By EXIT Hodges Real Estate December 29, 2010
True professionals know that networking grows businesses. They also know that you must network not just within your community and industry but you must EXtend your hand to network with other professionals. We are EXcited to have you as part of network! EXIT Hodges Real Estate ...read more
Be Judicious With Links - Choose your self-serving and non self-serving links wisely. Try to narrow down your most important self-serving links and only include the one or two that are most relevant to the article. Non self-serving links are okay to use if you want to reference a source, but they ultimately lead people away from your articles and your website. Introduce Truly Original Ideas - Coin a new term or phrase. This gives you a chance to be the first to discuss some new topic in your niche. Don't lose focus of your journey toward becoming the official expert in your field. Treat Every Article Like It's Reaching a New Audience - Target those visitors who haven't read any of your content before. By doing that, you'll increase your chances of making contact with that audience. You need to be comfortable testing different writing styles to determine which works the best for you and your growing audience. The way to a good PR ranking is to follow these step followed by good backlinks. For more information, call an SEO Expert at www.flsites.com. ...read more
By Clearwater Web Pros February 07, 2011
There are a lot of acronyms in the internet marketing world, but here's an important one: CMS. The following post is a 101-style article to dig into exactly what that means. CMS stands forcontent management system, a tool that a person can use to design, manage, and publish a website. There are tons of CMS tools out there. Some are big, small, robust, simple, free, expensive, and everywhere in-between. So how do they work? Well, each solution is a little different. For example, Wordpress and Joomla has little modules you can rearrange and edit, like you would text in a Word document. Others may be elaborate and focus on detailed CSS (Custom Style Sheets), which is code that defines your website's "theme" — color palate, fonts, etc. Some solutions are out-of-the-box and let you select a public template. Now that we understand the different kinds of CMS tools at a high level, why should marketers and business owners care what a content management system is? Why might you need one? Here are a few thoughts: 1. CMS let marketers be nimble!Quick! You need to launch a new promo before the end of the month, requiring you to update your website immediately! Have you ever been in that or a similar scenario? Sometimes being a good marketer means being nimble, and the last thing you want is to have some jumbo website-editing bottleneck. Some CMS solutions are made with average, less technical folks in mind and are relatively simple to use. That way you can be empowered to make website changes all by yourself — whenever you need to! 2. Think about SEO as you create individual pages.Good CMS tools allow you to optimize for search engines within some of the most important on-page components, like URL structure, page titles, and headers. Extra credit if the tool allows you to easily add your own meta description and meta tags, but the SEO benefit there is pretty unsubstantial these days. However, a good meta description may increase the likelihood that a page is noticed in search engine results by a human eye and clicked. 3. Build with a marketing strategy in mind.Are you considering a website redesign or changing your website's structure? Become a pro user of your CMS solution and consider building your website yourself. It's powerful to be able to make a new site yourself with a specific marketing strategy in mind that best converts visitors into leads and leads into customers. Of course, before you begin your redesign, use web analytics to understand where your best traffic, leads, and sales are coming from, and use that data to define your goals and plans. Contact Florida Website Design now and convert your old and worn down static site to a more dynamic platform starting at only $399. Free hosting for six month included. ...read more
By Clearwater Web Pros January 28, 2011
Inbound links are the unsung hero of successful inbound marketing. They help increase traffic, improve SEO, and — if included in an article by a major news source — can be a great public relations win. But what is an inbound link?In plain English, an inbound link is a link from one website to another website. For example,this is an inbound link to CNN.com. Theinbounddescription is generally used by the person receiving the link. So CNN might say, "I received an inbound link from HubSpot." (And you're welcome, CNN. We'd love an inbound link or two from you!) So why do you need inbound links?Two reasons. First, it's an opportunity to receive referral traffic from another website. An inbound link from a blog is an avenue for that blog's readers to visit you. But depending on the amount of traffic that blog or website receives, the link may send a low volume of traffic. Inbound links are the "currency" of the internet, and a website rich with inbound links will naturally rank better in search engines.Great right? So should you haphazardly link yourself in random directories, plead to your grandma to link to you from her cat photo blog, and call it a day? No. All inbound links are not treated equally. Instead, you should focus on getting good, healthy inbound links from authoritative sources. In theHubSpot software, there's a Link Grader tool that tells customers when they receive a new inbound link and awards that link a grade based on how valuable it is. So choose your link properly and surely, your site will gain popularity in no time. ...read more
By Clearwater Web Pros January 25, 2011
Collection calls in any business are to collect money that is owed to the business. In the case of business to business collection, it's one business calling another to collect debt owed to them. Some businesses make the calls themselves while others outsource that task or eventually sell the uncollec... ...read more
Flyers can help you generate business leads by getting the word out to potential customers about your products. Once you create your flyers you can distribute them through the mail, place them on cars and even walk around to hand them out to home owners. You'll want to bring together the elements of d... ...read more