Online marketing that works
The landscape of search and search engine marketing change rapidly.
To keep up, stay ahead, grow your business, and get more (and better) traffic to your site, you need the right help.
Search Marketing Expo is a conference that offers more than 60 cutting-edge sessions (as well as invaluable networking opportunities) covering the search marketing strategies and tactics you’ll need to thrive in 2012 and beyond.
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This sale is over. Thanks to everyone!
If you’ve been around Copyblogger for a while, you know we rarely offer discounts on our products. Competing on price is not something we find very smart or appealing.
Better to just make the best stuff around, right?
But it’s the Thanksgiving weekend here in the U.S., and we have a lot to be thankful for (thanks to you). Plus, there’s this whole Black Friday / Cyber Monday thing that’s become a bit of a tradition.
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Starting a business is risky. Horribly, terrifyingly risky.
Nearly all new businesses fail — that’s the official statistic, right? Some say 4 out of 5, some say as many as 95%.
Successful entrepreneurs have a different kind of DNA from the rest of us. Ice water runs through their veins. They thrive on risk. The more insane the odds, the better they like it.
For those of us who have families, or who just don’t feel like living on ramen for the next four years, we’re probably better off keeping the day job.
Do you believe any of those?
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We live a lonely life out here on the internet.
Sure, we’ve got email and blogs and social media and Skype and the occasional contact via an actual phone, but in real-life terms we’re pretty isolated.
We usually live far away from our “work friends.” We swap ideas in small, discreet blocks — a half-hour IM chat with someone here, an email or two with someone else there.
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Yeah, you can sign-up for some WordPress hosting, then pick up a random theme to bolt onto your site.
But why would you go just about anywhere to find something that’s so vital to your work? This is 2011 after all.
Your website should be stunningly designed.
It should make performing the basics of good SEO very simple.
You shouldn’t have to worry about things like state-of-the-art security, hassles with manual updates, or wondering if the underlying code of the theme you’re using is silently undermining all your work.
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Sure, you want comments.
And subscribers, and shares, and likes.
But you don’t really care about any of these things. You want what they will eventually lead to …
Money.
Yes, traffic is good, and so is reader engagement. But if you’re reading this, chances are you’re running a blog with the intention of marketing a business and making some money.
Now, that could be a bit distressing, because most bloggers are broke.
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