Is SEO still a must for busineeses online

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With social media marketing taking all the limelight, does business still need SEO marketing?

Well, the answer is YES!

Here why,

Your prospective customer will search online for product that solve their solutions. And therefore, they will type in keywords in Google to find their solution. This hardly can be done in Social media marketing. Although some major search engine are able to index some information from social media platform, but still your customer will start from search engine.

So, SEO marketing is still a must for businesses. And, most searcher will not search beyond the first page, so this make more sense to engage a SEO marketing expert to do SEO marketing for your website.

Tags: search engine optimization, SEO, singapore business owners, singapore search engine, smes

Use Squidoo-Drive Instant Trust to Your Customers

Having headache of not knowing how to tap into a pool eager buyers and potential leads for your business?

Web 2.0 is still in its baby stage. Although, it get quite a lot of attention for the past few years, it it still a largely un-tapped resources for businesses. Since web2.0 is built around user interactivity and relationship, business owners has had to find a way to build relationship among these eager buyers.

The quickest and easiest way to do is to put out useful and informative articles to your user. For example, if you are in the business of dog grooming, you may want to give some tips and advice of how to properly groom a pet in their house or sell accessories to pet lovers. This type of articles not only build up relationship, your buyer will come to like you and see you as a trusted friend.

One of the places that business owners can start is Squidoo.com.

This is a place where you can put up videos, articles, services of your business. And by using squidoo, you can even brand your url, (which goes the format of, www.squidoo.com/your-url) This type of branding will keep your visitor emotional and eventually becomes your customer and your walking advertisement too.

To start squidoo-ing for fun and branding, head over to squidoo to explore.

Tags: save advertising cost, singapore business owners, smes, Social Media Marketing, social media singapore, squidoo, squidoo marketing

Beware: Marketing Online Take A Big Turn Thanks To FTC

***Disclaimer: The following blog post is not a legal advice nor treated as one. If in doubt, do your research or call up the respective agency for more information.***

Now, this applies to those who are using internet to market their business. Recently, FTC had made some changes as how advertising online is being made across the board.

This basically impact all kind of marketing area, ranging from, presell, affiliate, own product, testimonials and review website.

Now how does this affect you and your business.

Traditionally, what we do is to put up disclaimer on our site and promote our product as affiliate or as a business owner. Or, we may put in small fine print stating, result may vary, or earning may varies etc kind of disclaimer. But not now anymore. It had changed.

In short, this means,

• Everything had to be stated clearly as what consumer is likely to benefit from using the said product.
• If you are an affiliate, you must state the relationship between you and your merchant.
• Any testimonial posted or advertise will need to verify how an average consumer will benefit.

So the bottom line is to give factual, accurate and try avoiding testimonial on your page. If your testimonial is genuine, then by all means go use it.

This is not the end of everything. But instead look on the bright side that, it may become a better place for us to live in, considering that many sites are nothing but maybe a bunch of fake comments, fake post, hype up selling.

If we were to provide real value to our customer, naturally, they will buy from you as being up front, honest and direct.

Isn’t a real long term business to be run that way?

Tags: affiliate marketing, condiut marketing, FTC, internet marketing, local business marketing, niche marketing, online marketing, singapore business owners

3 Tips To Make Your Twitter Interactive and Irresistible

Are you running an online business or any kind of business and have a twitter account? If not, open a free twitter account. Twitter has become increasly more popular and is an independsible tool for business owners to get interactive with their prospect or customer.

Take note that Twitter as in any other Social networking site, works in the way of relationship and trust. So, don’t expect sales to come in without your customer or prospect to trust and know you first.

All right, lets dive straight in on how to make our twitter interactive and irresistible. (more…)

Tags: singapore business owners, SMO, social media consultant, social media for niche business, social media singapore, twitter, twitter business sense

SEO sense for Businesses

In today blog post, we will discuss about SEO sense for businesses.

SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization and it’s main purpose is to ‘manipulate’ search engine and give your website a higher ranking than your competitors. (more…)

Tags: business seo, increase my web rank, ranking my blog, search engine optimziation, SEO, SEO Marketing, singapore business owners, singapore search engine, smes

4 Practical DIY SEO Tips for SMES

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is always a myth to Small and Medium Business Owners (SMES) and most home-based business owners too. And to add matters worst, SEO service always come with a premium price tag that SMEs and home-based business can’t really afford it. (more…)

Tags: search engine optimization, SEO, SEO Marketing, singapore business owners, singapore search engine, smes