Proudly Annoucing CoffeeMarketingPro.com

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coffee black logo c steam 300x300 Proudly Annoucing CoffeeMarketingPro.comWhile slinging coffee and moving up within the coffee industry, Chase Mann of MyCoffeePro.com and Jennifer Vaaler of dailydemitasse.com helped their bosses with marketing strategies and put their backgrounds of design and writing to use increasing sales. After a year of networking and outsourcing each others specialized services, they decided to start Coffee Marketing Pro to offer a marketing powerhouse for specialty coffee companies like high quality cafes, roasters and suppliers.

Visit CoffeeMarketingPro.com, fan them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter @CoffeeMrktngPro

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Infusionsoft’s Facebook Marketing Week

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facebookmarketingweekrecap Infusionsoft’s Facebook Marketing Week Our friends over at Infusionsoft wrote up a series of articles on Facebook Marketing.

Here’s a re-post of Joe Manna’s re-cap of those posts.

As our Facebook Marketing Week comes to an end, I’d like to recap the posts and videos we published so you can have a chance to revisit them and work on applying Facebook effectively in your business.

Facebook Marketing Week started with our users who have talked with our friendly support and sales teams about Facebook and using Infusionsoft. This is important because without your feedback, I wouldn’t have known that you were interested in using Facebook in your marketing. Thank you, we appreciate the feedback and glad we can help you with using Facebook in your small business.

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3 Key Ingredients for a Better Business Blog

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OpenForBusiness thumb 3 Key Ingredients for a Better Business Blog You’re an entrepreneur or small business owner who has decided it’s the right time to develop a business website … better yet, a business blog … now what?

Here are my personal must-haves for any new website (blogsite) that I develop for clients:

  1. WordPress – WordPress is the best option to choose for a blogging platform. It’s easy to install, has lots of themes and plug-ins and can be highly customized for various requirements. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that WordPress  can only be used as a “blog” … there are many creative alternative uses for it.
  2. AweberAweber is an auto-responder that allows you to create a partially automatic dialogue with customers. It’s a great tool for instantly acknowledging form submitters that you received their submission and will get back to them, works great for email newsletters, and has wonderful tracking analytics so you can see what is or isn’t working with your email marketing campaigns and offers.
  3. A Designer – Yes, I’m a little biased on my recommendation on this third item since I am one myself. A designer can setup your blogsite so that all you have to do is go in and keep it maintained with as little tech-know-how as possible. A designer can also customize the graphics for your blog so that your blogsite doesn’t look “cookie-cutter” and has a unique personality that fits your overall branding position. A designer can also help you choose which features and plug-ins would work best for your particular business blog based on your target audience.

You can learn about the WordPress plug-ins I use in my article: WordPress Blog Design: Plugins

I’m interested to have a dialogue with fellow designers, entrepreneurs and small business owners on this subject.

What other ingredients do you think make for a better business blog?

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1st step is admitting you have a problem …

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blog keyboard 200 thumb 1st step is admitting you have a problem … When I go out prospecting for new clients, I’m flabbergasted by how many small business owners don’t think it’s necessary to have a website.

Then there are those that know they need a website, but think they don’t have the content, effort, or time for maintaining a blog.

For all those entrepreneurs and small business owners out there reading this … you MUST have a website … preferably a blog.

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