When you are in the process of building your business website, hiring an experienced and talented Denver web designer is extremely important. In Denver, less than 33 percent of small businesses have a professionally designed site. With more and more consumers in Denver turning to the Internet to research local businesses, you can see how [...]
Archive | Small Biz Marketing RSS feed for this section
What to Look for in a Web Designer
By Dave Carlson on November 16, 2012 in Small Biz Marketing, Small Biz Perspective, Web Site Content, Website Design
New Stories of Internet Marketing Success
Everyone loves to hear a good story and we love to tell the stories about when our clients see great success. We recently added a couple new Case Studies to our bevy of internet marketing success stories. And we rewrote several of our older ones to help clarify what we did and how they succeeded. [...]
How to Survive and Win at Networking Events
I just watched this video from Michael Van Osch at thinktank:men. I thought it was some good perspective on getting the most out of networking events. His two main points are that you can save time by looking at RSVP list beforehand and deciding whether or not to attend. This second point is to concentrate [...]
Internet Marketing Expertise
In the movie, Raising Arizona, there was a gnarly character played by Tex Cobb describing to Nathan Arizona about his ability to find babies. Remarking on the police’s inablity to find Nathan Arizona’s kidnapped son, Tex’s best line was, “If you want to find a baby, call me. If you want to find a donut, [...]
Marketing Giveaways
A couple years ago my friend Tim and I were coming out of the Air Force-University of Utah football game. Someone was giving away Quattro shavers. I took one because I can’t pass up free stuff. It’s now hanging in my shower but I haven’t used it much because I prefer my Mach 3 Turbo. [...]
Getting What You Pay For
By Dave Carlson on April 30, 2010 in Search Engine Marketing, Small Biz Marketing, Small Biz Perspective
I sat with some people who have a large ecommerce site. They were one of the few sites that made it through the Tech Bust from the last couple years ago. They started out by getting money on a per acquisition basis but changed their business plan when they came to realize something about human [...]
Why Am I Such a Misfit, I am Not Just a Nitwit
As I watched “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” a while back I was thinking that I should have sang this song as I left my last job. I was thinking of “Saturday Night Live” when Molly Shannon’s Mary Catherine Gallagher would break into song to express her feelings. So, I thought, “I’m not just a misfit, [...]
The Great Potential of Internet Marketing
I had lunch with a potential new client the other day. He and I were talking about redesigning his web site to help him get more visitors and have them buy more of his products. He has great potential. One reason this is so is because he does a lot of writing and has many [...]
We’ll See — Good Coming Out of Bad and Vice Versa
There is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically. “We’ll see,” the farmer replied. The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild [...]
Stop Leaking Money — You May Need It
Have an interesting quote hanging on my wall – “Cut your costs to the bone – stop leaking money, you many need it!” I read recently that businesses have started to see more profits lately and one of the reasons this has come about was because companies have been cutting out the fat in their [...]
