Unlock the Secrets of Successful Websites--Social Media Marketing--Entreprenur.com

Hello, Everyone. As you know websites are awesome tools for achieving heart's desires, when done correctly. Learn how "creating a great website and promoting your business via search engine optimization and social media websites can be done in 8 steps" in Unlock the Secrets of Successful Websites--Social Media Marketing--Entreprenur.com by Jon Rognerud, Entrepreneur.com. This is a very helpful article!

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Q&A With Cynthia Francis Of Reality Digital: Why Build A Social Community For Your Business? - Entrepreneur.com

Good day, Everyone! Great question for entrepreneurs: "With so many of your customers and potential customers using social media, can you afford not to? Increasingly, the answer is no. Launching a social media program is cheaper and faster than you might think, but beware of the pitfalls." by bMighty.com. Read their informative Q&A (questions and answers) article: Q&A With Cynthia Francis Of Reality Digital: Why Build A Social Community For Your Business? - Entrepreneur.com

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Magazines - Resources for Entrepreneurs

Good day, Everyone! Magazines can be great resources/tools for small businesses/entrepreneurs. Below, is a bit of information about a few magazines created with the entrepreneur in mind.

SUCCESS Magazine - "SUCCESS is a business magazine in the United States published by SUCCESS Media™, a company owned by VideoPlus L.P. "Designed specifically to serve the growing entrepreneur," the magazine's primary focus is in providing information and content in the areas of home-based and small business and self-improvement.

First established in 1891 by Orison Swett Marden as a personal achievement magazine, SUCCESS has undergone many changes and reinventions. Originally led through the years by several renowned authors and thought leaders including Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone and Og Mandino, the publication made a name for itself as one of the leading sources of information for, and publicizing of, American entrepreneurs." Read the entire article at Wikipedia.org

Inc. Magazine - "Inc. is a monthly magazine based in New York City targeted towards entrepreneurs and small businesses. It also publishes an annual list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S., the "Inc. 500."

Inc. was founded in Boston by Bernie Goldhirsh and its first issue appeared in April 1979. Goldhirsh was an MIT-trained engineer who worked at Polaroid and on ballistic missiles before becoming an entrepreneur and founding Sail magazine, which he sold for $10 million, using the profits to found Inc." Read the entire article at Wikipedia.org

Forbes Magazine - "Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, Forbes magazine, is published bi-weekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published bi-weekly, and Business Week. The magazine is well-known for its lists, including its lists of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400) and its list of billionaires. The motto of Forbes magazine is "The Capitalist Tool."

B.C. Forbes, a financial columnist for the Hearst papers, and his partner Walter Drey, the general manager of the Magazine of Wall Street, founded Forbes magazine in 1917. Forbes provided the money and the name and Drey provided the publishing expertise. The original name of the magazine was Forbes: Devoted to Doers and Doings" Read the entire article at Wikipedia.org

Entrepreneur Magazine - "Entrepreneur Magazine is a publication that carries news stories about entrepreneurialism, small business management, and business opportunities.
This magazine is published monthly, with a total of 12 issues annually. No special extra issues are published. Entrepreneur includes Sections like: Tech, Money, Sell, and Lead. It is edited by Amy C. Cosper. Entrepreneur, also, publishes books for small business people, through its Entrepreneur Press division, featuring a backlist of over 200 titles in categories such as franchising, wealth building, startups, sales and marketing and home businesses. Entrepreneur Magazine is, also, published under license in a number of countries around the world including Mexico, Russia, Hungary, the Philippines and South Africa." - Wikipedia.org

4 Ways to Boost Business With a Blog--Starting a Business Blog--Entrepreneur.com

Hello, Everyone! I hope you've been enjoying the month of May. Let's affirm that life is still GOOD and getting BETTER, daily!

Another GREAT heart's desire tool is a blog. As noted at Wikipedia, "A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting), which are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging, one which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.[1] With the advent of video blogging, the word blog has taken on an even looser meaning — that of any bit of media wherein the subject expresses his opinion or simply talks about something." Read more about blogs from Wikipedia.

Some examples of blog publishing systems/weblog software are:

• Blogger
• LiveJournal
• MySpace
• Open Diary
• Skyrock
• Tumblr
• TypePad
• Windows Live Spaces
• Wordpress.com
• Xanga
• Vox
  

Entrepreneur.com article shares about how to use this tool, the blog, for one's business:

"Share information, interact with customers and boost your brand--blogs are the perfect way to keep you on top of your industry.

If done correctly, a blog can attract a dedicated audience to build upon and share expertise, information, ideas and content, while boosting awareness of your company and brand. If done incorrectly, however, you can leave customers feeling dissatisfied and ready to turn to your competitor. Here are four ways you can leverage a blog:

1. Create friend-sumers.Promote a company, product or service by creating a blog that features how-to advice, news and other information of interest to customers. Through the blog, visitors can post testimonials, feedback, questions and comments, plus participate in surveys. By taking an informal, non-sales approach, a company can interact with customers, gain useful feedback and build an online audience that can ultimately be directed to the company's main website or retail store." By Jason R. Rich, Entrepreneur.com.

Read the entire article 4 Ways to Boost Business With a Blog--Starting a business Blog--Entrepreneur.com by Jason R. Rich, Entrepreneur.com.

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