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U.S. Economic Data Reports Flat 2010 Market

Mr Rickman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:19:38 -0500

Overall industrial production would have fallen except for a 1.6 percent surge for utilities. The Bankers Conference Board reports its index of leading economic indicators, which forecasts activity over the next six months into 2010, rose 0.3 percent last month, less than the 0.5 percent gain economists anticipated. The Mortgage Bankers Association nnounced more than 14 percent of American homeowners with a mortgage were either behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of September.

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Small Business Innovation Trends Mobile Enterprises

Mr Rickman — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:15:44 -0500

Today, the number of unemployed in the U.S. has reached about 15 million, over 10 percent nationwide. As a result, millions of people are seeking new opportunities joining a growing trend of Mobile Office Entrepreneurs using the advances in communication technology, entrepreneurial creativity, and the ever-more-hectic pace of modern life all combining to encourage the rapid development of mobile businesses.

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Seniors and Women Small Business Startups Gain Momentum

Mr Rickman — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:12:35 -0500

Who says entrepreneurship is only for the young. After all you need energy, stamina, relentless focus, and the most important thing, time on your side. Maybe! But a key to successful entrepreneurship is simply doing it. Regardless of age or circumstance, make your own opportunities and go for it.

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Seniors and Women Small Business Startups Gain Momentum

Mr Rickman — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:12:25 -0500

Who says entrepreneurship is only for the young. After all you need energy, stamina, relentless focus, and the most important thing, time on your side. Maybe! But a key to successful entrepreneurship is simply doing it. Regardless of age or circumstance, make your own opportunities and go for it.

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Twucked Up Twit in Social Media

Mary McKnight — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:42:30 -0500

With over 6K people calling themselves everything from “Social Media Guru” to ” Social Media Super Hero” I’m just gonna call it like it is. 90% of you are full of crap and have no idea what social media is or where it’s place is in an overall marketing plan and are generally spouting personal dogma and there is a high likelihood you are socially and physically retarded. Ouch, huh? Here’s the skinny. I am a marketer. A REAL marketer.

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Increase Sales Using Dynamic Marketing

Mr Rickman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:05:21 -0500

As the choices of new marketing strategies and initiatives evolve, organizations constantly reevaluate what marketing initiatives to pursue and how much to invest in each marketing communications channel.

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Sales Results Developing Website Conversion Rates

Mr Rickman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:35:11 -0500

A Website Conversion Rate is defined as the number of visitors or potential customer leads to your site that perform a desired action measured against the total number of visitors in within a specific timeframe (ex. 30-days).

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China Auto Sales Rise 72% Hit 1.2 Million Units

Mr Rickman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:09:00 -0500

Automakers sold a total of 1.2 million cars and trucks, the government-sanctioned China Association of Auto Manufacturers announced November 8, 2009. China's October auto sales 72% from a year earlier, outpacing U.S. sales for another month, according to data reported Monday. However, despite China's growth, the October sales were far below the U.S.

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Website Sales Content Solutions Driving More Web Traffic

Mr Rickman — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:56:57 -0500

There are a variety of sources of web traffic, you can achieve, such as effective search engine optimization or targeted

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Sales Power Dialing Results Art Not Simply Technology Based

Mr Rickman — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:47:30 -0500

Cold Calling is the most difficult part of sales for many to find comfort mastering and involves consistent focused discipline to get through. At times, it may feel daunting. On the other hand, when telesales is done right, the experience is most rewarding.

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Effective Sales Teams For Higher Revenues

Mr Rickman — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:40:29 -0500

Today, we have an ever-increasing number of knowledge workers.

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Sustainable Job Employment Solutions For USA

Mr Rickman — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:26:08 -0500

The unemployment rate continued to spiral upward over 10.2% for October 2009. Mixed data includes factory orders in the U.S. slight bump upwards .9% for September 2009, primarily from government stimulus spending in auto, heavy machinery and military sectors, according to Commerce Department Reports.

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Web Page Design is Not Just About Colors, Images and Fonts

Mark Spenser — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:20:52 -0500

Today’s graphic web design involves Flash, Java Script, and custom dynamic design attributes that quickly date pages stuck in the static.

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Presto Reviews Reputation Management. Leveraging your company's online reviews.

Scott Falcone — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:13:12 -0400

Are you an "online" business?

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Keyword selection 'is important in multilingual SEO campaigns'

Anthony Lea — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:25:43 -0400

When developing an effective multilingual search engine optimisation
(SEO) campaign it is important to have good keyword selection, it has
been claimed.

