Monthly Archives: April 2010
Etsy :: Build A Facebook Fan Page -step by step-
Here’s a step by step guide to setting up a Fan page. This was posted in the Etsy forum. Read the whole thing. 1. Log into your regular “your name” Account. 2. Go back to this thread and click this … Continue reading
13 'Old-School' Marketing Techniques That Take Your Facebook Fan Page From Wimpy to Wow : MarketingProfs
In researching Facebook Fan Pages, I found this post with 13 specific tips on how to “Take Your Facebook Fan Page From Wimpy to Wow”. There are a few that I hadn’t thought of and will work on as quick … Continue reading
Seth's Blog: Failure, success and neither
The math is magical: you can pile up lots of failures and still keep rolling, but you only need one juicy success to build a career. The killer is the category called ‘neither’. If you spend your days avoiding failure … Continue reading
Off Topic – My Mom, Tens Years Ago Today
This has nothing to do with business or the Internet. I wrote the following on Easter Sunday, April 23, 2000, ten years ago today. I still remember that day. My mom, Ruth Walton, died today, Easter Sunday, April 23, 2000. … Continue reading
Customer Acquisition Through Blogs is Directly Related to Frequency of Posts
HubSpot recently published a study about marketing. One of the things they found was that companies who blog more often are more likely to acquire customers. Read that again slowly. “Blog more often” correlates with “more customers”. An underutilized blog … Continue reading
Study Shows Small Businesses That Blog Get 55% More Website Visitors
The data was crystal clear: Companies that blog have far better marketing results. Specifically, the average company that blogs has: * 55% more visitors * 97% more inbound links * 434% more indexed pages Read the entire article at: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/5014/Study-Shows-Small-Businesses-That-Blog-Get-55-More-Website-Visitors.aspx
Ten With Tess – An Interview On SEO Success
Last week, I wrote an article, Do You Love To Talk? SEO for Comment Virgins, urging people to leave comments on other people’s blogs to increase their own SEO. Among the 7 people who followed directions and commented on the … Continue reading
Etsy :: SEO optimization really pays off!!
Found this advice on the Etsy forums. All of it is good stuff, even if it’s in lower case. You would read most of the tips in the Simple Guide To SEO, but there are a couple Etsy specific tips … Continue reading


Meet Interesting People Just Like You!
Like everyone else, I’ve used Facebook to friend people from High School that I never liked and find relatives that I’ve never met. Not that it hasn’t been fun, but it was a black hole of witty comments and annoying … Continue reading →