Free Elgin Marketing Seminar: How to Use Professional Membership to Market Online

Date July 23, 2008

This is the next topic in our series of Free Internet Marketing seminars held at the mhn Internet Marketing and PR office in downtown Elgin, Illinois. Next Monday morning we’ll be discussing how business owners can improve their Internet Marketing efforts through participation in Professional Membership Organizations.
Specifically we’ll be looking at two organizations in Elgin, [...]

Response to “Hot Air” Article in The Business Ledger

Date July 8, 2008

A friend of mine forwarded me an article today, titled “Blogs: “Hot-air” or must have business tool?” that examines the value of blogging for SMBs in Chicago, but has a fatal flaw - they don’t look at the forward value of the blog, being ahead of the curve and not looking at the intrinsic value [...]

Five Ways RSS and RSS Feeds can Help Your Business

Date June 30, 2008

In our previous article RSS Feeds Explained, we discussed an overview of RSS and how an RSS feed can be helpful. Today we are going to apply it directly towards the fundamental reason why you are here.
How can an RSS feed help my business?
Link Building
While most aggregators use the “nofollow” tag preventing search engines from [...]

What is RSS, Really Simple Syndication Explained

Date June 29, 2008

As you know, having a website or a blog simply isn’t enough. You must promote it, you must package your information the way your readers want, so they can digest it where they want, when they want. That’s why if you want to have a successful online marketing campaign, you must be aware of what [...]

Building High Quality Backlinks with Social Media

Date June 15, 2008

As we have discussed in previous seminars, it isn’t enough to simply create a website or start a blog, you need to promote it, and you need to have it available for people to find in the search engines. Luckily, building backlinks that point to your website helps with both of these efforts.
The problem with [...]