As a former manager in the newspaper business, I know the struggles that the industry is currently facing with increased costs and decreased subscriptions and readership. Once upon a time the best way to promote your new business was to take out a series of advertisements in your local newspaper. They had the readership levels required to get people in the door and making it one of the best ways to market your business. While newspaper advertising still has value to their customers and those reading it, there are better options to launch your new business and build a loyal following amongst your new customers at little to no cost to yourself.
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Best caching plugins for WordPress are finally found
I’ve always considered myself to be pretty savvy when it comes to WordPress installations and setups. I have my own standard configuration of plugins that I install whenever launching a new blog or setting things up for a client and probably have been using the same basic list of files for the last 12 – 18 months. One of my newer customers came to me and complained of a slow loading blog that he asked me to take a look at to see if there was anything I could do to improve the loading times without moving to a new host.
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3 reasons why you should target microniche or longtail keywords when marketing through feeder sites.
I’ve been blogging recently about microniche and longtail keywords over the past few weeks including discovering microniche terms using your analytic software. In today’s post I wanted to discuss why you should be using these longtail keyword phrases rather then your main keywords when utilizing feeder sites to generate organic traffic to your website.
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A roundup of some interesting marketing and entrepreneur articles
For today’s post I thought I would share some recent articles that I found interesting and wanted to share with regular readers of the blog. Today’s articles include an account of how Facebook advertising helped successfully launch a new website, how a beef jerky company built its brand with creative marketing techniques, tips for your company blog and build business lessons you can learn from Cake Boss.
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4 Blogging tips to help keep you productive
While I have only recently started updating this particular blog on a regular basis, I have been blogging for clients for the last 18 months in an effort to spread their marketing message and create organic traffic to their website. During this time period I have completed in excess of 1,100 blogs posts with a word count of somewhere in the neighborhood of 400,000 words. When I first started out it was a struggle to keep motivated and on schedule but I came up with some general rules and tips that I follow in order to keep on track. You may have seen some of these same tips at other blogger resource websites so it’s not just myself who finds them to be effective.
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