The internet makes it easier than ever before to reach out to a global audience with advertising and other forms of promotion to get your business recognized as an industry leader. If your business is primarily online, then you have the ability to do business with customers from all over the globe. Smaller businesses, however, [...]

It is too easy for the standard website to get lost in a sea of competitors, and worse, completely irrelevant pages. If you are a restaurant, real estate agent, lawyer, doctor, car dealer, etc. You are not only in competition with possibly hundreds of businesses in the same market, but as far as link-building goes, [...]

One of the most difficult tasks facing business owners is turning customers into evangelists.  Many have limited luck getting customers to post reviews because each person has a different motivator for doing such a thing. It’s a good to want to embrace this kind of act because reviews (authentic ones) carry a lot of weight [...]

Believe it or not, there’s over 29 million small businesses within the borders of the U.S.  Of the people in the world who typically carry the burden of being the “shopper” in the family, 63% use the internet to do their shopping.  Some, if not all of it.  Over 82% of users online use search [...]

I’ve come to the conclusion that you can train a monkey to do SEO for general website marketing, particularly on a global scale.  It’s getting easier to do with various types of automation ebooks peppering the net on marketing tactics (like the Ebook I’m offering in the sidebar for free). Perhaps I’m off key a [...]

We all know that local search is booming.  If you don’t know, you had better start researching the topic real fast.  Local search is going to have a profound impact on the way people find businesses, products and services in their community.  More people than ever are stepping away from their PC’s and hitting the [...]

Local search is not a new concept.  As long as people have had a telephone directory near their phone, they have had the ability to do a local search.  It’s been at the finger tips of internet users for years, as well.  Only recently however are businesses, and providers such as Yahoo and Google, recognizing [...]