Let's cut down the amount of time you spend monitoring Twitter and instead start to optimize results. Here's a few ways to do so without sounding like a robot and constantly replying to every tweet. 

Finding your website in today's over crowded marketing landscape, can be like finding a needle in a haystack. According to the Netcraft November 2012 Web Server Survey, there has been a modest jump of 4.8 million websites since last month's survey, for a total of 625 million active websites on the internet today. How do you cut through the clutter and get found?

Thousands of businesses have become part of the Pinterest community, sharing great ideas, content and inspiration to people on Pinterest. Whether it's Anthropologie sharing awesome clothes, Whole Foods sharing tasty recipes, the Smithsonian sharing fascinating collections, or Amazon making products easy to pin, many of us have been inspired on Pinterest by businesses. Pinterest wants to help more businesses provide great content on Pinterest and make it easy to pin from their websites.

Before getting started with your Pinterest Business Account, it's important to note that accounts won't look any different than personal pages aesthetically. Converting your current Pinterest account into a business account won't take hours of work – just a few seconds! However, if you're setting up for the first time (meaning your business has never used Pinterest), you'll need to invest a little more time into setting up your account. 

So, if your business account doesn't look any different from your personal account, why even bother? A couple of reasons.

Hi-performance landing pages are important to any Inbound marketing strategy, which makes them a focal point of any website redesign. Every offer and every call-to-action needs a landing page to call home. And to generate leads successfully from your website, you need it to be a home with lots of curb appeal. 

Your website's main purpose as an inbound marketing tool is to drive conversions of prospects to customers, and to make sure customers become loyal customers. In this post I'll tell you about 10 easy ways to help your website do it's job even better.

In my last two posts I blogged on must-have focal points for every website redesign. These are the things you absolutely must get right to drive traffic to your site, keep visitors from running screaming on to the next URL, and ultimately entice them to buy or act.

This post follows on from my last post on must-have focal points from every website redesign. By executing successfully on these points, your website can serve as a solid foundation for your inbound marketing strategy – driving visitors to your site who are already interested in what you're offering, and then engaging their interest and convincing them to buy or act. (Inbound marketing is far-and-away the most successful approach to marketing online.)

Do you think that your website has the ‘sticking power’ necessary to keep visitors engaged?

Jakob Nielsen, whom the New York Times called “the guru of Website usability” provides this summary: ‘Users often leave web pages in 10–20 seconds, but pages with a clear value proposition can hold people's attention for much longer’.

Are you daring or dangling when it comes to redesigning your website? Thinking a root canal might be less painful? Have more questions than a centipede has legs?