Get Your Business on the Web with Bill Swanson

Bill Swanson asks you to think about what kind of site you need.

Tuesday, May 26 2011, Isothermal Community College's Small Business Department featured a "Soup to nuts seminar to get your business up-and-running on the Internet".  Bill Swanson with Exacting Design, from High Point, NC came in to present the program.

If you weren't there, you missed a great opportunity to quiz a webmaster, who knows great web design and a good deal about SEO (search engine optimization).

Isothermal Community College's small business department has been offering seminars like this to the public absolutely free. Please call them at 828-286-3636 # 229 and get on their mailing list.

If you'd like to take a look at one of Swanson's high priority sites, click over and visit motivational speaker, Kelly Swanson. She happens to be Bill's wife.

Seth's Blog: A marketing lesson from the apocalypse

You know, I follow Seth Godin, and if you have any marketing to do, you should follow him, too. Seth's Blog: A marketing lesson from the apocalypse

How can people follow the doomsayers, time and time again? The world is coming to an end, next Saturday.

I love the story of the Prophet who took his people into the mountains to wait and pray for the return of Jesus. The deadline came and went. The Prophet appeared before his confused and unsettled audience. He held up his hands and cried out, "Praise be to God, because of our obedience, by our prayers, the earth has been spared."

Don't think because some thing's not true, it can't be marketed. That happens all the time. It's not the kind of marketing that wins friends, but it is the kind that influences people.

While it's great to be able to think fast, especially in a tight spot, it's better to make decisions that keep you out of a tight spot.

And the doomsayers? Well, they're not always wrong. The real estate bubble burst.

Seth's Blog

If you haven't heard of Seth Godin, you probably haven't heard of Linchpin, you haven't heard of the Purple Cow, you haven't heard of a Meatball Sunday and you're missing out on Seth's Blog. Anyone and everyone who uses the Internet for sales, marketing, anything other than email needs to read Seth's Blog. If you haven't subscribed to it, you haven't got RSS feeds set up for your homepage, and you don't know what Squidoo or landing pages are, Seth can help you with that. If you don't care, if you don't know, and you don't want to know, nobody can help you. Good luck with that.