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15th Ave Coffee is the name

Date: July 21, 2010
Time: 7:00pm
Address:
328 15th Avenue East
Seattle, WA 98112-5103
(206) 323-1568

There will be some smart people here so if you have time to drop by then please feel free to do so. This meeting is being brought to you by Chris Guthrie owner of Make Money on the Internet, you can check out his blog to learn more. As always, thanks for reading and come to the meeting if you can.

While many companies exist in this space, Google Adwords and Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly Overture) are the largest network operators as of 2006. MSN has their own PPC services MSN AdCenter. Other networks include Findwhat, Shopping.com, NexTag, BizRate and PriceGrabber. Depending on the search engine, minimum prices per click start at US$0.01. Very popular search terms can cost much more on popular engines.

One thing to keep in mind is that Pay Per Click is not SEO, although some would have you believe that it is. There are many companies that claim they can get your website to the top of the search engines over night and they even charge you a fairly small fee to do this. The truth is that these companies are pretending to do SEO for your site when in reality all they are doing is listing your site in a Pay Per Click campaign. There is nothing wrong with this, but just make sure that the company your speaking with is in fact going to preform organic seo and not Pay Per Click. Just thought I’d throw that in there to add a little more content to this page, but the statement is still true.

Anyway, Pay Per Click is not a bad thing as long as you have the funds for it and as long as you have someone managing the campaign who actually knows what they doing. Most professional companies will have a certified certificate posted on their site which states that they are qualified through google to manage your campaign, even though this can be faked it still provides a little more comfort when choosing the company you plan to go with. Just food for thought, and as always, thanks for reading.

This is an old page from our previously designed site, instead of loosing this content I thought it would be a great idea to add it to this site as an article. Some of the information might be a little old but it is still a good read.

Having an internet presence is a must in order to get your customers in front of your product , unless you have a 35 million dollar advertising budget like Mc Donald’s  to put your product or services in front of the buying market, you are going to need to have a solid online presence.  Networking is key to pitching your product to customers and what better way to expose that than the internet? For example if you have the best burger spot in town I’m probably going to hear about that through word of mouth, which is still one of, and if not the most effective forms of advertisement. But if I want to buy a house from a local Realtor I’m going to likely look online and click on one of the sites listed on the first page for representatives from my area.

My advice is start a website if you don’t have one and investing in some SEO is key to an online business  because in today’s  competitive market you can’t afford to put all your chips in non strategic locations,  you may have good motives and intent for your business but bad business moves means an unsuccessful business,  and  while your sleeping your competitor is upgrading your ideas into a profitable blueprint for their success .

In my mind all traffic is good traffic no matter where it comes from, the more I can get the better it will be for the site. I’m sure the main question here is how do you get your article to rank so fast for those type of keywords? I’ll never tell, just kidding. The answer to this one is not that easy, but here are a few tips that should help when you are posting your articles.

1. Chose the best title possible. You want a title that people will put in the search box but at the same time is not that competitive. For example, instead of saying “WordPress Plugins” you might say something like  “5 Easy WordPress Plugins”. I know that may not be the best example but hopefully you get the picture..

2. Get some links. I know this one is a no brainer but I’m not really talking about the kind of links you get from submitting your post to directories or anything, I’m talking about links that are instantly created once you create your post. The best place to get these kind of links are going to be from your own site provided that you have it set up in a fashion that allows your new post to be linked from all of your pages. The other place to get these links are from forums, there are forums out there which allow you place a link to your blog feed which will show your most recent blog post. These are very helpful if you have made alot of post on the forum, and it can also attract new readers to your site. You can also get these links from a few comments on other blogs, some blogs allow you to not only link to your main site but also to your latest blog post, I found this on most blogs that use the Comment Luv plugin.

3. Be the first to post. This one can be tricky and requires some careful planning. When major news happens you can bet that the Seattle Times and other major sites will be right on top of it, so to a degree you will need to do the same. If you have a story lined up and ready to go don’t wait to post it, go ahead and send it out, unless you don’t have all of the facts just yet. The quicker you get your post out there the more likely you will not have to battle to many of the major sites which will also be competing for the same traffic. Plus you have a much better chance at grabbing the traffic while the story is fresh.

Those are just a few things that you can do to push more traffic to your blog, but keep in mind that these things do not just happen over night, you still need to have a pretty good website that is also well linked from other sources, this will help to push the site a little higher when you are targeting some of the keywords you are looking to get traffic from. Again, remember that the goal when doing this is only for traffic, there is a good chance that you are not going get clients from people who are looking for the latest info on Obama, but if you can put your site up there with an article that is relevant this will open the door for new readers and maybe even a few adsence click throughs if  you have those on your site. Hopefully this will help some of you who may be struggling a little with traffic to your blog, it is not the best solution but it is one that works for me and for the most part brings in some pretty good results.

As always, thanks for reading and check back soon.

A few months back I was speaking with one of our local produce companies which have been around since the 60′s, a great company with great customer service and products. However, the business is taking a dive now and contracts are coming in slower and slower, contracts that use to his bread and butter are now moving towards different companies. I asked the owner why he thought the business was struggling so much. His answer of course was that he has no idea, he hasn’t been doing anything different from when he first started the company, but for some reason the customers are just not coming like they use to.

My next question was, what are you doing now to attract new business? He said nothing really, just a few ads in the local phone book but nothing major. He did point out that there was a new company in town which seems to be getting all of the contracts some how. So I did some research on the company and found that this new company has a very powerful presence on the internet, I found the site under just about every keyword related to their market. When I told him this he said “how does that make his products better than mine”? I said it doesn’t, but it what does do is put him right in front of the buying market and those looking to hire a produce company. I told him that although word of mouth is great for any business, these days you MUST have an online presence if you want to stay ahead of the competition, that is just the way things work now.

Sadly I couldn’t get the guy to commit, he said although things are not doing that good he’d rather keep it the way it is instead of making such a huge change. Well, what can I say to that? I’m not pushy so I let him go, but told him if  he ever changed his mind to give me a call. The point to all of this is that although you may think that you do not need online marketing now, trust me when I say that in the future you may wish you had started sooner. My advice is that you start now, even if you really don’t need it. It is better to have presence online then to have none at all.

As always, thanks for reading.

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