Team Tech! The Next Wave in Internet Marketing

By Carl Weiss

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Ever wondered how large companies market their business on the internet? They hire a team of professional to get their message out day in and day out. What if there was a way for your small business to take advantage of Team Tech! Well there is and in this article we will be covering the Secrets of Team Tech and how to take advantage of them.

Working the web is no game for wimps.  It use to be as easy as posting your page information, making sure your meta tags were setup and you had created a few back links with other relevant websites. Those days are gone and today it takes guts, determination and staying power to play the game to win. 

How to Tweet Your Way to Success

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By Hector Cisneros

Don't know a twit from a tweet? Do you think Twitter is stupid and a waste of time? On the other hand, are you wondering why all the TV and Radio stations always mentioning their Twitter accounts? If you don't understand twitter, then this article is for you! In this article, I will discuss many of the primary benefits that Twitter has to offer any business. I will explain why you want to consider using Twitter to help grow your business. On top of this, I will provide links to other articles helping with techniques, tools, pitfalls to avoid and shortcuts you can take to become a successful Twitter marketer.

How to Make Google Your Best Friend

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By Hector Cisneros and Carl Weiss

Do you want to be successful with your internet marketing? Are you making daily sales and tracking customer traffic? Is Google your internet friend or your worst enemy? In this article, we will look at all the ways you can take advantage of what Google has to offer. Make Google your friend and laugh all the way to the bank. Try and trick Google and you will regret the day your website was born!

The World Wide Weird

By Carl Weiss

English: Microchips (EPROM memory) with a transparent window, showing the integrated circuit inside. Uploaded by Richard Wheeler (Zephyris) 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Who would have thought when Robert Noyce invented and patented the silicon based integrated circuit way back in 1959 that the world would forever more be changed.  While the initial uses for the computer chip were initially limited to big business and military applications, within a dozen years, the computer revolution would enter consumer electronics with the founding of Apple Computer.  Since then the integrated circuit has become part of virtually every consumer electronic gadget from cellphones and televisions to the cars we drive.  Just when you think that just about every possible application has been thought up, some enterprising entrepreneur comes up with another use for the computer chip.  While there are a number of useful creations such as medical prosthetics that have been known to improve the quality of life for many, what I want to bring to you today are the “out there” applications that seem to be some sort of technological outgrowth of the lunatic fringe.

The Evolution of Internet Advertising

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By Hector Cisneros

Advertising has evolved over the last 100 years, but it's the advent of the internet that has had the biggest impact on how and what we consumers pay attention to. The last 20 years have freed consumers from the trappings of time and space and has allowed them to take charge of what they see, read and hear. The internet has empowered consumers to control their message-consuming destiny and it has ushered in the era of consumer control over false advertising and poor customer service.

Is SEO Still Important Today or in the Future?

By Hector E. Cisneros

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SEO is a term that is bandied about as if it were the holy grail of Search Engine Marketing. But what is SEO really? It is optimizing your website? Or, is it optimizing what you post to your web properties? Is it key word sensitive, key phrase-centric or is it something else altogether? My answer to these questions may surprise you. SEO is no longer just one thing. It's not just optimizing your website for proper Meta tags and matching content. It has grown to mean so much more. In this article, I discuss how Search Engine Optimization (a.d.a., SEO) has evolved into Search Engine Marketing (a.k.a., SEM). I will discuss how what was once a single-faceted injection has evolved into a multifaceted ongoing process. In this article you will find information on how a company can improve its search ranking, specific methods to follow that will insure a strong ranking position. Best of all, you can accomplish all this without resorting to tricks, gimmicks or deception that tries to bypass the search engine ranking systems.

Is it Still Possible to Make Money Online?

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By Carl Weiss  

The concept of making money online is nothing new.  It’s what drove most of us onto the internet in the first place.  Back in the good old days before Google more or less monopolized search, there were real opportunities to grab the top slots on a number of search engines (some in as little as 24 hours), create an eCommerce site and get to it.  However, the game has changed to the point where there are now more than 300 million websites online with 130,000 new sites being spawned daily.  And they all want to be on page one of Google.  

Crowdfunding, it's a Game Changer

By Carl Weiss

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Back in the bad-old days, entrepreneurs searching for funding had three choices: 

1. Friends and Family 
2. Banks 
3. Angel and/or Venture Capitalists

For many this meant that starting a business was nearly a mission impossible.  Then in 2007, all that changed when Prosper.com launched the first peer-to-peer lending service in the US.  Since that time a number of other Crowdfunding sites have popped up, including Kickstarter, which in 2012 raised more than $10 million for the Pebble Watch.

Before you decide to quit your day job, understand that not all projects get funded.  Some pitches are flawed, while others are deemed unfundable due to the rules of various Crowdsourcing portals. But for a staggering number of well thought out and executed proposals, the world wide web can your oyster when it comes to jumpstarting a business.  However, as you will soon find out, Crowdfunding comes in a number of different flavors.