Social Media

By Heather in Business, Hosting, Social Media, Web Presence Builder

As 2012 nears, consumers have come to expect being able to find their favorite day spas, hair salons, massage therapists, nail salons and tanning salons websites online and at their favorite social media websites. If your salon or spa doesn’t have a web presence, you’re missing out on valuable opportunities to connect with potential new clients or...

By Darren McLaughlin in Social Media

Blogging is a great way to drive traffic to business websites. In a recent study, it was estimated that 158 million American adults read blogs. Reading blogs is part of their purchasing decision when they decide to buy products or services from companies online. It stands to reason that companies with excellent blogs get more sales than those that don’t have...

By Darren McLaughlin in Social Media

If you blog for any amount of time, you end up getting a bit obsessed with your traffic numbers. It makes sense. All the work you’re doing making great content should have some results. How you measure those results might change from person to person, but suffice it to say that most people like to have decent traffic to their blog. Not all subjects are...

By Heather in Internet Security, Social Media

With Christmas just weeks away the pressure to get everything done - from sending Christmas cards, entertaining, to finding the perfect gifts for everyone on your list - can be overwhelming. In addition to these ordinary pressures is the habit (or desire) to keep friends and family informed about your offline activities via popular social networking...

By Darren McLaughlin in Social Media

It looks like the sh*t-storm set off by Klout when they changed their ranking algo is starting to die down. The unhappy people have deleted their profiles and then publicly announced their deletion. After that they ranted about their deletion in a blog post. Once done sharing their rant with their enraptured fan base, they went on to their Klout-less worlds, never...

By Darren McLaughlin in Social Media

In 2006 or so you could easily learn everything you needed to know about SEO from reading blogs and hanging out in forums.  It wouldn’t cost you a red cent for the most part.  You could sit back, ask questions, and take place in stimulating conversations about search engine optimization.  Fast forward to the present.  It’s almost 2012, and the end of the...