Norcross Web Design

April 29, 2013 By Michael Leave a Comment

Norcross Web Design

Are you sick and tired of being invisible?

Have you realized that your potential customers are driving by your location to go to your competitor because they don’t realize you are in that shopping center?

Are you wishing and hoping that someone would stop in and buy something?

Let’s face it, the number one thing you need to happen in your small business is: for the cash register to ring.

Right now, there are customers in your area searching on the Internet for businesses that offer your products and services. Are you there? Are you “findable?”

What would happen if everyone who searched for your product or service locally found you?

What if, when your customers searched for what you do, or what you sell, in Google saw your business listing at the top of the first page?

I’ll tell you what will happen … your sales will increase!

More Sales!

That’s what marketing is all about. Making more sales – more money. You don’t need a fancy website. You don’t need to spend a fortune. You just need results.

That’s what we deliver – results!

If you want to learn more about us and how we can help you make more money, call us right now at (770) 441-1050. Michael or Shelly Miller will happily answer all of your questions.

Don’t waste another minute. You need customers, we know where they are. Call us now.

Mindwhirl – Norcross Georgia’s Web Design Company since 1998.

Filed Under: Norcross Local Listing, Norcross Web Design Tagged With: norcross business listing, norcross internet marketing, norcross local listing, norcross web design

September 24, 2012 By shelly Leave a Comment

Building Your Online Presence – It Takes Time and Patience

A couple of weeks ago I was visiting a bookstore and saw this message stone on the ground, “Patience takes a long time”. Great saying for the crappy week I was having – it was crappy because I was totally out of patience and annoyed with everything I was doing.

What was I doing? Setting up accounts for social media, web servers, domains, WordPress, email, etc. and ALL of it was taking A LOT longer than I expected – which pissed me off to no end. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: building an online presence, patience, patience setting up accounts, tips for account set up, tips on how to get your accounts set up

September 19, 2012 By Michael Leave a Comment

The Future of Internet Marketing

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The Mayan calendar ends on December 21^st, 2012. There are many who believe that in one way or another this will be the end of the world as we know it.

For those of us who make our living online, and for our clients, and every business actually, the end of the world as we know it has already taken place.

April 24^th, 2012 – the day the Internet changed forever

The end of the world as we know it was named Panda in and Penguin.

The significance of these names is not that they are both black and white animals that start with the letter P. No, the significance is [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: article marketing, B2B, business to business, business to consumer, content marketing, IM, internet marketing, marketing, sales

September 14, 2012 By shelly Leave a Comment

Right Brain Left Brain Dominance – Presenting Based On Your Customers Brain Dominance

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I ALWAYS love to give great presentations and am constantly looking for ways to make my presentations even better! That means, they educate and entertain in the way that is a perfect fit for my customers. I’ve presented everything from garage doors to payroll services, and Internet Strategies to individuals, Small Business owners, Committees and Fortune 500 companies since I was 16. Some presentations were bad, really bad, and some were so great, I left with a check in hand.

While growing my businesses and presenting my products I decided to further my degree in social psychology, understanding people, their behaviors, thoughts, and feelings, it goes right along with my profession and my inherent desire to understand people. One topic in particular, left and right brain dominance, absolutely fascinated me. I quickly realized I could learn a lot about a person just by looking at them and listening to them talk, even over the phone. And then I thought, I could use this in my presentations! [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marketing, Sales Tagged With: brain dominance, left brain, psychological selling techniques, psychology, right brain, selling techniques, social psychology

September 12, 2012 By Michael Leave a Comment

What is Inbound Marketing?

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For the last 5 or 6 years Bloggers and Internet Marketers have been trying to identify the best ways to make money online. What they have found to be the most effective has developed a name:

Inbound Marketing.

If you are wondering what inbound marketing is and how you can make use of it, you have come to the right place! I am going to give you everything you need to know in order to start strategizing how you can use inbound marketing.

First, so that you can truly understand, let’s talk about marketing for a minute. [Read more...]

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September 10, 2012 By Michael Leave a Comment

Do Small Businesses Have to Blog?

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I hear it all the time from Small Business owners, “Do I have to blog?”

2 years ago, no; you could have gotten by with Adwords and a website as your complete online marketing strategy. Small business owners started there, and then began adding in LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter links on their sites, then they may have stepped up to sending an email newsletter once a month. Slowly, everything changed and because it was “slowly” changing, it was easy to add tasks to your internet marketing.

Then Google Stepped In

This year (2012), Google’s Penguin and Panda updates have changed everything. In one sense, Google has leveled the playing field, and in another sense, Google made it impossible to easily and cheaply rank for average long tail keywords.

Now, you must be either all in, or all out. There is no sense dabbling and testing the waters on the Internet anymore, you won’t see any benefit from it. Now, Google is essentially requiring that you have a social media presence. The only way to get social media to work is to get your followers engaged in your content. That means you will have to be able to share it as effectively as possible – hence a blog. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: blog, blogging, business, small business

September 7, 2012 By shelly Leave a Comment

Being an Expert in Your Industry

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What does it mean to be an expert in your industry?

It means you are the one everyone goes to for answers on your particular product or service.

The big question is: How do I become the expert?

Simple answer: Prove you are an expert by providing detailed information about your product, the history of the product, why it was created, how it can help the consumer and associate your product with other well known products in your industry so the consumer is completely clear about your product, how it works, and what product they currently have that could be upgraded or replaced with your product. Being genuine about your product and your expertise in the field is a must. [Read more...]

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September 6, 2012 By Michael Leave a Comment

Office Depot – Doing it Wrong

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I called Office Depot today. The phone was answered by a girl who, in a bored tone, said:

“Thank you for calling Office Depot, how may I take care of your business today?”

Uh, take care of my business?

Whatever happened to “how may I help you?”

That always worked well. I don’t think saying “How may I help you?” was broken.

Besides, the problem was that attitude. I don’t think she was qualified to answer the phone, let alone take care of my business. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marketing, Reviews Tagged With: customer service, marketing, office depot, review

September 3, 2012 By shelly Leave a Comment

Who is Your Customer – Purina Be Happy Food for Dogs and Cats

Yesterday I was browsing through my drive way coupons (you know the ones; they are part of the flyers and the local paper insert thrown in your driveway once a week). Flipping through I was forced to stop by an adorable cartoon dog and cat. It said “Purina Be Happy Brand Pet Foods” with a coupon for both dog and cat food and text that said “at Target”. I thought the ad was unique and adorable. The colors used and the style of the cartoon dog and cat were nothing like I had ever seen in a coupon insert.

I decided then I would purchase the food for my pets the next time I went shopping.

Later that night, I had to run to Target for laundry soap and thought I’d look for the Be Happy food, what I found was surprising, all the Be Happy cat food was gone and there was only two bags of the Be Happy dog food left. Obviously, the ads stood out to more people than just me.

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