#VTWeb Marketing Summit

I am listening to the Vermont Web Marketing Summit in Burlington, VT through the #vtweb Twitter stream. At this point they are mainly talking about PPC and how affective internet marketing is for a business.

A few specifics they are mentioning to use negative keywords in paid search and long tail specifics.
It is September 16th, 2010, and none of this information is new to me. I managed Online Advertising campaigns over 3 years ago using all these approaches they are talking about today and are they saying nothing has changed?! This surprises me. Either I am on the ball and have been for quite sometime or this is an introductory conference. With all fairness, I think my position as an internet marketing professional is pre-supported by this marketable-approach and knowledge of the industry. I think I know more than most people, because I have been doing it for so long, compared to other 'new businesses' that are attending the conference. By all means, I am do not have an ego, however am just recognizing the tactics I have been using for years are confirmed by others in the industry.

The general practice of utilizing the best internet marketing practices is listening to the businesses needs and watching the trends. Obviously, understanding the use of the application is important, however there is an underlying affect on how to manipulate the software to pull the data you need to make the best decisions possible for your internet marketing strategy.

All of this talk about strategy and approach only inspires me more to help more businesses locally succeed on the web. The opportunity for me to educate others of the opportunities is why I do what I do.

Business Blogging

I listened to a great web cast on Search Marketing Now yesterday with two presenters talking about the significance of business blogging and became really motivated to talk to you all about this.

Any business or organization can blog. What do you talk about? Is it really worth your time? Absolutely. A blog for your business is important because it allow you to reach out and talk to your customers about their experiences and educate them from a realistic approach. You could either provide resourceful information to them about your product or service or allow them to reach out to you for support.

Business blogging creates an opportunity for your interact with your customers and answer problems or concerns they may be experiencing.

Blogging is a great way of sharing information, so think about what information you could be sharing with your customers or prospective customers that would be needed or useful.

If blogging still seems scary for you try approaching it from serving general content about your products or services. This information will be helpful to your customers, so just put it out there. Make sure your content is written appropriately and not used any where else on the web. The search engines love it when the copy is unique and not copy/pasted from another page on your website. Don't do it.

If you still don't get it, we recommend you contact MGB Designs. They can provide you with the support and strategy needed to get started. Email Meagan at mgbonline'@'gmail.com. MGB Designs will provides a Free ( over the phone ) Consultation on how they can get your business started. Don't hesitate, just do it!

PS - Did I mention Business blogging can double your website traffic and bring more consumers to your business? Yes, they will find you and your business will grow. It will directly support and stimulate your internet marketing interests.

Get out there and create your blog now. I will be happy to answer any questions you have about your blogging questions. Please comment below and I will respond.

Go ahead. Ask us.

After listening to a wonderful Webcast today on business blogging and seo, We have decided to alter our position of this blog. We will continue to provide you with resourceful information in the Internet Marketing world, however we are going to start talking about some of the day to day challenges we all face and provide you with solutions to your problems.

If you ever have questions of your own you are curious about or are in dire need of, submit your questions to me anytime. You may post your "Questions" to the comments area of this post. We will be also adding a "Submit your Question Here" area on the blog shortly.

You may submit questions for your personal interest or if it is related to your business or organization. We am here to educate and enlighten you on how easy Internet Marketing can be. Wait, easy fairly, time consuming and fairly entertaining, yes!

We look forward to hearing from you all. Don't be shy, just ask.

Recommended Book

Planning your Internet Marketing Strategy.
It may be good a place for you to start.

You can purchase the book here from Amazon.

If you have read this book, please comment below.

I feel it would be great place for business owners and organizations to start thinking about how to plan and build their own Internet Marketing Strategy.

The Secret to Working Smarter

Wouldn't it be nice to work 4 hours compared to 8 hours?

Let's talk about it a bit. It is doable. Personal productivity is doable by anyone who focuses on what they need to do.


1. Find a comfortable place to work.

2. Focus and don't let anything distract you.

3. Know exactly what you need to do and do it.


Don't let you mind get distracted with all the other things you have to do.
Think only about your task at hand and you will have more free time in the end to the other things needed.

I was inspired to talk about this from an article in Inc. Magazine that was just published this month. ( March 2010, Page 6. ) The article is call "The Secret to Working Smarter" and I thought it would be insightful to share with you Internet marketers.


If you need a bit more inspiration to get organized and focused, think about what your more important thing is a day to complete. Find a time and place within your day you can solely put forth to completing this task. Once all the of details are in place, think about the satisfaction it will bring you when this is complete. Oh yes! Ready to get started.

Let's do it. Mind over matter. Make it happen.

Good luck with this new tip.

Mashable; You better be Mashing.

As they said it themselves, " if you are not following Mashable, you are probably behind on your game". Check out this blishfully resourceful site.


Some of the best perks of Mashable are the advice and articles are Social Media. Not only does this website offer the most up to date news and facts in the social media relem, however provides fantastic information those of you new to Social Marketing.

Here is a great place to get started in Mashable - the Social Media page. This page has a sub category page for all the major players in the social media world; Twitter, Facebook, Four Square, You Tube, etc. Take a moment and read through some of the articles and information provided on each of these pages. Each article is a quick read and fairly information on the top news and events with each category.

Fast Company

Internet Marketing and Entrepreneurial Resource for Business Owners. Fast Company has a lot of great information for business owners. I would suggest to take a look through their website: http://www.fastcompany.com and subscribe to their email list.






I receive emails daily from them with interesting articles about what is going on in the business world and internet marketing trends.

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