As we all know reviews are good thing to have…..when they’re good. When you get a bad review it can definitely drown a business, unless you have a smaller ratio of negative reviews compared to positive ones. What to do with negative reviews? So what do you do when you get a negative review? This is a question I get asked… View Post
Consider what you do online and where you spend that time. When you leave the house, what is one of the top 3 things that you MUST have when you leave? Keys – check, wallet – check, phone – CHECK! Why is it that you must have your phone on you at all times? Most folks treat their cell… View Post
So, I have always had the question, by clients, friends, networking partners and etc about ranking on page 1 with Google. I have also often been asked if I can get a client on page 1 and in X time. Then recently I saw a post of an ‘SEO expert’ who indicated that she got one of her clients on… View Post
As we all look back at 2016 and wonder… did we complete all of those things, or goals, we set out to do for our personal life or our business life…we start to plan the same for next year. Then, with all of the Best of X out there, it got me to thinking… I could recap blogs that are… View Post
Pinterest is one of the greatest tools available to grow your business. A lot of people think of Pinterest as a social network. Instead, think of it as a search engine for visual content. A visual search engine lends itself to introducing others to your content in a fun and easily searchable format. Using Collaborative Pinning An often underutilized feature on… View Post
Think back to the last time you did a blog. (Hopefully, it isn’t that long ago, like a week or few weeks!) Do you recall how long it took you to write the blog? I am talking about just writing the blog, not the graphic creation, editing or the fluffy stuff, I’m talking just about how long it took to… View Post
I was asked recently to speak to a group of dual-credit high school/college students. The class that I was going to be speaking in was mainly teaching them the importance of networking. The instructor is married to a girlfriend of mine, knew I was a small business owner who rocked networking and wanted me to share with his classes the importance… View Post
WordPress Websites Are Becoming the Norm For Small Businesses. What exactly is a WordPress website? Wikipedia defines WordPress as a free and open-source content management system based on PHP and MySQL. In non-geeky terms, WordPress is a website platform that comes equipped with a content management system (CMS). A CMS allows website owners to update content, publish blog posts, and… View Post
I was thinking about what to do for my email marketing update and procrastination came to me, together with with several recent conversations with some friends, potential clients, clients and heck, even myself! Now, I don’t claim to be a time management pro like my pal Jackie Harder, and she is amazing by the way, but it’s always so much… View Post
I am writing this blog because I offer Pay Per Click (PPC) services. Too many folks don’t understand it, and that’s okay, that’s why you hire someone to do PPC management for you (also known as search engine marketing (SEM)) so you don’t throw money out the window. Anyways, I had a conversation with a client recently about this very issue… View Post