Helping Small Businesses Grow Their Own Seedlings!

by Ferdinand Emy

Blogging is like having a virtual piece of paper and you just pen your ideas, opinions and experiences, as well as reviewing new products, and you hope that the truth behind your articles will entice your reader to either remain a loyal reader or buy your product.

If you have a PC and an internet connection(who does not ?)then you may blog and advertise. If your e-mail is on a completely different subject, use your e-mail signature to give a link to the site. Let them explore your site by utilizing a short e-mail message as teaser to your blog site. Reading blogs regarding original-hand product use is like talking to individuals regarding their original-hand experience.

In this day and age where advert saturate our day-to-day lives,we question the believability of promoters’ claims. No accomplishments are necessary, an intermediate adult may read and type,or at least click a mouse. Unless you are a Hollywood star,opportunities are,only your mom reads your posts. The simplest way to get your piece on the world wide web is through blogging. Read more… »

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Category: CRM

Send a card for holidays you normally wouldn’t send a card (Thanksgiving, Fourth of July).

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This is the beginning of a video series, Twitter Basics, where we go step-by-step on getting started with Twitter. Watch the video below to see exactly how to create an account with Twitter and start Tweeting!

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By Dan Deceuster

During the first week of June, I had the privilege to attend SMX Advanced in Seattle. It was a great conference with some good information. But the most memorable moment was the Q&A with Matt Cutts. Someone asked him a question about PageRank sculpting, and his response turned the SEO world on its head.

For those of you who are not familiar, PageRank sculpting is a rather advanced SEO technique. When NoFollow came into existence, one of its abilities was to stop PageRank from flowing through a link. People figured out that you could put NoFollow on some of your internal links to pages you didn’t care about, and thus conserve PageRank for the links to pages you did want to rank well.

This technique really is only useful for massive sites with thousands of pages. The average blog had no need of PageRank sculpting. But at any rate, SMX Advanced is full of people working on large sites, so the new announcement frightened them. Read more… »

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Category: Newsletters

Try to avoid “unsubscribe” in your newsletter. It can be flagged as spam. Use “remove” or “Stop Receiving.”

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Category: Blogging

Create a glossary that includes your blog’s keywords.

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Category: Market Research

Set criteria for your market research before you start.

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Category: Newsletters

Insert a re-cap section at the bottom with links to older articles. This is good for first-timers and old readers to review older content.

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About Market Seedling

The Market Seedling was born out of small business' need for marketing help. As our parent company, Stockard & Associates, Inc., worked with small businesses, they realized there was a huge need for marketing tips, tools, resources, and advice! They created Marketseedling.com, and this is where you are today!