One of the key drivers of successful promotion, advertising, and marketing is to go where your customers are, every day.

Whether you believe it or not, your prospects and customers are online using social media every day.

We are already well into the New Year with 8% of the year already gone.  Most of us have probably made our New Year’s Resolutions and are well on the way to a prosperous new year.

In addition, some interesting predictions for 2012 have been made: such as what will be the price of gold on December 31, 2012; or who will win the White House this year; or what wild, Black Swan events are likely to hit us this year?

Many people feel badly this holiday season about what they can’t do for, or provide to, their families.

The big question is do they feel badly enough, that on December 26th before sunrise, they will be determinedly at work learning a new trade, developing a more valuable and marketable skill, seeking a better job, starting a business on the side, or otherwise striving to be sure that the next time the Santa season rolls around, they are better able to enjoy it and give their family a top experience?

This post will provide a number of traffic tips that will help you to increase the amount of visitors who come to your website.

If you ever thought that your excuse for not making money was online traffic, you will now have, as a result of this post, many traffic strategies that you can implement, test, and scale.

Tick … tick … tick … as time marches on, you still can’t find enough time?

You know the mantra that “time is money”; some will even say that “time is time and money is money.”

Just 2 years after knocking its archrival Circuit City into bankruptcy, big-box BEST BUY is itself “on the ropes.” 

Late 2010, the retailer revealed earnings and market share losses sent investors stampeding to exits.  As of late May 2011, the stock was off its high by 21% and trading at a meager 9X earnings.  The WSJ says “investors should not assume Best Buy just needs to recover.  Threats are likely to worsen …”, notably including Amazon’s relentless growth, beating every discounter’s discounts, producing an overall 66% increase in its sales of electronic products.