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What is “Company Hopping?” It is jumping from one service company to the next, every few months, for whatever “good reason.” There are a lot of people who have this operating basis on various services. Call me old school, but I like a relationship with a proven-out service provider and once I find that relationship, […]

I see a lot of failures in Marketing, and not just with internet marketing.  It could be in generating referrals, networking, postcards, Valuepack Coupons, etc. I get to talk to those who have these failures.  Here’s what they say, “it didn’t work for me” or “I wasted my money” or “no one uses it” or […]

In recent networking, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting a University Professor that delivers courses in marketing.  It was good for both of us to share experiences and viewpoints.  He learned a bit from me about what it’s like in this day and age to slug it out mano y mano in the business development […]

How long does SEO take to start working? Probably longer than you think or want it to. SEO is a long-term marketing strategy, it is not for the short-term minded person trying to get next-day results. You’re working with entities like Google, who change all the time, whereas you technically have no control over what they’re doing, […]

SEO De-Mystified An Interview with Dan York, President and Founder of Stellar E-Marketing, local SEO specialists  Judy Marcus: Admittedly, I don’t know a lot about SEO, though I’ve read your blog posts and looked into it a bit. So far we’ve had mixed reviews from Clients as to its effectiveness and Return on Investment and […]

We’re often asked by our customers, once they’ve signed up with us, “What can I do as the business owner to help speed up my SEO?” This is an excellent question to ask. Probably the aspect of this I would have most people focus in on is, “What should I NOT do to inhibit the […]

It’s common in our business to hear people say, “we’ve found a cheaper SEO company” or “such and such company will do it for half of what you charge.”  When people say this to us, we don’t fight them on it, we just educate them. The first question we have to ask is, “Will they […]

Anyone who has been in business for a long time knows this fact: Your satisfied clients rarely (without prompting) write positive reviews about your business, but that one nasty client who you probably shouldn’t have sold in the first place, he’ll slam you all over every review site he can, starting with leaving a good […]

In order to survive in the business world you have to be able to predict the future to some degree, or at least look once in a while. This absolutely must be applied to our marketing efforts if we’re to survive long into the future. Fact: Marketing methods and mediums will change.  We must face […]