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Storytelling Sells

At first glance, stories and businesses don’t seem to have much in common. But if you visit the websites of big companies, you’ll find there an About or History page full of stories. You know, how the big wigs started really small, in a garage or shop or campus room with $50 to their name...

Businesses and the stories they tell

Businesses tell stories in many different ways. Take companies that make video-games for example. Many release videos that show the story of the making of their next product, sometimes beginning with the ideas that started the project, and continuing with the development, and ending with the final stages of the production. Furniture makers and retailers often tell the story of their most popular products, from their inception to the preset day, showcasing the developments that they had

Essential SEO for Bloggers

For small businesses and individuals, free blogging software like WordPress is excellent because it’s partly optimised for search engines straight out of the box. In other words, nine times out of ten it will be easier to rank well if you use WordPress instead of building your own blog from scratch. Best yet, you can run your entire marketing website through WordPress so you only need to learn one software platform. (more…)

Why Lean Startups Are the Best Marketers

Lean Startups use a methodology that aims to help businesses develop and release products more quickly and without excessive costs. It’s a methodology that can also be applied when marketing any business no matter how old or large. If maximising your marketing effectiveness and minimising expense is important to you, then the lean startup methodology is for you. (more…)

Secrets Every Business Owner Can Learn From Internet Marketing

Do you think that every online marketer who does well is promoting great products or services? Not at all. Shrewd online marketers exploit customer’s fears and hopes to deliver to them products that are sometimes average at best. Haven’t you seen those magical weight loss cures? Or secret skin care treatments that the celebrities reportedly use? As absurd as all these products might seem, they do sell, often by the cartload. Blame it on the internet marketers. We don't condone ripping off your customers like some may however there is a lot we can learn about there marketing strategies. (more…)

How to Select Stock Images for Your Website

The web is saturated with free and commercial stock image providers that can supply images for your website’s marketing, advertising, or branding needs. Popular free sites include www.sxc.hu, www.flickr.com, www.stockfresh.com, and www.dreamstime.com. Top commercial stock image sites are www.istockphoto.com, www.crestock.com, and www.dreamstime.com. As you can see, some sites feature both free and paid image licenses.

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Image Search Engine Optimisation

Optimising images for search engines is not something that all webmasters do. The common practise is just to add the image to the content without any regard to its title, size, or tags. Convenient as that may be, it’s not recommended. As any SEO-conscious online marketing or advertising expert will tell you, images can generate a lot of traffic. In this tutorial you’ll learn how you can optimise your images in three simple steps. (more…)

Beyond Brochure Style Websites

Most business websites fall into two categories: brochure-style and dynamic websites. As the name implies, a brochure-style website is usually based on some printed material. Even when it is not, it tends to look like one of those little booklets that companies sometimes leave in the mail or hand over with each opportunity to prospective customers for marketing or advertising purposes. (more…)

DANGER: Major Google Game-Changer!

Well that’s if you have been playing games with search engines (which we don’t). If you are involved in ‘black hat’ SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) STOP NOW and read this article so you can minimise the damage done. Google has created a new version of Penguin and it’s putting a lot of shifty SEO companies and webmasters into a mad panic. The last Penguin update back in April, changed search results significantly for a lot of website. (more…)