Though I created my Twitter account back in January, I never used Twitter except to send one tweet a month (which is basically nothing in the Twitter world). Recently, I started to look seriously at Twitter and how to use it to market PowerHomeBiz.com. Maybe it’s all the hoopla surrounding Ashton Kutcher’s millionth follower, or […]
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Marketing with Yahoo Answers: 10 Ways to Promote Your Business Using YA
I previously wrote about How to Use Yahoo Answers to Promote Your Business . The article was first written in 2007 when I just started to top the Business and Finance category, and 2 years later, I am still in the top 10 of the Business and Finance category. Why use Yahoo Answers? For PowerHomeBiz.com, […]
Can a Blog as Main Web Presence of a Business Be Taken Seriously?
A startup photographer wants to market his business on the Web. But he’s got a limited budget, and would prefer to create a web presence as cheaply as possible (free even better). So he’s looking at the option of creating an account with the free Blogger.com. His main question is: Will potential clients take his […]
Social Media Marketing and Web 2.0 Advertising
Social media marketing is an area that I am very interested in. It took me awhile to get into the game, and now I am enjoying connecting with people in Facebook and LinkedIn. But I am still learning the ropes as to how to use these Web 2.0 websites to market a business and connect […]
Book Review: How to Succeed in Business Using LinkedIn
I was excited to get the book “How to Succeed in Business Using LinkedIn” by Eric Butow and Kathleen Taylor. I think I am one of the few remaining business people who do not have a LinkedIn profile as yet, and I was hoping this book would give me the reason why I should use […]
How to Use Web 2.0 to Get More Traffic for Your Website
YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, Digg, Wikipedia are but some of the collaboration-focused websites that have changed the Internet. Called Web 2.0, these sites include social networking, social bookmarking, social tagging, wikis, among others. The question now is: how can you tap these Web 2.0 websites to boost traffic of your site and increase your reach? Here […]
The Points Economy of Yahoo Answers: A User’s Experience
Search engines such as Google and Yahoo are looking outside the box of search for future business strategies. In Yahoo’s case, one of their brightest new products is Yahoo Answers http://answers.yahoo.com, where people can post and answer questions ranging from the deep (“How do you help sustain the planet”) to the inane (“Do you like […]