Blog Posts
Google ‘Business Centre’ has just become ‘Google Places’.
Google ‘Business Centre’ has just become ‘Google Places’ with an upgrade too. There’s a huge shift to thinking "local" and helping business connect with their audience. More people than ever are using the search engines to find the business they want locally and hey, that makes sense. Its how people...
Here’s One Way To Build a Niche List using FaceBook.
Here's one way to build a niche list in FaceBook. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrLtTdneXm0
Social Media Marketing – Will It REALLY Help Your Business?
And the next big question is how? I look at Social Media Marketing in two ways. One I call the hard wired and the other is the soft wired. Let’s just focus on the 2 biggie social media marketing platforms – Twitter and FaceBook and how this hard wired and...
Is Your Website Side Bar “Working” For You?
We're already well into 2010 so a good time for you to do a website review. Let's focus specifically on your sidebar. Is Your Side Bar Working For You? To make it easy to see your different options I've done a video showcasing what others are doing. Your 2010 Sidebar...
What Is the World Saying About You?
Do you know what the world is saying about you? Easiest way to find out is to Google Alert yourself! With Google Alerts you can set your personal name, along with the keywords and terms you're trying to rank for. Google Alerts will email you whenever new results for your...
Who Cares What Your Clients Think!
You should! Trouble is not many business owners even ask. Plus it can be hard to get unbiased feedback. What do your clients really think about your service, your value, prices, range and all manner of info that would help you grow your business? You try and getting totally unbiased...
WordPress 2.9.1 Fix Is Out
I made a post on the 29th December raving about the new WordPress 2.9 update. The two new features that stood out for me was the great new Image Editing feature along with the Trash Bin (no more problems with accidentally deleting posts or pages). What you probably didn't know...
New Years Eve Site Soars Up The Search Engine Charts
Just a quick update on a site and how, just in one week it has soared up the charts. This was a domain I bought a week before last new years eve. The plan was to generate a heap of traffic and build a list. I used some PC software...
WordPress 2.9 Is Available
It has been for about a week or so. If you visit WordPress.org you will notice that the classic blue download button now says “Download WordPress 2.9?. This is a major upgrade, and brings some really cool new features, including: Trash bin (no more problems with accidentally deleting posts or...
Love WordPress, and the iPhone and WordPress
On the train with my wife on our way up to the city to do some Xmas retail therapy. Just love technology. Decided to check out the App's on my iPhone and noticed the WordPress App needed updating (haven't used it for a while) and within 30 seconds I was...
Triple Your Traffic But Halve the Time You Do It In.
Sorry to post so many tests but we're going hard for our Smarter Website clients. We don't do all our tests "live" but sometimes you just need to. Being a Professional or Small Business Owner means you end up working twice as many hours and twice as hard so who's...
Simple Tip To Get More Backlinks To Your Website!
I'm really under the pump with helping new clients get their websites up in the Google charts and that reminded me of just one of the simple tips we use to make that happen. It's a no brainer for getting back links to your site, courtesy of Google themselves. Every...
Everyone Is A Marketing Expert, Apparently…
To build a really successful business we can't do it all. As a start up we might be the "Jack or Jill of all trades" but sooner or later... We get our bookkeeper to do the figures, the accountant to make it 'make sense' and work for the ATO and...
Don’t Do This Classic “I’m Gonna Get a Truckload Of Spam” Mistake!
Just caught one of my clients doing the classic - "I'll make it easy for people to contact me" mistake by putting my email address on the bottom of my post. Umm, woops! Spam galore coming your way soon. Leave it there for any length of time and I'll even...
# 1 Google Rankings in 6 Minutes… or Less!
Today you have a very real chance of becoming the 'King of the Mountain" in your field. Never before has it been easier to position yourself as the "guru" in be in spot # 1. Breaking News - "Real Time Search Engine Results" have begun! (and I have the evidence!)...
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