Bookmarked: Blogging Tips. Yelp Advertising for Business Owners is a Joke. Maybe you know and maybe you don’t… but Yelp (a local search and reviews online service) offers paid advertising for businesses called the “Yelp Sponsorship Program“.
Click on the link...» to go check out what they lure you in with. To sum it up, according to the page advertising this opportunity, this Yelp Sponsorship program allows you to: The First Steps Towards a Successful Website Redesign. The first step towards online success may seem obvious, yet it is missed by most organizations.
The critical first step is to set the right vision. This is done by defining proper results-oriented goals. The First Steps Towards a Successful Website Redesign. Marketing Coach: 17 Ways to Drive More Traffic FAST. Marketing Coach: 17 Ways to Drive More Traffic FAST Marketing Coach: 17 Ways to Drive More Traffic FAST... 1.
Tweet more regularly about resources, tools and ideas that link back to your website. 13 Quick Tips: Blogging for Business. 13 Quick Tips: Blogging for Business 1.
Keep it short. No time to write? Cool - they have no time to read. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Designing for SEO. Disclaimer: This is a supplemental post to the Mozinar “Designing for SEO: Improving Site Visibility and Enhancing UX.”
Justin Taylor answers Q&A from the Mozinar and expands on the question that was asked most frequently by listeners. "Why do websites that look great nearly always have SEO that sucks? " Google Plus Updates Cover Images. We all know how Google’s number one goal is to make life easier on all the business owners out there… (sorry, I had to stop typing for a minute because I was laughing hysterically) This morning, Google released a pretty sizeable update to the Google Plus platform – with nothing but a quiet Google Plus update to announce the change.
Designing for SEO. 5 Tips for Conquering the "Content Paradigm" I think some people fail to deliver user-pleasing content not because their content isn't interesting or relevant, but because they don't acknowledge the content paradigm: People don't just want good content; they want the Cliffs Notes version of good content.
Online readers have about an 8-second attention span, so if it takes 10 seconds to read about your business idea, then you're toast. What's The Big Idea? “Think different.”
“Expect more. Pay Less.” “Imagination at work”. All are simple ideas that define the essence of the businesses they represent, but don’t let these seemingly simple ideas fool you. They are deceptive because it takes a tremendous amount of open dialogue, patience and the courage to say less. The Big Idea in branding is the totem pole around which strategy, communication and action is aligned. The First Steps Towards a Successful Website Redesign. The first step towards online success may seem obvious, yet it is missed by most organizations.
The critical first step is to set the right vision. Social Authority: Our Measure of Twitter Influence. [This blog post is co-authored by Matt Peters, our Data Scientist.]
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Social Authority, our metric of Twitter users’ influence. There are plenty of vanity metrics out there, but Social Authority offers something compellingly different. Social Authority Helps Marketers. 10 Small Business Social Media Marketing Tips. Ross Kimbarovsky is the co-founder of crowdSPRING, a community of 43,000+ graphic designers that helps small businesses from around the world with graphic design needs. You can follow Ross on Twitter @rosskimbarovsky and @crowdSPRING. Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog. Sat, August 06 2011 Filed under: Cause-related marketing •
Advanced Social Media – Random Day One Notes. I’ve just finished Day One of a two-day AMA Face-to-Face Training seminar on Advanced Social Media, and I want to give kudos to AMA and to our instructor Dana VanDen Heuvel (@danavan, www.marketingsavant.com) for a great day. Social media is a big subject, with a lot to cover in just two days. Today the discussion was focused on strategy and planning, and tomorrow we will cover implementation / tools and tactics. I’ll be sharing some of what we are covering in this seminar over the next few weeks, but if you have any specific questions, or if my posts raise new questions for you, then let’s get a conversation going.
There were many great ideas in today's session, but here are three points that stood out to me: Don’t commit random acts of social media.It may seem obvious, but too many companies jump into social media without a clear set of objectives or an understanding of how social media can impact their marketing programs. Analyzing the boundaries of privacy in a connected world. About five years ago, Catherine Tucker was pregnant with identical twins when she encountered a serious medical issue.
Her unborn children were diagnosed with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, a dangerous condition in which one twin acquires too much blood and the other loses too much. Before the advent of new medical technologies within the last 30 years, the survival rate of twins with the syndrome was less than 10 percent. Tucker flew to Florida for specialized surgery, but found trouble getting her medical records sent there. "There was absolutely no way to get my records out of Boston in any form that was not paper," Tucker says.
Her doctors in Florida had to repeat all of her tests, she recounts, because they lacked timely access to the data. In Tucker's case, the surgery was successful, and she now has healthy four-year-old girls, Elizabeth and Cordelia. Sales - How to Nurture Your Marketing Automation Leads to a Certain Sale. A common misconception about lead nurturing in marketing automation systems is that its purpose is to "move prospects through the sales funnel. ". No prospect wants to be moved anywhere. The real purpose of lead nurturing is to follow a prospect through her buying process and mirror what the prospect is thinking when she is thinking it. Who's in charge of the buying and selling process? Let's say you're thinking about a new surround sound system for your man or woman cave.
Buyer Beware. . .Bargain Shopping For Plastic Surgery Or Cosmetic Procedures Can Be Costly, says Peter Fodor, M.D. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Next time you go to your dentist to have your teeth cleaned, why not get a face lift as well? As ridiculous as that proposition sounds, it's happening as unqualified physicians, aestheticians, and nurse practitioners add cosmetic surgical procedures to their services to boost their profits. "We're seeing all sorts of physicians, including dentists, ER doctors, internists, ophthalmologists and even podiatrists practice outside their specialties by offering cosmetic procedures that should only be performed by board-certified plastic surgeons," says Peter Fodor, M.D. ( www.PeterFodormd.com ), a Los Angeles plastic surgeon and past president of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), the world's most prestigious aesthetic surgery society.
"And it's not just doctors who offer these services. Shopping mall 'med spas' now are selling cosmetic procedures along with massages and mud packs. 6 tips for marketing a practice outside social media. By Victoria Stagg Elliott — is a longtime staff member. She covered practice management issues and wrote the "Practice Management" column from 2009 to 2013. She also covered public health and science from 2000 to 2009. 5 Ways Strategic Social Media Can Help Small Businesses. InShare250 I often write about enterprise organizations and global brands…essentially big businesses.
How to Create Awesome Web Content and Achieve Top Search Engine Rankings. static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en/us/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide. The anatomy of a search result. Written by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools team. Is It Possible To Gather Too Much Customer Data? No! Bestpractices[1].pdf (application/pdf Object) 15 Minute Search Engine Optimization List - Learn how to SEO. A Guide to Preparing Files for Print. With this guide, we are going to examine ways to prepare files for print, covering applications in the Adobe Creative Suite.
Hewitt Medical Group - Business Cards - Creattica. Want to be a gamification expert? Get certified. Gamification, that buzz word panned as hype by some, has increasingly won over companies, investors and even research firms like Gartner, which now predicts half of all companies will use gamification by 2015. So what’s next? How about gamification certification. The Gamification Summit, which is coming to New York on Sept. 15-16, is now announcing it will offer the first Gamification Design Certificate to people who complete a two-day course at the summit. The curriculum and workshops are designed to establish the basics of effectively adding game mechanics to drive consumer and employee engagement.