5 Internet Marketing Techniques You’d Be A Fool Not To Practice

Guest blogger Jimi Olaghere is a young business owner who runs Broke Tycoon, a blog and forum with advice for business and marketing techniques.

It’s no secret that the internet is a very saturated place. According to Archive.com, if you are planning to put some sort of content on the internet you have 85 billion competitors! Today’s internet users are nothing like the past, gone are days when the internet was used solely for informative purposes only. It should be no surprise to learn that today’s internet users want to be not only informed, but entertained as well.

So if you would like to learn a couple of outrageous marketing techniques that can keep you afloat while others are drowning, then read this article. But if your happy with the hopeless feeling you get when you check your web stats and don’t mind sinking to the bottom of the internet ocean, then why don’t you go ahead and click the red x button in the top right corner.
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List Your Services in Our New Business Directory

We’re glad to announce a new Freelance Business Directory on our site, where individuals and businesses are free to list their webite, description and contact information on FreelancerMagazine.com/business-directory.   All links are of the “dofollow” variety.  All that we ask in return for a listing is a backlink to our site, with the anchor “Freelance Advice and Resources”. Here are the current categories of businesses offered, feel free to suggest more in the comments:

• Web and Programming - PHP, SQL, .NET, HTML, Java, C, MySQL, CSS, ASP, Flash, Javascript, ASP.NET, AJAX, SQL Server, XML, Windows, SEO, XHTML, Linux, Joomla!, Web Services, WordPress, VB.NET, JSP, Perl, J2EE, Visual Basic, Unix, Drupal, PayPal, Apache, Adobe Flash, DHTML, Flex, Social Networking, osCommerce, Facebook

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Service Review: XHTML.PixelCrayons.com

Timely and Quality PSD to XHTML Conversion Services

For every busy web designer and developer, there comes a moment when they want to kick the clock so hard that it stops time in its tracks. For our businesses, time is money; however, we cannot just stop taking on additional orders because we have too many- or do we? If your answer is often ”yes”, I’ll tell you something that might change your perspective for the better. Suppose, you have multiple web designs ready for coding, project submission dates are coming on quickly, and your inbox is brimming with yet more web design orders, what would you do?

Do you push back delivery dates?  That’s not so great for your client relations.  Do you divert all your resources toward timely delivery?  Clients are happy, but you increase your stress and can push back other high-priority tasks.  When situations like these happen, hiring a conversion company may be your best choice.

That’s where xhtml.pixelcrayons.com steps in with its PSD to XHTML conversion services.  According to its clientele, case studies, and my own test with them, you know exactly what you are getting, when you are getting it and how much it will cost. 

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5 Other Services all Freelance Web Designers Should Offer!

Are you a Web Designer or Developer? Yes? Well are you optimizing your reach by expanding your services beyond Web Design? No? C’MON! Whats wrong with you?! Jeez!

As a Web Designer you have more options and services to offer your clients than in most other freelance fields. Some of which take almost no work at all! From Web Hosting to SEO, here is the run down of the basic services all Web Designers should offer…

#1. Search Engine Optimization

As a designer you’re going to learn a bit about SEO sooner or later so you might as well just dive in. SEO services can stand on there own so why aren’t you cracking into this field? The resources out there are abundant so you have no excuse not to do it!

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