Choose Your SEO Expert Carefully
If you’re going to buy something expensive, don’t you want a little proof that it’s gonna work? Don’t you also want some reassurance that they know what they’re talking about? With all the SEO experts popping up, you really need to do double duty in choosing your SEO “expert” carefully. SEO (or Search Engine Optimization) is the art and science of...
Read MoreAnonymous Online Presence
Can you really be anonymous online? That’s the question that was posed to me recently by a client that’s wanting to put up a website, and be 100% completely untraceable back to who she is. So here’s my take. Given enough time and money, anyone can be traced back to the source. But for the average Joe that’s ranting about political agendas, or making rude comments about...
Read MoreNow Accepting New Patients
It’s come to my attention, that many of my clients felt I was too busy to help them. That my schedule was so busy that they were afraid to call me, for fear that they would be interrupting me from important work. I’m glad that I have such courteous clients, but without them, I’d be nowhere, and have a lot of unpaid bills to boot. Looking at your own business, are you giving...
Read MoreInternet Marketing vs Online Marketing – Same Or Different?
The Moxie Maven and I were once again have a philosophical discussion on marketing, when the question arose if marketing is marketing, or if marketing is really marketing… OK. All marketing philosophy jokes aside, as we target our markets to get our message out, we realized that there might be a subtle difference between “Internet Marketing” and “Online Marketing”...
Read MoreVideo: Hootsuite Scheduling Clarification
Hootsuite is my favorite online Twitter application because it allows me to group friends & searches into columns, has a built-in URL shortener, and allows tracking of stats for the links you shorten with their service. They also allow for scheduled tweets, but the interface is a bit awkward at first. Once you know what’s going on, scheduled tweets are a Hoot! (ok, bad joke) Take a...
Read MoreWhere’s The Dominator Been?
For those of you that keep track of my whereabouts, may be wondering where I’ve been… and I must say that my silence is very indicative of wonderful things in the works! One of the things that’s The Moxie Maven and I finished, and is ready for the public, is her Moxie Mafia Social Media Training System. This site uses the WordPress blogging framework with a slightly modified...
Read MoreVideo: Social Media Addicts Association Meeting (SMAA)
This is a riot! This video really shows my true nature… being an iPhone addict that Tweets and Facebooks all day long, I may have to consider attending one of these… or at least tweet about...
Read MoreCalling All Industry Experts!
Are you an expert (or nearly so) in your industry? I’m looking to leverage my marketing expertise with the expertise of those in a variety of industries to put together highly profitable membership sites that are valuable to the community at large. What kinds of industries do I need? Just about any, so long as you have information that is valuable enough that people will want to pay for...
Read More140 Character Language Barrier
Hilarious video about a guy employee that is talking to female co-workers… to make matters worse, he has a cockney accent. Use this as a gentle reminder to be careful what you say through social media outlets ...
Read MoreManage TweetUp’s With Twtvite
TweetUps are becoming a common occurrence in towns and cities around the world. We’ve even had a few tweetups and twitter picnics here in Grand Junction, Colorado that have been highly successful. For those of you that don’t know what a TweetUp is, it’s a physical meeting that started from a Twitter conversation and invite. And all the TweetUps that I’ve been to have...
Read MoreSmall Bites: Make Things Easy To Consume
I learn more about life from my children than I do any other source. And a lot of what my children are teaching me makes perfect sense on how businesses should be run. They are my advisers if you will. I have 4 advisers- a middle schooler, a kindergartner and twin pre-preschoolers, so I have a wide range of inputs of which to receive. Sometimes they have so much to teach me, that I become...
Read MoreMicrosoft Bing Webmaster Guidelines
Microsoft has published a document that guides webmasters on a path that will help them SEO there site, specifically for the Bing search engine. It’s only 24 pages, and is large type with lots of images and graphics, so it’s really an easy read. It’s not what I’d consider a technical document, but does outline some of the basic practices that webmasters need to consider...
Read MoreSingle Point of Failure: The Bresnan Experience
For those of you that are Bresnan customers, located in Colorado, Wyoming or Montana, you already know the news - “Bresnans Down!” – and yes, I’m an effected customer as well. That’s right, in 3 states, Bresnan Communications is down for Internet and VOIP digital telephone. Three States!! How the heck did this happen? With the worlds lessons of redundancy, how is...
Read MoreFailing to Plan is Planning to Fail
Most companies I speak with don’t have a written document of their marketing plan. They seem to think that because they have a plan in their head, they are somehow immune to planning. I kindly point out that in marketing, it’s all about planning your funnel. Where does your business make money? When they call to speak with you? When they email you? When they visit? Every store...
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