Archive for: Business

How Do I Market Myself and Remain A Deep Person?

To market, to market, to make sales that are big.

Home again, home again, jiggelty-jig.

marketers running to promote themselves but are they getting anywhere real and deep?

What happens when I get home, jiggelty-jig? Do I just take off

July 19th, 2011 by Aviva B
Posted in Business, Marketing 4 Comments »

How Do I Get Links to My eCommerce Site?

You sell t-shirts, or jewelry, or welcome mats - and you're not a big brand name - yet.  How do you get people to link to your site so that searchers on Google will be more likely to find your products (which they will obviously love so much that it's only a matter of

July 10th, 2011 by Aviva B
Posted in Business, Link Building, SEO 6 Comments »

How Do I Claim My Business on Google?

First off, why should you want to claim your business on Google? What does it mean that your business is on Google?  We're not talking about your website - we're talking about the "Google Places" page for your business.  Whenever Google finds a business listing with an address anywhere on the web - directories,

June 20th, 2011 by Aviva B
Posted in Business, Google, Google Places Leave a comment »

Six Takeaways From Kishor Business Strategies Conference Yesterday

Business strategies, business ethics, business principles, business tools, business lunch... all of the above were present at the 2nd Annual Conference of the Kishor Women Professionals Network.  Following on last year's conference about using social media successfully, this year the Kishor organizers went back to the root and provided a very thorough

June 14th, 2011 by Aviva B
Posted in Business 6 Comments »

Do Phone Numbers on Websites Increase Conversions?

Should you display your business phone number in an obvious place on your website? It depends who you are. Let's take a look at two cases: One is a more standard case study, written up by WebSiteOptimization.com, about how they drastically improved the number of new clients sent by the website of Dr.

March 24th, 2011 by Aviva B
Posted in Business, Conversion Rate Optimization 3 Comments »

What’s Your Goal?

A sneak peek into our questionnaire for prospective clients:

  • What are the goals of your business?
  • What do you want your website to achieve – quantifiably?
This information should be at the tip of the tongue for anyone running a business – especially someone who is actively looking for a professional to improve the achievements

March 29th, 2009 by Aviva B
Posted in Business 2 Comments »

You’re a Geek, and you just got fired – now what?

Jacob Share from JobMob just twhirled  about Rafe Needman’s “The spreadsheet of sunshine: who’s hiring in the US“. I was just about to go to bed, but I was intrigued, and as you can see, I didn’t get there yet … It really is a ray of sunshine in the gloom

January 27th, 2009 by debizyx
Posted in Business 1 Comment »

It’s Been One Year …

A year ago this Friday I flew the coop. I left the warmth of the Corporate Cubicle for the cold, cold world outside. Or maybe I left the cold of the Corporate Cubicle for the warmth of building my own business?? Whichever you prefer, it was a shock to the system, especially after more than 20 years as an

November 4th, 2008 by debizyx
Posted in Business 6 Comments »

Growing Your Business – is it so hard?

(apologies to those of you who already received this, but quite a few people didn't, so it's hopefully going out again ...) What's one of the biggest reasons for small businesses to stay small? Is it a lack of talent, knowledge, and commitment? NO, says Internet Marketing Guru Rich Schefren - these

October 6th, 2008 by debizyx
Posted in Business 9 Comments »

5 Tips for Getting your First (SEO) Clients

OK, so you are a newbie to SEO, and you're looking for clients. Well, I was there not so long ago (and actually I'm still there, kinda, since I've been doing this for just 3 or 4 months). What are the top 5 tips for getting clients when you're just starting up? And actually this list

July 14th, 2008 by debizyx
Posted in Business 6 Comments »