Dawud Miracle @ dmiracle.com

advice you can use to grow your small business

Dawud Miracle
Dawud Miracle - Advice to grow your small business

How Not To Make The 3 Mistakes I Consistently See on Small Business Websites

written on 25 July, 2009 by Dawud Miracle

consistent-website-mistakesIf you have a small business website it should serve one purpose – generating sales.

Sure, it should inform your visitors of your offers and give them social proof of your abilities through testimonials. Without a doubt, your website should generate and capture leads. And most importantly your business website should move your visitors toward buying your offers.

While there’s nearly infinite ways to do generate sales, a few necessary pieces need to be in place on your business website in order to generate more sales effectively. Most of this is really common sense. Yet after the more than 20 Business Website Assessments I’ve done in the past month, these basic elements are consistently being missed on small business websites.

Yet, these basic elements are so fundamental that you want to be sure you’re not missing them on your website.

[ continue reading & share your thoughts → ]

Why Your Marketing May Not Be The Reason You’re Not Getting More Clients

written on 20 April, 2009 by Dawud Miracle

marketing-and-selling-work-togetherMost of the the small business owners I work focus an abundant of time on their marketing. They put tons of effort into crafting their marketing message, polishing their marketing funnel and fine-tuning how they generate leads. And often, they do so before any of this produces new clients.

Marketing your business is a really good idea, don’t get me wrong. However you choose to do it, marketing is a vital part of your business. As a matter of fact, marketing your services is something I teach my clients to do more effectively every day.

Yet I find that there’s a hole in the thinking that “all you need to do is effectively market your business.”

[ continue reading & share your thoughts → ]

Are You Being Misled By How Much Traffic Your Website Is Getting?

written on 20 November, 2008 by Dawud Miracle

One thing you have to say about blogging is that it’s a great way of generating traffic to your website. You write a blog post and promote it a bit. Your posts goes out to your feed subscribers and can gets picked up by social services. With a little effort, your blog can generate gobs more traffic for your website than your old, static website ever could.

As a blogger, you learn pretty quick how to look at your traffic stats. You see that your traffic goes up the days you write and down the days you don’t. You look at your referring sites regularly to see where all the traffic is coming from and spend more time on the sites that are driving you the most traffic. And hitting the motherload of website traffic is getting to the front page of Digg, Reddit or del.icio.us.

But do your traffic stats mislead you? Is your goal just to get gobs and gobs of traffic to your website?

[ continue reading & share your thoughts → ]

© 2003–2012 Dawud Miracle LLC  •  303/835-6905  •  contact me  •  about me  •  work with me  •  sitemap  •  rss feed  •  hosted with Rackspace Cloud