5 Big Mistakes Business Owners Make Marketing Online

5 Big Online Marketing Mistakes

Everyone needs a website right? Of course. Unless you've been living under a rock, a business without a website, is not taken very seriously. You might be able to get away without having a website if: You've been in business 100 years You're 100 years old and don't use a computer You're a national institution or an urban legend On the other hand, you may already have a website, but it doesn't mean you will get business from it. Perhaps you put it up simply to be a business card online that people go to when they look at your paper business card. However, if it doesn't get potential customers to take action on something, it's kind of meaningless. Here are 5 big mistakes business owners make marketing online 1.Your website … [Continue reading]

How to Promote a Product Giveaway for More Blog Traffic

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I’m in the middle of promoting  my very first product giveaway on my blog www.babyboomster.com and I’m having a blast! Baby Boomster is a site for Baby Boomers that has tips and recipes for longevity based on the places in the world where people live the longest. I have been doing tweet chats on Twitter with [...]

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What to do When You Get the White Screen of Death

White Screen of Death

I have to admit; I lost some sleep last night.  A plugin ate my website.  Or , at least something did.  I got the message “Error Connecting to Database,” and then the Bluehost hosting screen.  I had been testing out a backup plugin and followed all the directions.  The backup went fine.  I thought, great!  [...]

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Why I Switched From Network Marketing to Blogging

Direct Sales Queen

For 10 years I was a direct sales queen.  I rose up the ranks and went beyond the typical 80 % who never make a dime  in that type of business model to the top 20%.  I even earned all sorts of prizes like cars and other fun stuff.  There is nothing wrong with network [...]

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Of Larks and Night Owls : Which One are YOU?

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I am one of those obnoxious people who naturally wakes up early and embraces the day. OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING!  As soon as the sun rises, I am awake and ready to do my best work. I put in a full day and never take a nap.  My mom says I never napped as [...]

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How to Know You’re Writing For Your Clients

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You’re Writing for Who? Recently I’ve been reading about the fact that sometimes, we, as business owners don’t always write blog posts for our target audience.  We write either what we’re most interested in or for others in our same field.  For instance, as a person in the blogging niche, it would be easy for [...]

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My 2013 New Year’s Resolutions for My Internet Marketing Biz and My Life

Happy New Years Enjoy Life

Wow! 2013!  It’s here already.  Time to make the standard yearly resolutions and hope I won’t break them.  It’s good to get them out there in the open and if they apply to you that’s even better so here goes: I Will Keep My Business Model Simple With so many great ideas brewing in my [...]

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