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- Article Marketing: 7 Essential Elements of an Article Resource Box That Gets Clicked - by Submitted on Jan 29, 2010 from Donna GunterDistributing your articles to various article banks and directories online (what I refer to as article marketing) won't work for you unless you have a well-developed resource box. A resource box is the bio information about the author that appears at the end of the article. Why is a great ...
Views: 850 - Automate Your Marketing: 5 Most Effective Automated Marketing Tasks for More Clients and Greater Sales - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2010 from Donna GunterHaving to market your business, whether online or offline, is the bane of existence for most business owners. Too many times you get pulled in multiple directions, trying this and trying that, with no real plan or schedule in mind. Mired down by the details, marketing is often pushed to the ...
Views: 1431 - Blog Comments: 5 Steps to Creating a Group to Comment on Your Blog - by Submitted on May 20, 2012 from Donna GunterYou've had your blog up and running for awhile, but the blog comments just aren't flowing in. You feel invisible, and worse yet, all the hard work you put into writing your post goes unnoticed. It doesn't have to be that way. How does it make you feel when someone retweets or likes one of your ...
Views: 1385 - Boost Sales: 7 Most Effective Strategies to Increase Conversion Rates - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2012 from Donna GunterIf you want to boost sales on your web site, the first issue you need to explore is how to increase conversion rates. Conversion rate is the portion of unique visitors to your web site that take the action you want them to take. This action might be a product purchase or a mailing list sign-up. ...
Views: 1213 - Business Focus: The Secret to Doubling (or Even Tripling) Your Business in One Year - by Submitted on Sep 30, 2011 from Donna GunterI watched a really great movie this week, The Help, starring an amazing actress, Viola Davis. I've been watching Viola for years, most recently in The United States of Tara, a Showtime series. Now, with this new role, it seems that Viola is everywhere. Or, maybe I'm just noticing her more ...
Views: 1158 - Content Syndication: 7 Easy Steps to Convert Your Content Into Video - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2012 from Donna GunterTurning your article into video for content syndication isn't as difficult as you might think. Video is a powerful medium, and more and more people are relying on video to get their information. The online video giant, YouTube, has 162.5 million visitors each month, according to Quantcast. ...
Views: 1416 - Do You Use Your Introversion as An Excuse for Not Marketing Yourself? - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2010 from Donna GunterI've often been complimented on my ability to be fearless. No, I've never skydived from a plane or bungee-jumped from a bridge, but I have taken chances and risks in my life that friends told me that they'd never take. Most surprising was that I'd do these things given my natural introverted ...
Views: 1568 - ECourse Marketing: 10 Steps to Triple Your Prospect Conversions with an Email Mini-Course - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2010 from Donna GunterFor years, I've been giving away a PDF ebook as my client attraction device to entice prospects to sign up for my list. This strategy has served me well as a way to grow my list. However, what I've discovered during that time is that many people download my ebook and then never open it. So, as ...
Views: 1763 - Ezine Marketing: How to Triple Your Ezine Opt-ins With a Squeeze Page - by Submitted on Oct 23, 2009 from Donna GunterFor years I've resisted the urge to create a squeeze page for my email newsletter. A squeeze page is a one-page site, or a landing page on a site, that has one call to action: convince the visitor to enter her name and email address to join your list and/or receive your giveaway. On a ...
Views: 1321 - How Frequently Should You Email Your List, Blog, Tweet, or Update Your Facebook Page? - by Submitted on Dec 02, 2011 from Donna GunterWhat are the best days to send my email newsletter? How many times a week should I blog? How many Twitter updates are too many Twitter updates? Should I repost a status update? These are questions I hear all the time from clients. Until recently, I didn't have any documentation about what ...
Views: 1215 - How I Won a Scholarship Using Fiverr, Wordpress and Social Networking - by Submitted on Mar 30, 2012 from Donna GunterFiverr.com is one of the coolest sites that I've discovered in the last year. You can find people offering a LARGE variety of services and tasks, each available for a payment of $5. Of course, you do get what you pay for here, so some of the results aren't worth the $5 you paid, while others ...
Views: 2228 - How to Create Your Target Market Profile - by Submitted on Oct 17, 2009 from Donna GunterMuch has been written on how to locate and define your target market. However, there is a problem with this process. Once you have defined that target market, you're probably completely overwhelmed with all the details and facts you have collected about this target market and have absolutely no ...
Views: 4351 - How to Install the Facebook Like Button On Every Page of Your Site - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2010 from Donna GunterFacebook is the most rapidly growing social networking platform, with over 400 million active users (and climbing quickly). With so many users and with people's preoccupation with Facebook, it makes sense to use the "Like" button to help virally spread the word about what you do to others who ...
Views: 2785 - How to Set Up an Online Affiliate Program to Sell Your Products and Services - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from Donna GunterI consider Amazon.com to be the Internet pioneer for establishing affiliate programs. Their strategy to permit others to sell their products for a commission on affiliate websites has single-handedly help them become an Internet powerhouse and has resulted in Amazon.com becoming a household ...
Views: 660 - How to Stand Out: Differentiate Your Business with Authenticity - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2009 from Donna GunterI had lunch several years ago with a colleague in a networking group. We talked about many things and were trying to get to know each other so that we could better understand what might make a great referral for the other. One of the things he told me caused me to chuckle because it was so true, ...
Views: 1181 - How To Write A Short Report That Makes You Money - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2012 from Donna GunterLearning how to write a short report can be one of the best and fastest ways to turbocharge your online business. It can also be a great way of creating a powerful online asset for you as well -- that being a large and responsive email marketing list. How does this occur? One short report ...
