Twitter is a great social networking site to be on as a business, especially when it comes to finding leads and building relationships. This blog will highlight five lead generation techniques that can be used on Twitter to help enhance your business.

Santa’s busiest day of the year is almost upon us, but what do you think Santa is doing with the other 364 days of the year? He has elves for making the toys and gifts, and Mrs. Claus takes care of the meal preparation so Santa is all about learning the rest of the year. He is looking for valuable information that he can pass on to his friends and neighbors. Recently a small business owner asked Santa the question “why blog” and he had to research a good answer. Since then he has signed up for our blog and he is deeply interested in internet marketing.

Small Businesses often fall prey to scammy SEO companies and people who are essentially hiding under a black hat when it comes to the way they offer SEO services for small business. In the last couple of years Google has cracked down on these black hat tactics like keywords stuffing, and will block your site if it looks like your SEO strategies are even in a grey area. It is important to note that Goggle doesn’t care if you hire someone and they do the black hat SEO strategies, you and your business will still be held responsible. Not to mention you will see your customers and sales drop drastically because you will likely be pushed well past the first page of search results.

Katniss Everdeen is the skilled archer and heroine of The Hunger Games. She practiced and perfected her craft, not for want of a hobby, but out of the need for survival. It provided for herself in the Arena, and for her family in District 12 - without the food it brought, her family would have perished.

So, in the midst of surviving in the world of small business, you are asking, Why Blog?

Is your business on Facebook? It should be! Facebook is a great social media platform to gain leads for your business due to its personal and conversational nature. This blog will highlight four lead generation techniques that can be used on Facebook to help enhance your business.

First off, let’s go over a few interesting facts that may help to convince you even more that Facebook is an important part of your social media internet marketing strategy in order to gain leads:

Psst...So, you have a website.

Psst...I heard you have increased traffic to your website over the course of the year. Awesome!

Hummmm....You have sales people with phones lined up to take all the calls that you anticipated, but the leads aren’t pouring in.

Well there are a few 'secrets' you can use to help increase website conversion and turn leads into customers...because isn’t that the end goal of a business website: to get you more customers?

It seems that October is a little more frightful than expected, as most of you may have heard Google has made a major algorithm update called, “The Hummingbird Upate.” However Google didn’t stop there. It has also admitted to blocking 100% of search query data in Google Analytics, meaning you will no longer see exactly what keywords brought visitors to your site. What does this all mean for your website and general SEO services for small business? For small businesses paying for SEO services there is no need to worry, as long as your SEO agency is performing services with Google’s advice in mind:

Yep, and here’s a few numbers to show it...

“If we could just get more customers, all our problems would be solved!”

Well...although most business owners understand more customers don’t solve all your problems, getting more customers for your business is what brings in the revenue, keeps your doors open, your people employed and your business growing.

So, what lead generation techniques are the most effective? 

So we all know there is an array of SEO services for small businesses but do you know which ones you’ll benefit from most? This is the question we will be tackling today to help you understand where your internet marketing efforts need to be focused in regards to SEO services for small business.

Lead generation might sound a little fuzzy to the average business owner. Let’s face it - it’s a new phrase and everyone seems to have a slightly different variation of what it means. So to clear out all the gobbledygook and get down to the facts we are going to open up our internet marketing vault and share 4 key lead generation techniques, we call the 4 horseman.