Relationship Marketing | Build Your Online Business

Certain tasks in your business are routine or predictable tasks.  You need to do them daily and sometimes several times per day for best results.  Some of these could include:

• Reading and replying to emails
• Spending time on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn
• Visiting forums
• Read and comment on three or four blogs
• Watch You Tube videos for training purposes
• Watch training videos from a Webinar you did not get to attend, or training for a product you purchased.

Every one of these tasks is important to your overall business plan, but each one can result in time-drains if you do not do real-time scheduling to set limits (more…)

When I first came online in 2008 there were so many things I did not understand and there was no one in my circle offline I could ask.   I remember in the very first class I took online the instructor told us we could copy his example and use his page on our own websites.  That was wonderful!  But how could I get the information from his computer to show up on my website?  This is done by a process called File Transfer Protocol (FTP), but I did not know the name, what it is, or how to do it.

I was so frustrated because in response to my question, I was told just to go ahead and “copy and upload it.”  Upload it? How?

If you are new to internet marketing or recently started a business online, do not be intimidated by the process. It really is pretty easy when you know how to use File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to transfer files from your computer to your websites.  I've found that Chris Farrell explains how to do this very clearly in this video.  Enjoy and please feel free to leave a comment below.

You can see more of Chris Farrell's videos by clicking here.  What aspect of internet marketing was your biggest challenge when you began.  If you are just starting your business online, what do you find most challenging?

Backlinks are important to your blog in order to increase organic search results. Organic search results are listings on search engine results pages, such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing that appear because of their relevance to the keywords being searched, instead of through paid methods, like pay-per-click advertising.

One of the most effective link building strategies is to submit articles to article directories.  When you write articles with between 400 – 700 words you have the opportunity to submit these articles to various article directories, keeping in mind their individual submission requirements.

It’s reasonable to expect that before long you will get quality inbound links from these article directories.  However, it’s important to note (more…)