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Wed, 16 May 2012 21:39:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/opening-an-ecommerce-store/ http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/opening-an-ecommerce-store/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 21:39:35 +0000 Lisa Drew, LyricalBiz http://lyricalbiz.com/?p=2935 eCommerce may be just your solution to opening up a small business.  You don’t need a bricks and mortar store front, but you do need a website.  You want to look for something that can handle the products you are selling with ease for your customer and provide you with the information you need to [...]]]> http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/opening-an-ecommerce-store/feed/ 0 http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/get-more-people-on-your-mailing-list/ http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/get-more-people-on-your-mailing-list/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 17:31:20 +0000 Lisa Drew, LyricalBiz http://lyricalbiz.com/?p=2918 Mailing lists are great tools you can use to build a strong audience.  You can share information that you wouldn’t post on your site or blog that you only want to share with your subscribers.  Here are a couple of ideas: Create a giveaway to get subscribers – give them a copy of an eBook [...]]]> http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/get-more-people-on-your-mailing-list/feed/ 0 http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/affiliate-websites/ http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/affiliate-websites/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:40:33 +0000 Lisa Drew, LyricalBiz http://lyricalbiz.com/?p=2903 I just had an interesting email from a client in New Zealand.  He is running an affliate website called www.weddingspeechesfreestuff.com  and needed some help in generating new sales.  Here’s what I did for him… Complete review of his exisiting website Recommendations for improving his website After the review and recommendations, he was pleased with my [...]]]> http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/affiliate-websites/feed/ 2 http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/from-blogger-to-wordpress/ http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/from-blogger-to-wordpress/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:50:28 +0000 Lisa Drew, LyricalBiz http://lyricalbiz.com/?p=2874  I just finished a great project.  I was contacted by someone who has had a blogger site for a few years now and wanted a more professional look to her blog.  Jessica has been writing and contributing recipes to her blog to the tune of over 800 blog posts with photos accumulated from her Flickr account.  Blogger [...]]]> http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/from-blogger-to-wordpress/feed/ 0 http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/you-should-be-blogging/ http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/you-should-be-blogging/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:37:42 +0000 Lisa Drew, LyricalBiz http://lyricalbiz.com/?p=2840 Are you taking advantage of the blogging capabilities of your WordPress website? You should be. I can think of a dozen reasons why you should. Here are just a few of them. Fresh content on your website is Google’s number one priority. When Google is deciding to get top placement in search engine rankings, fresh, [...]]]> http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/you-should-be-blogging/feed/ 0 http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/squaring-off-mobile-electronic-payment-options/ http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/squaring-off-mobile-electronic-payment-options/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:36:47 +0000 Lisa Drew, LyricalBiz http://lyricalbiz.com/?p=2835 Are you a small business that thinks you’re too small to accept debit or credit cards as a payment option for your services or merchandise?   You may think so.  Costs to small merchants have escalated with bank fees that make it next to impossible for you to capture that impulse buy or convenience to [...]]]> http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/squaring-off-mobile-electronic-payment-options/feed/ 4 http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/tips-for-building-a-high-quality-blog-following/ http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/tips-for-building-a-high-quality-blog-following/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:17:57 +0000 Lisa Drew, LyricalBiz http://lyricalbiz.com/?p=2811 I found this great post on Mashable today and thought it would be excellent to share with you! Shane Snow is a New York-based tech journalist and co-founder of Contently.com, a marketplace for brand publishers and journalists. In 2010, New York City startup, Birchbox launched a blog about beauty products before it had any customers. The [...]]]> http://lyricalbiz.com/2012/tips-for-building-a-high-quality-blog-following/feed/ 0 http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/lyricalbiz-receives-2011-best-of-minneapolis-award/ http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/lyricalbiz-receives-2011-best-of-minneapolis-award/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:39:00 +0000 Lisa Drew, LyricalBiz http://lyricalbiz.com/?p=2807 Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LyricalBiz Receives 2011 Best of Minneapolis Award U.S. Commerce Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement NEW YORK, NY, December 9, 2011 — LyricalBiz has been selected for the 2011 Best of Minneapolis Award in the Miscellaneous General Business Services category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA). The USCA “Best of [...]]]