Finance

Feb 25

Internet Marketing Services For Maximum Lead Generation

An Inbound Marketing Consultant can help small businesses get more online traffic, engage in conversation while monitoring their online reputation, and convert that traffic into more customers.

There are limitless services available with experiential marketing agencies to have more traffic at the site. The conversion of the traffic is possible into potential customers. The checking of the reputation with studying the reviews is essential to have desired results.

Social Media Marketing is having a content strategy that will engage your fans and create value to your community. Get your business found online, then start up a conversation. We can help you build relationships online and generate more sales.

Inbound Marketing Services

WordPress Websites

WordPress is a terrific website platform for small and medium size businesses with incredible search engine optimization. Plugins turn the platform into a dynamic website that can handle just about anything your business needs. Custom Themes give WordPress websites a branded look for your business image. [Read More]

Digital Audit

How would you like to know exactly how to beat your competition? Our Digital Audit will show you where the holes in your online presence are along with your competition’s holes. You only have to be a little bit better than your competition to win leads. The Digital Audit is a combination of a keyword analysis, competitive analysis, and evaluation of your current strategies. We can provide you with a detailed report that you can use to enhance your overall marketing. [Order Digital Audit]

Keyword Strategy and Competitive Analysis

On-page and Off-page Search Engine Optimization needs to have the “right” keywords. We will help you determine which keywords will give you the best results. Our competitive analysis will allow you to quickly see what your competition is up to. All you have to be is just a little better than they are. We will create a report that will show you where you need to improve and how. [Read More]

Content Marketing

Creating content that will resonate with your audience Our team works closely with clients to craft monthly campaigns using an integrated marketing approach for greater lead generation. Some of the tactics used are ebooks, articles, press releases, video, presentations, and images. Based off your editorial calendar, our team will present ideas and strategies to help engage your audience.

We also provide clients with a To Do list if they have staff who will be assisting each month in the content generation.

Another area that is a challenge is gathering and organizing collateral from clients. We’ve developed a simple system that allows clients to provide us with collateral that won’t take time away from your busy schedule.

Business Blogging

Part of your overall Content Strategy should be to continuously feed your website with fresh, relevant, current content that is of interest to your target audience. As a business owner, this can be quite time-consuming or you just might not know how to go about writing a great article. We provide SEO-friendly blog articles for your business on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis. [Read More]

Social Media Marketing Consulting

Stepping in to the social media networks is not a difficult task these days. Email and user name is all that it takes to get into these websites. If you want to become a big player among your competition then you will have to utilize the correct strategies for this purpose to achieve success of your choice which has ensuring return on your investment. The fact is that many new online businesses fail to achieve success because they are unable to utilize the efficiency of social networking websites to promote their business. [Read more]

Social Media Marketing

Total Social Set Up

Get started on the right foot with social media. Let us properly set up your business’s profiles so you are ready to go. [Read More]

Keep me going each month – Standard Engagement and Management

Pick and choose which channels you want to outsource. We can set up a posting schedule, create campaigns, and offer basic management of your social media. With just a few hours a month, we can manage your social presence. [Read More

Do it ALL for me – Social Domination

From Facebook to G+, dominate the internet and beat out your competition. Let us develop creative monthly social media campaigns around your products and services to increase fans and followers. Content strategy ideas your competition isn’t thinking of. [Read More]

Google Plus for Business

Google Plus is a social overlay to the Google System. It has been around now for just a couple years and most businesses are starting to realize they need to be on it but don’t really know what to do with it.

Is your Google map listing correct? Have you taken the time to claim it? We set up your Google correctly and can fix issues you have. If your Google Page is set up correctly you can use it just like Facebook to post status updates, get reviews, and get found on mobile and maps.

Google Local vs Google Places vs Google Plus Business Page

Google Places is the previous version of map listings, however, not all map listings have been converted to Google Local. This can cause a problem if you set up a Google Plus Business Page.

Google Authorship

Have you connected your G+ Business Page, your Google Plus Profile, and your website all together? We can help you take care of it and test it.

Google Events and Communities

Are you participating in the communities? Have you tried using Google Events? These are great tools for marketing your business.

Google Hangouts

We love Google Hangouts. Think of Hangouts like Skype. If you can Skype, you can do a Hangout. You can have a private hangout with a client or host a Hangout on Air which is recorded. There are so many things you can do with Hangouts. Are you taking full advantage of them?

By : Lucille

Category: Business, Computers and Technology, Finance, Guide, Internet, Internet Marketing, Money, Movies

May 15

How Not to Die Over Your Debts!

Writing this article may certainly disqualify me from submitting future articles to Yahoo!Finance offering any financial advice to readers. There was much trepidation to overcome before I got the nerve to write this type article. However, if I save just one financially distressed citizen from committing suicide because of your enormous debts, then my pride will have to take a back seat.

Book Sense vs. Common Sense!