Views: 1413 - Image SEO: 7 Strategies to Optimize Your Images for the Search Engines - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2012 from Donna GunterThere are all kinds of ways to optimize your web site for the search engines, but one of the most overlooked methods is image SEO. It's said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but who knew that image seo, or optimizing your images for search engines, might shoot your site to the top of ...
Views: 1232 - Internet Marketing: The #1 Marketing Mistake Made By 75% of Online Business Owners - by Submitted on Oct 23, 2009 from Donna GunterEvery day, my inbox is filled with emails promoting yet another new marketing strategy or promising results that will cure all of my marketing ills. Most of the strategies are flash-in-the-pan -- here today and gone tomorrow because the next new strategy has been discovered. A few newer ...
Views: 1135 - Internet Security: 8 Proven Tactics to Eliminate Threats from Spam, Viruses, and Hackers - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2009 from Donna GunterAs an online business owner, you face treacherous Internet security risks every single time you're online. Viruses, hackers, and spam await you at every turn. The reality is that these threats are always going to be a component of being online and doing business online. Unfortunately, they ...
Views: 1296 - Marketing Results: 7 Crucial Stats You Need to Track Your Marketing Success - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2010 from Donna GunterYou may feel as though you're on a hamster wheel when it comes to measuring your marketing. You run, run, and run some more, but don't seem to be getting anywhere. That feeling is perfectly natural if you're not measuring your ROI (Return on Investment) with your marketing. For years, I've ...
Views: 771 - Mobile Marketing: 5 Ways to Use Text Messaging to Get More Clients Online - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2011 from Donna GunterToday, there are three items that people bring with them when they leave home: their keys, their wallet (purse) and their cell phones. However, because businesses (like Starbucks) are permitting patrons to pay using their cell phone and car companies are creating applications that let car ...
Views: 1329 - More Sales: 3 Secrets for Generating More Income in a Down Economy - by Submitted on Mar 16, 2012 from Donna GunterSo many business owners are struggling to make more sales in the midst of this recession. Some are succeeding better than others, and even the big discount stores (like Wal-Mart) are reversing managerial decisions to boost their bottom line. I'm not a big fan of Wally World (aka Wal-Mart) ...
Views: 1085 - Online Reputation Management: How to Protect Your Online Reputation in 7 Easy Steps - by Submitted on May 03, 2012 from Donna GunterOnline reputation management is one of the biggest challenges facing businesses today. Have you ever been upset with the way you were treated at a business and immediately vented about it on a social website? Or have you sent an email or posted to a forum about a company regarding your ...
Views: 1142 - Social Media Marketing: 5 Best Strategies to Enhance Your Twitter Profile and Get New Followers - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2011 from Donna GunterTwitter took the world by storm last year. I predict this year many business owners will drop out of the Twitter stream because they're not seeing a valuable ROI for their business in return for the time invested in marketing on Twitter. This comes, partly, from the fact that Twitter can be ...
Views: 1253 - The 4 Secret Questions You MUST Answer Before Seeking Joint Venture Partners - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2009 from Donna GunterIf I had to begin my business again from scratch, I would look at forming strategic alliances and seeking joint ventures partners much sooner in my business growth plan. Asking a more successful business owner to help you promote your site or to form an alliance where you both benefit is one of ...
Views: 1631 - Top 5 Favorite Wordpress Themes for Service Business Owners - by Submitted on Sep 30, 2011 from Donna GunterThe blogging platform, Wordpress, has proven itself to be a robust host for an online content management system (CMS), especially with the development of new Wordpress themes and plugins. I was skeptical at first, as I was a devout user of Typepad and kept hearing of so many tech troubles that ...
Views: 2319 - Top 5 Reasons Why Mobile Marketing Will Increase Your Profits in 2011 - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2010 from Donna GunterNow that I've finally gotten a Smartphone, I feel as though I've joined the 21st century, techologically speaking, at least, and can begin to engage in the mobile marketing sent to me by businesses I patronize. I've seen people all around me become VERY attached to their smartphones like a new ...
Views: 1160 - Twitter Marketing: 6 Steps to Creating a Viral Marketing Campaign with Twitter Hashtags - by Submitted on Oct 25, 2009 from Donna GunterTwitter, as a popular social networking platform, is a viral marketing strategy all on its own, especially if your followers like your tweets and retweet them to their followers. However, I've recently noticed another trend in Twitter usage that increases its viral marketing capabilities through ...
Views: 1185 - Your 10-Step Year-End Blog Review - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2012 from Donna GunterHow has your blog been working for you this year? Is it bringing you new clients, more recognition for your expertise, or increasing your bottom line? If not, now may be a great time to review your blog and see how you can tune it up. Blogging should be an integral part of your marketing ...
Views: 1335 - Your 10-Step Year-End Web Site Review - by Submitted on Apr 04, 2012 from Donna GunterThe close of another year is upon us, and with that comes your year-end web site review. Wait, you are doing an annual review, right? Failing to take a few minutes to review your web site at the end of the year can result in your visitors seeing something like "Copyright 2008" on your site. ...
Views: 1050 - Your 15-Step Wordpress Installation Checklist - by Submitted on Jan 12, 2012 from Donna GunterAs I work more and more with Wordpress, I began to see the need for an installation checklist, or all of those tasks that need to be completed for a new Wordpress installation. Part of my rationale in creating this checklist is to make it easy for my assistant to set up a new Wordpress ...
Views: 1303 - Your 7-Step Year-End Social Media Audit - by Submitted on Apr 18, 2012 from Donna GunterSocial media has been all the rage this year, so it's probably time for you to do a social media audit. This audit will help you determine if you're using the correct social media platforms to reach out to the right people in the right way. Here's my 7-step method for doing a year-end social ...
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