by David G. Johnson | Oct 22, 2012 | Get Strategic, Small Business Marketing
Seth Godin’s post from today reinforces yet again the need for you to strategically and intentionally design your business’s “message”: If your elevator pitch is a hyper-compressed two-minute overview of your hopes, dreams and the thing...
by David G. Johnson | Dec 21, 2011 | Rants, Small Business Marketing
Recently, I was talking with a client who was reluctant to set up a profile on Google Places for his business. “What if people leave negative reviews?,” he asked. “You can’t do anything about it, can you?” A valid point. Unlike a...
by David G. Johnson | Nov 8, 2011 | Small Business Marketing, Social Media
Almost every time I speak to an audience of business owners, there’s at least one in the crowd. Someone (or their nephew) created a Facebook “profile” for their business instead of a business “page.” What’s the difference? A...
by David G. Johnson | Aug 18, 2011 | Small Business Marketing, WordPress
This morning, I woke up to dozens of e-mails from my websites notifying me about issues. Worst of all, however, was the notification from MediaTemple: we’ve disabled your hosting account because your website is serving as a relay for spam e-mails. Yuck....
by David G. Johnson | Feb 23, 2011 | Small Business Marketing
Last week we talked about someone who got ripped off by an SEO provider. And while not all SEO companies are as unscrupulous as the offender we mentioned, typically SEO isn’t the first place to start when trying to improve your marketing results. In fact…...