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12.10.08

SES: Free and Easy Tips for Small Businesses

By John W Ellis

Among other sessions, on Tuesday of Search Engine Strategies Chicago I attended SEM Small Business Blitz.

This session was a quick list of (often) free and easy tips for small business to compete in the social and search media.

The session was moderated by Matt Van Wagner, President of Find Me Faster.

Jennifer Laycock started off the session discussing social media marketing.

Some of her key points were:

• Don't be a Social Media Jackass
• Listen to Trusted Advice
• The Conversion is the Goal
• It's Not the Budget, it's the Attitude

Be careful of the Marketing's Wheel of Misfortune

Amber Naslund, President of Altitude, spoke next on ways for small business to compete in social media. Amber stressed that it's important in social media not to be afraid to fail

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6 Ways to Get a Foothold in Social Media:

• Get Educated
• Listed
• Find Your Personality
• Define Success
• Participate
• Measure

Carrie Hill with Blizzard Internet Marketing spoke last about Search Engine and Conversion Optimization for small businesses.

Some of Carrie's SEO tips for successful management

• Crawl Your Site, with sites like: GSiteCrawler.com.
• Export data to Excel file.
• Sort URL's.
• Assign 1 keyword to optimize per page.
• Write tags based on findings.
• Use and update spreadsheet routinely to keep accurate records of changes

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About the Author:
John W Ellis is a Senior Online Marketing Manager for ResortQuest Vacation Rentals. He is a contributing writer for Web Analytics World.
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