http://ideasforbusiness.info Ideas for business, home business, Internet marketing... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:26:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://ideasforbusiness.info/2012/02/07/a-life-of-abundance-2/ What sort of business owner are you – the complete extrovert? Do you have hundreds of people in your network with whom you only have a passing knowledge? There is nothing wrong with developing a broad network of contacts. However, it is often more beneficial to develop a sound relationship ... http://ideasforbusiness.info/2012/02/06/do-you-build-networks-or-relationships/ I’m headed to (hopefully) sunny San Diego today for the annual Online Marketing Summit conference where I’ll get to present on one of my favorite topics: Optimization. Of course, if you read Online Marketing Blog very often, you’ll know my definition of optimization is a bit different that traditional SEO. ... http://ideasforbusiness.info/2012/02/06/optimize-this-online-marketing-summit-2012-presentation/ 4 SEO Mistakes and How to Avoid Them None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. Some mistakes, like last summer’s hair style fiasco or that date with the guy down the hall, are embarrassing but temporary, and they don’t have any real lasting effect. Others, like calling your ... http://ideasforbusiness.info/2012/02/06/4-seo-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them/ The business world can be brutal, and the online business world is even more so. Name me a product and a price and I daresay I could find a handful of offers that beat yours either on price, service or reputation. That doesn’t mean the millions of shoppers who search ... http://ideasforbusiness.info/2012/02/05/can-a-small-business-survive-online-with-a-diy-mindset/ Having an online presence is very different to an offline one. Offline, you can publish a catalog and no one really cares if some descriptions are very similar if not identical (apart from name or color references). Online, the opposite is true. If you have products that have identical or near ... http://ideasforbusiness.info/2012/02/04/why-you-should-never-duplicate-product-descriptions/ If you have been an active publisher on the Internet, then you will most likely have content in a wide range of websites. You have probably also put together profiles on a range of social media websites. Wouldn’t it be nice to have all of your content linked to your ... http://ideasforbusiness.info/2012/02/03/have-you-linked-your-content-to-your-name-or-brand/ Facebook in Numbers: Prior to the IPO The big news in social media and business this week is Facebook’s new IPO.  This infographic from statista and creative commons shares some very interesting figures about Facebook, before it goes public. Highlights include: In 2012 Facebook is expected to reach: 90% of U.S. Social Network ... http://ideasforbusiness.info/2012/02/03/online-marketing-news-facebook-ipo-harmonize-with-google-pinterest-dominates-traffic/ Themed SEO Content- Why You Need It Everyone knows what SEO content is – choosing a few key words or phrases to strategically place in your articles and blog posts to help the search engines find them, know what they are about, and hopefully rank them fairly high in search listings. ... http://ideasforbusiness.info/2012/02/03/themed-seo-content-why-you-need-it/ I’m not exactly sure of the timing, but it seems not to long ago that Google started placing more emphasis on its map listings when you type in local searches. If you are a SEO company, you probably know what I am talking about because it was as if Google ... http://ideasforbusiness.info/2012/02/02/when-it-comes-to-local-business-listing-optimization-what%e2%80%99s-yext/