Robert Palmer: Freelance Writer » Online Business http://therealrobertpalmer.com/blog On Target Every Time Fri, 14 May 2010 22:43:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Social Media Has Become an Essential Component of Any Business http://therealrobertpalmer.com/blog/2010/05/14/social-media-has-become-an-essential-component-of-any-business/ http://therealrobertpalmer.com/blog/2010/05/14/social-media-has-become-an-essential-component-of-any-business/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 22:43:41 +0000 Robert Palmer http://therealrobertpalmer.com/blog/?p=123 It’s been a while since I’ve been on here–been busy blogging for clients and writing sales letters–but this YouTube video just blew my mind. It’s contains some interesting, startling, and sobering statistics about social media, who uses it, how much , and for what. If you’re in any sort of business at all, you owe it to yourself to watch this short video.

I promise it will make you rethink how you feel about social media.

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The answer is most definitely yes. Most squeeze pages suffer from poor design, poor layout, repetitive themes, and very few of them actually standout from the crowd. If you want to learn what you’re doing wrong, have a look at this.

http://hubpages.com/hub/SqueezePagesdontWork

You’ll learn:
1) The biggest mistakes you can make when creating your own squeeze page.
2) What to look for when your outsourcing agent gives you a page for approval.
3) How to stop turning away prospects with poor design, functionality, and hyperbole

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