Ecommerce Times noted that the process of
suggesting the right keywords for a multilingual site is more complex
than doing it on monolingual pages.

It explained that while,
for example, an English searcher might type in one term or phrase when
looking for a particular item, there might be a variety of different
terms in another language.

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Adventures in Personal Branding

Dan Ouellette — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:57:35 -0400

I walked away from Dan Shawbel's Personal Branding Summit in Boston thinking "I'm going to give this a try." Now I haven't bought Dan's Me 2.0 book yet but I've been reading his blog and trying to incorporate some of his personal branding ideas.

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Enhance Your Insurance Marketing with a Call to Action

Jason Bland — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:24:16 -0400

When you have traffic on your insurance website, you are only
halfway to your goal. Google wants to see high quality websites with
error free code and professional design. Designs that offer easy
navigation for both your end user and the search engine bots are key to
getting favorable rankings in the search engines.

Once you have a professional insurance website with inbound links,
and your website appears on the first page of search results, then it
is time convert traffic to new policies.

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Syndicating Links for Search Engine Optimization

Jason Bland — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:23:32 -0400

To get to the first page of Google and other search engines, you
need links to your website. That is to say, you know other websites to
link to yours without you linking back to them. By now, most people
looking into search engine optimization have heard that.

What is the best way to do that? Content and syndication. When an
article is written about your company and posted into blogs that
syndicate into Google Blog Search, article directories, how-to’s, etc,
then it becomes available for the public to use.

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Syndicating Links for Search Engine Optimization

Jason Bland — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:23:16 -0400

To get to the first page of Google and other search engines, you
need links to your website. That is to say, you know other websites to
link to yours without you linking back to them. By now, most people
looking into search engine optimization have heard that.

What is the best way to do that? Content and syndication. When an
article is written about your company and posted into blogs that
syndicate into Google Blog Search, article directories, how-to’s, etc,
then it becomes available for the public to use.

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Your Law Firm Marketing Needs a Call to Action

Jason Bland — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:20:10 -0400

When you have traffic on your law firm’s website, you are only
halfway to your goal. Google wants to see high quality websites with
error free code and professional design. Designs that offer easy
navigation for both your end user and the search engine bots are key to
getting favorable rankings in the search engines.

Once you have a professional website with inbound links, and your
website appears on the first page, then it is time convert traffic to
new cases.

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SEO 'can be boosted by good domain name selection'

Anthony Lea — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:10:30 -0400

Organisations looking to improve their search engine optimisation
(SEO) strategies could find that choosing their domain name carefully
helps their efforts, it has been claimed.

Australian SEO firm
Shout noted that companies should consider which keywords are the most
important and try to include these in their domain name.

In a
piece published by Article Maniac, the firm asserted that a
well-optimised name could give online businesses the edge over similar
organisations.

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The Perils of Being Closed Minded During Brainstorming Sessions

Dan Ouellette — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:54:18 -0400

I was exposed to a bout of close mindedness this past week. No, not me...a colleague of mine. As search professionals we are sometimes tasked with coming up with ideas for campaigns that will help the client reach their goals online.

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Interchanges.com on Blogging

Mark Kagan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:52:30 -0400

Blogs are much easier to update and keep fresh content on them daily or weekly. Simply log in our use a desktop publishing software to post new content to your blog. Blog post do not need to be long, but do need to be unique and pertain to the main blog theme. This allows you to post an update in a matter of minutes and optimize it like a SEO expert. Search engines, like Google, want to see fresh content updated on a regular basis. A blog that does not get updated at least weekly will not see good ranking.

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How a friend's birthday party for her 1 year old organized my life

Dan Ouellette — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:50:06 -0400

I went to one of my friend's birthday party the other day. Actually, it was for her one year old. As I went around meeting and greeting, watching other toddlers crawl about, eyeing the parents and their stress levels, I realized that this party for this one year was organized chaos. Screaming kids, screaming parents, food everywhere, and it's at that point that I realized that my life was also an organizational disaster.

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Add a blog and valuable content to boost SEO

Anthony Lea — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:29:11 -0400

Firms looking to improve their search engine optimisation (SEO)
strategies should consider setting up a blog to boost their rankings.

According to Tara Lane of Sparxoo.com, SEO is a "powerful tool to increase brand visibility and presence on the web".

She
said that a blog is an excellent way to boost an online profile because
it makes a company seem more credible and up-to-date with the latest
industry trends.

The expert advised companies to invest time and effort into a blog that is relevant and can continue in the long-term.

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