If your company is thinking about blogging then it is very important that you understand why you should and shouldn't start blogging for business. In all honesty I tried to think of 5 reasons you wouldn't want to blog, and it was hard! Blogging does so much for an internet marketing strategy, and that is one of the reasons we always insist our clients include a blog on their website. Here is our version of 5 reasons why you shouldn't blog for business.

If you're thinking about hiring an agency to do Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your small business website, get on it!  Many of your competitors have websites that have been optimized and are showing up ahead of you in search results.

Are dogs or landing pages part of your internet marketing strategy? Our dog Backup became part of our office “staff” in December 2010 when she was just 8 weeks old. It’s true…she’s on the website as part of the team and everything. (www.halfabubbleout.com/about-us/our-team).

Last week, the head of Google’s web spam team, Matt Cutts, announced that the Panda algorithm is updated approximately every month, but it’s done slowly throughout the month, like a Google Dance. What the heck does this mean to you? Today’s internet marketing tips post explains.

If you’re looking for some quick lead generation techniques for your blog then here are 5 simple ideas, because when ever you’re doing business online or off you need to find customers.  The first step to new customers for your small business is to find the leads to talk to.  The next step is to convert more of those leads into paying customers.  Inbound Marketing or what some people call it Content Marketing, is really good for helping to find those leads online.

Disclaimer: this blog is about to be as weird and entertaining as the title. If you’re in need of learning how to add keywords to a website told through a very unique story, then hold on to your cargo and All Aboard! the Keyword Pirate Ship with captain Johnny Depp aka The Pirate! Today we sail to a far away island called KeywordLand.

Is email marketing part of your overall internet marketing strategy? MailChimp is one of the leading email distribution companies used by businesses and business professionals. To show just how powerful this email platform is let’s checkout these stats: 

On a typical day MailChimp will email 100 million emails!

MailChimp sends 2 billion emails a month

They have about 3 million users in more than 150 countries

13.3 million API calls per day

20.3 million opens per day

5.8 million subscribers added per day

What a novel question! When designing or redesigning a website do you stop and ask yourself what makes a good website? Or ask what is it that your customers want or need instead of what you want?

Hopefully you ask these questions, but there are many websites out there that beg for this question to be asked.

Here’s a little scenario that happened to me just this week:

My daughter graduated from high school this week on a day where the temperatures rose quite high. We wanted to have good seats for the evening graduation ceremony so I made a deal with her boyfriend. If he saved us seats (3 hours ahead of time in the direct sun, with scorching temps) I would buy him 2 water park tickets for the following week. He agreed and saved us the seats--great seats mind you, and enough for the whole extended family.

Do you believe social media matters for your business? A lot of you don’t. How do I know this? Just two days ago I heard a dear friend who is an accomplished business woman refer to social media as “that place where people tell me what they are having for dinner….and I don’t want to know!” She went on to say that she saw very little value in social media for business, with the possible exception of LinkedIn for building a personal resume. While I agree that social media has been used for a lot of personal revelations that I would rather avoid, I absolutely disagree with this assessment. If you don’t know the answer to the question “why is social media important” for your business, I would like to help you take a step forward in answering this.

If you haven’t heard of this before, I really recommend that you go out and purchase a copy of a book called Pendulum by Roy H. Williams and Michael Drew, which was published late last year. Pendulum outlines an 80 year cycle over the last 3000 years in western civilization swinging back and forth between what they call a “Me” generation, and a “We” generation.

One of the goals of our weekly internet marketing tips is to keep you up to date about what you need to know in the world of internet marketing. There is always something happening. Which means something is always trying to get your attention. Most of us are aware of this because we can’t ignore the constant buzzing or vibrating from that little device in our pockets that gives us unlimited access to the latest information from our social media accounts, emails, text messages and maybe even an actual phone call. Our mobile devices are powerful.