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Are you making this big, SEO mistake?
Does this sound familiar when it comes to your SEO, or search engine optimization, efforts?

You added a bunch of keywords to your site but haven’t seen an increase in site rankings.
You paid a big, SEO company to help you, but you are still waiting for results.
You have no idea [...]

Every business owner needs to make the most of their marketing dollars and sometimes thinking outside the box can help you do much more with less. Here are 10 great ways to market your business without busting your bank account provided by business owners across the country.

Small business owners are always on the lookout for that one big marketing idea that will catapult their business into the stratosphere. Here are 9 that will get you started..

In recent weeks, I have been using examples of dating and attending a party in my writing.  Keeping up with the same social theme, today, I am going to talk about first impressions.
First impressions are considered crucial, if not critical in both life and business. Whenever, one meets someone new in biz or anywhere for [...]

It is common practice to set New Year’s resolutions in our personal lives, but how often do we do it for our business? Here are 28 Small Business Marketing Resolutions for the New Year that will inspire you to write your own.

It was a BIG week for me last week. I celebrated both the one year anniversary of my blog and my birthday.  Truthfully, I was a little more excited about my blogaversary.  I could stand to not have a birthday or two, but it was a lot of fun to take a look back at [...]

Similar to our efforts on Twitter to claim the www.twitter.com/startupnation account name, we have now achieved something similar for www.facebook.com/startupnation.
As I wrote a while ago here in my blog about the Twitter squatter who was trying to extort StartupNation, there are definitely systems in place at the social media companies that support ethical companies and [...]

Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist of Apple, gives his view on business, marketing and getting people to fall in love with you.

What is the biggest marketing challenge that you have in your business? According to a survey by Marketing Sherpa, 78% of businesses say that their biggest marketing challenge is generating high quality leads. What marketing strategy is the best at accomplishing that goal? The answer is not what you think.

Ok. You have a newsletter registration on your home page,
and people have started to sign up.
Great! Now, what do you do?
A.     Sit back and watch who signs up.
B.     Communicate with your new registrants right away.
C.    Send valuable information to your list on a regular basis.
If you answered B and C… Ding, Ding Ding! You are [...]