'Blogging'

Facebook, with more than 300 million members, amounting to more than 160,000 new users every day, makes it the third most trafficked website on the internet.  What better reason to utilize this as a marketing tool.
In order for you to generate the most energy from your customer base, it’s important to follow these important, yet [...]

Twitter and LinkedIn have teamed up.  A new LinkedIn feature enables a tweet from your Twitter profile to also appear as your LinkedIn status message automatically. Upright blogger & SEO Director Allison Kulage first mentioned this new feature in her webinar last week.  Now, we can share online articles with business contacts or take Twitter [...]

TopRank’s Online Marketing blog is one of the most respected blogs in the entire marketing industry.  They owe part of this success to their link building program, having gained inbound links from many of the most credible marketing sites.
To aid their linkbuilding program, the marketing professionals at TopRank scour the Internet for blogs to feature [...]

Today we introduce a new series of blog posts called “Upright5.”  Rolls right off the tongue, doesn’t it!  An Upright5 entry is a fast-reading list of 5 reasons why we suggest a specific tool or strategy for success in your business.  Today’s Upright5 lists 5 reasons to start a blog on your website.  Know you’re [...]

We are discovering an important new tool and are excited to share it with you.  It’s called HelpAReporter.com (HARO).  Visit this website and subscribe right now—you won’t regret it!
What? Journalists who write blogs and books, for newspapers and magazines, use HARO to post their latest assignments.  Subscribers (like me) receive 2-3 emails each weekday, which [...]

Those of you in full job search mode right now can benefit from a wealth of online resources when trying to land a great job. Don’t let the current economic status hold you back because if you look, there are jobs out there, and many of them are posting them online… and not just at [...]

Social media or social networking is basically a type of word of mouth marketing. You’re more likely to purchase a product or service, or become more loyal to a brand if you get a positive recommendation from a friend or family member. The internet has allowed us to expand this friend base to more than [...]

If you’re the slightest bit geeky like myself, you’ve probably heard about Twitter. A few months ago when this micro blog of sorts came out, the general consensus was, what’s the point? You sign up for an account and follow people (which kind of seems like stalking them) and you have 140 characters to “tweet” [...]

Summary of Upright Communications attendance at the Search Marketing Expo, including information on blended search, link building, local search, social media and blogging.

There are 75,000 new blogs created every day (including this one today), and many millions more already up and running. Should you join the crowd and have a blog for your business? The short answer is yes! At least you should seriously consider it as we have.