If you own a website or blog and you want to dramatically increase the number and quality of visitors you get, you need to encourage people who visit your site, to share what they find with their friends. Thankfully, we know that when people find material on a website, which they believe will be of interest ...
One of my favourite sayings is; "start with the end in mind." In other words, make sure you know what your outcome is, before you decide to take action. I was thinking about this earlier, when I received an email from a reader, who had just realised that the time and money she ...
Here's a quick blog marketing tip, to help you reach more targeted readers with your blog. Focus on people - not 'traffic' Take a look at the search terms that people most frequently use, when they arrive on your blog from the search engines. Then, write a blog post about that subject and you will often attract ...
This post is all about how you can increase your sales and enquiries, by using a targeted approach to your marketing. A great product or service, with an excellent marketing message, will still fail to generate sales - unless that message is reaching a targeted group of prospective customers. That's why it's so important for you ...
As any of my regular readers will know, me and Google have a very strange relationship! I decided to write this blog exclusively for people and develop it's readership via 'social media marketing.' As a marketing professional, I wince when I see blogs, which are clearly written primarily to score SEO points; with the actual ...
A blogger recently told me how his analytics software was unavailable for several days. He went on to say how much more he enjoyed blogging and social networking his business during that period; without the pressure of checking 'the numbers' after everything he did. Freedom to blog and connect
The results are in and I can now let you know what's happened since I started this exciting marketing experiment! As many of you already know, jimsmarketingblog.com offers everyone who comments here a special reward; something called a do-follow link. This is great for my readers, as it ...
Isn't it strange how people think about money? There are people who happily spend £3 a day on a coffee at Starbucks, but who wouldn't dream of investing that same £60/£70 a month on SEO for their website / ...
It's almost 2 weeks since I started an experiment on jimsmarketingblog.com. I wanted to see what REALLY happens when a blog offers a valuable, 'do-follow link' to everyone who comments there. What does 'do-follow' mean? In brief, every time you comment on my blog, you will receive
An open letter to the Google algorithm . Dear Google algorithm, I see from what you have done that I have REALLY offended you. You have reduced the amount of traffic you send here by 50%, so you must be very angry with me. In view of this, I just want you to hear my side ...
Because of the amazing growth of this blog, since I started marketing it just 9 weeks ago, I am getting a lot of people asking me the same question: Could you take a quick look at my blog / website Jim and give me some tips for how to get more traffic? This question is based on ...
If you have been reading my newsletter over the years or my previous blog posts, you will know that I am passionate about helping as many people as possible to grow their businesses, increase their sales and boost their profits. Link love That's why I'm ALWAYS looking for new ways to give something ...
As you may already know, I am passionate about helping as many people as possible to massively boost their sales and profits. This means I'm always looking for great marketing ideas, which I can share with people - and today, I have enlisted the help of 37 amazing professionals, who are going to each give ...
If you want to improve your marketing, boost sales and increase the profitability of your business; you need to understand and use the power of questions! In marketing - questions are like gold dust because... The questions you ask determine the answers you get! The answers you get determine the actions you ...
As some of my more eagle-eyed readers will have noticed, I have just added a new page to this website; all about my popular 1 Year Marketing Program. If you are serious about dramatically improving your sales and profits, this program is exactly what you need!
I wrote a post a while ago, saying that WordPress.com was a good place to host your business blog, if you were just starting out and wanting to 'test the water' as it were. However, since then I have been emailed by a reader; who pointed out some poorly publicised, but extremely ...
In this blog post, I am going to give you 3 great tips to improve the amount of leads, enquiries or sales you make from your website! But first, have you ever wondered why some of your competitors appear on the first page of Google, when you do an industry related search?
By Jim Connolly - www.jimconnolly.com I have just been reading some dreadful marketing advice; given by a self-proclaimed 'marketing guru,' to the owner of a small business. The advice was in answer to a question posted on Twitter. The advice was totally incorrect and showed that this ...
Whenever times are hard and the economy heads south, people (and businesses) have to think a lot harder before they spend their money. This is something we have seen time and time again during past recessions. However, the ‘credit crunch’ has given us a MUCH BIGGER problem, because our potential clients not only have less ...
Part 1 of ‘The Marketing Mix' can be found by clicking here. I am going to show you how to make your marketing more successful and more reliable, with something called your 'marketing mix'. I am also going to give you a list and explanation of ...
