Do not assume that spending money is required to promote your business. While it certainly is ONE way it is not the ONLY way. Given the current challenges and the recent Merchant Circle Small Business Economic Stimulus Survey showing 73.1% of respondent businesses are experiencing moderate to severe declines in revenue, we offer here methods to increase your sales that require spending no money (unless you wish to hire someone to implement them). We will start with ways that are fast-acting and … [Read more...]
What IS a Social Media Expert?
In a guest post for MarketingProfs Daily Fix, Paul Dunay of Buzz Marketing for Technology asks How Long Does it Take to Become a Social Media Expert. Like anything else in life, the number of hours invested don't necessarily make anyone an expert. Someone who truly understands will learn must faster than someone who does much which accomplishes little. Before someone gets concerned about whether they can invest enough time to become an expert- or hires one - they might want to set some goals … [Read more...]
Social Media: Valuable Investment or a Waste of Your Valuable Time? Your Thoughts?
According to a new Nielsen report Social Networkings New Global Footprint, two-thirds of Internet users spend 10% of their time online on Social Networking sites. Steven Hodson of WinExtra raised some interesting questions in his recent post Having a Problem with all this Social Media crap which generated much discussion. I wanted to share my comments on the benefits of Social Media in this post. I also added an update to the bottom of an older post about how Social Media sites could be far … [Read more...]
Blog Traffic Up 54.87% in the Last 30 Days: Our Proven Traffic Improvement Strategy
UPDATE: 9/19/09 ProBlogger Guest post I Came, I Saw, I Commented: Was It Worth It by Josh Hanagarne - The World's Strongest Librarian - provides this additional confirmation that commenting does indeed work. He gives these stats: The numbers after commenting: A 100% increase on RSS subscribers (160-320) Over 40 newsletter subscriptions A second traffic spike due to people returning to answer my comment on their own blogs Note that HIS strategy was commenting on the blogs of those who … [Read more...]
Is Twitter Following Tweeters For Us?
When I logged into Twitter this morning I was happy to see that the number I was following was finally over 2000 - until I realized I didn't follow those additional Tweeters. Just to be certain I did not follow anyone else today. My followers were sitting at 2009 this morning. Now they are at 2018 and I didn't follow any of those nine new Twitter users. There are three obvious potential causes: Twitter did it for me Someone has hacked my Twitter account Some third party tool is following … [Read more...]
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