Last week was National Small Business Week here in the United States, and coinciding with that, was a 2-day conference for small business folk dedicated to providing information and hands-on workshops to boost small business marketing efforts.
Now, perhaps not all of you are small business owners, but I would wager that a good deal of […]

Have you ever created a viral marketing campaign? With all of the tools available to you online, it’s never been easier.
The only hard part is coming up with something that is going to both make you money and be interesting to other people. The whole point is to create a buzz, and then before […]

Today is Earth Day, so in the spirit of that I thought I would take this opportunity to direct you to an online forum dedicated to allowing entrepreneurs to come together and exchange ideas for running a greener business.
GreenBusiness.net describes itself:

This Community is filled with like-minded entrepreneurs and professionals who understand the unique challenges […]

A good way to drive traffic to your site and potentially make sales from said traffic is to write articles for other sites.
Where many people go wrong with this concept is they will write the article in the form of a sales pitch and include links to their site and product pages throughout it. […]

So you’re attempting to make money online via a blog. You’ve taken great care to optimize your blog for the search engines, but have you submitted it to blog directories?
SmallBusinessNewz has a top 5 list of places you should really submit to for increased traffic including:
1. Technorati
2. Google Blog Search
3. Blogpulse
4. Icerocket
5 2RSS.com (because […]

Have you ever considered starting an email newsletter?
If you can offer interesting content that others would be interested in reading, why not try it out? Of course subscribers will have to opt-in, preferably double opt-in, otherwise you will be considered a spammer, and nobody likes a spammer.
You must also provide a way for […]

MyLot is an online community that supposedly pays you for simply using it. I am not a member, so I cannot provide a personal testimonial, but the service does sound intriguing I have to admit. MyLot says:
We want our users to help our website explode, and to reward you we will pay you every time […]

It may seem like common sense, but there are many people out there trying to make money off of their web sites and not even tracking where their visitors are coming from.
Keeping up with web analytics can help you see the weaknesses in your online marketing efforts, and therefore serve as a call to action […]

Here’s a good way to make money online: Buy quality domain names and see how much you can get for them. Pizza.com just sold for $2 million! It helps that the guy who owned it has been holding onto it since 1994. He was inspired by vodka.com selling for $3 million.
Of course getting good domain […]

With the rise of social media, people often forget that online forums have been providing a similar medium of interacting with other people for years.
Not only can they provide an excellent resource for finding assistance with any problems you may be having (particularly with online business), they can make for a great branding tool. […]