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First, let’s clarify what Local Search is and is not: Local Search is where your business is listed on a directory by location, or listed in “local” results on search engines – like when someone searches for “web design company in warsaw, indiana“. Local Search is not the same as natural search eng Read More

1.) Google Adwords reaches the most people. Yahoo Search Marketing is #2. MSN Search Marketing is #3. Start with Google Adwords.

2.) Look before you leap. Formulate your ROI equationto estimate investment and return. It may look something like this:I want ____ new customers per month from Pay-Pe Read More

Is reputation monitoring important in my case? The question really isn’t “Is it important?”, but: “How important?”. Let’s look at some stats:

90% of business purchases start online – Forrester (and that was 2007!)

83% of businesses use the Internet to research and find poten Read More

As far as I'm concerned , pagerank is gone. So, those who are going for link building from high PR sites would be very unhappy about this. Google hasn't officially announced anything though, if they have permanently dropped PR or are just modifying their parameters to make it even better and make i Read More

You don't have to rely on complicated, expensive, or techie strategies to get people to talk about you. Here's how one toy store does it with a quarter. Read More

Is your company getting your best work? Do you come in every day energized, enthusiastic, creative, and engaged? If not, you're not alone, at least in the U.S, according to the latest Gallup poll of employee engagement, which you can see if you scroll down through the wealth of data my HBR colleagu Read More

Many marketers work overtime to confuse us about money. They take advantage of our misunderstanding of the time value of money, of our aversion to reading the fine print, of our childish need for instant gratification and most of all, our conflicted emotional connection to money.

Confusing custo Read More

The "secret" to writing seductive web copy is to follow a proven 6-step process. To get started you need to know exactly who you want to seduce...

How seductive are you?

I’m not a great seducer.

I don’t have a string of conquests to boast about. I’m no modern Cleopatra.

But as a markete Read More

Why would franchisees of a major fast food franchise use debit cards-with fees, instead of checks, to pay their employees? Why do Albert and Carol Mueller, franchisees of this chain, insist on paying their hourly employees with a debit card?

And, the debit card they’re using? It’s special. It (a Read More

A billionaire is born, but Shutterstock founder Jonathan Oringer says more money doesn't change a thing. On Friday, Shutterstock founder and CEO Jonathan Oringer became the first billionaire to emerge from New York's fast-growing tech start-up scene. Oringer founded the company in 2003, using 30,00 Read More