Everyone writes and blogs about trends and predictions for the coming year, so we’ll join the crowd. John Arnold wrote about 10 online marketing trends for 2010 on Entrepreneur.com. We’d like to list them here and debate whether or not we agree with his assessment to “test, invest or rest” the tactics. Many we agree on but there are a few we disagree with so here’s ou...

Landing pages are becoming more popular because a larger number of companies, small business in particular, are using email marketing. The best way to effectively use a landing page is to drive traffic from your email campaign to a specially designed landing page that serves as the bridge between your email and Web store. Here are 12 useful tips on getting better landing page conversions (Noobpren...

How are you different from your competition? If you truly have a totally unique product, you’re in good shape. But if there are hundreds of thousands of others out there that make pretty much the same thing as you (let’s say, sandwiches), then you’ve got to find a way to differentiate yourself. For example, The Mogul Mom wrote an article on the StartupPrincess blog and talked abo...

Do you offer coupons as an incentive for customers to buy from you? Especially in a down economy, coupons can be an excellent tool in any loyalty program or rewards program for a small business or entrepreneur. The important question you should be asking is how are your customers receiving those coupons from you? More research is coming to light that indicates HOW you deliver coupons to your custo...

When you went to your last dental visit did you sit in the chair and wonder what kind of marketing the doctor was doing to drive business? I bet you didn’t. And neither did many of the dentists. A severe recession will change all that and many dentists are now stepping up their marketing efforts to include traditional marketing, public relations, online marketing, email marketing and even so...

Once you’ve spent time developing a great search engine optimization (SEO) and Pay Per Click strategy, you want to then measure the success, right? Also, you obviously want to drive all of those people who click on your keywords to some kind of destination, right? Well if you simply direct them to your Web site home page, how will you know specifically where they came from and how successful...