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Does anyone know how to auto-post content to your Google Plus page from your blog? I am getting tired of sending the info over there by hand. It seems pretty redundant as I can auto-post on most other service.

Here is a great video about Google Adwords.

Google Adwords for Beginners: How to Use Google Adwords - Part 1 - YouTube

It is a super basic video, but can really help you understand what it is all about and how it works.

Not to say that all magazines are bad, but I have wasted a great deal of money with very little return on my advertising dollars in magazines. Probably in the neighborhood of $10,000 spent for a return of $500. I have a degree in marketing so I am pretty good at seeking out my target audience. Customers are just getting lazy and it takes effort to put down your magazine, go turn on the computer and book or buy the thing they want. You need to get to them online and make your product available in that exact instance to buy now.

Use Google Adwords to test how well people really like your product. If people buy your product once they see it on your website then possibly you may want to take up an ad. But when you pay only for people looking at your ad, with Google, it is tough to take out a magazine ad and just hope you get some people to bite. I don't know about you, but I will always go for a sure thing that is trackable, Google is and magazines are not. Also magazines usually want a multi-month commitment even if it is not working you still have to pay.

If you are looking at selling crafts you may want to look at selling them on Etsy.com. Wish you all the best

Creating fresh content is definitely and always will be the key, but a lot of it is just being patient. We have seen one of are sites go from #1 on Google to #10 to #3 then to #8 then back to #1 for our main keyword in the course of just 3 months and our strategy never changed the entire time.

Since Google keeps changing their algorithms you may be #1 tomorrow after a slight change in how they evaluate quality sites. Nobody knows how their sites will be evaluated and it changes so frequently lately it can be way to stressful to even worry about it. I personally have stressed way to much about rankings when at the end of the day all you can do is your best.

Not that I like to drop clients, but I have read some articles about this same subject and almost every one said get rid of the clients that make you little and cost you a lot of time. I personally agree from experience.

I'm sure you spend more time in hand holding and collection of these clients than you make, and the greif/agrivation they cause far outweighs the value of the accounts.

Give them an ultimatum, next time they slow pay they are done. That way it can be them that makes the decision to sever the non-productive business relationship not you. You are not their personal financier, you are another business and it is not fair to you to have to carry their costs.

Guess I won't be working at Google anytime soon.

In the end, there is no better way to get 5 star reviews than providing 9 star quality and service.

That is so crazy. I can't believe they are just falling off like that. Google isn't much help either when you contact them about anything. They usually give you some kind of vague answer that provides no resolution to your problem.

I am currently using a blogger blog and find it to offer only small amounts of customization, but it is simple to use. I have been hearing from everyone that WordPress is the way to go, why? If not WordPress then what. We have photography and wedding companies and use flash websites, but it is like pulling teeth to get them to rank.

I have to build another website, and have had a free WordPress account and got intimidated very quickly, as it seemed to be a tool box with a bunch of tools I had never seen before.

Feedback is greatly appreciated.

The way I usually start a business is obviously you need a website. Then do some free work for friends or post something on craigslist. Use this free work (take lots of photos) to add photos to your website and most of all build your portfolio. Also, it is a good idea to do some work for someone else to see what the process is about.

Don't take an online class, you just need to get out there and do it to find out what your style is.