Secrets of a Successful Home Page

Top SecretWelcome to the first part of a series that will explain best practices for your website design to maximize customer interaction and conversions.  Your home page is the most important page on your website.  Let me show you what needs to be there to provide your customers with a great experience. Continue reading

How to Measure Internet Marketing Success

Measure your SuccessAs a blogger or small business owner, internet marketing is the elephant in the room.  It's huge, it's unavoidable and it looms over us no matter how much we try to avoid it.  There is a solution though.  Magically, the pressure of marketing your company on the internet fades away when you know it's working.  So what is the best way to know if your efforts are worth it?  What do you have to do to feel good about internet marketing in your small business?  Read on to learn more… Continue reading

Untapped Opportunities? Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing Stops by for a Chat

Semi-Local BusinessesDanny is using his years as an entrepreneur and a marketing consultant to explore the realities of a fairly new (or not often discussed) business model.  I had the chance to ask him a few questions about his latest project and I think there are some real benefits out there for those willing to do a little bit of creative thinking.  Could your blog or small business be the first to benefit from this emerging frontier? Continue reading

Blogging Like a Fisherman – Your Success Depends on it

Fishing for MoneyYep, another productivity article for you.  How about this for a crazy comparison?  How can we as bloggers learn success from fishermen?  Are there principles of success that both could learn from?  Read on and you may be surprised!  Whether or not you've ever been fishing, you're success depends more on good fishing than you might believe!  This is the third post in my BLOGGING PRODUCTIVITY series.  I hope you enjoy! Continue reading

The Strategy Guaranteed to Turn Your Blogging Goals Upside Down

Blogging GoalsThere seems to be a never ending supply of goal setting advice for bloggers out there.  We hear all the time about making them SMART – Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely.  So how come we still fail to progress as much as we’d like more often than not?  I have a solution and it all starts with flipping your goals upside down. Continue reading