Monthly Archives: April 2012

Social Media: Avon is Calling!

Social Media For All Businesses

Social Media for All Sizes of Businesses.

Social Media is Important for Businesses of All Sizes

Social media can’t be ignored by businesses anymore. Not even direct sales businesses that typically rely on door-to-door, word-of-mouth sales.

A recent Wall Street Journal article outlined cosmetics company Avon’s struggle to remedy falling sales; the profit per representative in the US has seen a 75% decline over the past decade. Continue reading

A Beginner’s Guide to Finding the Right SEO Company, Part 2: Why Red Flags are Red Flags (or not-exactly-best-SEO-practices)

Telling someone what they should watch out for is valuable information, but not nearly as valuable as the explanation of what the “watch out for…” indicates.

When it comes to SEO, the red flags indicate that an SEO company may be unequipped to properly provide SEO services, is approaching SEO in a way that could get your site penalized or is just plain out to get your money. Let’s walk through them one by one:

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A Beginner’s Guide to Finding the Right SEO Company, Part 1: Red Flags

Red FlagAt SonicSEO.com, we’re passionate about SEO and making it work for our clients. We get upset when we meet people who tell us about their current SEO companies—the lines they’ve been sold, the underperformance they’re paying thousands of dollars for, the out-dated practices that make the entire profession look bad…seriously, it raises the blood pressure of everyone from the sales team to the applied math analysts to the copywriters!  Continue reading