Long Island Online Marketing from Bruce Chamoff

This is Bruce again pointing out a very common misconception that I think most web site owners make. Your web site hardly ever gets sales on the first visit. Do not believe otherwise. Web sites, if they get you a sale, usually happens on the 4th, 5th, and 6th visits.
I have done a lot of [...]

Now, Facebook fan pages are simply called “Facebook Pages” since this feature of Facebook is no longer for just famous people. As a business owner, you can now throw a professional look onto your Facebook page and make it the first page that people see when they visit before they LIKE it.
I got into Facebook [...]

As business owners, word of mouth is one of the most important and best types of marketing. It is free and more importantly targeted. A lot of businesses thrive on word of mouth advertising, but in most cases, it simply is not enough. Business owners need testimonials which is a great way for potential customers [...]

Eric Koppelman’s Long Island Small Business Owner magazine launched in April and is making waves in the Long Island business community. Eric is truly an entrepreneur as he has added this web site to his list of other sites making waves including IRadioUSA.com and Long Island Local Search at http://www.longislandlocalsearch.com/
What’s cool about this magazine is [...]

Everyone, you can analyze any traffic coming to your web site with the correct tools. When I say any web site, I mean, any web site whether Facebook.com or MomAndPop.com.
If you have surveys on your web site and provide some valuable incentive for people to fill out that survey, you WILL get the results you [...]

I have been doing a lot of public speaking on social media lately and when talking about using Facebook for business, I find that everybody knows what Facebook groups and fan pages are, but do not know the difference between the two. This is by far the biggest question. I want to clear it up [...]

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As I finally took Hot Web Ideas, Inc. full time in 2009, I started doing more business networking and realized how valuable of a marketing tool it really is. I have made so many friends [...]

A lot of my good friends in the Long Island business community have submitted their companies for the Best of Long Island and now are looking for votes. That is great, but as I see some of the businesses on Long Island who have entered this contest, I am not buying that the Best Of [...]

I want to thank everyone for coming to the online marketing seminar at the West Babylon Panera on August 19.
We had over 15 business owners and marketing executives come to the seminar to find out the strategies of marketing your business on popular social networking web sites like Facebook and Twitter. I planned to speak [...]