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/2012/01/website-check-up-time/ http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2012/01/website-check-up-time/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:19:07 +0000 Michelle Harrington http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/?p=3627
Aloha & Happy New Year everyone!  Thank you for your continued interest in Emagine's Small Business Marketing Blog. This is a great time of year, with resolutions fresh in mind to review your website and online marketing to make sure it is up to date.   If you don't make it a habit to visit [...]]]> http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2012/01/website-check-up-time/feed/ 0 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/2011/08/google-sync/ http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/08/google-sync/#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:43:10 +0000 Michelle Harrington http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/?p=3459
If you're a Gmail user and you have an iPhone (or other mobile device) you'll love Google Sync for keeping your email, contacts and calendars updated between your computer and your iPhone.  I like knowing that no matter where I add a new contact or calendar item that it will update across all my devices [...]]]> http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/08/google-sync/feed/ 0 http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/08/foxmarks-bookmarks/ http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/08/foxmarks-bookmarks/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:44:37 +0000 Michelle Harrington http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/?p=282
Here's an Update to an old post on bookmarks: Foxmarks is now called Xmarks and is a great way to keep track of your bookmarks across multiple computers, browsers and mobile devices now too.  I just recently upgraded to Xmarks Premium (for $12/year) and now I can access my bookmarks from my iPhone, which is [...]]]> http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/08/foxmarks-bookmarks/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/more-ways-to-use-twitter/ http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/07/more-ways-to-use-twitter/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:21:37 +0000 Michelle Harrington http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/?p=3246
Have you ever been interested in knowing what is being said about your brand, business, industry or a certain topic on Twitter?  Here are some tools that you can use to stay informed of the latest "tweets" about things that interest you and that could give you helpful insight in how to use Twitter for [...]]]> http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/07/more-ways-to-use-twitter/feed/ 0 http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/07/how-to-read-your-analytics-reports/ http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/07/how-to-read-your-analytics-reports/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:30:03 +0000 Michelle Harrington http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/?p=1576
If you have a website built by Emagine, you have Google Analytics, a website statistics program already installed.   Google Analytics is a free program that can be set up on any website or blog to track how many visitors come to your site, how they found your site, which keywords they used and which pages [...]]]> http://emaginewebmarketing.com/blog/2011/07/how-to-read-your-analytics-reports/feed/ 0