Helping Freinds in Hawaii with Marketing
I spent a lot of time on this blog helping friends from Hawaii market their Hawaii-based businesses. These hard times are spreading everywhere, and I’ve had a big drop in requests from friends in Hawaii for my internet marketing skills. So, as a free service to all my friends struggling to get more traffic to their Hawaiian web sites, I’ve started a blog to help them get the most from their sites: Internet Marketing and Organic SEO from Bald Mt. Press.
All you Haoles can use this help too!
This is not, of course, new material. Tons of search engine optimization experts have written billions of words about how you can get more business from the internet. I have tried, though, to make it a little more interesting for the non-technical people who might need a little help. I know how hard it is to live in Hawaii. When we lived there for a year, I had three jobs. It’s expensive, exhausting, and difficult to have paradise in your back yard. That’s how I got started in internet marketing: helping people who were too busy running their business to market themselves on line.
For those who still want to hire someone else to handle your internet marketing, I hope I’ve provided a resource that will make it easy to better understand the strategy I use. One strategy I’ll mention here: Hawaii Stuff. That’s my site about Hawaii that gets over 4500 unique visits per month. That’s a lot of eyeballs (mostly there for the eye candy like Hawaii pictures), and they are an intricate part of my marketing strategy. Some of those visitors will follow links to my client’s sites, but all of the search engine spiders will. That site works as link-bait and link-juice, and helps my Hawaii clients in a way that few internet marketers can.
This kind of specific content has helped other clients as well. My organic gardening web site helps organic farming author Mort Mather, these organic Kona coffee farmers, and a Maui bed and breakfast with organic food growing on the grounds. And my small business site helps all my clients.
So, remember me when you’re trying to squeeze every last dime you can out of your marketing budget. Anything worth doing is worth doing right.
