As a result of a new tax created by Governor Jerry Brown Amazon has suspended its Associates program in the state of California. The result has been a disaster for Amazon affiliates and internet marketers as well as retailers who use Amazon’s infrastructure as a sales platform. Are Amazon over-reacting? Or does the new Governor risk alienating Silicon Valley?

When it comes to supporting your on-page and link-building efforts, there’s nothing more appropriate or better than a soundly developed content marketing strategy.  Some may argue that content marketing is link building since you’re going for links but in my opinion content marketing is about more than just getting some links. It’s about thought leadership, [...]

We’ve all heard it before: SEO is dead.  X social media is going to be the end of Y media site and Z is the next best thing since sliced bread.  Here we are however, several years into the social media and SEO race and…oh look all of those sites are still here and the [...]

Twitter is Massive!  …or is it? If you took a stab to guess the total number of people in the U.S. that use Twitter, what would be your guess?  You’d probably shoot for somewhere around 20-30%, as that seems to be the general consensus among a lot of people discussing the topic.  Some even consider [...]

The internet is never really happy with what it has.  “It” is always on the lookout for something better and far more complex.  For anyone in the business of marketing, it’s a hair-pulling trial trying to keep up with the continuous growing trends that shape the way we have to do business. There is one [...]

Today, the world would grind to a screeching halt without the text message. Mobile phones have changed the way we communicate and access our information, and that applies to our marketing efforts as well. If you are a business owner who is only a causal texter, you may be missing out on the potential to [...]

In the past small business promotion was extremely limited. Outside of efforts made on a personal level to market to the local community, if larger exposure was desired, you usually had to submit your press releases to a wire service or some other outlet where the media could choose to pick up the story, or [...]

The online relationships and friendships have a lot of influence in many people’s lives. If you could use this influence to spread your marketing message, wouldn’t that be the ideal way to get word of mouth business? Small internet businesses can use the power of the people in the company (and their friends lists) as [...]

So you’ve hit a plateau in your online business, have you? This is a fairly common problem, but fortunately the answers aren’t that hard to find either, the trick is making it work for you. There is a lot of good general advice out there about search engine optimization and good social networking practices that [...]

There is no doubt that the companies that have learned how to use the social networks effectively are enjoying better success than they have before. If you are looking for ways to boost your marketing online and achieve overall greater success, you should look into the social networks. When you introduce yourself to the social [...]