Our best wishes to you, your family, and friends during this holiday season. May 2010 bring you joy and prosperity, and may you meet all your goals.
We look forward to helping you build and grow your online business and learning from you as much as you learn from us.
Season’s greetings, and Happy New Year
The IMC Team
To kick-start the holiday season, we’ve got a gift for you!
We’ve arranged through VistaPrint.com, one our partners, to send you 250 free custom-printed business cards, which you can personalize however you want.
And if you think an online business doesn’t need business cards, you’re wrong. Every encounter is another chance to tell people about your business. This article will give you great ideas for making the most of this underrated marketing tool.
Don’t underestimate the power of the business card and what it can do for you. A business card is you when you can’t be there, and portrays the personality and image…
Want to make more money online? Increase your conversions? Build your opt-in list? Get more leads?
Well have you tried pop-ups?
The Marketing Experiments research laboratory recently revealed dramatic test results for a lead-generation opt-in form on a credit counselling site. The pop-up version attracted 63% more leads than the control version, which was a standard opt-in form on the web page.
The Marketing Experiments people figured this was a pretty radical experiment because they knew how much website visitors hate pop-ups.
We’ve never been quite so leery about the things.
Our own long experience at the Internet Marketing Center shows that pop-ups can easily yield double-digit improvements in opt-ins…
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The entire team here at the Internet Marketing Center wishes our American customers and clients (and everyone else celebrating today, of course) a very Happy Thanksgiving!
We are very thankful for you and your support. In fact, the best part of doing what we do is the opportunity to meet so many amazing people — people with big dreams and goals to pursue, and big hopes for themselves and their families.
We hope the holiday brings you time with the people you love, and the chance to give thanks for all the good things in your life right now.
Throughout the year, we’ve heard…
Read MoreThanks to everyone who entered our site review contest. We were so impressed with the level of entries that we chose not one, but THREE winners.
We’ll review these three websites and recommend improvements that will increase their traffic and bring better conversions. Look for those site reviews in upcoming issues of our Marketing Tips Report newsletter. It’s free and you can sign up for it in the blue box to the right of this post.
The lucky winners are:
Derek Seabrooke of www.electricgenesis.com
Susan Mitchell of www.tinyterriers.com
Bob Hamrin of www.greatdads.org
Congratulations to you all! And, again, thanks to everyone who entered. Watch for more site review contests in…
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Nothing stays the same in search engine marketing.
Every now and the folks at Google put on their overalls and start messing around under the hood. They’ve been at it again recently, and sometime in the next couple of months we can expect the new, supercharged Google Caffeine.
These Google tweaks generally result in changes in search engine rankings. Sometimes significant changes! Will Google Caffeine change your search rankings? They’re giving you the chance to test it out.
You can test out the new Google Caffeine here. And if you’re impatient, you can see the results side by side with the with this Google Comparison Tool.
And…
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How would you like our team of Internet Marketing Center experts to give you an in-depth critique of your web pages and show you how to fix the problem areas on your site? Wouldn’t it be great to know what elements are draining your site of potential sales and preventing you from making the kind of money online that you could be making?
All you have to do is send us an email telling us what YOU think your website’s biggest problem area is… and be sure to include your site’s URL so we can check it out for ourselves.
This contest closes on Sunday, November 15th at midnight…
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A Guest Post by Brian Tracy, best-selling author of The Psychology of Achievement. Our new online magazine, StartUp, features an in-depth interview with Brian on how to manage your time and get more done.
People often ask me what the difference is between a success and a failure. For me, the answer is simple. A successful person knows how to set goals and work to achieve them. An unsuccessful person doesn’t.
The payoff for setting goals and making plans is being able to choose the kind of life you want to live. So why do so few people set goals? I think that there are…
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Only three days left until kids will hit the streets in crazy costumes, looking for candy. We predict you’ll see the usual ghosts, vampires, ballerinas, princesses and tinfoil-covered robots running around, along with a few Batmen, a couple of Harry Potters, and maybe a Transformer or two.
But what if you’re not exactly a kid anymore — except at heart, of course — and you’re looking for the ultimate outfit for a friend’s party? What if you’re taking your kids door to door and want to get into the spirit of the night with a costume of your own?
Maybe you’re looking…
Read MoreJeff Wise answered a question on our blog about how he spends his time online — and ended up winning the draw for a year’s subscription to our new online magazine, StartUp!
Check out Jeff’s answer below:
Read More“While working a 9-5 and trying to spend quality time with my family I manage to squeeze in at least 5 hours per day online.
Most of that time is spent working on my online business. Keyword research, PPC, SEO, Twitter, YouTube, article and writing. I spend most of my time marketing and maintaining the site. I wish I had more time to just market and not have to…
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