Archive for the ‘Marketing Ideas’ Category


Welcome to Eric Haaranen’s Blog

Thanks for visiting.  If you’re interested in looking at different ways of improving the online marketing of your business, either download my free guide to your right or review some of the posts in the Marketing Ideas category also on your right.
My photo albums are pretty cool and you can also check out my books, [...]

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The Easiest Path to Better Website Conversion?

I’ve written about the importance of website conversion in the past but a quick review here won’t hurt before I dive into why it is so critical to the success of your websites.
First, conversion is the percentage of your website visitors that take a positive action on your site.  For most small business websites that [...]

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The Lost Art of Selling Over the Phone

The more business owners I speak with the more evident it is that we, as a society, are losing the one most important skill that makes a business work.  That skill is selling.
I recently re-read Robert Kiyosaki’s “Before You Quit Your Job” (an awesome book if you haven’t read it) and he repeatedly makes the [...]

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The Importance of Site Structure When it Comes to SEO

Here is a very common scenario. You decide that you need a website so you pay good money to have someone design and build a site for your business.  You go back and forth with the designer getting everything looking the way you want it to and a month later you have a sparkling new [...]

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Steve Jobs Speaks to Stanford Grads

An awesome speech by an awesome speaker.  I can’t believe I had never seen this before today.  Too many great points to list here.  Fifteen minutes well spent.

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