Here’s a quick question for you: Think about the websites, blogs and newsletters that are most valued. What do they all have in common?
The answer is that they all have something to say, which is not just a generic rehash of popular opinions. They dare to be different. The writers have the courage to [...]
Tag Archive: blogs
Your true voice
Growing and securing your online network
This post is all about how to safeguard and grow your online network.
How frustrated do you feel, when you’ve just washed your car, you take it out for a spin and a massive truck goes buy and covers it in dirt? What about when you’ve been working on a document for 20 [...]
What if Twitter suspended YOUR account?
I was just telling someone about a chat I had a couple of weeks ago, with a VERY stressed out Twitter user. This person, who shall remain nameless, had (for no reason) seen his Twitter account suspended.
He was absolutely distraught and called my office (here in the UK) from his office in San Francisco.
He introduced [...]
Blog comments
I have always been a keen reader of blogs, not only because of the actual blog posts – but because of the gold dust you can find in a blog’s comments section.
For example, no matter how knowledgeable a blogger is on his or her subject, there will usually be people reading a post, who can [...]
Targeted marketing
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 [...]
Great free advertising
This post is all about how to get yourself some highly effective, FREE advertising!
One of the main reasons most small and medium-sized businesses don’t advertise, is that they lack the finances.
They know they need to get their message in front of a wider number of targeted, prospective clients / customers; but they just don’t have [...]
Link love, Google and spammers
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 means when you comment here, your link actually [...]
Marketing Guru’s, equality and attraction
Recently, I have started getting a lot of emails from people; asking me a version of the same great question.
Here’s the question:
Jim, I hear that you don’t use any form of paid advertising or link exchanges – yet your posts often get dozens and dozens of comments. According to alexa.com (or whoever), this new blog [...]
Highly Recommended – The dot.life blog
There are some exceptional websites and blogs out there. Today, I would like to share one of them with you – and give my ‘Highly Recommended’ award to
The BBC’s dot.life blog.
The dot.life blog
Like many small and medium-sized businesses, I rely heavily on technology. I use technology to support the work I do for my [...]
Blog marketing & newsletter marketing
If you want to lower your costs, increase your sales and boost your profits, you need to get the most from online marketing. This post focuses on 2 forms of FREE online marketing, which you can use to achieve amazing results for your business; Blogging and Newsletters!
Online marketing is changing
Not that many years ago, online [...]
37 Marketing ideas in 140 characters
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 [...]
How to make sales the easy way!
Generating high quality sales on a regular basis can be either really hard and stressful or really exciting and enjoyable. Sadly, for most businesses, making frequent high calibre sales is a struggle. It’s easy to see why, when you look at what they do.
They make life as hard as they possibly can for themselves, by [...]
Wordpress.com and business blogging
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 important limitations to a [...]
Clear marketing sells
In marketing, clarity is extremely important! Your marketing messages need to clearly state what you do, what the benefits of your services are and why a potential client should do business with you or buy from you!
Clear marketing
Clear marketing messages command a potential client’s attention with laser-like precision!
Sadly, most small businesses use a foggy, conversational [...]
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