Small Business Internet Marketing

Your Website…

So, you have a website and maybe even have had it for a while now. Your site used to bring in business but now, it just doesn’t have the amount of visitors that you would like and is not bringing in the amount of sales that you would like. You may be paying for phone book internet advertising and don’t know how effective it really is for your business. These are all areas to check into regarding the effectiveness of your website.

Feature Local Products or Ownership

Featuring local products and services that you use in your business helps the local economy, including YOURS! Help keep the local flair alive in your community.

Feature Unique Services

Perhaps your business creates original decorative art from recycled glass. Be sure to feature that on your website. Don’t keep your uniqueness a secret. Let site viewers know what sets your business apart from the rest.

Partner with Other Businesses

If you have a website for a hotel, ask the neighboring businesses to list your website on their website. You can list their business as well on your site. You both win! Great opportunity to list the local pizza delivery company or video store. A satisfied guest in your hotel will be back time and time again. If you have a floral business, list other companies that share the same clients. Photographers, musicians, entertainers, catering companies and limousine companies. Have them list your site on theirs and you do the same!

Using Social Networks to Promote Your Businesses

Social Networking is widely used and can increase traffic to your website.

References

Be sure to get references for candidates that you consider for optimizing your website, helping you to market your business or providing goods and services. Styles, customer service and experience levels vary.

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.mobi Domain Names

Everyone’s going mobile.

  • Wish you could travel back in time and buy some great domain names? The mobile Web revolution is giving everyone a second chance to do just that.
  • With a 600% increase in traffic to mobile websites in the past year (says Bango Analytics), the mobile Web is set for yet another year of explosive growth.
  • Many brands are jumping on the .mobi bandwagon, including AT&T, Blackberry, Five Guys restaurants, JCPenney, Simon & Schuster, even the city of London.
  • The .mobi extension is one of the most successful new top–‐level domains in history. And it continues to grow right along with the explosive growth of the mobile Web.

A .mobi name tells search engines your site is optimized for mobile phones and mobile users.

Stay in the running by securing your .mobi names today.

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Offer expires March 31st, 2012.

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Does your event have a mobile strategy?

What are the chances that people attending your events will have their smartphone or other mobile device with them.  Do you have a plan in place to make your events more mobile? Encourage Live Tweeting Does your event have a hashtag?  Create one and promote it to all of your attendees.  Live-Tweeting with a hashtag [...]

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Facebook Branding, Marketing & Landing Pages

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Facebook Facelift Digital Popcorn can help you get the most out of your Facebook Page.  Advanced steps, techniques and methods of getting the most out of your Facebook business page. Branding Marketing Special Pages Strategy What works, what doesn’t and how to make the most of your Facebook experience. Presenters: Don Richardson from Digital Popcorn [...]

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Google +1 Button

Get the Google +1 Button for Your Website

Google recently released the Google +1 Button for your website.  The +1 buttons let people who love your content recommend it on Google search. You can now add +1 buttons to your website to help your site stand out from the crowd. Have you Seen Any +1′s? You will see the button appear in Google [...]

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Social, Mobile & Connectivity Trends for 2011

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2010 experienced continued growth of social media outlets. Facebook grew from 400+ million users in February to over 500+ million users in July. The number of Twitter users in November 2010 was at 1.75 million. Reports indicate that the average Facebook user is logged in for about 51 minutes per day. The younger generations seem [...]

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