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We recomend the use of Hubspot's websitegrader. We recently did a quick survey of the result of some of the site we either constructed or optimized...
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We have been busy working with and growing small businesses. 

Our work has received some public attention at the Infusionsoft Revolution Tour event in San Diego.

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Craig was asked to pull together a panel of clients who have grown their business this year and have them answer questions from the audience.

It was fantastic! Thanks to Stacey, Henry and Buzz.

First the brag.. This website is the 100th most popular website hosted on Weebly! That is out of 3 million websites! Whew...thanks to you for making us popular. All the Open Spaces team thanks for for your interest and support.
Here is how we know this... http://serversiders.com/as27647 scroll to the 100th position and see our url.

 
Now the cool tool ... http://serversiders.com
I was doing some competitive analysis for a client and found this cool website.  It displays information it diggs about a competitive website http://serversiders.com

Ok it is the third coolest thing we found this week but it is interesting to get a snapshot of a website.

I've been a long time Dan Kennedy follower. His books are fantastic.  Bill Glazier's new book "outrageous Advertising" is a must read for any marketer.

I love their monthly meetings and make time to go as often as possible. Click here to listen to what other GKIC San Diego Members say...

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If you want to learn how to grow your small business, this is a place to learn.

I have to thank Tim Hathaway of http://hathaway.us for the reminder and this suggestion.  Tim sets up and fixes computers and networks for small business in San Diego CA.

I currently back up my main laptop onto external hard drives but that is monthly and ...well I miss some months.

Tim suggested carbonite.  (www.carbonite.com) and I set up an account with them and love it!

Our business system computors get backed up automatically within our network to a RAID NAS drive but my laptop is often "a cowboy", disconnected from the network and needed a different solution.

Carbonite so far looks great!
  

As marketers, we are limited by people's interests.  Yes marketing is about making people interested in our products and services.  It is also essential we have an understanding of what people are interested in.

I recommend you routinely keep in touch with what people are interested in ...by Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends?hl=en 

It is a very valuable and free tool to see the search trends by search term over the past years.  I love the graph to see quickly the high level trends by month and year.

Small business owners always ask me about showing up in search results and gaining more leads for their business.  I believe in doing the most important things first. In the world of search, that is showing up in Google.

Comscore (www.comscore) tracks where people search and they reported recently 65% of searches are in Google.  So showing up in you important search terrm Google searches must be your first priority.

Details here  from comscore http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2009/11/comScore_Releases_October_2009_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20comscore%20%28comScore%20Networks%29&utm_content=Google%20Reader

I have a client who has acted! He has been in business for over 30 years. He knew old style sales and marketing just wasn't as effective as before.

We met about a year ago. In our first meeting, I was impressed with his willingness to change and to act. He was willing to try new approaches.
 
He jumped into web-based marketing of his brick and mortar business. He embrassed change. He embrassed  the Dan Kennedy/Bill Glazier marketing approach along with web-based lead generation.

Results?  Yes, his business has doubled during this recession and he has been struggling with managing the growth brought by his new tactics and tools.

His formula: It's all outlined in the "Edge of Success" ebook offered on this website.

It has changed his life!  

 "You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion." Dan Surface

I speak daily with small business owners and managers and am struck but how they are "stuck" collecting information on what to do next.

These are very smart, motivated men and women who are often stuck in "analysis paralysis".  They solicit opinions and look for information on what is effective.

After months, they are still looking for the best route forward.  Many have a bias to more education or more information but in an effort to not make a mistake, they make the surest large mistake by not acting.

Even a poor plan, well executed delivers results and helps you learn more. 

Don't hesitate! Act! 

I want to challenge small business owners to use the holiday season to re-examine their business and their views about their business.

Globally, you know that there are seismic changes happening. Traditional media (newspapers, TV , radio) are all less effective that they have been.  The yellow pages is giving you less leads. Response rates are down and costs are going up.

Online there has been a surge in business spending on Pay per Click and PPC is effective but a bit less so than a year ago.

What are you doing differently?  How are you getting leads?

More importantly, what tools and techniques are being used by business which are thriving and growing in this environment? You know that even in this generally down market there are businesses which are growing.