7 Ways To Double The Conversion On Your WordPress Blog – Part 3 of 4

| June 7, 2010 | 0 Comments

BTW, just in case you have not yet answered my short, easy, painless survey about a free teleseminar, go here right now to answer a few questions. Remember that I’ll reward you handsomely for doing so with a $47 free gift that teaches you more about social media for small business. Getting back to the [...]

Tools for Making Social Media Easier and More Effective: Disqus

| June 2, 2010 | 11 Comments

Scroll to the bottom of this blog post. What is that you read at the end of every post? No not that amazing bio about me… I am talking about the call to action. At the end of all of my blog post, many of you will notice I always direct you to leave questions [...]

7 Ways To Double The Conversion On Your WordPress Blog – Part 2 of 4

| May 31, 2010 | 3 Comments

Last post, I talked about viewing your blog as a landing page whose main purpose in life is to be a conversion tool to build your house list.  Next we’ll talk about how to dramatically increase your conversion for a call to action using those Reader Personas I taught you how to create in the [...]

7 Ways To Double The Conversion On Your WordPress Blog – Part 1 of 4

| May 24, 2010 | 0 Comments

Hi everyone.  My name is Mike Lorence, and I’m excited about being Matt’s guest blogger entries over the next few weeks.  I see biz owners flushing money down the toilet with their blog. So why do you blog? To become a trusted expert For SEO purposes to improve search rankings To build your list Most [...]

Get The Most of Web 2.0 While Using WordPress 3.0

| May 19, 2010 | 0 Comments

For those of you WordPress fanatics out there, I am sure you have heard by now that WordPress 3.0 is on its way out. Originally they wanted to release it at the beginning of this month, but they help back as they worked out a couple of their bugs. For those of you who are [...]

WordPress vs. HTML For a New Website

| April 30, 2010 | 7 Comments

So you’ve determined that you need a new website. You’ve picked out the colors, you have the logo and design in mind. Now you just need to turn this vision into a live, working website. This begs the question, should I develop my website on simple HTML pages or should I use a platform like [...]

Turbo Social Media Facebook Window Decal

| April 28, 2010 | 0 Comments

Just yesterday, I retweeted out an article by Mashable, talking about the new Facebook Window Decals. Much to our surprise, today, we were one of the lucky Business on Facebook that also received their window decal. Facebook has sent these out to a select base of companies in hopes of them being the spokespeople for [...]

Arguing Business Week and Their Call Out of Social Media Myths

| March 23, 2010 | 1 Comments

Recently someone forwarded me an article from BusinessWeek, outlining “Social Media Myths,” and asked me if this was true and if they should be concerned. I told her that there is nothing to be worried about, and that the article was not researched well and that his arguments were superficial at best. Social Media Marketing [...]

Pepsi Ditches Super Bowl for Social Media

| December 28, 2009 | 0 Comments

If I have not made myself clear int he past, allow me to do it now: Social Media Marketing is powerful, and is the future of advertising. If you ares till skeptical about all of this, then maybe you have not heard the big Super Bowl news. The Super Bowl is known as the #1 [...]

Twitter and Facebook Updates Now Indexed By Google

| December 10, 2009 | 0 Comments

Google is at it again. No Google has not bought any new companies, but they have found a way to stay in the loop on what is going on Facebook and Twitter. Google now has a section in their search results that feeds in real time status updates from Facebook and Twitter (and a few [...]