Marketing Basics to promote and market your small business
If you read my previous post you know I’ve been busy reinstalling software onto my new computer. And while I have many purchase software programs, much of what I use is free (or nearly free) software I download from the internet. I’ve been busy relocating old favourites but I’ve also had a chance to discover […]
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It’s that time again: the weekly collection of tasty tidbits from the the best collection of baby boomer bloggers on the web. This week’s Blogging Boomers Carnival is being hosted by Cynthia Samuels at Don’t Gel Too Soon. This week’s carnival includes posts about Anti-Aging Clinics, Short Sleeves, Chocolate, finding your passion, a youngest child’s
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When it comes to marketing your business, there’s no better way than turning up in the top search results on Google. Since more and more people are using search engines rather than the phone book to locate business (even local businesses) you’d better make sure people can find you. To get found, you need a
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Welcome to the H1N1-free blog carnival. Yes, I’ve been struck with H1N1 (as have the rest of my immediate family) and I can highly recommend you don’t get it. On the other hand, I can stop the “yes I will … no I won’t” tango about the vaccine. Don’t need it. Anyway, Blogging Boomers Carnival
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YouTube is now owned by Google so this is yet another way to use Google as a marketing vehicle. With over 100 million U.S. viewers of YouTube (never mind the rest of the world) as of January 2009, clearly YouTube is a way to reach a large number of people. Why should you add YouTube
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Sometimes just noticing trends in the market and realizing they apply to you is the first step to creating a successful (and profitable) marketing campaign. Bed & breakfast owner Marsha Barrow is a prime example of this. By recognizing a trend in the market and taking action she made an important impact on her bottom
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This week I’m the lucky host of the Blogging Boomers Carnival. If this is your first time, let me explain the concept. A blog carnival is a collection of bloggers who write about a similar theme – in this case Baby Boomers. Each week, one of the members gets to host the carnival and post
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I have to confess that I’ve been dragging my feet about using Google Analytics. Everyone was telling me how important it was but it just didn’t seem like a priority. My web hosting gives me fairly good stats on traffic, keywords people were using and the countries visitors are from. What more could Google Analytics
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Whether you’re a traditional “bricks & mortar” business where customers come to your store, a virtual business conducted entirely online or something in between, marketing online should still be part of your overall marketing plan. And part of that overall plan should include using the behemoth Google. Google has many tools to help small businesses
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Today is Thanksgiving Monday in Canada. Thanksgiving represents a number of things: it’s a celebration of the harvest, it’s a traditional family feast, it’s the last long weekend of the year (winter is just around the corner – if it hasn’t arrived already) and it’s a reminder to give thanks. One of the things I
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