As you can tell, SEO isn’t just one single skill. It’s a culmination of skills; with each of those skills, you have to practice and develop micro-skills. I’m not trying to scare you off. This is a good thing. Most people who want to start businesses want to take the path of...
How to start an SEO business: Learn SEO. Choose a niche. Decide which services to offer. Employ the right SEO tools. Set the pricing for your services. Create a website. Market your SEO services. Close clients. Build a portfolio of successful projects. ...
If you’re new to the business, you might think you need a great website to start – not true. While an excellent-looking website helps, I’ve seen many SEOs sell their butts off with rough-looking websites or no website at all. So, don’t let this be a reason to hold you ba...
Eventually, however, you might well have the urge to spread out and start an SEO marketing agency yourself. This will allow you to work with your clients’ websites, to help them generate organic traffic to their sites, appearing near the top of relevant organic searches. If you’re new ...
Once you know what to look for in an SEO agency, you can make shopping for one smarter and faster. 3. Compile potential SEO companies Once you have a baseline for what makes an SEO company a good SEO marketing company, start researching potential agencies. From our study, we found busines...
You’re here because you’ve done your groundwork and found a good niche, but you want to turn that into a profit. You have to start an online store the right way, then promote it to generate sales. Having a live website doesn’t mean it’s truly launched. You wouldn’t get sales...
There's both a right way and a wrong way to go about selecting an SEO company or consultant for your site. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand shares his best advice and mistakes to avoid when it comes to the hiring process.
Why Choosing a SEO Company is Hard Many people don’t understand how SEO works. To the majority of business owners, (heck, even to a lot of people in web design), search engine optimization is another word for black magic. On top of that, there’s a lot of people that sell SEO tha...
The primary steps in developing an online company are: Develop a Business Plan For any start up venture, a business plan should be written out that describes what the business is all about. This helps you to organize and evaluate the business in terms of its marketability. In writing a busi...
Ready to launch a new venture? Here is everything you need to know about how to start a business in 14 effective steps.