February 18, 2009
Pilates Digest
Pilates Digest is an online resource for Pilates professionals and enthusiasts. The Pilates Digest team and contributors publish articles about professionals in their industry, interviews, product reviews, sport-specific training, business and exercise videos. I was asked to build a site that would embrace the Pilates community, allow users to share content with friends and collaborate and comment with each other. Continue …
January 15, 2009
10 Reasons to Use Facebook For Business
By Mari Smith
Social networking websites, especially Facebook, have significant implications for business owners, marketers, and entrepreneurs. To keep your business current, you should at least be familiar with the latest conversational marketing techniques and viral technologies, including Facebook and its array of powerful features.
Here are ten reasons to be active on Facebook:
- Meet your peers. Facebook is not just for college kids anymore. Members are typically older and more mature than on other sites, and there are more white collar users.
- Find business contacts. With more than 100 million active users, and predicted to be 500 million by 2011, not only are your friends on Facebook, so are your prospects, your customers, your JV partners… and, of course, your competitors. You need to be on too.
- Instant gate opener. Facebook members are open to connecting. You can easily begin a dialog with highly successful–even famous–people who were previously otherwise unreachable.
- Build relationships. By engaging in conversations with your prospects and customers, you can better adapt your marketing and business services to meet their needs.
- Raise visibility. By consistently showing up, posting relevant information, and being a thought leader, you can increase visibility and credibility as an expert in your area.
- Develop your personal brand. The lines between business and personal have become blurred. You can reveal as much or as little about yourself as you wish, allowing you to personalize your brand.
- Target your niche. Users volunteer vast amounts of information about themselves that you can readily access. These kinds of demographics, psychographics, and technographics would previously have cost fortunes to access. Author, John Battelle, calls Facebook a “database of intentions.”
- Get rapid top Google placement. Create a Page for your business and “push” information to your “fans.” Pages (for business) and Profiles (for personal) are indexed for optimal search engine positioning. Facebook has a page rank of #5 according to Alexa.
- Place targeted ads. With Facebook Social Ads, you can test out extremely targeted advertising for minimal cost.
- Free marketing. Aside from paid ads, Facebook is totally free to use and with regular activity you’ll end up with more traffic, more subscribers, and more paying clients.
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Mari Smith is a Relationship Marketing Specialist and Facebook Business Coach. She helps entrepreneurs to accelerate their business growth using an integrated social marketing strategy, with particular focus on Facebook. Mari is passionate about showing professionals how to develop powerful profitable relationships.
September 18, 2008
Top Ten Internet Marketing Strategies
By Guy Siverson
Finding hordes of traffic visiting your website is every Internet Marketers dream come true. Unfortunately most websites simply do not receive all the traffic they would like to.
Even if you are happy with your traffic levels there are definite ways you can improve upon them. Review this list of top 10 Internet Marketing Strategies and decide for yourself what strategies you can add to your Internet Marketing success.
Google Adwords & Beyond
Good ole PPC. I’m sure you have heard of how Google pay per click campaigns supercharge your Internet marketing success what you may not know is there are other PPC websites than the highly expensive Google Adwords.
- 7Search.com
- LookSmart.com
- AffiliateFuel.com
However, if you are just starting out it’s best to utilize free Internet Marketing techniques to start with until your website generates enough cash that it pays you to do PPC. With that said let’s look at 9 more marketing options available to all Internet Marketers.
SEO Your Website
SEO sure isn’t what it used to be, but that doesn’t mean it should be abandoned. Don’t get overwhelmed in the area of SEO, but do make sure that the search engine spiders know what they are looking at when they arrive. Continue …
August 18, 2008
The Gathering of Mustangs & Legends
The Gathering of Mustangs and Legends E-Commerce Store is an online store dedicated to the largest gathering of P-51 Mustangs aircraft. The P-51 is arguably the greatest fighter of all time and 150,000 spectators and fans attended the one of a kind event in Columbus, Ohio. I was asked to build an e-commerce store that had over 10,000 subscribers, the solution of choice had to be secure, scalable, user friendly and easy to maintain. Continue …
July 18, 2008
Stallion 51 Corporation
Stallion 51 E-Commerce Store is an online store for the FAA certified and the world’s premier P-51 Mustang flight operation called Stallion 51. They specialize in orientation flights, training, air shows and aircraft management. Stallion 51 is also the home of CRAZY HORSE and CRAZY HORSE ², the dual-cockpit, dual-control TF-51 Mustangs. I was asked to build an e-commerce store for their existing site that averages over 5,000 absolute unique visitors and 30,000 pageviews per month. Continue …
June 15, 2008
The Fitness Studio of Orlando
The Fitness Studio of Orlando is your place for a comprehensive fitness program, including personal training, golf specific training and a complete Pilates studio, offering private and semi-private sessions, group MVe and reformer classes. I was asked to design a website that reflects the same impressive ambiance and level of service they provide to clients in the Orlando, Florida area. Continue …
