How To Balance A Home Small Business And Family
Due to the current job market crisis, more people are working from home than ever before. There are a lot of opportunities to work from home or to work for someone else from home. Whatever you choose,...
View ArticleRamp Up Your Mailing Lists
For small businesses, making more sales is what keeps your doors open. We have talked about a lot of ways to boost your business and get your name out there. It’s been mentioned a couple of times, but...
View ArticleBecome An Entrepreneur – Start A Small Business
If you are one of many people out of work and have been out of work for a while, take the initiative and start a small business. It is not as hare-brained as some may think. One, the United States...
View ArticleCan A Small Business Survive Online With A DIY Mindset?
The business world can be brutal, and the online business world is even more so. Name me a product and a price and I daresay I could find a handful of offers that beat yours either on price, service...
View ArticleHow Important Is Security For Your Online Business?
I am often surprised at the different mind sets between online and offline business owners. In reality, a business is a business – no matter the environment in which it is conducted. Security is a...
View ArticleAre You Using A Website Monitoring Service?
Can I see your website right now? Go on – go and check, I’ll wait. You can probably view your pages just fine – here’s some news – it doesn’t mean that I can. I’m not being facetious either – this is...
View ArticleKeeping Tabs On Your Competitors Using Facebook
The new Facebook fan page setup, while looking good, has also made it easier for businesses to keep a watch on their competitors. When visiting a fan page, there is a box that has the number of...
View ArticleBing’s New Webmaster Tools
If you like Google’s Webmaster Tools, then you’ll likely find Bing’s new Webmaster Tools helpful. Some of these look like they’re mirrored or modeled after Google’s tools. And they probably are. But...
View ArticleTwo New Google Developments
Google, as always, is branching out. They’ve recently made two new developments that have already gotten the blogosphere talking. The first one may not seem much, but it could be over the long term....
View ArticleGoogle’s New Disavow Link Tool
Google recently announced a new tool webmasters can use to fight spam or to clean up after a bad SEO campaign. It’s called the Disavow Link Tool. But this tool does come with a warning. Google’s head...
View ArticleThe Ins And Outs Of Online Credit Card Processing
If you run a business online, or take credit card payments through your website, then you’ll have to consider information security. It’s the most important concern for online businesses that take...
View ArticleGoogle Trends Adds Top Charts Lists
Just in case you need a new search tool, Google has added one. It’s called Top Charts and it’s a part of the Google Trends project. Top Charts allows you to search for the top searches in a variety of...
View ArticleA Free Tool To Keep You On Schedule
How many times have you tried to set up a conference call, or attend one, and had trouble figuring out exactly when the call was to take place? If you live in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the person...
View ArticleGoogle’s Secret Market Research Tool
Google has a market research tool that few people know about. It’s a simple tool to use, but you can use it to find global markets for expanding your business and conducting alternative keyword...
View ArticleGoogle Publisher Plugin For WordPress
Google has developed a WordPress plugin for publishers that does two things: Allows you to add AdSense ads easily to your WordPress blogs and websites and Allows you to verify your website at...
View ArticleChecking Authorship Stats In Google Webmaster Tools
Webmaster Tools is a lot more useful now since Google quit providing keyword data in Google Analytics. What can you do in Webmaster Tools? One thing you can do is check your authorship status. If you...
View ArticleIs Automation Good?
Some social media marketing advocates will tell you to never automate your postings. I would agree that you shouldn’t automate all of your social media tasks, but if you share your blog posts on...
View ArticleOne Idea For Metrics Analysis
Have you seen that post on Moz about One Content Metric To Rule Them All? I bet Trevor Klein is a Tolkien fan, but he also is a good communicator of the process Moz went through to combine the various...
View ArticleHow To Implement Structured Data
Structured data markup is one of those aspects of marketing that can make your eyes glaze over, particularly if you are running a business. But Neil Patel has come to our rescue with his clear...
View ArticleWhat Kind Of Tools Do Marketers Need?
I love tools. There are so many kinds of them and they are so different that it’s fascinating. Sometimes you pick up something at a flea market and have to guess at what it does because you have no...
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