Have you ever heard of a website called Moolala.com? Me neither, until a friend of mine sent me a message about how one of the agencies that she does business with (Triangle Direct) had done a deal with Moolala that they would provide matching funds for every coupon sold to raise money to stop child trafficking. It does my heart good to hear of companies trying to do the socially responsible thing. Kudos to both Moolala and Triangle Direct!
Dean shared this video on facebook this morning and I took the time to watch it. At first I thought it was going to be a joke of some kind (knowing my friend) but the video was really a very good and thought-provoking short film. It is a ten minute film; I encourage everyone to watch it!
When I go to the weekly networking meeting with my friends I sometimes have a hard time sitting quietly to listen to some of the folks there that are promoting their businesses. The reason that I’m saying that is because some of these folks are a little bit rough around the edges when it comes to their presentations.
One of the business people there is self employed as a business promoter. Basically he just stands up and says that he can help businesses with their SEO for their websites. I think that he would be more effective if he explained to people why that is important because there are a lot of people there that don’t even have a website for their businesses! The Internet is making the world a smaller place, and if people want to grow their businesses, I think that they should at least consider having their own Home page to help people find their business!
So anyway this guy talks about using a pay-per-click service to help drive traffic to his customer’s websites. I think that pay-per-click can help, but I think that is just one of the many ways that people can increase their rankings and visibility. I’d like to encourage folks that want to monetize their website or promote their website that they need to carefully look at the Advertiser page and the Publisher page of any website that is claiming to help people with their SEO and get a better feel for how that company actually performs their SEO marketing functions. And reading them carefully might give you a better idea of exactly how professional that company really is. If their website contains a lot of spelling and grammatical mistakes, you might ask yourself if this is really the company you want to represent your company on the Internet.
This horrific economic mess that we have been dealing with for so very long now, has certainly made it a challenge to bring in enough money to keep things together, things can get “unglued” so quickly. So I have been spending a bit of time playing around with a website I started some time ago but never really got it off the ground, so to speak. My hope is to make a little money on the side to help out with all of the bills that just keep piling in each month. My site offers hunting products and supplies along with other gear that are specific to the area that I live in. The problem is that no one seems to know about my site and the good deals that can be found there.
The one thing that I recently researched and learned about was that it is not too awfully difficult to increase the amount of traffic on my site. By using , a company much like RevLocal, in which they can work their local search optimization magic which will then increase that amount of people/traffic to my site and help me get the word out and hopefully generate some much needed sales.
I’ve learned that there is so much involved in having a good quality web site. First of all you have to have the right web hosting and lord knows that that can be pretty tricky if you don’t know what you are doing or getting yourself involved in. And then of course you have to have a good IT to help with all of those issues that an every day person would be clueless in.And lastly you have to learn all about small business marketing and all that it has to offer via the Internet. It’s all about specialties these days!
We have been receiving numerous emails containing Christmas wish lists from the kids in the family. We have all decided to cut back on the presents for the adults this year and just concentrate on the kids since money is so tight all the way across the board. It’s funny how most of the kids are asking for games for their Play Stations, X Boxes and Nintendos this year, only a few have asked for anything else. Times sure have changed, this generation is seriously into electronics and not the toys and games that in previous generations were so popular.
We do have one niece that doesn’t seem to base her life around these popular video games and she has asked for more sensible gifts (at least in our eyes) she wants some new clothes, some children’s books and a new puppy. Since we don’t think her parents would be too pleased with a brand new puppy arriving on Christmas morning we have decided to try and find the books that she has requested as well as finding her some nice clothes for kids her age that we feel would be appropriate for her age, which just might be a challenge in today’s very liberal society.
