The Ever Given container ship has been grounded since Tuesday.

The Suez Canal is moving again but another bottleneck in the supply chain remains, this one in Southern California. According to media reports, 24 container ships – with a combined maximum carrying capacity nearly 10 times that of the Suez Canal ship – were anchored off the coast waiting for space at the ports of […]

Let’s take a typical story of how the pitching process works. Sarah, the CEO of a successful SEO agency, gets introduced to the CEO of another successful e-commerce company through a common friend. She rallies her team and meets the client over Zoom. They have a wonderful conversation, and both of them are excited to start a great partnership. Filled with optimism, Sarah assigns her best colleagues to craft an insightful SEO proposal. They analyze the competitors, do the keyword research, take the organic opportunity into account, and form a unique strategy on how they can reach impressive results. The day of the presentation comes, and the e-commerce team gathers around, continuously nodding along with each slide. By the end of it, everyone feels excellent. Sarah is thrilled. Checking emails stopped being a chore for Sarah. She quickly scans all of them, looking for confirmation on starting the project. She …

Let’s take a typical story of how the pitching process works. Sarah, the CEO of a successful SEO agency, gets introduced to the CEO of another successful e-commerce company through a common friend. She rallies her team and meets the client over Zoom. They have a wonderful conversation, and both of them are excited to start a great partnership. Filled with optimism, Sarah assigns her best colleagues to craft an insightful SEO proposal. They analyze the competitors, do the keyword research, take the organic opportunity into account, and form a unique strategy on how they can reach impressive results. The day of the presentation comes, and the e-commerce team gathers around, continuously nodding along with each slide. By the end of it, everyone feels excellent. Sarah is thrilled. Checking emails stopped being a chore for Sarah. She quickly scans all of them, looking for confirmation on starting the project. She …

As an online merchant, making your first sale is as symbolic as it is necessary. Completing the first sale sounds straightforward enough, yet the optimism and reassurance it brings can make it the biggest turning point in the life of your business. However, don’t let the simple concept of a first sale mislead you. Obtaining that first customer can sometimes be a long, arduous battle. To make the battle easier to win, below are 24 sure-fire ways to make your first e-commerce sale without spending a ton. 1. Send Free Samples to Influencers The internet is packed with influential bloggers, journalists, entrepreneurs, and vloggers from a wide range of industries and niches. You just need to find the right ones. Many of them have large followings on social media and loyal audiences on their websites. Sending a free sample of your product to influencers within your industry or related to …

Please read the whole post as I have a few surprises for everyone and it affects all member types. A month or so ago, I blogged about the future of Ubersuggest and how there will still be free plans along with paid ones. But as you probably noticed, the free plan wasn’t as generous as you were hoping for. And with Coronavirus growing at a rapid pace and affecting so many people and businesses, I thought I would do my part and help small businesses out. Because if I help you grow a bit more without spending money, hopefully, you won’t have to lay off any people and, ideally, you will even be able to hire a few more people. So today, I have made Ubersuggest “more free” and over the next week, it will become even more free. What does that mean? Let me break it down for you… …

If I told you that you could become a sucessful vlogger, would you believe me? Or do you think that there is too much competition? YouTube is saturated — 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. There are dozens of million-dollar YouTubers creating thousands of hours of video a year. How could you possibly break through the noise? Well, I’m here to tell you that video blogging still has huge potential. Just look at the growth of video ad investment among brands and agencies and where it’s predicted to go: Investment is growing because it’s following consumption. More than 85% of US internet users watch video ads. It might not be as easy as it was five or seven years ago to break onto the vlogging scene, video is more important than ever to build a successful online marketing strategy. Why? First, video remains one of the …

A tech CEO talks about how his company's battery solutions are in everything from rocket ships to cell phones.

“Those side conversations are not a waste of time,” says McCarthy, who is currently the head of the Natural Resources Defense Council. When we first got started in this [pandemic], there was almost no separation between work and home. . . . We lost those separations where you just stop, sit down, and have dinner. The one habit that I’ve always had is that I don’t talk about work when I’m at home, period. Through eight years [as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency] in the Obama administration, I just didn’t. I don’t think my husband knew what I was doing for a living until I was in the Obama administration, because then he could read some things in the news, and it’d be like, “Oh, you’re doing this?” I had three kids in three years. My job was to be home when I’m home. And when I’m working, …

Top Google rankings are a pinnacle of online business success. According to Backlinko , the first result on Google gets 31.7 percent of all clicks — while results on the second page receive just .78 percent of clicks. I’ve talked to a lot of business owners and managers – newbies and veterans – who have gone crazy trying to unlock the secrets of how to improve Google ranking without getting penalized. I wish I could tell you there’s a magic button that ranks your site #1 without fail. The truth is, it takes resourcefulness, dedication, persistence, and creativity. This is especially true because of the constantly-changing nature of Google’s algorithm. While there’s no magic, there are steps you can take to soar to the top of a search engine results page (SERP). I learned this the hard way. But luckily, you don’t have to. I’m going back to basics with …