Frankly when someone asked me about viral marketing many years ago, I was under the impression that viral marketing was about marketing the latest in anti-viral medication!
You can imagine my embarrassment when I realized what they were talking about! But no one will make the same mistake nowadays as viral marketing is one of the best ways to sell your products and raise awareness of anything under the sun that you want to.Read the rest of this entry »
The What is this – you need to drive traffic to it! Let’s make sure you don’t have a fancy looking billboard sitting on an empty dirt “cyber highway”.
Be Careful of the Cons Out There…You would have no doubt come across all the websites that stated ‘Website Traffic Guaranteed’ or ‘the best strategy to increase traffic to your website’!
But have you thought about what is actually guaranteed and what you would benefit from that? Have you thought what guaranteed website traffic means?
Or what is it that you can expect from such guarantees? Well, I shall tell you what that means. Read the rest of this entry »
Maria Gudelis here, if you’re trying to build good business relationships with people, the best way for the relationship to sizzle would be to cozy up to your customers.
One of the smartest, most casual ways to cozy up to them is to use Twitter.Using Twitter for businesses has been around a while, but how to make it really work on the job is a secret only a few people have come to realize and apply.Read the rest of this entry »
If there is anyone qualified to speak on social media for business, it would be Maria Gudelis.She is a renowned expert in the field of real estate, marketing, finance, and investing.She started out as a self-made entrepreneur at the tender age of 10 and made her first investments in stocks and real estate within the next decade of her life.Read the rest of this entry »
In the recent Shop.org’s 2009 State of Retailing Online (SORO) Marketing Report in partnership with Forrester Research - it showed retailers are spending more on the Internet while at the same time cutting in other marketing areas.
“Almost half plan to stay the original course and spend largely as planned, approximately one third is ratcheting back spending, and the remaining quarter is actually increasing investment in their Web businessesbeyond the original plan.”
Those surveyed say they are increasing spend on the Web, specifically in:
1. Search engine optimization (SEO),
2. Email and
3. Social marketing.
Social marketing is such a hot button with local business owners. Learn how to master social marketing in your business!
OK – Got Website…Now What?
