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By Tyler King |
August 16th, 2010
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If you have your own website or blog, then you know how hard it can be to monetize your traffic. Last month I wrote a post about different ways to make money with a blog, and I want to dive deeper into one of those methods: the Amazon affiliate account.
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By Tyler King |
June 23rd, 2010
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With the growing popularity of the internet, there's a (somewhat) new type of marketing that helps businesses easily reach targeted customers. I'll explain what exactly inbound marketing is, how it works, and why it's different from old types of marketing.
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Bringing visitors to your site through advertising and inbound marketing is great, but that's only half the battle. Learn how you can make an awesome landing page that will help engage your visitors and improve conversions. We'll also look at three real websites and discuss what they're doing right, and what they're doing wrong.
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Google and the Small Business Administration have put together some resources discussing how small businesses can use the internet to grow their companies. Read some highlights from these video vignettes of small businesses that are marketing themselves online.
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Most SEO advice focuses on making your site look good to Google, but you also need to make sure it looks good to your potential visitors. This post explains the three steps you can take to increase the chances that someone will click through to your site from search engine results pages.
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The Referral Engine is a new marketing book for small businesses. Referrals can be the most important source of leads for small businesses, but most businesses don't have an effective system for generating and handling referrals. This book puts an end to that problem.
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We talk quite a bit on this blog about how small businesses can take advantage of their differences from big companies, rather than trying to hide them. I recently ran across an example of this in a somewhat strange context: the National Football League. A recent addition to the Rams is making a name for himself through his blog.
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Here's a quick tip for small businesses that aren't sure how to start monitoring their brands online. Google has a service called Google Alerts which will send you emails summarizing what the internet is saying about you.
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Now that we actually have a product, Bracken and I are trying to figure out ways to bring people to our site. Probably the most cost-effective way to do this over the long term is by working on Search Engine Optimization (or SEO). SEO is the practice of using various techniques to make y...
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Here's an IBM commercial I just saw on tv. It starts with "What is cloud computing" and then continues with a bunch of vague meaningless statements that in no way explain what cloud computing is. Seriously, does this commercial do anything to answer the original question?
In my opinion, this is t...
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