Many new blogs pop up almost every single day. Some are good and some just a train wreck. I think many people that launch a blog are under the impression that once you launch you write some posts and your famous! It really doesn’t work that way. We do see some really great blogs with quality work ...

Are you a business that seems to have many spam complaints recently with your email campaigns? If you have noticed many spam complaints lately you have to ask yourself a few import questions. 1. Did you recently buy a list from a list broker? From our experiences we have realized that purchasing a f...

As web 2.0 gets stronger and social media starts to dominate - or perhaps I should say - continues to dominate our online lives, will search engines use the information gathered from social media when ranking web pages? There is a distinct possibility they already are. Whether it through social medi...

If you own or manage a small business, you may not have considered Internet marketing as an inexpensive way to market your business and reach out to local customers but there are many, many ways to use local online marketing to your advantage. One of the more powerful and effective means of doing so...

Yesterday I asked if social bookmarking was screwed and a couple of comments confirmed my views on the subject. One comment left a link to a post on Shoemoney’s blog that really does prove my point. The post, Why I Won’t F’in Digg or Stumble That Page For You, written anonymously, made several...

So you have launched your pay per click campaign and yet still no sales? Here is a typical scenario; company xyz launches and in-house pay per click campaign with no experience and they wonder why three months down the road they have less money than what they started with. You go back to the drawing...

If your business ‘professional’ then you will know all about plans: business plans, marketing plans, cash flow plans (also called budgets but still plans), so do you also have a social marketing plan? Most website owners do not! They do not see the purpose of planning their social marketing camp...

For some bloggers, getting traffic can be difficult particulalry when they first start up. For some, blog networks offer a flow of traffic that helps to kick-start their blogging life. Blog networks have several advantages and disadvantages. The main idea of a blog network is that, once you sign up,...

One of the more common email design questions is how long your email newsletter ought to be. There is no flat answer to this, but there are definitely a few guidelines to help you make your decision. Attention span. How long is your reader attention span? Depending on the age group you are writing f...

On the ball marketers are starting to figure out how to make Social Media Marketing pay off on a Local front. Social media marketing has many wonderful applications that be used for local businesses to join the party and cash in. While savvy marketers know how to strategize and pull off a great site...