John Feber, Author at Crucial Advantage

Blog Comments: Which Ones to Keep, Which Ones to Delete?

One of the tough decisions bloggers must make on a day-to-day basis is which blog comments to keep and which ones to delete.... assuming you encourage and receive comments, of course! Some comments are obviously…

Business Marketing

Top 5 Sales Funnel Mistakes – Maximizing Sales Conversions

A well-designed sales funnel is the backbone of any successful website or business. If you have a strong sales funnel, you'll be able to maximize the amount of sales you make per visitor. This allows…

Social Media

Easy Social Media Efficiency in 5 Quick Steps

Easy social media efficiency could be defined as "how to have the maximum impact possible with the minimum time and energy investment." It takes a little bit of effort to set up your life and…

Split Testing for a High Converting Squeeze Page

Blogging Marketing

Tips for a High Converting Squeeze Page Video!

A video squeeze page is a fantastic way to boost your opt-in rates. When done right, a video on your squeeze page can as much as double or even triple your opt-ins rates thereby potentially…

Business

Take Stock of Your Finances: Cash Flow, Assets, Receivables, Expenses and More

How is your business doing? The only way to truly know is to get a good overview of where your finances are currently. Public companies release statements every three months letting the public know how…

Blogging Content Creation SEO

Top SEO Strategies to Focus on This Year

The rules of search engine optimization (SEO) are changing all the time. If you know me, other than doing basic SEO for your site, I prefer to use paid advertising for anything I intend to…

Blogging Marketing Social Media

Marketing Yourself – Let Your Personality Shine

Personality marketing is one of the simplest ways to market and brand a product or service. Take Oprah Winfrey for example. Oprah is one of the most powerful women in the world. She can take…

Business

Stop Struggling and Find a Niche That Works for You

Are you struggling to find a niche for which you can find a hot info product to sell or create? Well don't... seriously. Most entrepreneurs spend too much time looking for "hot" product to sell…

Monetizing Your Rankings in the Search Engines

SEO

Smart Ways of Maintaining Your Online Search Rankings

Once you're ranked in the search engines, the game isn't over. Ranking in the search engines isn't a one-time endeavor. You need to keep working to maintain your rankings and to make sure that you…

Business

Business Processes and Systems: Mindmaps Your Key to Success

Your systems are what make your business run, and more importantly, run smoothly and efficiently. They're the day-to-day processes that fit together to create effective methods of creating products, managing people, getting customers, sales, development,…

Business

Advantages and Disadvantages of Outsourcing

When it comes to outsourcing I am an expert. I have made every mistake possible costing me tens of thousand's of dollars or more over the years. If outsourcing some of your business overseas appeals…

Business

Should You Outsource Your Business Accounting?

One very common question business owners often find themselves wondering is: "Should I outsource my accounting?" The answer depends in large part on the complexity of your accounting, on how much bookkeeping you need and…

Blogging Publishing

Bloggers Resource to Manage Your Content Ideas and Workflow

Once you start running your own website or blog, you have to keep "feeding the beast" with fresh, interesting content on a regular basis... ideally content that is monetized in some way, whether it be…

Social Media

Smart Ways of Boosting Your Business on Foursquare

Foursquare is not a household name, yet but it soon will be. It’s a mobile app but it can be of great use for your business if you know how to capitalize on it. Here…

Business Marketing

Choosing the Right Affiliate Products to Promote

In my opinion, selecting the right affiliate product to sell or market has nothing to do with the commissions they offer, what promotional materials they have, their EPC's (earnings per click), or any such nonsense…

Publishing

Seven Ways to Market a Self-Published Book

When you self-publish a book, you're responsible for 100% of the book's marketing. If you want to make sales, you have to get the word out there. Here are seven different ways you can market…

Smart Ways of Increasing Traffic to Your Blog Instantly

Blogging Marketing

Smart Ways of Increasing Traffic to Your Blog Instantly

The success of a blog lives and dies by its traffic. If your blog has traffic, your chances of getting more traffic, more revenues and more exposure are very high. On the other hand, with…

Search Engine Ranking and Traffic Benefits of Social Bookmarks

Marketing SEO Social Media

Get Traffic & Build Rankings with Social Bookmarking

Can Social Bookmarking boost your search engine rankings? Social bookmarks are a way of storing, managing, and sharing publically links to your favorite content on the Internet. That means that others searching for the same…

Marketing Social Media

The Ultimate Facebook Ads Guide

Facebook is ever evolving and there are a numerous different types of Facebook adsworth spending the time to test and master to get the most bang for your buck. Different ad formats can be used…

INcrease yout sales and profits as an Affiliate Marketer

Marketing

Affiliate Marketers: How to Increase Conversions (and Sales)

Your conversion rate is the most important factor to improve if you want to create a successful affiliate marketing or sales campaign... besides having a good solid offer (of course!). If you have a 2%…