Creating an affiliate marketing program can be an excellent way to boost your company’s revenue, reach, and reputation. A relatively low startup cost can make an affiliate program attractive for most businesses. As long as your affiliates are successful at selling your product, you will make money.   The money you make from your affiliate program isn’t entirely dependent on the skills of your affiliate ...

Any small business owner probably already knows that there are hundreds of ways to market out there. Some marketing techniques work wonders while others are just not worth the investment. One marketing method that has one of the best ROI around is known as search engine optimization or SEO. Whether you've heard about it or you want to learn a little more about it, here are the benefits of ranking high on se ...

Thanks to its explosion in popularity in the early parts of 2012, Pinterest has grown from a small website used primarily by digital scrapbookers to a legitimate social network that every business with attractive products should have a presence on. Let’s take a look at why any business that relies on visuals to help sell their products is missing out by not taking advantage of Pinterest. Build your Boards w ...

Are you looking to create your very own blog? You need to be aware of a few things before you start. These five important facts relate to how well a blog can work for anything you are interested in writing about. 5 Important Facts Before Starting a Blog First, you need to understand that there are several different blogging hosts out there. Each has its own way of helping its users out with getting their bl ...

Search Engine Optimization or SEO involves developing and improving the design and content of a website to increase the amount of traffic or visitors it receives from the major search engines. There are many different ways to perform SEO including providing useful content, back linking and making sure that the website can be searched by different search engines. With enough time, effort and practice, it is ...

Blogging is a great way to share your stories or expertise with other people. You can use a blog for your own personal benefit, such as to talk about things that interest you or share your own experiences and pictures, or you can use blogging for business and share your expertise with your current and prospective clients.   The best way to generate interest in your blog and increase your readership—whe ...

Visitors to websites have different expectations than when they are viewing TV or reading a newspaper. Website visitors are in a hurry. They type a search query into the search engine and expect to find a quick and useful answer to a problem. If a website does not satisfy them in less than 10 seconds, they leave the site. Studies that examine the human-computer interface, or how people use the Internet, giv ...

A lot of people claim to be SEO experts and it’s easy to find thousands of articles about the subject on-line. However, how many of these people actually know what they are writing about? Many of these so-called experts offer vague and cryptic advice such as “update a blog regularly” or “update your Google plus account” since it may offer value in the future.  How do you know If someone is a true SEO whiz o ...

Let’s take a look at 4 free cloud services to help your tech life operate more smoothly. With the cloud you can do a number of things like store files, backup data, and share images. Anything you do where the data is not based on your hard drive can be considered operating in the cloud. So your favorite email server like Yahoo, Gmail, or Hotmail are all cloud services. Places where you backup your files lik ...

Five Time-Saving Ways to Be Active on Facebook Running a business takes a lot of time, to put it mildly. Adding a Facebook page to your list of things to manage can seem overwhelming, and you may find it difficult to keep up. Here are five ways you can save time on Facebook while being active on it at the same time. Update with a Photo When you write out a status update, you need to think of the perfect thi ...