Posts made in December, 2008

Websites – Not Just For Simple Contact Forms Anymore

Posted by on Dec 19, 2008 in Old Blog Posts | 0 comments

Contact forms on your website are great.  A customer can fill it out and submit it and presto, you have an email from a new lead. But are you using the contact form as successfully as possible? If you are truely marketing your website, you will want to track visitors to see what marketing actions you are taking are yielding the best results.  Are leads coming from your search engine listings, your pay-per-click listings, your magazine ad, the phone book or referrals? Take some time to...

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Can You Join Too Many Social Media Websites?

Posted by on Dec 18, 2008 in Old Blog Posts | 0 comments

Can you join too many social media websites? Yes. But how many is too many will vary from one person to the next.  There are so many new gotta-join-it social media websites that start up each day, it can be hard to keep up.  Focusing on which ones work for you and limiting yourself to those will yield you better results than being spread too thin on too many. The important thing is that you are on at least one.  If you can handle 26, that’s great too!

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Alert – YouTube Displays Competitors in YOUR Videos

Posted by on Dec 11, 2008 in Old Blog Posts | 2 comments

After all my touting of how great YouTube is of promoting your company online they go and get sneaky on me when I’m looking the other way. YouTube has been great for promoting businesses online because it doesn’t take much effort and expense to produce a decent video that showcases a customer testimonial, a new product you are working on, highlights from a tradeshow or interviews with key staff members.   When you post a video to YouTube visitors to the site can find your video...

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Stay At Home Moms Vs. Corporate CEO's – All's Fair in Love and Social Networking

Posted by on Dec 5, 2008 in Old Blog Posts | 0 comments

Here is an interesting article I wanted to point out as it features two talented individuals that I have recently made acquaintance with via social networking – Michele Woodward and Liz Lynch.  Michele is a successful life coach and writer who has an extensive background in various business endeavors.  Liz Lynch is the author of an interesting book on networking called “Smart Networking: Attract a Following In Person and Online” that I have started reading. The article is really an...

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Who to Follow on Twitter

Posted by on Dec 3, 2008 in Old Blog Posts | 0 comments

If you are new to Twitter, usually the first question that comes up is “who do I follow and how do I get followers myself?” Well, if you are just starting out, I say follow everyone you can.  You never know who will turn out to be interesting and you can quickly weed out the the uninteresting ones with a simple click of the “unfollow” button.  In return, most people you follow will return the favor of being followed by following you back.  Of course if you are not...

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