People are what make a good website. Without people the Internet would be a dark and somber place. Facebook would be nothing without the millions of people who add pictures of their children, family videos, and share what they do day to day. Those people light up the technical side of the Internet, and give life to website code and CSS style sheets. This is also true for your own website. If no one is visiting and using your website then it isn’t living, and it isn’t working for your business.

Marketing online is where the future is for small businesses. Don’t be left behind by sticking to old methods and outdated advertising platforms.

Curate a blog about curating? Challenge accepted! A lot of people are still unaware or skeptical about curating other related industries’ blog posts into their own to help support information or to share content as a part of their internet marketing strategy. Here at Half a Bubble Out we curate other industry professionals’ blogs weekly because we think that sharing other people’s knowledge and ideas other than our own helps to offer a good balance, and when we find awesome blogs we like to give them a shout out!

You can write a blog in one hour, but here’s the disclaimer: you have to be writing what you know or at least something you have learned. For example, I couldn’t write a blog about global warming in one hour because I know next to nothing about it, but I could easily write a blog giving you internet marketing tips because it’s what I do day in and day out.

Do you want to connect with your customers on a more personal level? Do you want to show them that you genuinely care about what they think and feel? Well, this is why social media is an important part of your internet marketing strategy! Social media is your stepping stone to becoming more connected with your customers and potential customers. If this is what you want as a business (I don’t know who wouldn’t) keep reading!

Let’s face it, your marketing stinks. You know it, and so do your customers. This is partly because you are trying to do all of your marketing on the cheap and in house. Sure that might work for awhile, but if you're really serious about generating more business then it’s time to change.

Have you seen the new “ask" button that is now on Facebook? Facebook recently rolled out a new feature where you can ask someone what their relationship status is if they don’t have it listed. Did social media stalking just jump to new extremes? I think so!

Keeping the doors of your business open and continuing to grow your business takes customers. Nowadays, using internet marketing to continue to get more customers is a great strategy, but what happens when just having a website isn’t working?

If you're in the process of going through a checklist of things needed to make a wonderful company website, here are a few more that are needed, specifically addressing how to keyword a website correctly.

Some people ask, "Why do I need to keyword my website?" The reason is so that it is optimized for search engines, and just as important, for the people who you are trying to reach!

That’s right keywording isn’t just for search engines. This is why Google is cracking down on websites and content that have an excess amount of keywords just to be ranked higher in the search engines. Websites that "stuff keywords" aren't helpful at all to the people who are trying to find answers to their questions.

Okay, so the title of this blog post might be a tad misleading, I mean George Orwell has been gone for quite some time now and would have known nothing about the future of marketing, let alone internet marketing. However, a good writer leaves his stamp on history somehow whether it be through their books, essays, speeches, or blogs. The fact that the following essay excerpt from George Orwell can be applied to internet marketing to help grow your business is indeed admirable and evidence of a timeless writer.