Blogging and Consistency
You’ve heard the old adage that the road to heck is paved with good intentions. That appears to be especially true when it comes to blogging. During the design and development phase of sites we have customers who are all excited about the opportunity to blog. Then reality (and life) sets in. And that blogging […]
Choosing a Domain Name
There are still good domain names to be had if you are looking either to start a new business or to claim a better domain name for your existing business. First let’s examine why it is important to choose a good domain name. Say you were a church called Mt. Zion Christian Church. You decide […]
Online Cliques
Online Cliques Sometimes you have to forget what you learned (or were told) in high school. Back then cliques may not have been good for you – contributing to peer pressure and leaving some of the “un-cliqued” feeling left out. But in the online world, getting into a clique can propel you forward. There are […]
Building a Successful Internet Marketing Campaign
Last week I gave a seminar on how to build an Internet marketing campaign. I received feedback from one company that was represented that the content was “light” – not enough meat. Later on I visited that company to help them with their Internet marketing campaign. Here is what I learned: The seminar covered a […]
5 Things to Measure in Social Media Marketing
Most businesses engaging in Social Media Marketing measure things like “Likes” or “Followers”. That’s not bad but Internet Marketing is more than a popularity contest. For a small business Number of Interactions on Facebook – shows they’re engaged. Developing a successful Facebook page where your fans or “likers” not only like a particular item but […]
Cultivating Customer Relationships Online
One of the most difficult things for most of us to wrap our minds around is that the cyber world of Social Media Marketing works very much the same as the physical world of marketing. Relationships rule. Cultivating relationships online is not really all that different than cultivating relationships in the physical world. We like […]
Cheating on the Internet
No I’m not talking about high school or college students copying papers from the Internet. I am talking about unethical and unscrupulous individuals and businesses that are cheating to get ahead. Some of this cheating is pointless but some of it is very pointed. I started thinking about cheating when someone who has never walked […]
Help EduCyber Pick its New Logo
We’ve been talking to a lot of businesses about their Internet marketing plans and how they fit into the bigger picture. We’ve been spending so much time in fact, we decided to create a new brand for our business – AdvanceMyBiz. The site (www.AdvanceMy.Biz) will soon be live but as we’re building this new brand, […]
Measuring Up
What do you measure on your web site? Do you measure the number of hits? The number of unique visitors? The number of visits from search engines? All of those might be useful to you. The key is to take in the big picture. It would be a shame to be ranked number 1 in […]
Get Traction with Google Local
Local search is where it is at for service related companies. Whether your service is landscaping, roofing, dry-cleaning or computer support, it only makes sense that you would do most if not all of your business in and around your local community. So how does local search work? While it can be quite complex to […]
