Internet Marketing – The Preferred Small Businesses Marketing Choice

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Before the rise of the modern Internet format, small business marketing was a challenge. However, the rise of sophisticated Internet platforms like search engines, social networking and rich websites has made small business marketing easier as well as cost-effective.

Today, a whopping 97% of the consumers begin the process of shopping locally on the Internet. Also, the various online advertising models ensure that business owners spend less and earn more with every marketing campaign that they undertake. Continue reading Internet Marketing – The Preferred Small Businesses Marketing Choice →

How safe is Facebook for Kids under 13

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Have you advised your kids not to talk to strangers? How about keeping the doors locked when they are home alone? Did you get them to memorize your phone numbers? How about staying safe online? After spending hours discussing basic safety measures with your kids, don’t forget to include online safety, especially on Facebook. Continue reading How safe is Facebook for Kids under 13 →

Google Penguin – What’s New and What to do Next?

SEO

Since the Google Penguin update, some site owners are are feeling the pinch of the updated algorithm. Although Google’s intentions are seemingly good, claiming that the whole purpose is to improve the quality of information on the Internet, many innocent sites were hit by the cold-hearted Penguin. Let’s see what Google changed this time and what we can do to fix our sites. Continue reading Google Penguin – What’s New and What to do Next? →

Ford Motor Gets It Right With Random Acts Of Fusion

Advertising & Marketing

Ford Motor just launched an impressive online campaign dubbed the Random Acts of Fusion in order to generate buzz for the 2013 Ford Fusion. Celebrities Ryan Seacrest and Joel McHale were enlisted in order to produce video footage for the campaign. What’s interesting about this product launch is that the marketing approach is dramatically different from any other. The goal of the campaign is to not only launch the Fusion before it hits showrooms but also to engage consumers via videos, contests and local events. Let’s take a look at what we can learn from Ford’s latest social media blitz.   Continue reading Ford Motor Gets It Right With Random Acts Of Fusion →

Six Ways to Save Time When Updating Social Media and Web Content

Social Networking

Updating your social media, website, and blog is a process that’s never-ending. Continually pumping out valuable content is not only challenging, it’s time consuming. Sometimes you need to take a break from marketing and spend more time doing things like, you know, actually running your business. Here are six ways you can save time when updating your social media and web content. Continue reading Six Ways to Save Time When Updating Social Media and Web Content →

Social Media Users Statistics

Social Networking

The days when social networking was just about connecting with friends and engaging in what seemed to be idle talk are now long gone. Social media users statistics show that majority of the regular users are after something much more than idle chat. People now depend on the social media as a reliable source of information. According to researches an approximate 59 percent of the global internet users are active social networkers. These people access their accounts several times on a daily basis seeking information on the following main areas of concern, political news, business news, product information, celebrity news and so on. Continue reading Social Media Users Statistics →

How To Find Low Competition Keywords in Your Niche

SEO,

Knowing how to find low competition keywords, especially those that are highly targeted to your niche or topic matter, is essential in search engine optimization. Effective keywords are needed to optimize a website, rank well on the search engines and reach your target market.

Low competition keywords will give you a greater chance of appearing on the coveted first page of search results for a particular term, reach your market more easily, win a higher overall search engine ranking and ultimately generate greater online sales. Continue reading How To Find Low Competition Keywords in Your Niche →

How to boost your Instagram Followers to increase your social output

Social Networking

The Instagram mobile application is now more popular than ever, behind Pinterest it is the fasting growing social network; now topping 80 million worldwide users.  Not bad considering it’s designed to be a mobile only service.

In order to build large numbers of followers through Instagram, there are some tested and tried techniques that you can use. Unfortunately, as with all things in life – the best route is also the longest route. Continue reading How to boost your Instagram Followers to increase your social output →

How to Use Social Networking Sites Safely?