> http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/lyricalbiz-receives-2011-best-of-minneapolis-award/feed/ 0 http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/wordpress-3-3-is-out/ http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/wordpress-3-3-is-out/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:15:45 +0000 Lisa Drew, LyricalBiz http://lyricalbiz.com/?p=2793 If you didn’t think WordPress was powerful enough, take a look at the latest release in WordPress 3.3.  There have been over 65 million downloads since WordPress 3.0 hit the streets, so if that doesn’t tell you that people are using WordPress, I’m not sure what will. The developers behind this software keep making it [...]]]> http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/wordpress-3-3-is-out/feed/ 0 http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/everyone-needs-a-new-look/ http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/everyone-needs-a-new-look/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:12:45 +0000 Lisa Drew, LyricalBiz http://lyricalbiz.com/?p=2769 …even web developers!  I’ve been working on some neat projects lately and it made me think a bit more about my own website.  Questions I started to ask myself were: is it engaging? is it up-to-date? does it offer the viewer an idea of what I do? is it easy to navigate? My old site [...]]]> http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/everyone-needs-a-new-look/feed/ 0 http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/special-events-websites/ http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/special-events-websites/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:34:11 +0000 Lisa Drew, LyricalBiz http://lyricalbiz.com/?p=2565 Websites aren't just for business. In fact, they can be quite personal! Have you ever thought about documenting your upcoming wedding from engagement to the big day? You can upload your photographs, collect names for your invitations, announce your bridal shower, share your gift registry, and so much more...]]> http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/special-events-websites/feed/ 0 http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/wordpress-user-roles-defined/ http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/wordpress-user-roles-defined/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:16:03 +0000 Lisa Drew, LyricalBiz http://lyricalbiz.com/?p=2538 You have an excellent site, but now you want to add a little more, either by asking associates to collaborate with you, or by adding another person to help you maintain the site. It's pretty easy to add people to your WordPress site, but did you know that you can assign a new user different levels of capability? You may look at these roles in the drop-down box and say, fine and dandy, but what do they actually mean?]]> http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/wordpress-user-roles-defined/feed/ 3 http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/seopressor%e2%80%94who-can-really-benefit-from-this-wordpress-seo-tool/ http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/seopressor%e2%80%94who-can-really-benefit-from-this-wordpress-seo-tool/#comments Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:27:11 +0000 Lisa Drew, LyricalBiz http://lyricalbiz.com/?p=2512 With the large amount of popularity that SEOPressor is gaining of late, it is worthwhile to see who this tool can really help. Internet marketers of today aren’t a uniform lot—they are dabbling with various kinds of businesses—and hence it is very difficult to have something that can work for all of them. However, it can definitely be said that SEOPressor breaks convention. The tool is so designed that it helps Internet marketers get the one thing that all of them hanker for—number 1 position on the search engine ranking pages, especially the Google search engine. Now, if you have a Wordpress website or a WordPress blog—which is constantly updated, you will see that SEOPressor can add immensely to its SEO value. ]]> http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/seopressor%e2%80%94who-can-really-benefit-from-this-wordpress-seo-tool/feed/ 1 http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/about-hosting-and-domains/ http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/about-hosting-and-domains/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:05:57 +0000 Lisa Drew, LyricalBiz http://lyricalbiz.com/?p=492 Every now and again, there is a client of mine that gets confused about hosting and domains - don't they renew at the same time? Aren't they the same thing? Truth is, most of the time these are separate companies that are taking care of your website functions. So let's get a simple definition going:]]> http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/about-hosting-and-domains/feed/ 1 http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/artists-need-love-too/ http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/artists-need-love-too/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:26:44 +0000 Lisa Drew, LyricalBiz http://lyricalbiz.com/?p=2211 Think again, my friend. This is something that is very near and dear to my heart. I am also an artist, and this business is one of the reasons I started creating websites. Your portfolio, whether is be music, different art mediums, dance, composing, should be showcased]]> http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/artists-need-love-too/feed/ 0 http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/seo-and-why-is-it-important-to-you/ http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/seo-and-why-is-it-important-to-you/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:01:53 +0000 Lisa Drew, LyricalBiz http://lyricalbiz.com/?p=712 SEO - an acronym for Search Engine Optimization. What is SEO exactly? Think of your website like an engine. SEO is a way of tuning up your website for maximum efficiency and performance on the World Wide Web.]]> http://lyricalbiz.com/2011/seo-and-why-is-it-important-to-you/feed/ 3