The Cluetrain Manifesto asserts that “Markets are Conversations.” The Manifesto is a document published in 1999 and 10 years later is still considered to be an outstanding treatise on the Internet phenomenon – in regards to the impact and opportunities of Internet and web technology on the modern businessman. Nowhere has this assertion been borne out more than in the complex, fascinating [...]

Thousands of people are now blogging and some are making some good money through it. Even though search engines give blogs high ranking if they are updated often. But that feature alone is not going to work on its own, you need something that will make your blog different and turn it into a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, traffic generating machine. If you are using a wordpress blog then you can install [...]

It is an indisputable fact that the world’s economy is moving more toward the online model of exchange. Amazon and Google stand as icons of companies that began as small projects, only to grow into massive successes, largely due to the successful marketing of their services. The question then arises, how can a small business take advantage of the opportunities presented by the Web in order to [...]

Many of you may have heard of Squidoo which is a competitor of Hubpages.com. Basically both of them are a “free-hosted community of content producers”. Both Squidoo and Hubpages can be “grouped” into the Web 2.0 movement – where user generated content rules. If you are already familiar with Squidoo, the your entrance into working with Hubpages will be very straightforward. [...]

In the early years of blogging, successful businessmen concluded that they cannot make profit from blogs. But try to hear them say that today and what you’d only hear is silence. It’s a reality that people have to face these days. Blogging is now a money-making tool in the internet. And since it is a social media, it can therefore be of great help to sell directly from your blog posts. This [...]

by Theo McLanahan If you are looking for a way to drive traffic to your website, look to your blog. Blogs are an excellent way to communicate with your target market and invite them to visit your site. Here are some tips you can use to blog for traffic. Post on your blog regularly; at least 3 times a week. By updating your blog on a regular basis, you are giving your readers a reason to keep referring [...]

by Terry Stanfield If your business is one started on next to nothing or maybe you are experiencing a cash flow problem, you will need to implement a low cost lead generation program. Because you are on a limited budget you may not wish to pay the cost of having a lead generation service do the work for you, so you will have to find a way your business can do it on its own without much outside assistance. Here [...]