Archive for September, 2010

Getting Your Readers to Sign up for e-newsletters

Getting Your Readers to Sign up for e-newsletters

It may seem to you that lately all small business marketing and Internet marketing how-to sites and blogs are focused on the newest social media trend.  Me too!   My friend Joel Williams, The Blog Tech Guy, reminds us–not so fast.   In his guest post below, Joel explains that as a small business owner, you can [...]

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Driving Visitors to Your Business Blog: Article Marketing

Driving Visitors to Your Business Blog:  Article Marketing

Are you a business owner that has realized that creating and publishing original content online is a key to growing your small business?  Then this great post, Easy Tips to Increasing Traffic to Your Blog with Article Marketing is a must-read. The author, Janette Stoll is guest posting on Brett Duncan’s blog and shares valuable [...]

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Getting Flexible with Solostream Theme for My WordPress Blog

Getting Flexible with Solostream Theme for My WordPress Blog

If there’s one reality of new online marketing, content marketing and social media marketing—it’s that your websites must be flexible.   I’ve just converted this blog to a  Solostream Theme, for self-hosted WordPress websites and blogs that I think rocks for flexibility! The content areas of your small business website and blog should be changeable by [...]

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Successful Startup CEO: Social Media Branding Leads to Sales

Successful Startup CEO: Social Media Branding Leads to Sales

CEO and Founder Alyssa Rapp of Bottlenotes.com, a popular online community for wine lovers, believes that all businesses need a social media strategy. Bottlenotes.com is a cool, active website where new and experienced wine lovers share recommendations and educate each other about favorites.  Bottlenotes members also learn from the experts.  According to a recent Success [...]

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Bootstrapping Ideas from a Successful B2B CEO

Bootstrapping CEO stories are valuable

I love reading how-I-did-it interviews with successful start-up CEO’s!    Especially entrepreneurs that share how they grew their small businesses by bootstrapping—pure gold.  If you’re a B2B small business owner looking for real world examples of growing a small business, you’ll get great ideas from a NY Times blog interview with CEO Elizabeth Charnock of Cataphora. [...]

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