Getting Double the People to Your Events
It’s desperately frustrating these days getting people to follow through on their desire to attend an event. Even if they’ve committed in principal, by registering, it doesn’t actually guarantee that they’ll show up.
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5 Key Elements for an Author's Website
Imagine you have been given the opportunity to design the in-store display for your latest book. You’ve got a reasonable budget and a decent amount of floor space you can utilize.
That’s the kind of creative thinking you need when considering the website you’ll want to have for promoting yourself as an Author.
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Get More Local Customers While You Sleep Using Google Places
One of the challenges of marketing online is finding enough sources of traffic for your blog or website that will bring you suitably interested people. Visitors who are interest in what you do and sell.
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Book Marketing Websites: Why You Need Yours Now
If you’re an author who’s hoping to break into publishing or sell more books, creating a book marketing website is likely the best investment you’ll ever make.
Websites for Authors are a little like wine; they get better with age and when they are cared for. A wine connoisseur will instruct you to keep your wine in a cool, dark place and rotate the bottle every so often, because well kept wine ages and improves.
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Critical Thinking and How it Gets You More Clients
At this point in time, the Internet is more about volume than value. So it can be difficult to be heard in so much noise.
Before the Internet, the publishing of literature and marketing materials were the protected domain of academics and highly skilled copywriting professionals. People who spent years crafting their writing skills and ability to emotionally persuade through words, backed by logical structured argument.
3 Great Ways to Get Traffic to Your Website
You may be thinking… 3 ways? Is that it!
Three does seem to be a pretty poor effort, but there’s a surprise here… And the surprise is that these three traffic generating strategies do not need you to rebuild your website, neither do they require you to redesign the look of your website, rewrite the content of a single page or invest in spamming, spoofing or generally attempting to trick search engines.
These three ways of getting more traffic to your website are based purely on the technology side of the Internet equation – the hidden foundation that makes up the web where search engines, bots, spiders and software lurks.
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Persuasive Writing: How it Helps You Sell
What drives people to buy a product or service?
Chances are you already know the answer… Their emotions.
People act when what they see, read, hear and especially feel motivates them to do so.
Oddly, many websites ignore still ignore the emotional factors which motivate people and instead write content which is more about telling, than selling with persuasion.
The Proposed Google Feature that could Halve Your Website Traffic
In the middle of last week word spread that a game changing new feature was being trialled by Google on Search Results Pages (SRP).
The new feature is a Search Preview Pop-over that appears when you click your mouse on a magnifying glass icon next to a particular search result.
15 Ways To Avoid Being Left Out Of Google Search
Google as you already know is much more than just a search engine business. Aside from a couple of quirky projects like Google Ventures and their NextEra Energy Resources investments, Google have continued to reach into an ever increasing number of areas of our online world.
As a consequence their role in our lives is significant.
Whether putting up your latest video on YouTube, earning money from Ads on your website through Google Adsense or checking your visitor stats in Google Analytics – If you’re a business with a website, in one way or another you’ll be playing by Google’s rules.
Using Twitter to Discover How Profitable Doing What You Love Is For You
Imagine, being able to wake up every morning doing exactly what you love, living your dream lifestyle and sharing your life with people you love being with.
This means working and thinking differently; I mean, who says you have to work 9-5? Who says that earning more can’t be as easy as asking for it?
There are two things that prevent a growing majority of people from doing what they love. Firstly, many just don’t know what they love doing and second many don’t believe that you can make money doing what you love and have fun while you’re doing it.
So if you’re doubting that there is a way to do what you love and make money from it at the same time, perhaps it’s time to do a little bit of research to prove to yourself that there’s a hungry market eager to buy from you once you finally take the decision to give it a go.