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Updated: How to Create a Pro-Level Facebook Page Without Hiring a Pro

Here is the link for the new version: How to Create a Pro-Level Facebook Page Without Hiring a Pro. This version takes into account the newest batch of updates that Facebook has rolled out for brand Pages. Enjoy, Jo

3 Reasons to include a Photo with every Facebook Status Update

In this post I’m going to expand on a topic that I cover in my Facebook Pages optimization guide – using Photos when you do Status Updates for your business or organization. We are talking about uploading a photo to Facebook vs. just posting the message itself. When you do this, your message becomes the [...]

How to Create a Professional Facebook Page without Hiring a Pro

Here is the official “Version 1.0″ of the “How to Create a Professional Facebook Page without Hiring a Pro” presentation that I gave to the Social Media Club San Gabriel Valley on Nov. 18. Please feel free to use, distribute and share this version, and let people know where you found it! After a year [...]

Thanks for coming to today’s presentation

If you are reading this, thanks for coming to the Social Media Club San Gabriel Valley talk. SGV represent! I haven’t posted to this site in ages, so I’m guessing that any visitors got my biz card today. (Update: or clicked the link from Paula’s post. Thanks Paula!) This is my web business strategy blog. [...]

Take the Google Local fast-track to SEO success

In the second half of 2008, Google started including Google Local listings in their results when they believed that you were doing a commercial search (“pizza”) instead of a regular content search. This week they stepped it up, including Google Local results for just about any search you do. This is a game changer. Last [...]

Is Getting Into the E-marketing Field Now Good Timing?

Here’s a question that came in to LinkedIn about the climate for E-Marketers. The bottom line is that it’s tough for everybody and every industry right now, there’s just that much more competition from the newly-unemployed (ahem, “self-employed”), and that much less money to go around. Even so, there are opportunities, which I speak to [...]

How effective is a site map / site index?

In my last post I discussed the LinkedIn.com “Questions & Answers” application, which I recommend that everyone use both for research and to build professional credibility. I routinely respond to questions from LinkedIn members, and I’ll include relevant ones here on the Web Biz Strategy blog. Today’s question is about the use of site maps for your [...]

Your Web Strategy

Hello and welcome to Web Biz Strategy.  My goal with this blog is to help visitors build their web business strategy by sharing my learnings and thoughts on successful web business, having spent ten years in the web biz and going strong. At the same time, I benefit by writing out, organizing and compiling my [...]