Content marketing is a powerful opportunity for any small business that wants to market online, and most people don’t quite understand its potential — or how many ways there are to use it for your business. This infographic shows just a few ways to integrate content into your marketing plan. Use it to spark ideas, [...]

Blogs can be great marketing tools.  Every business could potentially benefit from having a blog –the same way that every business could benefit from having its own magazine to distribute.  Extra publicity and exposure is always helpful, and you get to choose your best information to put on display. What kinds of businesses can benefit [...]

The use of mobile devices is exploding thanks to smart phones and tablet computers — or if you’re a Mac fan, it’s thanks to the iPhone and the iPad. Industry experts are predicting that these kinds of devices will replace desktop computers within the next decade, if not sooner. It’s hard to argue with that [...]

You can take control of your publicity with online press releases. Writing them is much easier when you have templates and checklists to follow. By distributing them on the internet, they’ll be published on websites and blogs, so you won’t have to wait for a journalist to decide to write a story around them. By [...]

Publishing on Kindle and Amazon is a powerful marketing strategy for solo professionals and small business owners. Thanks to the internet and Amazon, even new authors no longer have to find a publisher, submit a proposal, wait months to collect your rejection slip…and then repeat the process until an editor says yes. With the free [...]

7 Minute Digital Product Delivery with E-Junkie Shopping Cart

The one thing that baffled me when I first started trying to sell digital products was how to set them up to be downloaded so I could get paid.  I researched shopping carts that the gurus recommended but they were too expensive (some were more than $50 per month). I know the some of those [...]

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On-Site SEO Checklist: Meta Tags and On-Page Optimization

You’ve done your keyword research to prepare your web page for search engine optimization (SEO).  Now you’re wondering what to do with all those keyword phrases you came up with. This guide will walk you through “on-site” optimization. A word of warning: DO NOT “keyword stuff” your web pages (i.e. overuse keyword phrases).  It’s a [...]

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How To Use Market Samurai: Find Keywords That Attract Ideal Customers

According to Market Samurai, the Golden Rules of Keyword Research are: Highly Relevant Good Traffic Acceptable Competition High Commerciality (intention to buy) Ideally you want to find keyword phrases that meet all those criteria. This intermediate-level Market Samurai tutorial will help you with the first two of the four golden rules – to find highly [...]

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Easy Strategies to Make Your Website Accessible

You want every single website visitor to have a positive experience on your website. In order to make that happen it has to be accessible by everyone. Here are seven easy strategies to make your website accessible. 1. CAPTCHA – If you use a CAPTCHA to verify that a user is a person and not [...]

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Time To Remodel Your Website? Here’s How To Know

If your website looks old and outdated, visitors will make a snap judgment about you — it’s just human nature. When you’re doing business online, it’s important to keep up with trends and technology. Here are four questions to ask yourself to find out if it’s time to remodel your website. When was the last [...]

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