Why email marketing?"...email is still one of the most effective ways to attract and build customer relationships. Most marketers will tell you that their email subscribers are more engaged and more likely to convert to transactions than their Facebook fans or Twitter followers. Billions of dollars of transactions and value flow through email." James Slavet. What is email marketing? AWeber, the world's leading provider of hosted email auto responders, have just released more free email … [Read more...]
FREE Quiz: How Effective Is Your Website?
Get your business found online quiz...Take this quick quiz to identify for yourself how easily your prospective customers are likely to find your website before they find your competition.Rate each aspect of your website from 1 to 4, with 1 being the lowest performance and 4 being the highest:I have a website.My website has an integrated business booster blog where I can easily update content via a content management system.My website is optimised for high organic search … [Read more...]
Weekend Wrap Up With Hubsite Builder!
Welcome to the first weekend wrap up...Each Friday or Saturday I plan to publish a list of 3 to 5 articles, tips or resources that my clients or I have found useful for getting your business found online.Core topics will cover:Blogging for businessOptimising your website for search enginesLanding page tipsUsing social media to develop and maintain relationships onlineTime management tips to maximise the time you spend working ON your business, rather than IN itTips and tools to … [Read more...]
FREE and EASY – Short Visual Course On Getting Your Business Found Online…
Organic SEO that gets your business found in GoogleI know you're really busy running your business so I'll keep this short ... I also know that if you're like most business owners you're struggling to get your business found in Google, so I put together a FREE, short course in a very visual format on Facebook for you.This quick overview outlines what you want to do to get YOUR business ranked high in the search engine results pages.Please remember to click the LIKE … [Read more...]
Is Your Home Page Working For Or Against You?
Website designer's and developer's tips to BOOST your online presenceAt Hubsite Builder, we have developed a system we call B.O.O.S.T.S to teach our clients how to leverage the advanced organic search engine optimization (SEO) features of Hubsite Builder's website design and development software.The second "O" in Hubsite Builder's B.O.O.S.T. system stands for the word "ONE", meaning ONE PURPOSE PER PAGE.The ONE purpose of your HOME PAGE is to entice your visitors to give you … [Read more...]
Local Search Ranking | New Features Added to Google Places
Have you claimed and optimized your Google Places listing yet?I've been urging Hubsite Builder's clients and this blog's readers to claim and optimize their FREE Google Places listing. My last 2 posts showed you how to do that. Some of our clients have bitten the bullet and done it for themselves, others have decided to invest their time doing what they do best and have engaged an SEO provider to do it for them.Whatever way you decide to claim and optimize your listing I urge you to … [Read more...]