Tag: Wasting Your Time
How Do I Promote My Website?
Posted on Jul.10, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
If you are a small business owner with a website, chances are you have wondered how best to promote it. You might wonder if people are going to be able to navigate to it or if it will be popular. Of course, you’ve heard you need to submit to search engines, but which ones? How many? The more the better, right?
Wrong. In fact, if you have been trying to promote your website by making sure that it is listed with [...]
Print Your Marketing Postcards For A Penny, Address Them For Free, and Automate the Whole Process
Posted on Jun.18, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
This article will show you how to cut your printing costs to a penny and have your postcards addressed for free without doing it all yourself, reducing the time you invest in your mailing to almost nothing.
So, you have a list of hot prospects in hand; you need a way to get your marketing message in front of them with the hope that a reasonable percentage will call you. You decide that you want to send a postcard to each [...]
How To Write Ads That Get Response
Posted on Jun.10, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
Your print ads should do more than just get noticed. Their job is to bring you business, and if all they do is lay around and attract attention, they’re no different from the lazy employee who does nothing all day but look busy.
You wouldn’t give him more hours in the hopes that one day something productive will happen. And you shouldn’t keep running those "name recognition" ads in the hopes that one day sales will happen, either. You should fire [...]
Wasters and Energy Suckers
Posted on May.29, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
Stop wasting your time and having your energy sucked dry! What do I mean by this statement? You’re all over the internet trying to find out where to promote that new business you entered into, or trying to promote your own business. You’ve been told by so called experts to promote your new business to free classified ad sites or FFA pages.
They even told you that you will get a ton of traffic to your new site. And you will [...]
Give Me Quality Over Quantity Every Time
Posted on May.27, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
In the early days of developing my home business, I went for the numbers instead of focusing on targeting prospects. It took me a while to appreciate the importance of targeting (quality) instead of just going for the big numbers (quantity).
For online marketing, it helps greatly to get your website in front of people who are actually looking for the product, service, or opportunity that you are offering. This refers to the concept of marketing your sites to your target [...]
Advertising Your Holistic Business
Posted on May.25, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
The most basic answer is the same answer as to the question, how does advertising work? Advertising works through repetition, and Holistic Hometown offers you that repetition.
What all successful companies know is that advertising it a process. It’s been stated in marketing files for over 50 years that potential clients, unless they are in need of your services when they initially see your ad, take 5-7 repetitions to recall who you are. What does that mean? Well, if you are [...]
How are Directories Different from Search Engines?
Posted on May.14, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
Directories are important to your ranking and success with Search Engines. In a nutshell, search engines are completely automated and usually there is no need to submit. Directories all have human editors who review your site and you do have to submit to them to be listed. But you must submit the right way or you are wasting your time.
If you think getting listed in search engines is slow, try directories. Getting listed in directories takes time but it is [...]
The Proper Way to Use Images
Posted on Mar.12, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
Most people will agree there is nothing more annoying than going to a site and it taking forever and a day to download all the images just so you can see the site. Then after waiting, realizing that the site is completely ugly, irrelevant,or not what you thought is was, and wasting your time.
A lot of newbie web designers rely completely on the use of images to display their clients websites. In fact, a lot of times when you [...]
How to save time with effective web page building software
Posted on Feb.28, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
Have you ever been wondering why it takes a webmaster so long to
make changes to your existing site? Do you want to have the
ability to make your own changes and be in control of your own
time? Well the answer to that question is be using a web
building program where you have no technical skills and do the
work yourself. What is more valuable having the knowledge or
paying someone who might not even be doing a good job for you?
The search engines [...]
KISS Your Website!
Posted on Jan.14, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
Many web developers today are starting to KISS their website, and it shows!
No, I don’t mean they get hot and heavy with the monitor, I mean they apply the basic values of Keep It Simple Stupd! (KISS)
Many sites today are focusing on high end graphics, advanced java scripts, catchy logos, and other trivial factors. What they don’t realize is that it’s a win win game if you keep it simple.
1. Content sells! People go to websites for reasons. Either they [...]
