I’ve decided to start my own ministry, and my first order of business will be a customer service revival. Will you join me?

In my former life, I was a purchasing agent for a seafood company. This time of year reminds me of the salmon runs. During the summer months, many wild salmon species take the journey back to their birthplace to spawn and ultimately end their lives. 

The task of building a list of subscribers for email marketing isn’t too difficult if you already have a website that has engaging content and decent traffic. However, your visitors won’t sign up just because you asked, you need to optimize your site to build your subscriber list without compromising its current focus or making it look like a sales page. To help you use your website to

A blog is a great marketing tool to connect with a specific audience.  Blogs allow you to build a relationship, and establish a level of trust, a critical piece in establishing your expertise and creating the desire to connect to you, and your products or services.   It is important to establish good practices on your business blog, being certain never to lie

Respecting your current and potential subscribers is important in building trust through your email marketing campaign. How you collect email addresses and what you do with them will establish the level of respect you’ll provide. Most individuals consider their email address as private so what you do with it greatly affects whether you get to build on that trust or ruin it entirely. Subscribers trust those that show

Of all the small business marketing options social media creates, Twitter presents the most challenges in determining its use to help your company grow. Luckily, you don’t have to be a computer expert or a marketing guru to infuse Twitter into your overall promotional strategy.

While using Email is an accepted form of Internet marketing, it’s still important that you build trust and show contacts that you respect them in how you collect email addresses and what you do with them.  When a prospect shares their email address it greatly affects your ability to build on that trust.  Here are three tips to help you build solid relationships with current and potential subscribers. 

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As the Internet evolves from its technology to its software, and changes the way we communicate, it has opened us to a whole new world of social media. Blogging is one such evolving method of communication, and WordPress is one of the foremost accepted platforms for people wanting to get into the blogging action.

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When I started my entrepreneurial adventure it was a determined leap of faith.  I had no idea that having my own business would be so difficult and yet so fulfilling.  Not only did I develop a passion for what I do, but found true joy in working with the specific business people who were to be my clientele. I am very grateful to be doing what I love to do. … Continue reading the rest of this article...

For the most part, all the hype and panic about the downturn of the economy has quieted down, thankfully.  We’re in a recession, we all know it, so what, move on.