{"id":326,"date":"2009-03-15T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2013-02-02T04:22:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T04:22:24","slug":"why-mom-pop-on-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/why-mom-pop-on-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Adam W. Gentry&#8217;s Web Design Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does a major corporation do on the Web that your <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Small business\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Small_business\" rel=\"wikipedia\">mom-and-pop business<\/a> doesn&#8217;t? Why do visitors flock to another small company&#8217;s site, while yours never gets any traffic? <strong>What do you need to do to make your online presence thriving and profitable?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These issues are at the core of any small business&#8217; online marketing discussion &#8212; or at least they should be. The goal of this blog is to answer these very questions.<strong> I want you, the small-time business operator, to have a fighting chance against the business behemoths.<\/strong> Avoid the fate of countless mom-and-pop sites &#8212; ineffectiveness, stagnation, and demise &#8212; and enjoy the thrill of success with a well-planned, well-executed Internet marketing campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In upcoming posts, you&#8217;ll discover how to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>rank higher<\/strong> in search engines<\/li>\n<li><strong>interact<\/strong> with your customers, leads, and online communities<\/li>\n<li>use <strong>blogs<\/strong> effectively for business<\/li>\n<li><strong>monitor<\/strong> your website&#8217;s personality<\/li>\n<li>use<strong> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Social media\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wikinvest.com\/concept\/Social_media\" rel=\"wikinvest\">social media<\/a><\/strong> marketing properly<\/li>\n<li>build <strong>website features<\/strong> without programming<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let the advice herein help you go from <strong>zero to Web marketer<\/strong>, boom your online business, and translate that into real profits, be they financial, relational, or otherwise. Best success!<\/p>\n<p><em> ~Adam W. Gentry<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=4ec38f63-f013-446e-b729-3a56354243b4\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you need to do to make your online presence thriving and profitable? The goal of Mom &#038; Pop on the Web is to answer these very questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,16,17,18,9,23],"tags":[19,20,21,22,24],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biz","category-creative","category-datahead","category-geek","category-me","category-promo","category-web","tag-mom-and-pop","tag-online-marketing-strategy","tag-small-business-advice","tag-social-media","tag-web-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}