Alex Guldbeck, Web Consultant

Small Business Marketing Sucks: Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

admin — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:00:52 +0000

Small Business Marketing Sucks: Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

admin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:02:47 +0000

Studies show that businesses who maintain or increase their marketing during a recession experience higher sales growth – both during the recession and immediately following.

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admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:00:23 +0000

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How To Use Social Media To Promote Your Small Business – Forbes

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:06:46 +0000

You have a small business and you haven’t bought into the social media craze? Guess what? Silence is no longer an option. People are online talking about your company as you read this, whether you like or not. If you don’t engage in the conversation, you risk losing your customers.

How To Build A Killer Small Business Web Site – Forbes.com

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:06:45 +0000

The Internet has proved a powerful equalizer for small businesses. But entrepreneurs can't just build Web sites these days–they have to build great ones that truly snag viewers and turn them into paying customers.

The End of SMB Websites?

admin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 07:09:11 +0000

The profile page will be around for a long time and is a great thing for SMBs with crappy/no websites, but eventually the SMB website is going to be where the action is.

11 Reasons Your SMB Still Needs A Web Site | Outspoken Media

admin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 06:03:37 +0000

One of the most powerful marketing channels for SMBs owner is email. It’s cost effective, it’s intimate and it can come with twice the conversion rates of RSS for even the most popular blogs. However, social media doesn’t inspire people to hand over their email addresses. Having a Web site that you can use to build incentive does. Whether you offer customers an email newsletter, blog, exclusives, coupons, discounts, etc, you open the door to a more personal way of contacting and marketing to them. One that is proven to work. While you can use Facebook to collect emails, it’s far more cumbersome and people aren’t as inclined to give them up. Instead, you want to create a site that users can trust and then use it to build your email list. A carefully pruned and collected email list can be one of your strongest sales tools.

56% Of SMB Websites Don’t Meet Businesses Needs – Smb – Business/E-Business – Informationweek

admin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:59:28 +0000

According to a study from Deluxe Corporation, 56% of small businesses believe that their website doesn't meet their needs. Drilling down on those findings 21% think their site needs more work on content and layout and 29% see a need for a total overhaul. The phone and online survey polled more than 200 small businesses.

Report: 58 Percent of SMBs On Social Media Sites, Most Have Only Limited Engagement

admin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:38:59 +0000

There’s been a boatload of survey data released in the past six months documenting the adoption of social media by US small businesses (SMBs). The numbers range from about 40 to 70 percent of SMBs reporting they’re using social media to some degree. Yet survey data aren’t always accurate because it’s challenging to get a “representative sample” of SMBs — the numbers are all over the place — and self-reported data can be based on misperception and aspirations.

However a new report from Palore, not relying on survey data, confirms that large numbers of SMBs are on social media. The data reveal that 58.2 percent of SMBs have a presence on either Facebook or Twitter, but only 22 percent are on both.

Arabesque Belly Dance

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:13:09 +0000

Migrated site from legacy HTML platform to OS CMS (WordPress). Template design and modification, Google map, flickr and mailing list implementation and integration, training.

http://www.arabesquebellydance.com