Marketing Village

SCORE’s “10 ways to make your web site work harder for you”: Tips from the “Counselors to America’s Small Business.”
Internet and search-engine marketing
My Own Business: A nonprofit offers a free online course that covers everything from setting up a website to operating on eBay
Google’s guidelines for webmasters: Help the search-engine giant find, index and rank [...]

Gene Marks 01.17.08, 1:20 PM ET
Small-business owners have monkeyed around with mass e-mail campaigns for years. We started out with software like Outlook, ACT!, and GoldMine, which merged and lobbed generic messages to groups of customers and prospects.
More recently, many of us have turned to e-mail-marketing vendors to hone our electronic attacks. These services [...]

 
By Susan G. Hauser
October 18 2007: 10:11 AM EDT
(FSB) — When Mark Bitterman, who calls himself a “selmelier,” was trying to pump up sales at his gourmet salt shop, he knew standard marketing techniques such as radio ads and direct mail wouldn’t be enough.
Seeking to capture the imagination of educated, adventurous gourmand prospective customers, [...]

By Verne Harnish, CEO, Gazelles, Inc.
and David Rippe, founder, Celestia
October 31 2007: 10:00 AM EDT
(FSB Online) — Dear FSB: I am chief content officer at Chillibreeze.com. It is a small content development startup founded by Ralph Budelman of Chicago. Based in Bangalore, India, it caters to the content needs of a global clientele.We have a [...]

 
By Mina Kimes
January 17 2008: 5:00 PM EST
 
FORTUNE Small Business) — Dear FSB: I’ve developed a health drink with an array of vitamins, minerals, and omegas that I’m currently selling over the Internet. I think it’ll be the next big thing in nutrition - how can I introduce my product on a large scale?
- Bruce [...]

I can hear everyone out there saying “of course I am working my Internet Marketing business. What a ridiculous question” Not so ridiculous a question If we take a closer look at your daily work habits. Notice I included myself? That is because I learned a valuable lesson about my work habits.
What was the main [...]

 
One of my close friends has just gotten into deep trouble at work. The reason? His MySpace blog, in which he shared information that was a LITTLE too personal, and a LITTLE too not-happy-with-work. One of his colleagues apparently forwarded a not-so-complementary post to one of his bosses, and well - you know how it [...]

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Back in October of 07 I started blogging on something I liked. I did not blog to make money I just wanted to share what was going on in my life. Once that Blog passed 500 hits a day I began to look at this a little bit different. I began to wonder [...]

Jonathan Legar recently posted an article on his blog titled “Boosting Rankings through Social Bookmarking” Currently I am using a lot of his tools that he promotes and I will keep reporting on how well I am doing with them. But in his blog he states…
Social Bookmarking sites currently have a lot of value in [...]

 
If you are going to learn how to sell anything online you will need to know about SEO marketing. SEO marketing assists marketers by increasing traffic to a web site, which obviously will increase sales.
So lets take a look at what marketing is.
Marketing has always been one of the most focused upon areas of a [...]