May08

Making YouTube Part of Your Marketing Strategy

If YouTube wasn’t famous before on the online world, it certainly got a big shot in the arm when Tom Cruise appeared on a YouTube excerpt of the Oprah Winfrey show. That excerpt has become wildly popular among both Tom Cruise fans and people who just...
May01

How to Scan Images For The Web

It’s easy to screw up an image scan. You’ve seen them: blurry, bleedthrough from the back if they’re from newspapers, bad color, stretched, or just poor resolution quality. How can you create a perfect scanned image for your website?...
Apr24

How to promote your website for free

Websites are a standard now when it comes to any business. Even small local businesses and service oriented home based businesses need to have a website. If for no other reason than the listing, the listings are becoming the new way that people are locating...
Feb25

Website Design & Whitespace

Here we will discuss the use of design and whitespace. Firstly, let’s discuss what whitespace is and how it is used so that you can better understand when it is necessary to use it. Whitespace, also commonly known as “negative space”, is the...
Feb05

Good Follow-up with a Client is Everything

Here we will talk about dealing with clients and how good followup with a client is one of the most important factors to your business success. Getting a client and doing credible work for them is definitely one aspect of a sale. However, follow-up with...
Jan23

Update Your Website With Clients’ Testimonials

I can’t believe we are approaching the end of January! I set so many personal and business goals for 2008 and am having a hard time keeping up with all my New Year’s resolutions. One of the business goals I set for my company was to update my website. ...
Jan16

A website is more than what meets the eye

Recently I came across a website and thought it was one of the best sites I had ever seen. So I said to one of my good friends, “you have got to see this site…it’s one of the coolest I’ve seen in a long time!” I gave her the url and told her...
Jan08

Online Store Can Reduce Overhead in 2008

Over the holidays I was at a holiday dinner with friends and an old friend of mine who started a retail tennis shop a few years ago was telling us that she may have to close her business in 2008 because the rent for a commercial store front was just too...
Dec30

Search Engine Marketing: Organic SEO (Search Engine Optimization) versus PPC (Pay Per Click)

The vast majority (more than 85%) of everything that happens on the Internet starts from a search engine. Any business that has a website and has a target market that uses the Internet can benefit from an online marketing plan so that it can be sure to...