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Facebook "Like" Buttons, Yay or Nay?
The current recommendation is to not bother doing the "Like" page and instead do a Facebook fan page (if you have the time to "Facebook" your site at all).
Posted on 25 July 2010 | 11:02 pm
It is Not Always About The Money
While SBI! is generally about business-building, we can measure returns on our investment in so many ways.
Posted on 25 July 2010 | 6:29 am
Search It! Has Two New Searches
Use these two new SEOmoz searches to check links to your site and to any page on your site. Their results are also a good complement to similar data from Yahoo! (available via Search It!, too).
Posted on 17 July 2010 | 10:41 am
The Two Big Similarities of Golf and SBI!
In both SBI! and golf, you do not play against anyone, only yourself. Specifically, you play on the 6 inch fairway between your two ears.
Posted on 14 July 2010 | 10:27 am
SBIers From Around the World
People are the same the world over. They want to live better and more freely. They want their children to be healthy, be well educated and to, um, leave home before they turn 40!
Posted on 11 July 2010 | 7:20 am
Do Visitors/Customers Understand and Believe Your Message?
Business Tips Studying the response of a new Web page or an e-zine issue helps you to fine-tune your message to just the right level of understanding and credibility. Are there any confusing points or assumptions or built-in biases affecting the clarity of your communications? Tracking visitor/customer reaction to your content (in their blogs, e-zine articles, forums, etc.) can pinpoint where key tweaks are required. How and where can you get visitor/customer feedback about your content so that you can fine-tune it until the right message is being "conveyed and weighed" properly by your target audience?
Posted on 9 July 2010 | 12:24 pm
How and When To Monetize Your Site
Monetization Building a Theme-Based Content Site is a flexible strategy that anyone can use to create an online income. But do you know the #1 mistake that most small business people commit while starting their online businesses? They start with Monetization. For example... Some people want to open an e-store and sell widgets. Great! But it's way too early to work on the M in Content Traffic PREsell Monetize. They need to nail down Content Traffic PREsell first. Others have decided to start a work-from-home business. They've heard of Google AdSense and want to create a site just to "sell"...
Posted on 9 July 2010 | 12:18 pm
Give Prospects Enough Details To Move Forward
Business Tips As your prospects move through the PREselling Cycle from "awareness" to "interest" to "ready-to-buy" (or "ready-to-hire" or "ready-to-book," etc.), they often reach a point where they need some details to move forward. They may even be considering other offerings and want to compare features. This is the critical "we could lose them" stage. A comprehensive well-written overview of your product or service's features will lead your prospective customers safely to your order form (or respond to whatever "call for action" you have on your site). Your overview will also remove the possibility of them wandering off to a...
Posted on 9 July 2010 | 11:57 am
A Proven, Results-Generating Process for Online Success
Process Does it take magic or luck to be successful online? There's nothing mystical about it. Simply follow a proven, results-generating process... Content Traffic PREsell Monetize It starts with your "pre-customer," the hundreds of millions of people who surf the Web every day... People use the Web as a searching tool. They search for credible high-value information or solutions, anything that can fulfill a wish that they hold dearly or solve a troublesome problem that they're experiencing. A Theme-Based Content Site contains information based on a main subject—the information that those people are searching for. Each page focuses on a...
Posted on 9 July 2010 | 11:27 am
Immature Thinking After All These Years
In the past 10 years, what's the excuse for not considering the start-up of your own e-business every bit as seriously as starting up an offline business?
Posted on 4 July 2010 | 6:33 pm