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You’re running your website and you’re seeing growth. And then comes the glorious time right around October to December where there is a sudden and great influx in the amount of people visiting your website and giving you business. This holiday season, as reported by numerous news agencies, was one of the best ones for profit online. In other words, companies that sell online are seeing more business than ever before.

However, if you’re a small to medium size online retailer rather than one of the big giants like 6PM and Finish Line, it might be more difficult to get people running to your website to make purchases rather than going to the big giants who also probably sell the same product as you do and, perhaps, at a slight discount. How can you be prepared for the holiday season next year by starting now?

If you missed the bandwagon departing for Social Network traffic – fear not! Tweet and Get It! WordPress plugin will help you get there quite a bit faster. This small addition to your blog can help you recruit an army of followers interested in getting exactly what you have to offer or share, assuming of course you actually have something to give or share

To see it in action:

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Innovation never sleeps and that is why I like WordPress as a platform! If you have a need – more than likely someone else does too and they have created a solution in form of plugin you can install and use!

Online businesses have a decisive advantage over offline ones, provided they have the skills, knowledge, and patience to leverage them. One fairly obvious advantage is the likely absence of a lot of normal expenses that an offline business must pay – such as rent for an office or storefront, and the associated utilities. You will likely need to find and train employees online, however. And this brings with it a whole new set of problems. How do you find reliable, hard-working employees online? Furthermore, how do you train them without having them physically present at a training seminar or session?

There are a lot of misconceptions about finding employees online, and a great deal of tactics that, from personal experience, simply don’t work. If you want to find the employees you need to make your business successful, start with the place where these employees learn the skills necessary to be successful.

Many businesses in many different industries are struggling due to the current state of the unforgiving economy. A number of franchise chains have downsized by eliminating their number of locations, while several smaller companies have been forced out of business entirely. Whether the financial woes are because of the economy or other reasons, increasing sales is often the solution to solving them. If your business is struggling to generate sales, free email marketing could be the answer.

Made to Improve

Even some of the most successful businesses hit a rough spot every now and then. When the chips are down, you must be able to investigate the matter and find out exactly where you are struggling. A free email marketing solution can allow you to do just that. For example, if your reports show that your open rate is below your personal benchmark, this would indicate that recipients are not even seeing your message and adjustments are needed. In this case, you may need to scale back on frequency or tweak your subject lines. Free email marketing can provide the reporting tools that highlight your strengths, but more importantly, uncover the areas that need improving.

About 5 hour ago I have installed a great plugin, Antispam Bee (can be found in WordPress plugins repository) to test this alternative to Akismet. Not that there was anything wrong with that plugin but I get quite a few questions on FREE alternative for business bloggers and I just had to test.

Results are stunning so far, to say the least:

Email marketing can be an effective way to build your blog readership. But you have to do it well. Get it wrong and you risk alienating readers. It’s all about being appropriate. Sending too many emails can result in email overload and readers will unsubscribe from your emails and may quit visiting your blog.

Ensuring that your email marketing is really effective means that you need to send high quality emails no more than once or twice a week.