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The success of your business Web site ultimately depends on its quality and value, not just on your marketing skills. But if no one knows about your site, they´ll never get the chance to judge it (or buy from it). And with hundreds of thousands of sites clamoring for attention, it's all too easy for your company to get drowned out by all the noise.

Short of spending millions of dollars to broadcast commercials during the Super Bowl, there's no surefire way to rise above the crowd. But there are… Continue

Reciprocal links play a huge role in search engine results. This means linking to a relevant website from your site; and that site linking back to you as well.

If you have a blog, post the URL here as a comment.

Check back as often as possible and add the other people's blog links to YOUR blog as they list them here.

You can easily add a list of links somewhere on your blog, title it "BGnetwork Friends" or something to that effect, and as people post their blog URLs here, add them to your lis… Continue

Here are the photos from the commercial shoot I did yesterday for a national retailer - very exciting!!! Can't wait to see these in action on their website!!

If you need professional photos of YOUR products, contact me or visit boutiquegraphics.com for info!

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Hey everyone!

I've come up with a method for us all to get MORE traffic on our blogs (and therefore our websites!). It's free, and it hardly takes any time at all.

This is a way that we can all help each other, and in turn we will be helping ourselves and being helped... it's just a gorgeous, happy circle of love and web traffic. :)

If you're running a giveaway, special, tip, article, or just a really cool post on your blog, post a blog here on BGnetwork letting us all know about it.… Continue

In today's economy, nearly everything you read, including my columns, offers advice and information about how to pull back, cut costs, avoid failure and even accept failure and close down.

Recently I have been thinking about this trend and what it means for entrepreneurs.

In even the best economic conditions, most new businesses fail. Yet entrepreneurs still start businesses.

So, recognizing that entrepreneurs tend to buck trends anyway, I want to advocate another way to view this current env… Continue