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Busy Beaver Moves into New Digs

Chris Campbell — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:11:38 +0000

Busy Beaver is a Chicago company that is close to our hearts as a fellow active supporter of the Coleman Center. I recently got an email from Alex White that included this attractive invite to their grand opening. If you are in the market for some pretty cool buttons, give them a try. Congrats Busy Beaver on your new facility! Busy Beaver Moves into New Digs is a post from: Lakeshore Branding Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on del.icio.us Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Email this via Gmail Share this on LinkedIn Email this to a friend? Share this on Reddit Post this to Posterous Share this on Tumblr

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The New Google +1 Button: The Battle of the Buttons

Chris Campbell — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:48:10 +0000

The Facebook “Like” button has a new friend. Or rather, a new “competitor”. After a series of unsuccessful attempts to incorporate social into search – such as Orkut, Buzz, Wave – Google is launching what observers believe can serve as a rival product to Facebook’s “Like” button. It’s called the Google “+1” Button. In an announcement made last week on the official Google blog, the search engine giant is rolling out the new +1 button as a way for users to share their recommendations to others, as well as to give a “public stamp of approval” on search results and linked sites that they like. This then enables other Google users to find more relevant – and more social – search results. “Sometimes it’s easier to find exactly what you’re looking for when someone you know already found it,” reads the explanation on the Google +1 Button page. “Get recommendations for the things that interest you, right when you want - Read the full article

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ESSENTIAL E-mail Marketing Tips: How to Meet Your Customers’ Needs Via E-mail

Guest Blogger — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:30:43 +0000

There are enormous benefits to communicating with your customers via E-mail rather than over the phone. Most customers prefer E-mails to phone calls any day of the week. Put yourself in their shoes. Would you want to receive a call at 10 a.m. from a company you recently did business with? Chances are that most customers are at work when you try to call them, and they may get off work after your business closes. So, they have to go out of their way to return your call. This can be especially aggravating to customers when the phone conversation will be about an error on your part. If you’ve been having some trouble with your computer system or shipping and realize you won’t be able to deliver a product to a customer on time, let them know by E-mail. Most customers prefer to receive an E-mail from your company and would rather skip playing phone tag with one of your - Read the full article

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Opting for an SEO Career During Recession

Guest Blogger — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:08:42 +0000

The last couple of years, the world’s economy has seen a roller coaster ride, caused by recession and financial meltdown. Businesses have been badly hampered by these global recessions. People have lost their jobs. Right now, I believe, we are going through another recession; fortunately, the impact doesn’t seem to be as serious as the previous one. There are significant damages seen coming via this ongoing recession, but there are also ways to survive. Thanks to the World Wide Web, people have found a number of opportunities to sustain their careers and livelihoods despite the bad time. These include opportunities in the SEO or search engine optimization industry. Your expectations from an SEO career should be realistic. Your success may very well depend on the clients that you have: if they belong to recession-affected industries like that for financial services, real estate, and automobiles, don’t be surprised if you don’t get a lot of business or a big budget. Keep - Read the full article

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Is Blekko the new Yahoo! Site Explorer?

Guest Blogger — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:18:54 +0000

Yesterday Yahoo! Site Explorer decided to retire from business. It has left many amateur SEOs, and some professional SEOs too, at a bit of a loss. Many SEOs and agencies have been using the back link service in Yahoo! Site Explorer to monitor, analyse, and generally try to copy the link building actions of their competitors. As someone who has been involved in SEO for over 5 years (not so much by choice but by necessity) I have used Yahoo! extensively, and seen my competitors use it against me, too! I manage several sites across various niches, and some of my sites do interlink with each other, wherever a connection really does benefit a reader. I have seen people leave comments on all my blogs, and doing so in the order of Yahoo! backlinks for my main website. SEO Stalkers are gonna have a harder time I have also seen the same people leave comments on other blogs where I - Read the full article

