If you are at all social in any way, you meet people. You may build relationships with people, you do business with them, you work with them, you engage in life with them.

Traditionally we meet people face to face and extend a greeting and a handshake. If we are looking to build relationship, we offer something - a cup of coffee, a seat on the bench, a casual bite to eat - and we talk. We ask questions and get to know the other person; her personality, her hopes and her needs. If we are invited somewhere, we like to bring something to offer such as a bottle of wine, a plate of cookies, or a bouquet of flowers.

So there is a lot of talk out there these days about the importance of blogging as a key part of your internet marketing strategy. I know we talk about blogging just about every day here at the Bubble, where we are blogging like crazy and often helping our clients to blog when they are too overworked to keep up on regular writing. The team here at the Bubble has moved to the place where they are now requiring all of us to blog. Personally, I liked it better when it was the boss’s job (just sayin’), but due to the central role of blogging in developing your online presence, the team has decided all of us should get to play!

Have a Happier Tuesday with Internet Marketing Tips 

It’s Tuesday, but do you have a case of the Mondays? It’s a widely held belief that everyone dreads Mondays and their moods make Oscar the Grouch seem happy, but I recently heard about a study that said people are unhappiest on Tuesdays. The study concluded that by Tuesday the positive effects of the weekend have worn off, the work week is in full swing, and the looming weekend ahead is still too far away to get excited about. Well, your Tuesdays are about to change because we are beginning our Internet Marketing Tips Tuesday which will provide you with a valuable tip about internet marketing each week.

Your Answer to "What Makes a Good Website" from an Internet Marketing Consultant 

This really is a great question because it shows wisdom and insight and demonstrates a person’s awareness that there might be a better way to create a website. If you’re in business and you are the type of person that wants to better understand what makes something better or worse - like websites in this case - and you want to become more successful, there are several factors to consider. The first is the most important. 

Lead Generation Requires Patience and Action to Attract the Right Customers

Online lead generation may seem like a tough business, but once you get a feel for a few simple lead generation techniques, site traffic is almost certain to pick up. Grow your business online – and beyond - by utilizing these five simple methods to generate leads.

You’re thinking of hiring an internet marketing consultant, but do you know why?

If you’re like many small business owners, you’ve heard the term internet marketing, and you’re starting to think that it’s important because more and more of your colleagues are hiring an internet marketing consultant. But maybe you’re skeptical. After all, you’ve been pretty successful without internet marketing in the past, and you’ve seen traditional marketing work just fine. Internet marketing seems a bit like you’re just shooting in the dark. In fact, you don’t really even know what it is. To help you on your quest to do what’s best for your small business, we’ll help you understand the difference between internet marketing and traditional marketing.

Facebook has just announced a new application it calls “Facebook Home.”

Mark Zuckerberg announced the product on April 4^th at an event, and said their new product will improve the mobile experience for mobile users.

April Fool’s Day is a Great Day in the World of Internet Marketing

Did you get fooled on April 1? What once was a day devoted to silly practical jokes (whoopee cushion anyone?) and sometimes mean-but-not-too-mean-pranks (“I eloped in Vegas last night mom and dad!”) is now getting big name brands involved. These almost believable spoofs are especially appreciated by us internet marketing consultants, because well, we’re geeks for this creative marketing stuff. Over the years, brands have had their fun with April Fool’s Day. Here are some all-time favorite marketing pranks:

How Email Lead Nurturing Helps Get You Customers 

You say to yourself I need more customers and ask, “How am I going to do that?”  You then realize that you have heard a lot about using your email and your website for marketing.  You call an Internet Marketing Consultant who gives you some good advice on what to start out with. You then set out to get some work done.  You set the website up, get some Calls-to-Action on it, you direct those to Landing Pages, have Free Offers to download or to sign up for and after your visitors give you their information you send them to a thank you page that you carefully set up.  That’s it.  You sit back in your chair with a smile on your face and enjoy this moment.  It feels good. No, it feels great.  You invested all that time and did all that hard work yourself and it’s starting to work. 

Remember These 5 ‘R’ Words and You'll Learn How to Blog Effectively in No Time!

I had a high school English teacher who taught me that one of the keys to writing, is to write what you know. For some reason, that has always stuck with me. Maybe it’s because I’ve always loved writing, and recognize that good writing is done by an author who knows what they’re talking about. I didn’t know then that I would be writing as an internet marketing consultant who would have to learn how to blog effectively. Heck, blogging was barely a thought when I was in high school (and I’m not that old) but this mantra can be used just as much for blogging as it can for high school English papers. In fact, I’m using that mantra as we speak; it just so happens I’m writing what I know about blogging for this very blog. Oh the irony!