Small Business

Using Wordpress for Small Business Website

This is something I have been wanting to comment on for a while. I really like Wordpress- its ease of setup, cool widgets, tons of templates available, and the amazing amount of SEO components you can employ with it, make it a no brainer for small business.
If you are a small business and want to [...]

Running Your Small Business Online

With the state of the economy today, what can a small business do to help itself? Marketing online is definitely one thing, I would recommend. LOL Over the last few months, I have been pulling together articles on the subject and over the next few posts, I will be reviewing and pulling together those that [...]

New Merchant Circle Survey-Sentiment Low but Glimmers of Hope

Kevin Leu of Merchant Circle sent me info on a survey that Merchant Circle had recently done. I thought the results were interesting. More than 12000 business members participated in the survey.  Just over 10% of those responding businesses classified themselves as retailers, while 90% fell into other categories.  For the complete survey and results, [...]

How To Dominate Page One of Google So Your Competitors Don’t Stand a Chance – Part II

Today we finish up the article by Tim Conley. If you have any questions, please post them here and Tim or myself will be more than happy to discuss them. Now….
Dominating Local Searches on Google
First you need to do basic search engine optimization on every page of your website.  Next build optimized pages for your [...]

How To Dominate Page One of Google So Your Competitors Don’t Stand a Chance – Part I

Today and tomorrow we have a guest author -Tim Conley from LocalMarketingMastery.com
(Thanks for the article Tim.)
What if there was a way for you to get more than the average 50+% of visitors from a number one Google ranking?
I don’t know about you, but I really dislike paying a lot of money to advertise my business [...]

The Key to Small Business Success Online – SEO

With more and more consumers searching online, it is critical for small business to get online themselves. With the current state of the economy, it is more important than ever to work on building your online presence. Right now I am seeing more business “giving up” being online and trying to “save money” but not [...]

Articles on Social Media and Small Business

Social media is growing-a day does not go by when I do not see an article or two about it.  Here are some articles I have read and bookmarked, which I wanted to pass on to you guys. After putting this list together, I realized they all have to do with Twitter. LOL  Twitter is [...]