A Dream Wedding by Sharon Replaces Their Old Bludomain Flash Website with a New WordPress Site

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Well known San Diego wedding planner Sharon Cole of A Dream Wedding by Sharon contacted me regarding improving her search engine marketing and internet presence.  For a number of years she had been using a Bludomain website but recently found that with increasing competition, her … [Read more...]

How to Import Your Website Blog into Your Facebook Business Page

Here is the how-to for automatically importing your website's blog posts onto your Facebook business page. It is not very complicated, but it is not very intuitive either so it made sense to share the instructions in a short video. As I mention in the video it can take a while … [Read more...]

The Joy of a WordPress Based Website

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One of my newer photography website clients (and a former Flash website owner) gets a lot business from Facebook. This morning he sent me an email with this link to the Facebook Developers Wiki asking if there was a way to automatically include the Facebook Share button on his website … [Read more...]

Three Websites Walk into a Bar… to meet a prospective client

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The bar must have WiFi. Now stop me if you have heard this one before ... but three websites each from different photographers (or any service or product that the prospect was searching for) meet a prospective client. Each may present only one page to try and make a sale. One … [Read more...]

Not all websites are created equal. There is a difference, the most important ones you can’t see.

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Here is what I mean. Some websites are passive websites that require you to market them. They are search marketing inept and need Adwords and other paid promotion to receive visitors. My websites are dynamic sites with active search marketing and SEO features and are social network … [Read more...]

Newest WordPress Real Estate Website – EveryHomeOnline.com

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It has become well accepted by Real Estate marketing experts that WordPress is a great way for Real Estate professionals to communicate and interact and network on line with buyers, sellers and others. So you can think of what will happen when WordPress becomes the basis for a complete … [Read more...]

How To Bend The Internet To Your Will

The internet is huge and complex, but we need to only affect a very small portion of it to achieve marketing goals that will make us as small business people very happy. But it takes creativity and understanding to affect the internet and achieve website marketing impact that will … [Read more...]

Facebook and Friendfeed

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This is an excellent Washington Post article by Chadwick Matlin that discusses Facebook's recent acquisition of Friendfeed.  And even better, provides insight into the use of Friendfeed and how Facebook may use its advantage, the ability to aggregate peoples activity from across … [Read more...]

The Zen of Twitter and Facebook

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Almost everyday I hear the question "What is the difference between Twitter and Facebook and why do I need both?" They are similar in that both are the "water" that can help make the internet marketing of your small business thrive. But they are very different forms. A simple … [Read more...]

The Pervasive Power of Today’s Social Media

Earlier I have written about how the desire for social connection helped launch the Internet and world wide web. Today Social Media like Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin are pervasive, powerful and respected. More importantly they are very wildly, ubiquitously used. They are the … [Read more...]

Bludomain and the new Kertesz2 – like peanut butter and chocolate together for an SEO treat

Nothing makes Bludomain sites work Google (and other search engines) better than Kertesz2. We are offering a special opportunity to all current Bludomain site owners - we have decided to offer a $50 savings on Kertesz2 to all current Bludomain owners. If you want to see what one … [Read more...]

Measuring and Improving your Social Media Impact

As Web 2.0 evolves to returns the internet to its social media roots, albeit with great advancements, interconnectedness and opportunity, it is useful to try to get an idea how well you are doing. After all, the first step towards improving is measurement. Fortunately Google has … [Read more...]

The internet became popular because it was (as it is now) a social network

At this point in time with so much of our business and income being derived from the internet, it is easy to forget that what made the internet popular was its inherent nature as a social network. In 1993 when I put my first business webpage on the internet I was getting lots … [Read more...]

Americans double their time spent on social networks

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One of the keys to marketing success is to go where the customers are, and they are on social networks more than ever. So how to reach them with spending all your time on the social networks? Let your website do it! Fortunately astute small business people can reach potential clients … [Read more...]