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FTC Ruling RE Bloggers A Long Time Coming
In the June 11th PI Window on Business broadcast I asked a guest panel the question “Has Blogging Crossed The Threshold of Legitimacy?" As the segment description will tell you, the basis for asking the question in the first place was an AdAge.com article from April 13, 2009 titled “Bloggers Be Warned: FTC May Monitor What You Say, ” in which writer Michael Bush reported that “As part of its review of its advertising guidelines, the FTC is proposing that word-of-mouth marketers and bloggers, as well as people on social-media sites such as Facebook, be held liable for any false statements they make about a product they are promoting.”
Social Media and You
Should you be using Twitter, Facebook or MySpace to promote your small business?
Why Are Keywords Important?
The term 'keyword' in reference to search engines means the words or phrases that a user types into a Search Engine, such as Google® or Yahoo!®, in order to find the information he or she is seeking.
It's The Experience, Stupid!
Take a few minutes and read through all the statements of value on your web site and in your recent proposals. Think about the value propositions you have articulated during customer calls over the last few months. Do they strike you as static statements? Or do they communicate a sense of a living, dynamic, ongoing, integrated, valuable experience?
The Marketing Challenge: Tying It All Together
There are so many ways to market your product or service, but which is best for you? Do you try one method, do you try them all? Information overload can stop you in your tracks. You need to adopt a marketing plan and system that will give you the best results overall for your time and budget.
Marketing Blogs - What You Should Know
Having a marketing blog allows you to communicate directly with prospects, customers, vendors, suppliers and the like. Unlike a website, a blog is easy to self-publish and in many ways can be used as a regular website. You can post articles, news releases, photos, video, audio, calendars of events, photo galleries and more. Here's why, once you start blogging, you'll wonder why you didn't start it sooner.
BRIC Countries: Unified in their Hatred of the Dollar
The BRIC ETF (EEB) and the US dollar have an inverse relationship; that is when the dollar is going down, the BRIC ETF is going up and vice versa. So it makes sense that some of the BRIC countries would like us to have a weak dollar. But yet we always hear that China is concerned about our weak dollar? What gives? What do they want from the dollar?

Top 12 Attributes Of Effective Leaders
Have you ever wondered why some people make great leaders yet others fail at it? I believe that effective leaders share a common set of attributes. This article identifies 12 attributes I feel best exemplify great leaders. Do you possess any or all of these attributes?

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6 Ways to Get Your Visitors To Contact You From Your Contact Us Page
Along with the About Us page, your Contact Us page is one of the most important and crucial pages on your site to get right. In fact, the Contact Us page could be considered the absolutely most important page. Even if the rest of your site succeeds in the goals, if visitors fail to find the information they need to contact you then you will bring their shopping experience to a screeching halt. Shoppers are often hampered if they don't feel they can get a hold of a real person or are limited in their contact options. With all other areas of the site working, a bad contact us page may cause someone to think twice about purchasing with you altogether.

7 Ways to Make Your Home Page a Home Run for Usability
Your home page is the single most crucial page of your site. This is the page that will be the primary entry point for a majority of your visitors. It is also the page that sets the stage for the rest of the site giving visitors a birds-eye view of who you are, what you're about, what you can do for them, what you offer, and how they get the information needed. The importance of making sure your home page is user-friendly cannot be understated. This page, more than any other, has to pull together so many elements without being overbearing or overloading the visitor with information overkill. Despite the over-reaching purpose of the home page, simplicity is the key. Provide the necessary information and usability elements and you'll lower your bounce rate and improve site conversions along the way.

Increase Conversions With Optimized Landing Pages
A landing page is a web page that visitors from a specific traffic source land on. They are heavily linked to individual marketing campaigns – for example, the landing page for a PPC campaign is the page that visitors land on when they click your PPC ad.
How To Consistently Improve Your Web Site Results
Split testing is also known as A/B testing. It is the process of taking one page (your control or page A) and then creating another page (page B) with one single change and then driving equal traffic to both pages to see which page gets a better result.
How To Create Your Own eBay About Me Page
Regular readers of this newsletter and my newspaper column know that I am a big fan of eBay's About Me Page feature. This is a special page you can create as part of your eBay account that is linked from your eBay ID (with a little About Me icon). You can use your eBay About Me Page as a sales tool. Customers can click on your About Me icon to get to your About Me page, which you can set up to include information about you, your interests, and
The Art of the Signup Page
A site's signup page is the second most important page on a site (the most important is the home page itself) because this is where you're asking for committment. Everyone worries about the home page (and still don't do a good job), but most companies do a poor job with the signup page. For example, HAMweather's is aesthetically-challenged, and Last.fm's doesn't convey enough information. This article about signup pages by Tim Bednar is a good read. His list of important signup-page elements is:
Landing Page Optimization Tips
When we hear the words Landing Page we generally think of PPC campaigns or some other form of internet advertising. But I like to use landing pages for all of my off-line advertising also. However, you’re using it, a landing page is a web page, typically hidden from the site’s menu bar and other navigation – meaning the only way you can get to the page is to type the URL directly into the browser.

Learn the Two Different Types of Pages Required for Your Online Based Business Website
If you have a website from which you run an online based business, are you aware that you need to have two distinct types of pages for this to work efficiently? The first type is a content or article page and the second is a sales page often referred to as a landing or squeeze page.
Small Business: The Importance Of Lead Capture
If you're putting together your website, you've probably come across the term "lead capture page" and wondered what on earth it's all about. A Lead Capture Page is often called a squeeze page and it performs a vital function. This page grabs a visitor's attention and provides fast, easily-understood benefits to encourage that person to subscribe to your email marketing list. Over time your lead capture page will provide a prospect list that you can use to market your business. This page must be designed to attract and appeal to your Target Audience. This is not only includes the graphics and layout of the page, it also includes the words and language used... Your Lead Capture page is critical - if you don't hook the reader within a few seconds, they'll move on and they general won't come back.
What is Page Rank and How Does It Work?
According to pro-seo, Check PageRank aka PR is one of the methods Google uses to determine the relevance or importance of a Web page. PageRank is a vote, by all the other Web pages on the Internet, about how important a Web page is. A link to a Web page counts as a vote of support. If there are no incoming links to a Web page then there is no support.

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