Small Business
Back to School – Local Search Style!
Going to School for Local Search- GetlistedU How does anyone learn things, these days-school of course. In continuing my topic of local search DIY (do it yourself), I interviewd my good friend David Mihm about his GetListedUniversity. This appears to be an excellent opportunity for small business owners to get some hands on training in [...]
Predictions….
Well 2010 is well under way. Why am I talking about predictions in Feb? LOL. There are a number of good articles that have been published I wanted to summarize them here. As a small business, you need to keep an eye on trends and patterns and see where and when you should get involved. [...]
Thoughts on ILM 09
Yes I know ILM 09 was last month, but over the holiday I took some time to look over the presentations and what was covered. A lot of good info. If you have the chance to go to ILM10, would highly recommend it. This post does not cover everything but these 3 points I thought [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
