Internet Marketing | Blogging For Business | Online Marketing For Offline Business
SEO and Internet Marketing Tips by Todd Wilson with How-To's, reviews, customization tutorials and copywriting techniques
I remember reading Dale Carnegie's book, "How To Win Friends And Influence People" about 20 years ago and one story stuck with me more then any other. It was a story of how he met someone at a party and through the evening spent more time listening then talking. I have included the story below to give you the full flavor of these powerful paragraphs that impacted my life over the past 20 years. When I started to … [Read more...]
Here is a snippet from a post I found about the FTC starting their own blog about Technology. Notice the date of the post. FTC Launches Tech Blog on Wordpress March 23, 2012 The first post is written by Ed Felten, Chief Technologist at the FTC, who goes on to say that the point of the blog is to talk candidly about technology in a way that is "sophisticated enough to be interesting to hard-core techies, but straightforward … [Read more...]
Through the years of working with Wordpress I have settled into a pretty efficient method of posting content. When I first started blogging I was using Windows Live Writer as my text editor which is really outstanding and Free. You can't beat that. It worked great but the problem was there were times when the uploading process would not work smoothly and when I bought an IMac I realized there was not a version of Live Writer … [Read more...]
When you start to consider blogging for your business one of the best things to do is to find out what the competition is blogging about. I talk to my clients about the necessity to begin blogging about their business because their competition is doing it. This is when the lights start to go off on how important it is to start a business blog to keep up with the competition. There are three very important reasons for … [Read more...]
The Business Blogging Journey The first step to setting up your business blog is getting a self-hosted domain. Many times there is a website in place for a small business but there are no measurable results being realized by the business from the website. What Are Measurable Results? What would be considered measurable results? One of the most obvious would be to have the phone ring due to a potential client finding you … [Read more...]
Over the past 2 months I have started to offer a business blogging workshop through a Meetup group I have been involved in for the past year or so. I have been trying to get the attendees up and running on Blogger in an effort to get them to experience the process of blogging. This always generates confusion and misunderstanding about the difference between a blogging service and a self hosted blog/website. Why would someone … [Read more...]
I have been spending some time lately looking into the whole QR Code movement. I have seen them more and more and last week I was on a brand new Marta Bus here in Atlanta (Marta is the name of the mass transit system in Atlanta) and saw a QR code sticker on the inside of the bus. It furthered my curiousity and then I received an email this last week about a QR Code Generator so I dove into the learning process. As it turns out … [Read more...]
Learning how to find long tail keywords that are relevant to your site can be responsible for over 70% of the visits to your website. That’s a pretty substantial number and one that demands some attention. First Things First First, it is important to define what a long tail keyword phrase is. When we are in the development phase of our websites there are certain words and terms we evaluate as to their importance and relevance to the subject … [Read more...]