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[Geek-Free Daily Dose] May 21 2013: How to Increase Conversions through Brand Strengthening

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How to Increase Conversions through Brand Strengthening I remember being asked about the single best piece of advice I can give for improving conversions on a group interview on Crazy Egg late last year. Although there are a lot of factors that can really influence site conversions, I chose the one which I believe has [...]

[Geek-Free Daily Dose] May 20 2013: How To Use Social Media To Destroy Your Business

[Geek-Free Daily Dose] May 20 2013: How To Use Social Media To Destroy Your Business

How To Use Social Media To Destroy Your Business Effectively This past week Samy and Amy Bouzaglo have successfully destroyed their business with Facebook. If you didn’t know Amy’s Baking Company was recently featured on Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares Series. Now anyone who watches that show knows how it goes down, but this time things [...]

This Week’s Top 10 Online Marketing Stories: May 19th, 2013

This Week’s Top 10 Online Marketing Stories: May 19th, 2013

Each week, our Geeks scan the interweb’s top social media, online marketing and small business SEO websites and blogs, looking for the best, most useful, actionable and awesome online marketing tips, strategies and updates. Then, after a brief rest period, we bring the “creme ala creme” to you, saving you dozens of hours and clicks [...]

[Geek-Free Daily Dose] May 17 2013: 10 Ways to Explode Your Web Traffic Conversions

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As a reader of Ana’s blog, I’ll assume you are confident about generating traffic to your blog. However, if your site has goal is to get someone to optin to your emails, boosting your traffic conversions will get you a far bigger increase than boosting traffic. Consider this scenario: Your blog is getting 10,000 See [...]

[Geek-Free Daily Dose] May 16 2013, 2013: The 25 Step SEO Master Blueprint

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Posted by Cyrus Shepard. If you’re like most SEOs, you spend a lot of time reading. Over the past several years, I’ve spent 100s of hours studying blogs, guides, and Google patents. Not long ago, I realized that 90% of what I read each doesn’t change what I actually do – that is, the basic [...]

Listen Up: The Top 10 Small Business Podcasts of 2013

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If there are two certainties that come along with being an entrepreneur, they are: 1) the struggle against time and 2) the need for reliable information. Podcasts are extremely valuable in their unique way of addressing both of these issues. Highly portable and readily available, Podcasts have the unique power to bring you extremely valuable and [...]

The Geek-Free Guide to Google Analytics

The Geek-Free Guide to Google Analytics

Metrics. How many business people know what their web visitors are actually doing on their site? How valuable is that information? What if I told you that failure to monitor your metrics means you’re wasting a ton of time on misguided blog posts and landing pages, and that you have no meaningful control over your [...]

[Infographic] The Top 10 Online Time Killers

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We’re all time wasters. Poor, innocent victims of distractions. Let’s talk about Facebook for example. You’re just minding your own business, working on a report (your boss asked for an hour ago) and BAM! Facebook pops open, glittering with must know “news” (it’s crucial that you know what your 3rd grade best friend [whom you [...]