Once your small business website is up and running, it's easy to let it be. But successful websites are regularly improved and tweaked. Let this be a call to …
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Links: Why You Need ‘Em
If your website doesn't have incoming and outgoing links, you may not be ranking as high in search engines as you could. That's because search engines, …
Marketing Strategies: A Chat with Web Video Expert Jeff Silverman
Video is becoming more and more vital for a small business to include in an online marketing mix. Savvy consumers want to know as much as they can about your …
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Q&A Friday: Google Maps, Meta Tags and Embedding Video from YouTube
This week Visual People introduces Q&A Friday where we answer questions we get from our clients, friends, blog visitors and Facebook fans. Is there …
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5 Ways to Improve the Local Business Community Through Social Media
Social media doesn't just improve your business - it can help an entire business community! In Corvallis, Oregon, a group of local business owners called the …
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Online Reputation Management Important for Small Businesses
We wandered across an extremely negative online review for one of our clients this week. It was completely at odds with what we had experienced working with the …
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To Comment or Not to Comment
In the past, the Visual People blog has deliberately not turned on comments. We love hearing from our customers and potential customers, but we've utilized …
Local Business: How to Work Charitable Giving into your Small Business Marketing
"In order to be remarked about, you have to do something remarkable." That's a quote that Chris Shonnard, owner of Shonnard's Nursery, Florist & …
Lessons in Social Media: What to Share
It seems like everyone wants to talk about social media. It's still the "new thing," a great buzzword and something that many small business owners just don't …
Five Things a Small Business Owner Should Know About Yelp
You may have heard about Yelp - it's a review site that started in the Bay Area and primarily focused on restaurants. Now it's all over the U.S., including in …
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