http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog Free tips, advice, ideas and how to's for Small Businesses Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:48:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2012/02/understanding-website-analytics/ http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2012/02/understanding-website-analytics/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:43:22 +0000 Michelle Harrington http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/?p=3777
I just happened upon some great video presentations by Google Analytics for interpreting your monthly website reports.  If you are a client of Emagine you probably receive monthly analytic reports with graphs and data that might be a little confusing.  The following short video presentations will help you understand each metric provided in the reports [...]]]> http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2012/02/understanding-website-analytics/feed/ 0 http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2012/01/wise-stamp-email-signatures/ http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2012/01/wise-stamp-email-signatures/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:50:01 +0000 Michelle Harrington http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/?p=3754
Here's a handy tool for adding social media icons to your Email signatures if you use Gmail, Yahoo!Mail, WindowsLive Mail or AOL .  You can add inspirational quotes, your most recent blog post as well as your social media profile links for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN, YouTube.com and many more!  The app is free and can [...]]]> http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2012/01/wise-stamp-email-signatures/feed/ 0 http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/12/oodle/ http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/12/oodle/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:26:26 +0000 Michelle Harrington http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/?p=3551
  I just learned about another Free classified listing site called Oodle. Out to reinvent online classifieds, Oodle provides consumers with a friendly local marketplace to buy, sell and trade. Oodle Pro, launched earlier this year, enables local property managers, real estate agents and car dealers to join the conversation by adding their identity and [...]]]> http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/12/oodle/feed/ 1 http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/12/using-video-to-showcase-your-business/ http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/12/using-video-to-showcase-your-business/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:01:20 +0000 Michelle Harrington http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/?p=3184
On the recommendation of my friend Debra, I started playing with an online video creation site called Animoto.com recently.  In addition to creating low-budget videos to help my clients promote their vacation properties, I also used it to celebrate my daughter's 16th birthday.  Its super easy to use, drag and drop and you can create [...]]]> http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/12/using-video-to-showcase-your-business/feed/ 0 http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/10/qr-codes/ http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/10/qr-codes/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:19:37 +0000 Michelle Harrington http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/?p=3191
What is a QR Code? Have you been wondering what those funny black and white square codes are that are popping up everywhere?  They are called Quick Response codes, or QR Codes for short.  They are a type of matrix bar code that contains encoded information - that when scanned with a smart phone can [...]]]> http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/10/qr-codes/feed/ 1 http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/10/6-reasons-to-use-wordpress-for-your-website/ http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/10/6-reasons-to-use-wordpress-for-your-website/#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:23:28 +0000 Michelle Harrington http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/?p=3516
Here's an article about WordPress, from my friends over at MainStreetOpen.com.  WordPress is the open source content management system that I currently use to build websites.  If you are considering a website refurbishment (good to do every few years), you should consider WordPress!  MainStreetOpen.com explains why here... Six Reasons Your Website Should be Based on [...]]]> http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/10/6-reasons-to-use-wordpress-for-your-website/feed/ 1 http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/08/article-marketing-without-littering-the-web/ http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/08/article-marketing-without-littering-the-web/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:37:21 +0000 Michelle Harrington http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/?p=3473
Today's article is from guest author, James Wilson of Wireless Internet written as a follow up to the article I wrote recently called Article Marketing = Web Littering.  Take it away James....     There's a lot of confusion behind article marketing. In March of 2011, Michelle wrote a post on article marketing, criticizing the [...]]]> http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/08/article-marketing-without-littering-the-web/feed/ 0 http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/07/brand-your-twitter-profile/ http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/07/brand-your-twitter-profile/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:28:43 +0000 Michelle Harrington http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/?p=3242
Want to customize your Twitter profile with your business branding/logo or custom image?  It's not that difficult to do, here's how.... Create a Custom Twitter Profile Background: Create an image that is approximately 2000 pixels wide by 1700 pixels tall, making sure to keep your Logo/text content confined to the upper left hand corner and [...]]]> http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/07/brand-your-twitter-profile/feed/ 0 http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/07/seo-website-reviews/ http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/07/seo-website-reviews/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2011 02:54:37 +0000 Michelle Harrington http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/?p=3284
Is your website performing at its optimum?  Do you think it should be generating more traffic, leads  and business but just don't know what to do to improve it?  Put my 12 years of experience in building websites and performing Search Engine Optimization to work for you with an affordable Website Review & Report. Your [...]]]> http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/07/seo-website-reviews/feed/ 0 http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/06/add-your-tripadvisor-reviews-to-facebook/ http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/06/add-your-tripadvisor-reviews-to-facebook/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:22:57 +0000 Michelle Harrington http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/?p=3258
If your business or property is listed on TripAdvisor.com you can now share your reviews and ratings on your Facebook Business page. Here are the instructions on how to do it. To begin, you need to create a new tab on your property’s page in which to embed the widget or badge. This is called [...]]]> http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/06/add-your-tripadvisor-reviews-to-facebook/feed/ 1