10 Tips to Getting Your Business Blog Started

I preach about blogging (using WordPress) for small business – until I’m blue in the face, really. But there is good reason. Let me explain: Blogging might  very well be the single most important thing you do for your small business online. It’s not the only thing – but it sets the foundation for everything [...]

14 Cool WordPress Plugins

Plugins are one of the reasons that wordpress is so extremely powerful! There are thousands of plugins for your WordPress blog that are completely free, that will make your blog an instant powerhouse without writing a single piece of code. There are tons of great plugins – it is really hard to make a list [...]

Why have a Blog?

Why should I Blog? That is a question that I hear often. Here’s the answer and it’s a simple one. If you are doing business online and you don’t have an unlimited marketing budget, blogging is the most important weapon in your arsenal. But I use Facebook and Twitter, isn’t that enough? A good start? [...]

Updated Site Design

Lennie here… I had a little extra time this weekend, so I did a little overhaul of my FreeMarket Media Group site (yep, this one). Here’s the old version of the site as an image: So here’s what I did: Converted the entire site to WordPress HUH?! First some basics… WordPress vs Static Most basic [...]

IT’S TIME TO TAKE THE PLUNGE…

It seems that everybody is doing it…but are YOU? I am talking about the power of blogging. What a great way to get your message out there and to let everyone know what you and your business are up to. And the coolest thing about it is that your website can be a blog! The [...]

Marketing Like a Rock Star, Take Two

Marketing Lessons From Christina Aguilera While “cruising” around YouTube, I stumbled across this video of Christina Aguilera performing live in Sydney Australia. Watching this video (not my normal fare, but damn can she perform), I noticed how she uses so many sales and trainer techniques. I touched on this before in the post: How to [...]

Web Design – Form vs Function

Nobody wants to browse a web page full of text, because, let’s face facts it’s outright boring. When creating a web site, the developer has to implement in the web site components which will make the visitor come back and visit the page again. The perfect way to do this is by using web design [...]

The Perfect Blogger Tutorial

I have had a running argument on one of the popular search engine optimization and blogging forums about whether or not Google favors posts in its Blogger blog platform in search engine results. Now, that’s neither here nor there, what I’m going to talk about today is just how damn cool Google really is. Did [...]

How About a Little Linkbaiting

So what the hell is linkbaiting you ask. . . Well, let me spell it out for you. Linkbaiting is a method to get other sites to link to your site. There are a lot of ways to do this including, giving away tools, having contests, being a really compelling blooger among others. Darren Rowse [...]