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Top 10 Google Chrome Apps

Guest Blogger — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:50:21 +0000

For those of you who are Google addicts like myself, you should find this piece choc-a-bloc full of Chrome apps for you to gorge yourself on. Whether it’s gaming you are looking for or an app to help your business run more smoothly, you should find something here to satisfy your taste buds. The Google Chrome Store makes me feel like a kid in a sweet shop at the best of times, and if you haven’t checked it out already you will find it hard not to after reading below. Bear in mind that you need to be using the Google Chrome browser (to enjoy these apps), so download it now and start browsing in the shop and on the Internet. Google Chrome apps for small business One of the best apps I have found on the Google Chrome Web store is the ZOHO Invoice app, which I now use religiously to process all my invoices and keep track of - Read the full article

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Why Integrate Social Media Into Your Blog

Guest Blogger — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:51:36 +0000

Congratulations, blogosphere. It seems that we have reached the point where 90% of the blogs out there have put either an E-mail address or a contact form onto the site. Gone, finally, are the days where readers or media would spend hours scouring the site to find out how to contact the writer or blog editor. A contact form isn’t enough, though. You need to offer readers a bigger glimpse into who you are and give them a few different ways to contact you. Bloggers are starting to realize this and you’re seeing more and more buttons and links to profiles on Twitter, LinkedIn, About.Me, Facebook, and other sites. No, you don’t have to stick a link in your “about” page to your old photo album from Greek Week, but letting others know where to find you elsewhere online is a great way to promote your blog and personal brand. The communication barrier is a lot less significant in the - Read the full article

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Product Page: Tips to Making It An Awesome Sales Magnet

Chris Campbell — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:54:51 +0000

So you’ve e-Commerce’d your site up. (Hopefully with Magento, our favorite.) And you’re ready to roll. The homepage is ready. The product shots have been Photoshopped to perfection. The design and the color schemes look very cool (ahem, an aesthetic term) and you’ve set up your checkout process with a secure third-party payment gateway. That’s it, right? Well – not if you haven’t dedicated as much effort as you already have to your product pages. Here’s a list of awesome tips for turning your product pages into awesome sales magnets: Optimize it. This, really, is a given, since you want the search engines to find you as easily and as often as the human visitors do. Great ways to make your product page SEO-friendly include: avoiding duplicate content and duplicate URLs; writing up unique and compelling text descriptions for each product (don’t just copy the manufacturers’ descriptions); and editing this content in a way that makes it relevant to your - Read the full article

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We Already Have Facebook, Stumble, Twitter, Do We Need +1 More?

Guest Blogger — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:35:40 +0000

In mid-March, Google launched a social sharing tool called “+1.” Similar to the Facebook “Like”, +1 was added to search results to improve social relevance for users. It was noted last week that +1 will make its way across the Web in addition to (simply) search, with a widget that allows Web pages to allow +1 sharing. This will link Google profiles to content and websites, and the +1 now aims to put Google in a space where they have strived to be in for the past 5 years: social. Now, what exactly is +1? And why does it even matter? Essentially the +1 button is Google’s version of the “Like.” With hopes to capture a bit of Facebook market share, Google looks to take the world’s information and make it publicly available (according to their mission statement). So what does this mean for you? Well, besides the fact that it’s another way to draw traffic to your blog, the - Read the full article

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7 Best Practices for an Effective Homepage

Chris Campbell — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:07:07 +0000

First impressions last. That’s why, when it comes to marketing yourself through a website, your homepage will have to be love at first sight. And while the other pages of your website deserve equal attention, they aren’t necessarily of equal importance. A homepage, by its very nature, will typically have a unique set of design goals, content objectives, and mood in order to catch and sustain the attention of visitors. Here’s a list of seven best practices for a more effective homepage: Communicate concisely who you are, what you do, and what your site is for. Don’t leave people in the dark – show them the light, and show them the light in the first five seconds upon arrival. Your company’s name is Charlie’s Tees, and you sell funny shirts and vintage shirts, and your online store is the source of sartorial awesomeness. See? Concise and clear. Do that and you’re off to a good start. (Bonus tip: Make sure that these - Read the full article

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