Social Networking

They’re not just revolutionizing anymore. Yesterday, it used to be more than just enough to have an online presence for a one- way spread of information. But now, it seems that everything has become all about social networking. Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites (also regarded as social media) don’t only drive new forms on social understanding and communication; they also modify and expand online users’ behavior in terms of expectations on privacy and etiquette. How to Use Social Networking Sites Safely? Many believe that sometime in the future, beholds a new title holder for Internet’s search function – social media, wherein people will no longer maneuver alone on the Internet, but instead use these as platforms to search for information. Also, that word of the mouth will eventually explode into a more diverse consumer- generated activity, in which more and more people will have the ability to access and influence. Continue reading How to Use Social Networking Sites Safely? →

Social Media Marketing and You – Where is the Value?

Social Networking

Social media is a complicated concept for most businesses to consider, and especially difficult for business owners to calculate any potential ROI. Before we talk about what is required for your social media strategy, we need to discuss the mechanics of what social media actually is.

What is Social Media

It’s not as simple as just saying “Facebook and Linkedin and all those sites”. While it is true that these popular websites are types of social media, the implication of social media is far more broad reaching and can even be considered to go beyond the internet. Continue reading Social Media Marketing and You – Where is the Value? →

Overcoming Writer’s Block – How can Writers Maintain Focus and Inspiration?

Blogging

Writer’s block is a very common problem, which is faced by almost every writer. The creative side of any article, blog-post, story or character creation makes it difficult for some people to keep writing without any sort of struggle.  Some people claim that there is nothing like a ‘writer’s block’, apart from some minor creative slowdowns and slumps. These slumps are believed to be recovered with the passage of time. However, on the other hand, some professionals accept the reality of writer’s block and provide various methods and tricks to maintain focus and inspiration for finding continuity in writing. Continue reading Overcoming Writer’s Block – How can Writers Maintain Focus and Inspiration? →

Bill Arnoldi Internet Marketing Strategies: Three Easy and Quick Ways

Advertising & Marketing

Internet marketing refers to any form of online web-based promotion of products or services. The internet can enable any marketers to reach a huge number of potential buyers. According to Bill Arnoldi internet marketing strategies, one can use unique techniques to easily build and reach a large number of audiences and potential buyers for the product being offered. This can result into huge financial success. The easiest way to achieve this is to build what he calls an Opt-in list. Here are three quick ways of doing this. Continue reading Bill Arnoldi Internet Marketing Strategies: Three Easy and Quick Ways →

What you May Not Have Known About TONY CHAU Internet Marketer

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Tony Chau internet marketer is a twenty six years old young man from Vietnam. He is one of the most revered people when it comes to internet marketing. He and his family moved to United States when he was only ten years. Vietnam has not been very stable politically and we can assume that these are some of the reasons why Tony and his family moved to America. Little is known about his early years in America but lately there has been a hullabaloo about that name. Almost every blog is talking about him. Who then is Tony Chau internet marketer? Continue reading What you May Not Have Known About TONY CHAU Internet Marketer →

7 Tips to Make Your Real Estate Blog SEO Friendly

Blogging

Your real estate blog can make a big difference in the success of your business. You can establish your industry presence by using your expertise to assist buyers and sellers with their questions and concerns and to direct readers to the products and services they need. You can also blog about industry issues such as the economy and market statistics and share your personal opinions about Continue reading 7 Tips to Make Your Real Estate Blog SEO Friendly →

Joomla vs. WordPress – Which one is best?

Web Development

When we decide to make any website, the very first thing that comes to our mind is how to develop a website that is user-friendly? Well, answer to that question is very simple. Thanks to many open sources out there, that has made the job of making a website easier. Two of the most famous open source applications that are quite famous around the world are WordPress and Joomla. Continue reading Joomla vs. WordPress – Which one is best? →

Modern World of Internet Marketing

Advertising & Marketing

With the current advancement in information and communication technology, time and distance do not matter anymore to some people. Corporate bodies are able to transact their business from anywhere at any given time. Some people expected this while others had not imagined what they are witnessing. Many people are spending a lot of their time working online. Continue reading Modern World of Internet Marketing →

What is Retargeting and How Can it Boost Your Online Sales?

