Some social marketing tidbits for you today.

A good analogy of social media and the sweet 16 - think basketball tournament matchups.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3632888

A good marketing lesson - make sure you check out part 1 as well.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3632886

Here's part one.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3632809

Create a twitter background.

http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-create-an-awesome-twitter-profile-background/

Have a wonderful Thursday.

We have all the important information we need to conduct business. From yesterdays post. Now we want to make a plan.

An excellent tool for doing this (in pdf format) can be found here -

http://www.ready.gov/america/_downloads/sampleplan.pdf

Remember to make it work you must take action, don't just look at it but do it.

Take a look at the resources page for the site - lots of excellent information.

http://www.ready.gov/business/other/library.html

Have a wonderful day.

One of the first things you want to do is to make sure that you have everything backed up (and not just on a disk but on paper as well). Make sure you have a back up of at least the following.

1. Your clients - all their information.
2. Your vendors
3. Your calendar

Make sure for these backups you have one in a safe place, away from your office, put one copy of these in a get-away bag. Something you could pick up quick on your way out of the office.

Enjoy your day.

Preparing your business for troubled times - we're going to be talking this week about preparing your business for trouble. One of the reason why we're doing this is because a couple of weeks ago we had a power outage that lasted several days. This got me to thinking what would have happened if the outage had lasted longer than a few days.

Today we're going to give you a few web resources that will help you plan.
Tuesday and Weds we're going to talk about steps to take before anything happens.
Friday we'll talk about what to happen during the unexpected.

A good site from the cdc on preparedness.

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/preparedness/

Some business specific help from the cdc.

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/prepared/

Some good stuff from the American Red Cross

http://www.prepare.org/basic/businessprep.htm

Some relavent info for your zip code.

http://www.disastersafety.org/

The hot story this week in the Social scene is the facebook policy debate.

Details on that can be found here.

Will social sites be the new in box?
http://searchenginewatch.com/3632099

A nice array of tools that you can use.
http://www.wdfm.com/publish/editors_choice_2008/

Some good information on PPC.
http://www.wordtracker.com/academy/ppc-introduction

Have a wonderful day.

We had a situation last week which every business will encounter. We had some severe storms roll thru and we lost power for three days. Would you be able to conduct your business if that happened to you? We're working on a couple of articles that should help you out. The first of these articles we'll have for you on Monday.

An excellent article on some things you can do to improve your rankings.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3632810

Here are some excellent resources if you run a ppc campaign.
http://www.wdfm.com/marketing-tips/ppc-tools.php

A wrap up of some articles we have filling our inbox (more about why our inbox is stuffed later this week).

Writing good descriptions for your site.
http://www.wilsonweb.com/conversion/follansbee-descriptions.htm

Some thoughts on keyword analysis
http://www.clickz.com/3632739

A good interview on possible SEO changes -

http://www.wdfm.com/marketing-viewpoints/mike_grehan_interview-1.php

Enjoy your day!

Is your landing page relevant?
http://searchenginewatch.com/3632648

Some Local business SEO secrets.
http://www.wilsonweb.com/local/thomas-seo-local-business.htm

A wild week last week - we didn't get any of the ice storm that much of our state did --

http://wkyt.mycapture.com/mycapture/photos/Album.aspx?EventID=254131&CategoryID=27735

But we did have a ton of work changing most of our sites / client's sites to a new web host. Hopefully this week we'll get back in the groove.

Here are a couple of sites with some SEO tools that you can use.

Keyword strategies --
http://www.wdfm.com/marketing-viewpoints/keyword-strategies.php

SEO Tools
http://www.wilsonweb.com/seo/dunn-seo-tools2.htm

Have A Wonderful Monday

Winter is supposed to be in full force here this week, I don't really mind the snow but we're supposed to get some ice... here's hoping and praying that the ice stays far away.

An excellent article on "Have you chosen the right niche".
http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/754/1/Have-you-chosen-the-right-affiliate-marketing-niche/

Three analytics trends.
http://www.wdfm.com/marketing-tips/eric-peterson-interview.php

Notes on the Google Conversion optimizer.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3632476

Techniques for relaunching your site.
http://www.clickz.com/3632436

Enjoy your Monday.

We've posted some great Super Bowl Party Ideas - we hope you and your family have a wonderful weekend.

Good Tuesday. Hope you had a wonderful weekend.

Collection of links for Google Tools.
http://www.wdfm.com/publish/google_tools/

A good collection of SEO tools.

http://www.ranks.nl/

Enjoy your day!

A new video on how to improve your Business can be found here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqZ2cRJE0Pg

It's all about getting organized. You can find our post here.

Good Monday morning to you.

Do PPC Campaigns and Organic compliment each other (or not).

http://www.clickz.com/3632236

Are there any shortcuts to SEO?

http://searchenginewatch.com/3632276

Sales Copy and Conversions

http://searchenginewatch.com/3632289

Some Link building opportunities.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3632298

Enjoy your day!

Posted some helpful thoughts on Starting the New Year off right on the gas mileage guide. Check it out and have a wonderful weekend.

I know that I promised you a video. I encourage you to watch this video - but not only watch up but actual do it. Make this a DO YEAR... and not just a I think I might do it one of these days year.

http://www.marketingsecrets.com/images/rebootmethod/rebootmethod.html

It's Tuesday and it's a good day for ducks here.

Working on your ad quality score.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3632257

Search trends for 2009
http://searchenginewatch.com/3632258

Enjoy your day!

Hope you had a wonderful holiday and got what you wanted in your stocking.

Here is a great presentation on your 2009 Blueprint and are you ready to break the rules.

http://www.marketingexperiments.com/images/multifiles/articulate/webclinic-12-17-08/player.html

Great info on improving your conversion rate with testing.

Enjoy your day!

First I hope that you and your family have a wonderful Christmas!

Here's a recap of things that happened in the Chicago SES.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3632156

PPC Landing page tips.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3632150

Tips for Local search.

http://www.clickz.com/3632121

Thoughts on what may happen in 2009

http://www.clickz.com/3632114

Design and your website.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/follansbee-graphics.htm

Enjoy your week!