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Three Ways To Use The Internet To Promote Your Business’s Services

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The only way that people learn about a business is either by accidentally stumbling into them, hearing about them from friends, or seeing an ad for them. All of these things can happen in the online world, and probably happen far more often, just like they can happen in everyday life.

You might walk by a cute store when strolling through town, or find a Facebook page for one when you’re enjoying social media. You might hear about a great hairdresser from a friend when you meet up for coffee, or you may learn about it from a Tweet they posted. As you can see, internet is just as important for promotion as word of mouth.
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Originally posted on September 26, 2015 @ 2:33 am

Three Things You Are Taking For Granted In Online Marketing

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No matter what type of business you have, whether it’s big or small, you should be online and you should be utilizing all of the online marketing advantages that are there for you. The internet has opened up a host of outlets for businesses and for entrepreneurs to let people know about them, their products, and their services.

Like all things in technology, outlets change. One form of online outreach may become more popular as another goes to the wayside. As you read this you’ll find that you’ve likely heard a lot about using the first two as marketing materials, but the third one seems to be less used these days.

Keep reading to find out how can can use these three things to help market your business, and why it is you might be taking them for granted. Online marketing isn’t the same as buying an ad in the local paper. You need to do your footwork, not just pay someone to create and print your info. [Read more…]

Originally posted on August 13, 2015 @ 3:14 am

Effective Blog Promotions with Blog Search Engine

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Blogs have proliferated on the internet to such an astounding degree that it is hard to separate the chaff from the grain. There are so many blogs out there that you wouldn’t know which ones are good or which ones are not worth your time. It’s so hard to rise above the din of the millions of blogs that are clogging the netosphere. What you need is a way to be heard and be seen.

There are many strategies you can take in order to make your blog more visible and gain more traffic, which is the lifeblood of any web site or blog. One of the most effective ways to increase traffic to your blog is by enrolling in blog directories. This is a service that can have a tremendous positive effect on your blog. Blog directories showcase blogs so that it can be seen by more people.

What are the benefits of a blog directory? [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 8, 2011 @ 11:52 am

ZooLoo Puts a New Spin on Blogging with Graffiti and iPhone App

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Sometime in July 2009, we’ve covered this online life management site called ZooLoo.com.  Now, after several months, ZooLoo has launched a new blogging service, an iPhone app and a storefront with one main objective – to give you a facility to promote yourself and your interest from your own domain and social networks.

The site’s new blogging service is called the “Graffiti”. It allows you to publish links, thoughts, status, quotes, photos and videos to the site and share these as a blog posts to on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn. The site lets you post content either from the ZooLoo homepage or by using a Share button or through their  newly released iPhone app. (iTunes Link)

As for their  new storefront, the site gives you various paid packages that they offer. The free service is still there, but if you want your blogging service hosted on a paid account you can choose from the different packages which have the following key features:

  • Custom domain names
  • Web Dashboards that bring all of your interests into one place
  • Patent-pending privacy manager
  • Customizable site pages using ZooLoo’s site creator
  • Third party tracking integration
  • Photo manager and gallery.

Each feature can be purchased with monthly micro-payments.

If you want to run ZooLoo on an enterprise setting, they also have solutions for this purpose.

Originally posted on February 3, 2010 @ 5:13 am

How to Monetize Your Blog

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How to Monetize Your Blog

Despite the uncertainty of the economy and the convenience of microblogging, blogging is hot again, baby — and during a gold rush, it’s the shovel salesmen who make the most money. The Joy of Tech shares the real secret to monetizing your blog. Time to polish those event management skills.

Originally posted on October 21, 2009 @ 11:29 am