Advertising & Marketing

Imagine if you were able to keep your product present in customers’ minds even after they’ve already left your website. That is part of what retargeting is, and understanding that can help you realize how it can boost your online sales.

Traditional retargeting uses cookies your website leaves behind on visitors’ computers to signal to banner ads throughout the internet to post your company’s ads rather than another’s.

While this will not change the banner ad that a company has purchased directly with a particular website, intermediaries like Google Adwords ensure that its ads use cookies to retarget customers. Continue reading What is Retargeting and How Can it Boost Your Online Sales? →

The Consequences of Cyber Bullying

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Cyber bullying is an awful epidemic that is greatly affecting our world. Young children, teens and even adults are cyber bullied by others for no reason, and unfortunately, this tragic form of bullying is so brutal that it forces some people to take their own lives just to make it stop.

Nobody wants to be bullied to the point where they take their own life, and nobody should want to bully someone else to that point either. Some people don’t think that cyber bullying will have any consequence, but it does. The following are three cases in which cyber bullying led to suicide. Continue reading The Consequences of Cyber Bullying →

Online business success in 2012 depends on this

Business

Online business has taken a new dimension with companies and businesses looking to capitalize on the ever increasing web traffic. Blue Global Media is one company which has positioned itself to help new and existing businesses to generate online leads in the most effective manner. The firm has established realistic and credible systems which are affordable, flexible and result oriented. Regardless of which customer group your business targets, blue global will help you attract the market and you will be able to measure your results over time. Imagine being able to generate over 5000 visitors daily? Most sites which are involved with blue global are experiencing such high results within a short period of time. Continue reading Online business success in 2012 depends on this →

4 SEO Tactics That Attract Google’s Attention (and Not in a Good Way)

SEO

Google’s already infamous new algorithm known as “Penguin” continues the search engine giant’s effort to find and eliminate what it considers to be spammy links and tactics. Many SEO providers are nervous, and for good reason. It is no longer business as usual for SEO providers. Small businesses that use the do-it-yourself approach to SEO should also take heed. Those that don’t adapt to the new reality will find themselves in serious trouble. Continue reading 4 SEO Tactics That Attract Google’s Attention (and Not in a Good Way) →

Outsorcing vs. In-House SEO after Google Penguin

SEO

March 2012 marked yet another major update in Google’s algorithm. You may be aware that Google updates its algorithm daily with minor tweaks, but every now and then (more or less yearly) it deploys some heavy weapons against those SEOs that exploit the ranking criteria of the most popular search engine on the net (to date). As a result search rankings heavily fluctuate for a few days until they settle to a new, more or less stable, ranking order. You may gain or you may lose in the process. If you employed some gray or even black-hat maneuvering you can almost certainly rest assured you are going to be in the bashed club. Google Penguin is the name of the latest major update. Continue reading Outsorcing vs. In-House SEO after Google Penguin →

Make Money Online with Better Analytics

Business

It wasn’t always easy to measure the results of marketing campaigns, even direct mail. But thanks to more sophisticated online analytics tools, you can turn even the smallest marketing budget into a profit driver.

What do Analytics Measure?

Analytics measure how much traction you’re getting from your marketing campaigns. Because the measurement tools have become more detailed and accurate, you can now measure every aspect of your campaign, including ads, blogs, web pages and keywords. Whatever your end goal, there are numerous ways to measure it. Continue reading Make Money Online with Better Analytics →

5 Companies Bettering Customer Service Through Social Media

Social Networking

Whether you like it or not, social media has transformed the way we complain about and compliment goods and services. In years past, you might have grumbled to a friend when you ordered something from a catalog yet received a damaged shipment. You probably asked to speak with a restaurant manager if your waiter wasn’t up to par. Thanks to current social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, consumers have the ability to announce their concerns instantly. Continue reading 5 Companies Bettering Customer Service Through Social Media →