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…
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Added by Maggie Phillips on June 11, 2009 at 3:56pm —
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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…
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Added by Maggie Phillips on June 5, 2009 at 1:53pm —
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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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Added by Maggie Phillips on June 3, 2009 at 9:30pm —
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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.…
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Added by Maggie Phillips on May 29, 2009 at 2:04pm —
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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…
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Added by Maggie Phillips on May 27, 2009 at 2:17pm —
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Where we find inspiration: Many women who never would have thought of themselves as entrepreneurs are startled by the ideas that motherhood spurs. You realize all kinds of needs aren't being met and constantly think there must be a better way. One mompreneur, Tamara Monosoff, has created an entire business to help mom inventors achieve their dreams. But frequently, it's not a product that inspires mompreneurship--it's motherhood itself. For instance, the drive and desire to be home with t…
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Added by Maggie Phillips on May 27, 2009 at 2:13pm —
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Mistake No. 1: Equating branding with communications. Yes, branding includes communications. But if your branding strategy is all about messaging and advertising and nothing about business strategy or people, then you won't be able to deliver on your communications. If you have lousy customer service, telling people it's great will only drive customers away faster. But investing in training and infrastructure to improve service will enable you to market your great service and still look y…
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Added by Maggie Phillips on May 27, 2009 at 2:10pm —
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Come on, put on that Heather Small song to set the mood while reading this column about finding business inspiration as a mompreneur. The advice that follows struck me during my usual morning run, shadowing my son as he rode his bike to school. As I was returning home, I glimpsed a challenging hill I've tackled a few times. But like a horse being drawn back to the stable, I was running toward home thinking of all the e-mails and phone calls that awaited me.
So I asked myself, "What are you goin…
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Added by Maggie Phillips on May 27, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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Hi everyone!
I am back from my lovely vacation, and my how quickly it flew by!!
Just wanted to let you all know about a great new service I came up with while I had time to relax and brainstorm.
It's a Design Your Own eCommerce Template, and it works whether you're just starting out or just ready to give your current site a fresh new look. Best of all, it's budget-friendly and can be up and running super-fast! :)…
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Added by Maggie Phillips on May 26, 2009 at 12:48pm —
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Added by Maggie Phillips on May 26, 2009 at 12:43pm —
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I would so appreciate your votes for me for the Leading Moms in Business 2009 Competition!
http://www.startupnation.com/leading-moms-2009/contestant/6119/index.php?mode=castvote
Thanks!! :)
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Added by Maggie Phillips on March 20, 2009 at 3:31pm —
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Added by Maggie Phillips on March 19, 2009 at 8:50pm —
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Added by Maggie Phillips on March 19, 2009 at 8:41pm —
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I am totally addicted to new fonts... if you are too then go check out the Scrap n Fonts sale - 76 pages of $1 fonts! Heaven!!!!
http://www.scrapnfonts.com
:) Maggie
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Added by Maggie Phillips on March 16, 2009 at 4:31pm —
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Just added these fresh, fun templates - perfect for boutiques and photographers - edit them a little or a lot; buy one template or the entire kit - it's up to you!
Click here to purchase.
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Added by Maggie Phillips on March 9, 2009 at 1:00am —
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Added by Maggie Phillips on February 15, 2009 at 7:36pm —
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Yep, I've finally gotten on the ball and started the Boutique Graphics blog - make sure you sign up to follow the blog as I will be adding marketing tips, photoshop tricks, photography advice, etc several times a month!
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Added by Maggie Phillips on February 15, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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| MARKETING YOUR STORE |
If you build it, they will come... right? I wish it was that simple!
In order for people to find your store, you will have to market it.
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Added by Maggie Phillips on February 11, 2009 at 7:12pm —
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Everyone wants their website to be ranked at #1. This article by Jill Whalen for www.highrankings.com explains why that shouldn't be your main goal, and how to look at SEO ranking in the overall picture.
Those who've been in the SEO biz for a number of years know how much more competitive it is these days compared to a few years ago. The number of web pages indexed by search engines has doubled, tripled, and quadrupled in past years. On top of that, a good portion of site owners and webmasters…
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Added by Maggie Phillips on January 7, 2009 at 12:16pm —
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