Online Marketing Solutions  Marketing your business on the internet needs to achieve three simple goals: Get traffic. People need to know about your products and/or services. Introduce your products and/or services. When visitors arrive on your website, you need to tell them what to do next. Offer something in exchange for their email...

Pinterest is a huge portal for folks to put up their own online collections of favorite photos, recipes, and even videos. You simply 'pin' your favorite items onto your own board (you can have multiples upon multiples), and pin stuff you like from other boards on Pinterest itself. Pinterest boards are related to a topic of the user's...

Guest Post by Tiffany Dow Creating an online business is so affordable now that you can even find hosting that won’t cost you a single penny. The best business website hosting you can choose will depend on your specific entrepreneurial needs. If you’re brand new to running an online business, aren’t sure how well you’ll succeed and...

Plus 1 is Google's "like" button. Do we need yet another way to get other peoples' opinions? Apparently, we do.  Matt Cutts, Google's spokesperson, recently said that one of the key factors in ranking today is "getting social".  It involves their own...

We have been seeing more and more QR codes popping up on signs, windows, packages, and even magazines and tabletops; it's time to see how we could use QR codes in the Monterey Bay. They are not new, just new to the United States.  Japan has employed QR codes for years, and Europe was next.  They are going to be used here extensively, so...

It's still a baby, but Nika Bleu's Monterey Bay Insider App has had a good review.   You can download it free from the iTunes store by searching for Monterey Bay Insider....

Where to begin with Wordpress 3.0?  How about...

These promotional videos were almost exclusively done with simple slide shows with short video clips.  The really good photos are from DMT Imaging (thanks Michael!). Carmel California Chamber of Commerce video: Thomas Bateman Hood Architecture: Both are simple, and effective. They bring views, and views bring visitors to your...

Twitter asks "What are you doing?'  Well...in 140 characters you can do a lot, as this restaurant owner in Milwaukee Wisconsin has proved.  watch this brief 3 minute video by Chris Brogan (blogging/social marketing genius) for some extremely clever and useful...

A facebook page for your business is different than your personal facebook page (why do they call them both pages?).  It is confusing, but I finally found a slideshare guide that explains it perfectly. Thanks to Olaf Nitz and slideshare. Fancy Facebook Fan Pages - A Step By Step Guide View more presentations from Olaf...