The Power of Search Engine Optimization for Business Development Believe it or not, every event I attend I hear someone say that SEO or Search Engine Optimization really isn’t that important when you’re looking for “Big” commercial clients. I hear the “big bosses” at major corporations aren’t using Google or Bing to find graphic designers, web designers or any [...]
Multi-Channel Marketing
Business Social Media: Maximizing LinkedIn
LinkedIn can be a powerful tool for prospecting and increasing your marketing reach. Most people are only using a small portion of the capabilities offered for free as part of a basic LinkedIn membership. I strongly believe that Social Media and in particular, LinkedIn should be a standard part of a Multi-Channel Marketing effort. Its a great [...]
Is Your Home Page Confusing?
Is your home page making the right, first impression? If you haven’t asked yourself this question, you should as it could hurt your bottom line. The home page is the make-or-break for most websites. If it’s cluttered or confusing, potential customers will leave before they spend the time to try and find what they are [...]
Top 5 Outlawed SEO Tactics
So, you have a great looking website and your getting tons of leads through it. But, is your website using proper SEO tactics? For most small business owners, this isn’t given much thought. People are reaching your site, what could possibly go wrong? Most inexperienced web marketers are tempted by many black-hat search tactics, not [...]
20 Ways To Use QR Codes Correctly
At Manna Design Works, we think QR Codes are a great tool. This article does a great job explaining why they are just that: a tool, not an entire marketing solution. Like all good tools, they have their strengths and weaknesses. They can be extremely effective when used for the right job, but when used [...]
Create Your Own QR-Code
Please feel free to use our QR-Code Generator to create a QR-Code for yourself. Once you try it, we’d love to hear how you used it to market yourself.
Facebook And Twitter Becoming More Important For Job Recruitment – Mike Sachoff
<Article Excerpt > Mike Sachoff Social networks lead all other recruiting channels for planned investment by employers as the economy rebounds, according to a new survey by recruitment platform Jobvite. The survey found 83 percent of respondents use or plan to use social networks for recruiting this year. LinkedIn (78%), Facebook (55%) and Twitter (45%) [...]
Small Biz Plans to Grow with Social – eMarketer
<Article Excerpt> Small businesses are confident about their ability to weather the recession, with more than one-half saying they have either fully recovered or will do so by the end of 2010, and nearly three-quarters… Read the Complete Article at… Small Biz Plans to Grow with Social – eMarketer.
