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Melissa Data reports that most websites designed for Business to Business use are complicated and hard to follow. That defeats the purpose doesn’t it? Is your website easy to follow? B-to-B Websites Aren’t as Friendly as You ThinkB-to-B websites aren’t as user-friendly as one might think. According to a recent report by the Nielsen Norman Group, [...]

Would you like to spend a few extra minutes each day on the way home from work setting up business generation programs for local companies? We all know that “word of mouth advertising” is the best for any business. But we don’t know how to generate those referrals. Here’s how… This allows you to tap [...]

If you have a small or home business and you’d like to offer a special discount to Tennessee residents, leave your link and offer as a comment. If I accept it, I’ll post it on a new blog for Tennessee Consumers. No “adult” ads, chain letters, scams, etc. But if you qualify, place your ad [...]

I’ve been planning a press release for my blog for quite some time. Why? We’ve been doing a great job from search engine traffic but frankly, I wanted more readers.  And you know how it goes with search engines, even if nobody actually reads an online press release, the back links are important in the [...]

31-derfully Simple Ways to Generate More Inquiries    By Robert W. Bly Noted copywriting specialist Robert W. Bly believes there’s many ways to fuel more inquiries to your ads – without having to compromise on the campaign’s basic concept. Here’s his 31 secrets of the trade. A client recently phoned with a problem I’d encountered [...]

Paul and Sarah Edwards, the home business guru’s, recommended the Daylo.com site to help home businesses drum up more business. Daylo’s site is apparently optimized to read the geographical origin of the visitor’s IP because it automatically served up regional contacts. From the Daylo.com FAQ  Daylo is a free website enabling people with an easy [...]

Woody Quiñones a Speciality Advertising sales person resides in Florida and his area was caught in a pulverizing hurricane. Turning lemons into lemonade, he put out a press release and began getting emails and calls within hours. Hurricane Beaten Business Punches Back At Christmas! (opens in a new window) Here are some of the points I [...]

  It’s true, turn your flying interests into cash. How? Through advertising sales. FlySkyWay.us  publishes and gives away free airport guides to commercial and non commercial pilots so that when they land in a strange destination, they can know about the unique aspects of the airport. The guides contain national and local/regional advertising to finance them [...]

Many small businesses find their major problem to be getting new customers. Bids4Gigs.com helps businesses get new customers by bidding on projects, transactions, etc. There’s no reason your home based business might not want to check this out from time to time for possible leads. Of course, there are some things you don’t want necessarily going [...]

According to Start Up Journal small businesses are less and less dependent on the traditional Yellow Pages for advertising. Some small-business owners are forsaking traditional advertising venues for online advertising — including ads in search engines Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. and free listings in online classifieds sites like Craigslist. Others are using Internet firms like [...]