Is Your Site Mobile Friendly? Google Can Tell You

60% of mobile users expect a site to load in three seconds or less. When asked, more than half of them won’t recommend a bad mobile site.

The sheer number of users visiting your site by mobile device is almost guaranteed to go up, no matter what your site is about or what you’re selling. Thankfully, Google will let you know how your site stacks up. Pay attention.

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Is Your Site Mobile Friendly? Google Can Tell You – Small Business Trends

Advantages of Optimizing Your Site for Mobile

Webmasters are rapidly learning the advantages of tapping into the ever increasing number of mobile internet users. Enhancing your own site may be well worth your time.

Consider all of the following before you decide against the world’s fast growing share of eager eyeballs, and you’ll be surprised how easily your site may just be whipped into mobile shape.

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Advantages of Optimizing Your Site for Mobile – Andy Jenkins Blog

Top 14 Things Marketers Need to Know About QR Codes

Beyond numbers, a QR code can contain Text, Hyperlinks, Phone Numbers, SMS Messages, email addresses, vCards or Calendar Entries. Making the most of all that is the brave new world of mobile marketing.

Take heart. It’s not too complicated and these 14 pointers bring the entire field into sharp focus.

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Top 14 Things Marketers Need to Know About QR Codes – Search Engine Watch

How Small Businesses Can Use Google+

What is so special about Google+? If you’re asking, you probably know it’s easily fastest starter ever out of the social media blocks.

It’s also got the best backing (Google) of anyone in the business, and it’s infrastructure is solid and built to grow. In short, it’s not going anywhere anytime soon, so the time to get in is now.

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How Small Businesses Can Use Google+ – Small Biz Technology

How To Use Mobile Marketing To Improve Your Business

The sheer number of potential customers using mobile internet and text is staggering, and it’s one of the biggest opportunity areas in the entire field of online marketing.

That’s not only because not all of your competitors are out there, but also because the field just keeps growing month by month. Here are the most important considerations for anyone new to the field, to get in quickly and easily and to keep growing along with the mobile marketplace.

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How To Use Mobile Marketing To Improve Your Business – Site Pro News

Take Your Marketing To The Streets | A QR Code Primer

QR codes bridge the gap between the real world and the mobile Internet. They allow for an incredible and all-important interaction between your customers and your business.

Here’s the perfect primer for any business owner who want to move off the internet and back into the real world where all those customers are really engaged.

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Take Your Marketing To The Streets | A QR Code Primer – AWeber Email Marketing Tips

SCARY | How Your Child’s Privacy Can Be Violated With Facebook And Klout

Did you know there is no way to opt out of a Klout profile? And just about anyone, including children, who posts a public comment almost anywhere on Facebook, is apt to get just such a profile.

That none to attractive situation can be dealt with and mitigated and you can still keep your kids safe and their privacy intact. But you’ve got to be proactive and know what you’re doing.

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SCARY | How Your Child’s Privacy Can Be Violated With Facebook And Klout – All Facebook

9 Tips for Optimizing Your Website for Mobile Users

Now that you’ve mastered hosting and managing and keeping up your own website, it’s time to include the fastest growing segment of the web surfing public.

Gone are the days when the mobile visitor was but an afterthought, but take heart. Adjusting your existing site to meet the needs of the smart phone and iPad user is not as difficult as it might seem.

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9 Tips for Optimizing Your Website for Mobile Users – Social Media Examiner

 

Making The Most of Mobile Advertising

Huge increases in outlays for mobile advertising, not to mention all that traffic, mean that anyone currently running a campaign needs to get active and creative with their mobile marketing campaigns.

A strong understanding of how consumers interact with mobile, when, how long and for what, is just the thing to put your message ahead in this rapidly expanding medium.

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Making The Most of Mobile Advertising – Site Pro News

HOW TO | Use QR Codes for Small Business Marketing

Consumers in the US are just now getting familiar with Quick Response (QR) codes and what to do with them.

This crash course in how to get started using them for small business includes the hardware and software as well as plenty of strategic advice on what to do, where, and why.

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HOW TO | Use QR Codes for Small Business Marketing – Mashable Business