Category Archives: Blogging

Small Business Blogging on a Budget

By Joanna Ciolek | Published: January 26, 2012

Whether you own a brick-and-mortar store or a web-based business, blogging is a great way for small businesses to reach out to customers, engage target audience and market products or services. While many small businesses understand the concept of blogging and are aware of the benefits, blogging is often viewed as requiring lots of effort [...]

Also posted in SEO/Marketing | Tagged blog, free, relationships, ROI, SEO, small business, strategy, WordPress | 6 Comments

15 Awesome Design Resources From November 2011

By Joanna Ciolek | Published: December 1, 2011

As always, I’ve compiled a list of some of the best web design resources from November that I’d like to share with you today. I’ve chosen only a handful of sites/posts that I found particularly inspiring or useful. I hope you enjoy this list and add your favorite recent bookmarks in comments as well. 15 [...]

Also posted in Design | Tagged graphic design, inspiration, resources | Leave a comment

Outbound Marketing is Dead. Long Live Inbound Marketing.

By Joanna Ciolek | Published: June 8, 2011

While flipping through mail today I stumbled upon the usual suspects: direct mail postcards and fliers advertising amazing deals and sales that I’m completely uninterested in. I don’t know about you but I don’t even bother to read them – off to the garbage can they go. And I feel helpless to stop this unnecessary [...]

Also posted in SEO/Marketing, Social Media | Tagged blog, Facebook, Google Local, inbound links, localized search, ROI, SEO, small business, strategy, success, trends | 12 Comments

I Hope You Don’t Mind But I’ll Write About Nothing

By Joanna Ciolek | Published: June 3, 2011

This week has been a little unusual in that I took some time off from work around the Memorial Day Weekend, which was naturally followed by an extra amount of work to catch up on later in the week. In fact, only today have I managed to finally answer all the emails waiting to be [...]

Posted in Blogging | Tagged blog, inspiration | 4 Comments

Smarter Linking Strategy For Stronger SEO

By Joanna Ciolek | Published: March 9, 2011

Any SEO professional out there will tell you that a strong linking strategy is crucial to your website’s SEO/marketing success. Yet the full potential of linking is often overlooked by website owners. In fact, majority of them fail to realize the powerful impact that links have on the strength of their pages/articles in the search [...]

Also posted in SEO/Marketing | Tagged blog, inbound links, link building, Page Rank, SEO, strategy, usability | 12 Comments

Blogging, Excuse Me, Content Marketing Will Rule 2011

By Joanna Ciolek | Published: January 5, 2011

With microblogging services such as Twitter and social networks like Facebook demanding so much attention from today’s internet users, many Web professionals have adopted the mistaken belief that the day of the Weblog are numbered. I don’t think so, nor do over 120 millions on US online users who read at least one blog on [...]