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A Solid Year of Blogging
As of this week, MWD Web has published a new blog post every single week, consistently, for the past year. 52 shiny, lovely posts. Hooray for us. But, more importantly, hooray for our site performance. We’ve gone from zero to hero with search engines, and seen our traffic steadily increase as we’ve gained traction and… Read more
Tip of the Week: Don’t Cheat on Facebook
For those of you who were thinking about defrauding Facebook with fake accounts, fake fans on your page, etc., here’s a word of advice: don’t bother. Facebook that they are taking measures to cut down on junk accounts and invalid ‘likes’ on fan pages. This is just the latest in a series of recent moves… Read more
LinkedIn’s 175 Million Members
According to a recent Mashable report, the business networking site LinkedIn now stands at more than 175 million members. () In numbers, that’s 175,000,000. Not as impressive as the national debt, but it’s still a pretty big number. So, what does this mean for businesses? Read more
4 Ways to Get More Traffic to Your Site
By now, most marketing professionals are familiar with the concept of inbound marketing vs. outbound. Briefly, outbound marketing sends your message out to prospects who don’t necessarily want to hear it. Think cold calling, trade shows, billboards, etc. Inbound marketing, conversely, involves drawing visitors in. This automatically results in prospects who are pre-qualified: they choose… Read more
Are you talking WITH your customers, or talking AT them?
Social media is a wonderful tool that you can use to really engage with your audience. It can also be a colossal mess, if you don’t handle it correctly. Think about it: what makes the social scene so enormously popular with the general population? It is the fact that now everyone has a voice, and… Read more
Writing Like a Human Being
In our years of working with businesses and their Web sites, we’ve found that a lot of them suffer from one of two common writing maladies. Here, we offer our suggestions to overcome these obstacles in writing your content. 1. Don’t be incomprehensible! It’s important to speak to your audience on their level. Using terminology… Read more
Grab Your Piece of the Social Media Pie
According to a recent study by BIA/Kelsey and vSplash, less than 20 percent of small business websites use Facebook or other social media. (http://streetfightmag.com/2012/04/17/study-less-than-20-of-smb-web-sites-link-to-social-media/) Less than 20%. Let that sink in for a moment. Now consider that by engaging in the social media world, you’re putting your business out there ahead of 80% of your… Read more