Basic Internet Marketing For Small Businesses — Realtor Marketing, Lawyer Marketing, Accountant Marketing

Patriot Connect Launch!

by Genuine Chris Johnson on March 8, 2010

Just so you know–for those of you liberty minded political junkies out there, we’ve created a libertarian and third party website design company. It’s a sister company of Flat Rate Web Jobs.

PatriotConnect.Com does high end Thesis-Blogged Libertarian websites for $797 and up.

More to come as is always the case.

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Using Your Permission: How To Stop Leaving Money On The Table.

Push vs. Pull Marketing is a big dumb debate.
Seth Godin’s book Permission Marketing has been grossly misinterpreted by a generation of online salespeople. His book says that it’s most effective to do permission vs. interruption marketing. A church formed around this and took it too far. Push marketing and pull marketing (where the customer is [...]

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Mortgage Loan Officer Business Plan For Social Media 2010: Originate Using Social Media

Loan officer business plans are harder to make than ever before. Fundamentally, its about contacts, units, closings That’s what it’s all about, and making this happen for a loan officer is no easy task. There are great “free” resources online to get business, but it comes down to a couple of things: talking to and [...]

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Upgrade Your Relationships: Where Small Business Gets it Wrong

Small business owners are missing the boat and costing themselves money when they insist on massive automation. A lot of owners–even ones not making a lot of money–are trying to create layers and funnels for their customers to go through. They are defining social media success as something it’s not–getting customers to self select and [...]

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7 Things More Important Than Having a Small Business Blog

My friend and sometimes team mate Blog Consultant Michael Martine had a nifty discussion on where your business would be without a blog. It’s an interesting question, and his crowd is primarily pro blog. He had a couple of dissenters, but the conversation was great (if not a little long winded). Many felt you had [...]

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Delivered: TheWeddings Destination.com for Adam Queen Images

Chris and I are constantly talking about personality traits and habits that point us toward or away from success. One of the biggest impediments, we both agree, is making yourself wait for perfection, 3 years under the belt, a large portfolio—or whatever your imagined starting point is—before diving in and getting something done. Put something [...]

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A Poll: Crowdsourcing And Professionals!

We’re not using true crowdsourcing for our work (because crowdsourcing is pretty much a bad idea). We’ve asked Jason Moore to provide some good ideas for our blog, and he’s come through in a big way. We’ve narrowed things down to 4 ideas, and we’d like to see if there’s a strong crowd favorite before [...]

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Delivered: Printbrands™ Company Blog

Eco-friendly apparel printers Printbrands™ have a clearly-defined and innovative brand concept, one that caught our attention long before they approached us about building a blog on their existing website. Simply put, their site was just begging for a blog that could effectively communicate their extremely marketable vision and help build an organic fan base.
From their [...]

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Social Media Business Plan For Real Estate Agents & Realtors

I will admit one thing: I have an unfair advantage delivering this plan and kicking off the “public” plans with this section. In addition to owning this business, I also do some realtor coaching and training at Harris Real Estate University. So, I know–first-hand–a lot of what works today (and what doesn’t). Having had 100+ [...]

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Delivered: Custom Facebook Page for Nanette Labastida

Nanette Labastida had seen our work on fellow Austin real estate pro’s JBC Media blog, but was looking for something a bit different. Already active on Facebook, we got to talking about the huge boost in visibility a custom Facebook Page could lend her business.
Nanette already had the bare bones structure up, but it wasn’t [...]

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Webinar Replay: 3 Things To Fix Blog Leaks

Webinar from today… turned out OKAY.

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You’re getting traffic, but now what? Are visitors staying? Are they becoming fans? Are they engaging? And most importantly, are they buying?
Most bloggers are failing at what’s most important: getting people that show up… to engage and become clients.
On Wednesday, February 3, 2010…Flat Rate Web Jobs will show you the massive errors most small business [...]

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Facebook Fan Pages That Don’t Suck: Yes, They Exist

A free webinar that won’t suck, either.
You will learn:

Deciding If You Need a Page
Why Most Fan Pages Fail, Hard
Facebook’s Angle
Setting It Up Right the First Time
Promotion to Reach “The 100” and Beyond
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It’s free, no-strings and held Thursday, 1/28 @ 3PM EST. Click below to be invited!

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Blog Content Plans That Produce – Free Webinar

Planning posts that sell & sticking with it.
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Why You NEED A Plan
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As always, this will not be a “salesinar” or “pitchfest”, and our tips don’t have strings attached.

Planning your categories.
Making [...]

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