When you start your journey online, you probably don't think that you need to focus on branding as much as you need to focus on lead generation. Branding is what gets people to trust you and make a purchase without doi...
Recently there has been an uproar about Papa Johns and their massive marketing mistakes, which will likely hurt the company much more than help it. It's not always true that bad publicity is good publicity, because in ...
Every single business needs a steady supply of new customers, and that is why lead generation can be such a hassle. You'll need to be generating leads day in and day out if you want to be successful, as soon as you stop...
When you start working online, you'll likely stay up late doing everything you can to make money, just like all of us have to get where we are today. Some of us are more successful than others, and some may have not ma...
Online and offline marketing can be a pricey thing if you're on a shoestring budget. Lucky for you, there are methods you can use to reduce the cost of marketing efficiently, like getting your regular customers turn in...
Starting a website or blog is a fairly easy thing to do in todays world, but getting found is where your struggle really starts. With around 1,000,000,000 websites live right now, you're going to be a drop in the sea o...
When you start to make money online, you will start thinking of how you can constantly increase your overall ROI. Sure, you can boost one website and get it to a point where you're happy with it, but that might not be ...
Whenever you start a website, and you want it to be successful, you'll need to plan everything out prior to even clicking a button on your keyboard. I would highly suggest writing down your plan of action, a business pl...
We all have a hobby and I'm sure we've thought about trying to make money off of it one way or another but never followed up on it because we either thought it wasn't going to work or we simply forgot about it. You coul...
When it comes to cost effective marketing, writing high quality content is one of the best ways you can do this on a budget. Writing up quality content doesn't cost you any money, unless you want to outsource it to a c...
Everyone wants to launch a website, but they never think of the steps they should be taking prior to launching. Sure, a website is an idea to get something from your head to a digital space online, but if you don't do ...
We all know that obtaining a customer or client isn't the easiest thing to do in the business world. But what if you have a problem keeping the customers you do obtain? There are many ways to keep your customers and ...
Marketing is evolving more and more each year, so if we don't stay up to date with it, we'll fall behind quicker than we'd like to think about. Just a few years ago no one thought about making their website mobile frie...
Everyone is trying to be famous online, but what you should focus on is personal branding instead, since that's the way you will build your business even quicker than chasing fame. It's a lot easier to build a brand ar...
When it comes to writing up content for your website, it can be a pretty daunting task, staying up late hours and hammering out article after article. So what do you do if you hit a wall and can't write up another artic...
When you're a content writer, or a blogger, you will usually be looking for new clients fairly often. Usually you'll send out plenty of emails to any website you can think of, and hope that one of them responds and wan...
Recently I started my own writing service here on SEOclerks, but that's not the first time I've ever written for client. I've actually been writing for clients since I started selling my own SEO services about 10 years...
Everyone worries about how many leads they generate each month and I'm over here worrying about catching one big fish. Sure, a lot of leads is a great problem to have, but it's also a lot of work to be done and you lik...
If you want to be successful online, or offline, you need to know where to look and find the people who are already successful. Finding these people and companies, who are already successful, doesn't mean you're going ...
Not every business is going to have hundreds of thousands of dollars to start marketing with, in fact, the majority of businesses have a shoestring budget and need to strategically spend their marketing dollars. The be...
When someone owns a website, they soon realize they have to start doing SEO in order to bring in traffic and make some sales. SEO definitely isn't a new thing anymore in the world of marketing, people all over the worl...
Companies around the world will always have concerns when it comes to investing in the unknown, and we all know SEO is the biggest unknown when it comes to making your business more successful. Not knowing exactly what...
Physical businesses are ones that have an actual location and don't rely heavily on digital sales like an SEO company, web design company, or online marketing company. You may also have heard the term "Brick and Mortar...
Running a business isn't the easiest thing to do since it requires a lot of blood, sweat, and tears as well as a lot of time invested into sustained growth to become the best business possible. The investment of your t...
We all know that writing about movies and TV shows can bring in a decent amount of traffic, but are you actually investing your time in the right areas? Sure, you can write about 100 different TV shows, but would your ...
We all know that both content and backlinks are great for increasing your rankings within Google, but have you really thought about what you need more of? We all know that if you build high quality backlinks you will i...
We all know that content is king, but we also know that it's not the easiest thing to do, for multiple reasons. You could have too much on your plate already and not have time to write up your own content, you might no...
People all over the world are put in front of content when they go online. It doesn't matter where you go, content is thrown at you and sometimes it feels like people are just saying "READ ME!!!". If you want to be r...
The internet is a vast openness of information for anyone to read and learn, but another thing it is great for is to build your own personal brand. You can reach a much bigger audience than if you were to just go to an...
Expectations can actually hurt your business because nothing ever goes as planned. You may think that a client is going to sign up with you, but then they give you the cold shoulder and never respond to any of your pho...
A lot of people think you need to spend hundreds of dollars to acquire a regular client, but that's not true at all. In fact, I've actually acquired a client for less than $0.10 and they've been with me for close to 10...
It doesn't matter if you're in business for yourself or you're working for a company, getting a journalist to respond to your pitch is a difficult thing to do if you're new at pitching. You'll need to refine your pitch...
It's no mystery that over 90% of businesses out there are working on their own social media as part of their marketing campaign. It's also no mystery that every entrepreneur is getting into social media as well. But ...
We all want to get online but sometimes we don't know the first steps to take in order to do it. The good thing is that you found this discussion where the process from purchasing a domain to getting your initial sale a...
Networking isn't as easy as going to a conference and shaking some hands then partnering up with large corporations. You will actually have to do a lot of work after meeting the person you're networking with in order t...
Getting traffic to your website is just the first hurdle you need to get over in order to be successful. The real battle begins when they get to your website and want to make a purchasing decision or leave your website...
Running a website can be a difficult thing to do if you're performing all the tasks, big and small, by yourself. You can go crazy working 12+ hour days managing everything from building a few backlinks to answering ema...
A lot of people who are in the marketing field have good taste, and this could actually be hurting their blogs. Having good taste will help out when you're trying to build a website or writing up taglines for marketing...
An angel investor wants to know their investment is worth it, so they don't take many chances on startups unless they are already showing promise. Showing promise early on could be anything from getting interviewed on ...
Everyone that starts a business wants it to be a multi-million dollar empire, but they aren't sure exactly how to get the ball rolling and keep it going. It's no secret that starting a business and managing it until yo...
