How to Grow Your Business: The Five Best Places for Internet Business Advice on the Web
With a little help, you can grow your business on the Internet and gain foot traffic in stores. However, when you need small bits of information on how to promote your business on the Internet and a few tips and tricks for implementing the solutions your advertising firm gave you, you’ll need a few websites you can rely on for good Internet business advice. Many of the blogs I mention below have excellent instructions and actionable items that you can use to promote your brand on the web. All of these websites have exacting editorial standards that weed out all content that isn’t actionable, well-written, and helpful to their readers. Here are the best five blogs to get your Internet business advice on the net:
- Kissmetrics Blog. The Kissmetrics Blog contains some of the nuts and bolts of exactly how to market your brand and your company on the Internet. The blog is dedicated to Kissmetrics’ products, but it also publishes writing by top Internet traffic engineers from some of the top sites and companies on the web. Bloggers have to submit their best work to be featured on such a popular site, so can rely on quality content here.
- Traffic Generation Café. This blog, run by marketing expert Ana Hoffman, offers tips and tricks to boost traffic specifically geared toward small businesses that have smaller budgets. Topics covered on Hoffman’s blog include tips for making better use of social media, ways to get attention from influencers, and how to draw traffic and links from blog posts.
- The Sparkline. Formerly Think Traffic, The Sparkline offers all kinds of advice and words of wisdom for “independent creatives and entrepreneurs building matterful things.” Many of the blog posts featured on The Sparkline go beyond what you can get from your ad agency. In order to get the honor of posting on this site, bloggers have to be invited by the editorial staff. They maintain tight control over the content featured on the blog.
- Copyblogger. Copyblogger recently shifted their policies regarding guest blogs and in-house writers. They’ve almost completely shut down their guest blogging features and have almost entirely shifted to only allowing posts from their staff. This means that all of the content you find at Copyblogger has passed through a rigorous editing process and all of the actionable items you’ll find there will work to promote your business.
- MarketingProfs. This website has a section of its blog dedicated to “How-to articles.” You can also poke around the site for many kinds of advice on marketing on the Internet and more.
These five blogs are great places to start when you need a bit of advice for certain actionable items. Read about how you can improve your business’s reach and visibility on the Internet and bring up these issues with your marketing agency and watch your web traffic grow. Many of these sites also offer regular newsletter content if you subscribe to their email lists.
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Adam is a graduate of Colorado State University (bachelor’s degree in marketing), and he has experience on both the client and agency side of the marketing world. These experiences led him to come up with a unique, more efficient business model, which he’s incorporated into Encite Marketing. Adam sets the strategic direction for all Encite projects, developing integrated marketing campaigns that bring results. He takes a consultative approach with clients, educating them about how the process works, and keeping them in the loop about end goals, steps, and tasks.