Flower Shops and Jewelers, Here Comes Valentine’s Day

Another day that we are all aware of this time of year (other than the last day to file your taxes of course) is Valentine’s Day.  This is usually a great time of year for local florists and jewelers and once again, should be a good for online retailers.  Check out some of our previous tips to help you promote your business locally here and read our blog for more tips.

Tax Business Advertising

Income Tax Marketing

This is the time of the year to start marketing your tax business.  If the holidays taught us one thing, it’s that we can not ignore an online presence.  Same goes for services. You’ll need to target your business locally and be highly visible as people will scramble last minute to get their taxes done. ‘I have a website already’ you say. Good, so do the other thousand or so competitors. By advertising in the 10bestbiz.com directory you will gain more local exposure online. Income tax preparation marketing is going to be key to the amount of files you process this season.  Think it’s only a season? Think again. People will always procrastinate to get their taxes done (uhum, uhum, me ) last minute and through out the year. Your marketing money will go a long way with 10bestbiz.com as what you pay monthly for an enhanced ad with Yellow Pages, you’ll pay yearly with us.

Start your search today and get noticed online: http://10bestbiz.com/list.php?cat=taxes

Click Fraud Up 40 Percent

Click Fraud

It seems that every quarter the news does not seem to get better for pay per click advertising. For sure,  if you do some research and plan your online ad campaigns correctly, track your results, you will definitely get a good response form your ads. If not you need to get back to the drawing board, and reassess you targets and keywords.  But if this study is correct, then that means you will have to spend that much more to make sure you get the traffic you really want, and if you do not control your spending on advertising, your budget will get out of hand. Track, track and track some more. Always look where your traffic is coming from. Otherwise it will get expensive.

Don’t forget, at 10bestbiz.com, you can add and update keywords at any time.  Also, we do not charge per keyword, it is included in your annual fee.

Read Search Engine Watch article…

Cash Balance Pension Plan, Best Kept Tax Secret

With all the investments going south and people losing lots of dough for their retirement savings, there seems to a beam of light.  The cash balance pension plan allows participants to make tax deferred contributions towards their retirement savings.  If you are young enough to get in for 30 years, you will get 4 percent annually compounded with little risk.  So why haven’t you heard of this before?  Chances are your CPA doesn’t know about it either. It’s only till the recession hit that people started looking for alternatives to their dwindling 401(k)s, stocks, and mismanaged funds.

Here are some article links for more info…

• CNN Money
• Wikipedia
• Investopedia
• Suite 101
• Dept. of Labor

Arrgh … Twitter Fail Whale Again

Twitter's Fail Whale

Oh Twitter, why must you taunt me so often.  Once again ‘fail whale’. You would figure that  an online company this large, with the millions of users it has, and the power to deliver real time news worldwide would be able to scale as well as its counterparts.  But they have not been able to.  Recent reports show that their popularity has halted globally either due to lack of interest due to features, competition, or the fact that you can only send short messages (Maybe you just crash too damn much!). Regardless, a site this important should not have the many issues it has, especially compared to sites like Facebook with it’s multiple interactions, applications, and global reach, which takes more traffic.  Just shows that not only the small guys have woes .