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Helpful Articles with Marketing Tips for the Holidays

The holidays are upon us. It’s never too late to improve your business. Here are a series of articles I found that relate to helping you and your business succeed.

I regularly check out RSS feeds from Entrepreneur Magazine and other business related sites. Topics will range from running your business to marketing, social media, website design and blogging.

Check back often to my blog. You never know what you will find.

Enjoy reading these articles this Thanksgiving week.

Seven Easy Tweaks to Turn Your Site into a Holiday Sales Machine

Brian Solis on Five Common Social Media Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

More Small Businesses Extol the Benefits of Social Media

Social Media and Content Marketing

How to Create a Google+ Business Page

I believe blogging is an excellent way to increase traffic to your business website. The following books can help.

5 Good Kindle Books For New Blog Owners

Why not buy yourself or someone you love a Kindle Touch for the holidays.

31 Oct

Marketing Success is Inevitable

When you take the time to work on your business marketing on a regular basis, you will succeed.

I’ve been in business over 30 years and am forever reading up on the latest trends in online business and marketing. I’ve found I must constantly “update” my marketing ideas in order to keep up.

Teach yourself how to promote your products and services. There’s a wealth of information online. The more you read, the better able you will be to figure out what works for you.

Be careful of what you read

Always be aware that there are many people promising you success and wealth, as long as you buy their product or service. Make sure you are not throwing your money away. A little research goes a long way in being web savvy and avoiding scams.

Take Action

Sitting by the phone waiting for it to ring is not a good option. But it is easy to do.

Instead, check out these interesting articles and get started on increasing your business today.

56 New Digital Media Resources

25 Stories You May Have Missed from Mashable

57 New Digital Media Resources

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Marketing 101 Online Marketing

17 Oct

9 Tips on Promoting Your Business for the Holidays

Halloween is almost here. Do you have your costume yet? How about plans to escape trick or treaters?

Most importantly, what are your plans for promoting your products and services for the all important holiday season?

Here are some tips to get your name out there this holiday season.

Blog about how your product, service, or industry will help your clients/readers.
E-mail your newsletter with tips related to your products or services. Try Constant Contact or MailChimp for a simple email solution.
Update your website with specials. Make sure these specials will really benefit your customers and not just you. Explain how these benefits will help your customers.
Add testimonials to your product pages. Don’t make them up, though.
Use Twitter to build buzz.
Create a contest or auction and promote it regularly.
Set up a Facebook business page with fun facts and tips.
Spread the word on LinkedIn to reach more businesses.
Advertise online using Google’s AdWords or FaceBook Ads. You can set how much you want to spend. Make sure your ads go to optimized landing pages.

Be sure to read the following for more information:

5 Holiday Marketing Ideas to Boost Sales

What are you planning to do to promote your business?

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Advertising Business Practices Helpful Hints Marketing 101 Online Marketing

05 Jul

How to Make Money Online in 5 Easy Steps

I have been a graphic designer and writer for over 30 years. Creative Juices was born in 1981. And in spite of the changing design field with the introduction of e-lectronics and computers, starting a business of any kind takes lots of hard work and perseverance. But with that said…

Starting your own online business is as easy as starting a blog.

This will not make you rich overnight, unless you get lucky. But you can bring in extra cash with a little effort by following these 5 simple steps.

Start a blog in a niche you love. Make sure it is something you’re passionate about. I highly recommend using WordPress.org to create your blog. Because it’s self hosted you have complete control.
Create unique, killer content. By killer I mean highly relevant and helpful content that people will search out and read.
Sign up with Google for their free analytics, AdSense and keyword tools.
Apply for affiliate programs like LinkShare or Commission Junction and sell other people’s products by placing ads on your site or reviewing products.
Create your own products or services and sell it on your site and through affiliate programs. This could be anything from eBooks to T-shirts. Also check out Zazzle and Cafe Press to create products for sale. It’s free to sign up.

See how easy that was? Again, you will not make millions doing this. But some people have been know to make six figures a year with their online businesses.

If you have any ideas on making money online the easy way, let me know.

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