Archive for March, 2010

Dealing in Domains – 5 Tips to Get Started Now and Do it Right

Dealing in Domains – 5 Tips to Get Started Now and Do it Right

Posted on 31. Mar, 2010 by .

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Buying, parking, and selling domain names can be a fantastic business.  It takes very little money to get started; overhead is minimal; the learning curve is relatively short; you can do it on a very part-time basis; and it can be extremely lucrative.  So, what are the downsides, and why isn’t everyone doing it?  First, [...]

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Fast or Furious – 7 Quick Tips to Speed up Your Site

Fast or Furious – 7 Quick Tips to Speed up Your Site

Posted on 30. Mar, 2010 by .

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Either your website is fast, or your visitors are furious – or at the very least, annoyed! People have no patience for lagging, slow-loading sites. You know this. You’re probably the same way. If you find a site through searching Google or linking from another site and it takes too long to load, you’re on [...]

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Social Media Landscape Review

Social Media Landscape Review

Posted on 26. Mar, 2010 by .

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Navigating the social media landscape is enough to make anyone’s head spin.  Where should you put your attention?  Is it smart, or even possible, to use everything that’s available?  Most importantly, which sites and tools are best for promoting your business, and which aren’t worth your time?  In an effort to answer these questions and [...]

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Email Marketing The Right Way

Email Marketing The Right Way

Posted on 24. Mar, 2010 by .

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This might be our last post for a while, as I’ve just won the U.K. lottery.  And if that wasn’t enough, a relative I didn’t even know I had (from Zimbabwe of all places) died and left me US$52 million!  Okay, not really.  But if you believe the emails you get, practically on a daily [...]

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How to Import Your Blog to Your Facebook Page

How to Import Your Blog to Your Facebook Page

Posted on 23. Mar, 2010 by .

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There’s little doubt that social media is important to most businesses’ marketing efforts these days. But the time it takes to maintain your social media presence is sometimes hard to find, so anything you can automate makes life much easier. Facebook is of course right at the top of the list of social media sites [...]

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The Scoop on New TLDs

The Scoop on New TLDs

Posted on 19. Mar, 2010 by .

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In the past few days, Canon has got the web buzzing. Have they released a new high-tech printer or million-megapixel camera? No, nothing like that. It seems that Canon is (if all goes as planned) going to be the first company to own their very own top level domain (TLD). In other words, they’ll replace [...]

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You Talk the Talk, Now Walk the Walk

You Talk the Talk, Now Walk the Walk

Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by .

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You’ve probably heard the clichés about the doctor who doesn’t take care of himself or the mechanic whose car is always in need of repair. And in the offline world, it usually isn’t as big of a big deal. If you really need heart surgery, chances are you won’t care if your cardiac specialist weighs [...]

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Drive Traffic with Comment Marketing

Drive Traffic with Comment Marketing

Posted on 16. Mar, 2010 by .

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There’s a well-known statistic that says you need to get your message in front of your target audience seven times before they’ll take action. In the old days (10-15 years ago) that took a lot of time and money. To get someone to see or hear your brand on TV, radio, and in print for [...]

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17 Videos to Help You Grow Your Business

17 Videos to Help You Grow Your Business

Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by .

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The amount of free quality video content available on the Internet is truly phenomenal. Whatever you want to learn, there is almost certainly a video to teach you. The following videos are presented to help you market and grow your business, with some inspiration thrown in for good measure. Enjoy, and let us know your [...]

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12 No-Cost Tools to Help Improve Your SEO

12 No-Cost Tools to Help Improve Your SEO

Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by .

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Even to some who have been online for years, SEO can be somewhat of a mystery. While there are a lot of differing opinions on the techniques that are the most effective for getting your site to the top of the search engines, there’s no doubt that a key factor in your success is being [...]

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Set and Accomplish Your Goals: 5 Easy Steps

Set and Accomplish Your Goals: 5 Easy Steps

Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by .

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In business and in life, we all need goals if we want to be any better off than we are right now. There are a million different methods for setting and accomplishing goals, which is great, as not every method works for everyone. The following five step process is easy to implement and will help [...]

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CoTweet – What it is and Why You Need It

CoTweet – What it is and Why You Need It

Posted on 07. Mar, 2010 by .

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You have a Twitter account, right? Of course you do. And you’ve read a lot of blog posts and articles on our site and everywhere else about optimizing your Twitter efforts for business. But you might still be struggling to efficiently, effectively connect with your customers and prospects using Twitter. Well, fret no more. If [...]

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The Socially Responsible Entrepreneur – Are You One?

The Socially Responsible Entrepreneur – Are You One?

Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by .

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As recent as ten years ago, terms like, “renewable,” “fair trade,” and “sustainability” were considered the vocabulary of the fringe. These words were uttered mostly by those some referred to as “tree huggers” and “granolas,” and “real” entrepreneurs were more concerned with making some cold hard cash than with making a difference. That’s not to [...]

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