powerful e-commerce shopping cart that we are proud to be certified developers for here at NetSource Technologies. Earlier this year with the release of Product Cart v3.051, the shopping cart now includes an e-commerce blog widget. This widget can be generated from the shopping cart’s adminstrative control panel. If you’re...
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