Introduction This series of posts is a brief overview of how to grow your business and increase profits by using the Internet effectively. By the time you finish reading these posts, you should have a clearer understanding of how to begin marketing your business on the Internet. I’m not trying to turn you into an Internet marketing expert. But I will do my best not to overwhelm you with techno-babble. Before we jump headlong into ‘Internet stuff’, just remember that the Internet Read more [...]

Getting Qualified Visitors Once you’ve properly researched your market and have a deep understanding of your ideal customers, the next step is to get visitors to your website. Getting targeted visitors to your website is paramount to making money with the Internet. If you don’t have any visitors then you won’t make any sales through your website. Think of it this way: traditional businesses rely on steady foot traffic in order to make sales, the same is true of the Internet. In Read more [...]

YouTube is owned by Google, and it's the second-biggest search engine on the Internet, after Google itself. Some of the statistics quoted by YouTube are staggering: More than 13 million hours of video were uploaded during 2010 and 35 hours of video are uploaded every minute. More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US YouTube reached over 700 billion playbacks in 2010 The reasons Read more [...]

  Facebook Pages Facebook Pages (also called Fan Pages or Business Pages) came out a few years ago and they are still a hot opportunity for businesses.   Here’s why Facebook Pages are so important: Facebook has over 800,000,000 users, and it's still growing strong! In other words there are plenty of opportunities for you to market your business. It doesn’t matter which country you live in because Facebook is everywhere.   Facebook gets more Internet Read more [...]