I saw a great post about a fantastic business man and salesman at MindValley Labs. MindValley live blogged a speech given by mr “I Like You” Joe Girard. Joe Girard turned selling cars into a business love affair with his customers, and he must have made a great living selling 6 cars a day, over…
DetailsMatt Cutts of Google provides some updates for upcoming algorithm changes that all SEO’s should know about. Unsurprisingly most of the changes involve changes to the way links are counted, scored and sorted.
DetailsWhat are people really buying online? Which websites get the most transactions? More business happens on the web than you may realize. The categories are separated into clothing, electronics, furniture, office supplies and books and magazine sell more often online, overall the majority of U.S. purchases still take place in brick-and-mortar stores, but the gap…
DetailsNormally I don’t like to be negative or call out any services for bad practices, and try to give other search engine marketing firms the benefit of the doubt. When companies present misinformation and but I will list some warning signs of unsavory businesses. Performing Search Engine Submissions Submitting your website to search engines stopped…
DetailsAsok Lost his soul trying to improve his Google search engine ranking. He found that keyword research & placement along with inbound links are the foundation of search engine placement. The missing ingredient:
What are Reviews and why are they important? Online reviews are an assessment of your business, whether from a customer, another outside resource, or even yourself. Reviews are such an important part of your business and can literally make or break you. A recent survey from the online department at Gallup stated that 82% of…
DetailsZappos.com shoe seller has fanatical employees that live for customer service. They have a company manifesto to put the customer first, something rarely seen in the e-commerce world. I remember Nordstrom having fanatical service and went to extraordinary lengths to keep customers satisfied. One legendary Nordstrom story is when a long time customer wanted to…
DetailsHow to gain an audience, avoid other people from usurping your ideas, and avoid duplicate content filters. Using content marketing to seed articles, graphs, PDF documents, research, charts, images, infographics, videos and quotes to other websites is an excellent way to increase awareness of your website. You will be inserting your brand into a natural…
DetailsVideo interview with Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora. Tim has built an extremely successful online startup and he discusses the story of how he came to start this revolutionary music company. He is inspirational and bases most of his success on his never say die attitude. Tim tells the story of flying back from New…
DetailsStraight from Google webmaster central, the search engineers claim that they correctly identify duplicate content and scraped text 99% of the time. The Google Search Quality Team post about the underlying concerns detailing how their spider handles scraped content. If you have ever had your content brazenly scraped and repurposed by other websites, and then…
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