Archive for September, 2008

7 Ways To Raise Your Local Business Listing Rank on Google is a good article about an annoying reality. Just as changes in Google algorithm’s drive webmasters in general nuts, now it can also drive local business owners and webmasters nuts too? This is especially crucial when you’re competing in a metropolitan area with lots [...]

I love Twitter … it’s a social media lifesaver. Social media is a great way to reach new prospects. On Facebook alone, there are 100 million potential prospects if you can find a way to reach them. But not all social media outlets are created equal for marketing or business networking purposes. Linkedin, for instance, [...]

You can see my WordPress Tutorial articles here. The other day I talked about how to install WordPress plugins “effortlessly” using Plugin Central. But to install Plugin Central, you’re going to need an “FTP client”. The one I like is Filezilla. You can see a screenshot of the program in action above. To upload Plugin [...]

If you work at home near the New Jersey shore, you might want to participate in this borough meeting on Tuesday September 23rd 2008! Borough set to allow working from home

According to eMarketer Video Ads Generate More Revenue.  Publishers are able to charge as much as 300% more for VIDEO ads as for regular display ads. All publishers studied charged increased rates for video advertisements. That’s a great deal for publishers of course. We always like making more money. But advertisers aren’t stupid. They won’t [...]

Videos are awesome ways to get traffic for your business. There’s just one hitch – most of us don’t know how to make our own videos that really can sell something. But if you have a solid video, you can 1. Put it on YouTube 2. Put it on your business website – People who [...]

After suffering the work at home blues after a string of disappointments, people are finding that working from home for Alpine Access is the “real deal”.  Scroll down at the bottom of this page. The Good, Bad & The Challenges Of Working At Home As a result, Alpine Access, Arise, and Working Solutions are getting [...]

I do my share of helping businesses take an amorphous website and try to make it something 1) Decent looking and 2) Search engine friendly That’s important because as the old “Phone Directories” die because people “Google” what they’re looking for, then basically every local business will rise or fall in part based on whether [...]

If you’re selling your work at home business products or services at a tradeshow, flea market, or anywhere else offline, you know you can sell more, get more impulse buys, and make more money if you take credit cards. But for most people, getting a merchant account, the required terminal, and all that is just [...]

Cake Maker David Glass Seeking Loans From Customers If a local business you patronized and “loved” needed a cash infusion, would you lend it $2000 a year for $120 in free product? (Keep in mind that’s a 6% return in name at least when your local bank may give you, what, 3% at most right [...]