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Does Bad Spelling Affect Your Bottom Line?
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In a word: yes. How so, you may ask? How could a few mistakes in spelling on my website really matter? First of all, let me ask you this: would you hand out a business card that had a word spelled wrong on it? What if it was your email address? Your potential contacts and ...
Good Writing Matters
In case you haven’t noticed, Either/Or Media is big on good writing. The written word is the key component to any company’s marketing strategy. But why, then, are there so many companies out there using such atrocious writing for their website, marketing collateral and sales materials? No one likes bad writing. In fact, bad writing ...
Secrets to a Successful Small Business
As a small business ourselves, Either/Or Media relishes in helping other fellow small business owners thrive and flourish, especially in today’s economy. The common misconception is that too often we see small businesses tanking and going under as early as in their first year of launching. However, the truth is that small businesses are on ...
Michael E. Gerber: Business Wunderkind at (almost) 75!
I was introduced to Michael E. Gerber‘s work a few months ago by my good friend and colleague Sam Nelson, of Website Muscle. I read The E-Myth Revisited and was amazed—finally, here was the road map to running an effective, productive and profitable small business! Where had this been when I started Either/Or Media almost ...
Web Copy – What NOT To Do (continued!)
Welcome back to our “What Not to Do When Writing Web Content” series! Last time we discussed what we call “egotistical” copy—web content that boasts only what the company can do, its qualifications, principals and values. Basically, ineffective written content that bores readers and serves them no purpose in terms of what the company has ...
Web Copy – What NOT To Do!
Did we mention that web copy is crucial to the success of your website? Well-written, effective copy flags down search engines, engages audiences and overall makes a website read and look better. Poorly written content can actually diminish the credibility of a website and drive away readers and potential customers! Either/Or Media has been emphasizing ...
Good Website Content Matters
So you’ve got a visually alluring and functioning website with a solid structure, filled with pretty graphics and of course some paragraphs describing your business, carelessly thrown around on random pages. That is all you need to grab your audience’s attention, right? Wrong. Written content has a lot of impact on the quality of a ...
Google, JC Penney and Black-Hat Search Engine Optimization
There was a fascinating article last month in the New York Times’ Business section (thanks to my friend and colleague Julie Du Brow for pointing it out) that discussed “black hat” vs “white hat” search engine optimization, singling out JC Penney and BMW as two companies who have employed some underhanded tactics. A lot of ...
Ready to Blog? Get Started With These Tips!
Have we finally convinced you that a blog for your business is an absolute necessity? Great! Let’s get started, then. Blogging for your business, however, can’t just be another online journal where you can simply allow your stream of consciousness to flow freely without any censor. In fact, blogging is much more than that– it’s ...
Death of Blogging? Not yet!
We’ve said it before and we will stand by it with conviction: Keeping a blog is a great way to strategically market your business and work. We were shocked to read a recent online Forbes article that proclaimed the death of blogging. What? Say it ain’t so! We don’t believe it, and you shouldn’t either. ...
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