Blogging for customers

Written by Sid John


Blogs are a great way to keep in touch with your customers. Why? No spam filters. Blogs are proactive tools and not reactive like an email. If people want to know what’s going on, they must log on to your blog and find out on their own. This is great news because you don’t have to deal withrepparttar spam filters that and bulk mail options.

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When you have a blog, people can log on while they’re at work and still get their daily dose of whatever marketing tip or advice you have to offer.

Increase Page Rank with Search Engine Optimization

Written by John Doetsch


Utilizing effective search engine optimization techniques will improverepparttar page rank of your website.

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