How could I have been so financially stupid after earning three degrees? I even completed a college course in Finance as an undergraduate student. Ironically, one of my part-time jobs in college was to place credit card tear-outs all over campus for students to apply. Yet, I got suckered by the “Greed Bug”.

The “Greed Bug” does not look like a roach or spider, but has the venom of ten Black Widow spiders when it bites you. The bite first begins with the lure of quick credit card approvals for college students. All I needed to do was send a copy of my student id with the credit card applications to get approved. I was approved for more than five credit cards when I was a freshman. I thought that paying back those debts would be easy since it would be three more years before I graduated, and my projected earnings in my major was estimated at about $60,000 a year(I Thought).

Fast Forward: To 1991: I graduated from college, and thought the world owed me everything! I owed more than $100,000 in student loans, and more than $3,000 in credit card and financial services debts. No problem, I thoughtΓÇªI would just get a good job, and pay my creditors off within a year or two with the high salary I thought that I would be earning.

Then the Recession of 2009 hit like a tornado! Employment rejection letters began accumulating like the interest on my student loans debts. I needed an income badly, so I adjusted my pride and began substitute teaching. My first paycheck was less than $200!

Additionally, one year later, my student loan debts became due. I was only making $48 a day as a sub. I basically ignored my credit card debts for years because creditors could not lock me up for bad debts, only bad checks.

Fast Forward—To 2010: I could no longer dodge creditors in the mail or over the phone. The school district I worked for also knew of my pathetic credit issues because they were contacted by my creditors. I had to rely on food stamps during the summer when school was in recess, and I even lived in Section 8(HUD housing program). Regardless of my three degrees, no corporate employer would hire me after they did a background credit check on me.

I could not borrow from Peter to pay Paul because Peter was broke too. I walked to the phone, and called Legal Services. It took me more than two weeks to gather up all my debts, and get three credit reports from all three major credit reporting agencies. I took copies of all of my assets (which only consisted of a used car worth $500 and some worn clothing), and all the paperwork requested to a Legal Services bankruptcy lawyer. It took nearly a year before my debts were discharged in a Chapter 7, but it was all worth it.

Many bankruptcy lawyers such as san diego bankruptcy lawyer contacted me before I filed Chapter 7, but most of them wanted at least $800 to file bankruptcy for me. Always try to go to Legal Services first (income-eligible clients); but if you have to pay $800 to get rid of more than $20,000 in debts, then so be it. Your credit is already messed up, so put away your false pride, and put away the gun. But I realized, the service of bankruptcy lawyers is really helpful specially in trying times like this where your debt is growing and you no longer know what to do.

Student loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy! Try to keep student loans in deferment until you can begin making consistent payments after you get a great job, or win the lottery. I discovered from my attorney that the government can extract student loan payments from your Social Security earnings. Since 2010, I have only used one debit card, and refuse any credit card or car loan offers. My credit is being repaired slowly, but I do sleep at night. This too shall pass.

By : Lucille

Category: Finance

May 04

Federal Reserve Rate Cut Unlikely to Increase Consumer Lending

Today the Federal Reserve – also known as the USA’s central bank – convened another meeting. The culmination of the Federal Reserve meeting is a 50 basis points decrease, lowering the bank lending rate to 1%. In a press release explaining the rationale behind the Federal Reserve rate cut, the Fed pointed to a “decline in consumer expenditures” as necessitating a much needed shot in the arm of America’s economy.

Unfortunately this Fed rate cut is somewhat reminiscent of rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, and in a welcome bit of candor the Federal Reserve meeting participants acknowledge that the recent bailout, today’s rate cut, and of course the shakeup in the banking system “should help over time to improve credit conditions and promote a return to moderate economic growth” (emphasis mine).

Perhaps not surprisingly, there is precious little joy and excitement about today’s Fed rate cut and rather than anticipating a great or at least moderate turnaround, CNN Money — which just last year published articles suggesting tips for homeowners who wanted to take advantage of rate cuts then – reported that stocks went down right after the announcement.

The next Federal Reserve meeting is scheduled for December 16th, and already Wall Street gamblers are wondering if there is any chance that the next Fed cut will bring the rate below 1%. Even as this is a distinct possibility in the minds of some, it begs the question what will happen when the Federal Reserve runs out of interest to cut. This last percent is the power of economic stabilization left to the Federal Reserve Bank and once it is depleted, it is anyone’s guess what needs to happen next to stop the hemorrhaging of the American economy.

This of course also shows another fallacy of the Fed rate cut assumption: although banks are now more able to lend money to consumers, they are by far less willing. Just earlier today the New York Times remarked on the credit card crisis that is nipping at the heels of the mortgage crisis. Good thing there’s docker.com to help us avoid going through this financial trouble.

With $21 billion in defaulted credit card loans in the first six months, Bank of America and Citigroup have noticeably curtailed credit issuance to consumers who do not fit into a tightly defined mold. Fed rate cut not withstanding, consumer lending is drying up as banks are protecting their assets, and today’s Federal Reserve rate cut is unlikely to change that.