Determining if a Website is Quality or Not Are you helping the company get more exposure online? Outreach, finding content partners, and more is critical to the growth of a website. Why? Because content creation is not enough. You need to “hustle” and find other websites and media companies to collaborate with. It is non-stop. As the Mikes’ Blog team …
Slowing Down My Buying From Strangers
As a life long lover of, shall we say creating, or maybe inbound marketing, I have gotten a bit addicted to reading Flippa listings. It started as an idea from ViperChill to get inspiration and ideas on internet marketing by reading what marketers are doing to boost their sites fast and flip them on Flippa. He never said to buy …
Building The Boy Scouts Website
Contributing Back To Boy Scouts – Remotely Boy Scouts had a huge positive influence on me growing up. It gave me structure to build on outside of the grind of school. I talk about my boy scout experiences more here and here if you’re curious. And over the holidays I was contacted by my Scout Master – Bill Gervais trying …
Content and the Sales Funnel: How to Improve Your Content to Improve Conversions
Did you know that content marketing is an efficient strategy to boost your sales conversion rate? Creating content is more than just a marketing scheme. Regardless of what kind of content you’re making for your website, the truth is, content is a key element of online success. If you think content is helpful in boosting conversions, below are things to …
The Random Benefits From Random Blogging
The randomness of this blog is still helpful. People often ask me why I bother blogging, especially so rather open about my life and troubles. Most of that openness has been right here on this site you’re reading this. Guess that is what this is for, a place for me to put things out there – for my own satisfaction, …
New Domain – MikesBlog.com
Excited to post that today’s blog is being written and published on a new domain – MikesBlog.com. For the past 7 years I have had been using the domain blog.michaelmichelini.com, and before that I was using HappinessInPursuit.com Why the Domain Change? Well, as much I like people to remember my name – I think the full name michaelmichelini.com is hard …
Analytics Session in Hong Kong by expert Kenneth Kwok @flybirdkk
Earlier this week I was able to get to Hong Kong for a couple days, and by luck I happened to attend a Startup Monday in by startupsHK, at the infamous Boot.hk I’m always hanging out at. This was was quite awesome. Kenneth Kwok one of only a few web analytics experts in Hong Kong / South China, was there …
Mixed Reviews on this New Blog Template
Finally got this new blog template online, been talking about new template since September, tried to get it online before my USA trip scramble…after getting back from America I have been doing intense meetings, events, proposals for ecommerce businesses. But here we go, Doug helped me finish the blog template and I like it! Some negative feedback: Red is too …
Blog Issues, New Blog Comment System Disqus + New Template soon
Was wondering why the blog wasn’t getting comments for the past week or so – SOME DATABASE problem…so my team helped me install Discqus blog comment systems, so its hosted on their server and more “social” where you can use their login on this blog and other blogs. I didn’t choose to use “facebook” connect blog comments for a couple …
Do I Need To Be A Programmer To Be Successful?
This has to be something we all think about when considering a startup, especially as technology and the internet continue to be the center of most startups. Over and over again, I get people coming to me asking for development companies to make their idea….and I have to kind of worry. Outsourcing scares me…its putting your money into the hands …
Common Question – What Products To Sell Online?
I love hearing people who want to have an online business. I have been answering questions on all experts for years now about ecommerce and online businesses. It gives me perspective hearing about other people’s questions, problems, and confusions….and makes me realize I’m not alone when it comes to the massive and confusing jungle of the online world! Finding the …
Feel Big Changes Coming For Internet Marketing, SEO
While I don’t normally use this blog to talk about my business, I think with the recent news in the internet world you may be interested. While I still am overworked guy doing too many things, one of my biggest projects is SEO and internet marketing. What is SEO? Stands for Search Engine Optimization, which is the craft of both …
Groupon Coming Fast Into the Chinese Market, will it succeed?
Yet another foreigner coming to China to make quick money in the biggest population internet users! To give you readers the background story, I think many of us in the internet world hear about Google trying to buy Groupon last month for like 6 billion US dollars (I’m too lazy to find PR links), only to then turn around and …
Successful First Shenzhen Ecommerce Meetup
I am getting on a roll making these meetups in all the cities I am traveling. Seems to be building on itself, but I have to say, I get more interested people to meet about business when I am in China. Seems this is where the most densely populated area of people, both local Chinese and foreigners, who want to …
Letting People See Where You Are Online, good or bad?
For those of you not aware of this, one of the new things now is geo-based social networking…allowing you to share with the world where you are at the moment. I think this is pretty awesome, though I am aware the majority of people probably think invasion of privacy, security risks (“I know when you’re home, and when you’re not” …