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2 Sure Fire Ways To Win Loyal Customers For Your Online Store

By Leigh Hunt • Category: Grow Your Online Business, Internet Marketing Techniques, PR, SEO & Traffic, Social Networking

Membership Site/Area
You’ve no doubt come across this kind of strategy gazillions of times in the high street.
Think loyalty cards and rewards schemes. Think frequent shopper programs.
You can do exactly the same with your online store by offering your customers rewards whenever they buy from you, or refer other customers to your store.
Membership sites are [...]



A New Breed Of Content Sharing Website - Qassia.com

By Leigh Hunt • Category: Grow Your Online Business, Internet Marketing Techniques, SEO & Traffic, Social Networking

I discovered a new content sharing site today thanks to Yvette Segal of www.planitpurple.co.uk.
Qassia describes itself as an ‘intelligence engine’ and ‘tag-based web directory’.
You can create an account and add an unlimited number of backlinks to your website for free. Most importantly these links are ‘do-follow’ (which means the search engines give them weight). [...]



What Is Social Bookmarking?

By Leigh Hunt • Category: Grow Your Online Business, SEO & Traffic, Social Networking

Social bookmarking started out literally as a way to keep your bookmarks online so that you didn’t lose them if your computer crashed. However, it’s moved on somewhat from the original concept.
In case anyone is not sure what a bookmark is, web browsers have an option to ‘bookmark this page’ in the top menu. This [...]



How To Subscribe To Your Favourite Websites Using RSS

By Leigh Hunt • Category: Internet Marketing Techniques, Social Networking

This is a great video explaining what RSS is, and how to use it. Enjoy!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU[/youtube]



Pros and Cons Of Using Wordpress To Power Your Main Business Website

By Leigh Hunt • Category: Grow Your Online Business, SEO & Traffic, Social Networking, Web Design & Development

Pros

Wordpress is free. Your only real costs are your hosting account.
It’s easy to install, especially if you use a hosting company that has a ‘one-click’ installation option.
You can choose from 100’s of free themes for your website. Themes are templates that once uploaded to your server can be activated at the [...]



Is Facebook Really Going To Help Grow Your Business?

By Karen Skidmore • Category: Internet Marketing Techniques, SEO & Traffic, Social Networking

Is facebook really going to help grow your business?
There are now more than 63 Million active users on facebook with an average of 250,00 new registrations happening every day!
It is currently ranked No 7 in Alexa top ranked websites and every other headline seems to refer to facebook in some context.
But what about you?
Is [...]



How Social Networking Can Help You Grow And Improve Your Business

By Leigh Hunt • Category: Grow Your Online Business, Social Networking, Web Design & Development

I recently created this webzine using Wordpress and in the process learned some powerful tools you can use to create a dynamic website for any type of business, for free!
Yes that’s right, you can create a website for your business for FREE!
Coming from someone who paid £5,000 for her first website to be designed five [...]



Keeping Facebook Under Control

By Leigh Hunt • Category: Social Networking, Time Management

Now, I’m a fan of Facebook but recently I’ve been getting mightily frustrated at all the email I’ve been getting telling me useless information that I just don’t need to know.  Right now I’ve got hundreds of silly notifications just sitting in my inbox waiting to be deleted.  Dealing with this is SUCH a time [...]