Karen Scharf

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Karen Scharf

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Karen Scharf is a small business marketing consultant who helps business owners attract and retain more clients. Karen coaches and trains website owners on various tricks and techniques that have been proven to increase website conversion. She offers several whitepapers, reports and checklists, including her FREE 4 Simplest Tactics for Increasing Your Customer Base and Growing Your Bottom Line. Download yours at small business marketing consultant who helps business owners attract and retain more clients. Karen coaches and trains website owners on various tricks and techniques that have been proven to increase website conversion. She offers several whitepapers, reports and checklists, including her FREE 4 Simplest Tactics for Increasing Your Customer Base and Growing Your Bottom Line. Download yours at http://www.Mode Image.com" target="_blank">http://www.Mode Image.com.

Karen Scharf began designing and developing websites in 1998, when she bega Modern Image Communications. The marketing communications firm has since grown to provide a wide variety of marketing-related services to small businesses and entrepreneurs, including: business and marketing plan development, newsletter publication, copywriting services, info-product development, and strategic planning. Modern Image Communications basically serves as a one-stop-shop for a small business's marketing needs.

Karen Scharf is an on-line testing professional who has studied, tested and perfected the insider secrets to immediately increasing a website’s effectiveness. Since very few businesses actually know these insider secrets, Karen began publishing the on-line journal Successful Site Secrets in order to share with website owners the tips and techniques for transforming a site from one that is "good enough" into one that is generating huge profits.

Karen also publishes the Modern Marketing Mini Mag. In this weekly on-line newsletter, she shares ideas and strategies that all small business owners can use to explode their client base and catapult their sales and income

"I guess what makes me different from a lot of the internet marketers out there is that I’ve actually spent time in the trenches," says Karen. "Unlike some of the big name gurus with little or no development experience, I began my business by designing and developing high end, database-driven web sites and web-based applications. I’ve developed applications for some very large companies and organizations. I'm proud of the fact that I can work with international companies as well as mom and pop shops."

Karen "started life" as a Special Education teacher. She eventually took a job in the Education Department of a large trade association dealing with apprenticeships, and soon discovered that she loved the marketing aspect of that job. Karen went back to school to earn a degree in Business Management with an emphasis on Marketing. Marketing and copywriting came easy for her – did we mentio Karen was “born” a writer? (Her poetry was even on display in the Chicago Public Library when she was only 8 years old!)

Upon relocating to the Indianapolis area, Karen decided to combine her love of teaching, her penchant for marketing and her extensive technology knowledge by working with small business owners and entrepreneurs to teach them to use technology in marketing and growing their businesses.

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Don't have a small business marketing plan? Neither do most of the entrepreneurs we encounter on a regular basis. Many people naively enter the business world convinced that their product or service will sell itself. They expect prospects to find out about their new business as if by magic and to flock to their website or storefront without any prodding. Unfortunately, this isn't the way it works. And if you were being realistic, you'd realize that without announcing your presence to the world at large, there really is no way for your prospects to even know you exist.

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Looking for ways to improve your blog? If you’ve been blogging for any amount of time, you might eventually start feeling as if your blog is getting stale. Or if you’re just getting started with your blog, especially if you plan to use it for small business marketing, you might be looking for ways to position your blog as professionally as possible. Here are 4 quick and easy ways you can improve an existing blog or get a brand new blog off to the best start possible. *** Improve Your Blog with Proper Grammar

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Many of our new clients come to us thinking they need a new website, when in fact what they need to start with is a little search engine optimization. Before you spend thousands on a brand new website design, why not spend one hour testing your current site’s SEO? 2 Minutesr Start by logging into your website. Check the URL in the address bar. Is it the same one you typed in? If not, you might have a redirect going on. That can hurt your search engine raking, so fix it. 2 Minutesr Now type your URL without the www. Were you taken to the www version?

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If you’re utilizing email marketing, you should be utilizing email testing. But it can seem complex and costly, and many small business owners aren’t quite sure where to start. If you’d like to use email testing, but aren’t sure where to start, here are 4 of the easiest tests to get you going: ** Test Your Subject Lines Your subject line is basically the headline for your message. And any good copywriter will tell you, the headline will determine whether the rest of the copy will get read.

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Blogging is an excellent way to supplement your small business marketing. However, there is a great deal of confusion about exactly what role the blog plays in small business marketing and how it helps you to make money. Contrary to what some people may tell you, the blog itself is not meant to make money. You can add some advertisements, sure, but this is very unlikely to become its own source of legitimate revenue. However, a blog can help you to make your small business more successful and here is how. ** Having a Successful Blog Doesn't Necessarily Mean Business Successr

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Twitter is one of the many social networking services that have taken the web by storm. With this particular social site you only get 140 characters to type your message and let the world know what you are thinking. This is actually a fantastic tool to add to your small business marketing plan; the key is in knowing how to make your tweets the best tweets they can be.

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When we hear the words Landing Page we generally think of PPC campaigns or some other form of internet advertising. But I like to use landing pages for all of my off-line advertising also. However, you’re using it, a landing page is a web page, typically hidden from the site’s menu bar and other navigation – meaning the only way you can get to the page is to type the URL directly into the browser. The web page is directly related to the ad campaign that listed the URL.

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It seems to me that the economy is slowly making a comeback, and now would be a great time to ramp up your marketing, take advantage of the renewed spending environment, and move full-speed ahead on growing your business. But many of the small business owners I speak with are still having a hard time finding new clients.

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Have you ever heard the saying "If everyone is your customer, no one is your customer"? Many small business owners are afraid to create a niche for their business thinking that they will end up turning away prospects or that they will cut themselves off from potential customers. The fact is, having a niche actually makes your small business marketing much easier. A niche gives you focus. It allows you to tailor your message to your particular audience. It allows you to have a better understanding of your target market and to craft a very clear and concise target market profile.

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The use of online videos in small business marketing has become an increasingly popular strategy. Research has suggested that immediately after viewing a company’s video consumers are far more likely to visit the company website or contact the company via phone. In fact they can be up to 40% more likely to make some sort of contact. This is a pretty dramatic statistic.

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Have you added pay per click to your small business marketing plan? If you thought PPC was only for huge websites with gigantic advertising budgets, think again. Pay per click advertising can be a fantastic way to test the sales copy on a web page before publishing that page to the general public. At one time webmasters had to create a web page and then just cross their fingers, hoping the page would be

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Public relations, or getting publicity through mainstream media, has been around for hundreds of years and has been proven effective in bringing in consumer traffic to small businesses. But, is such an ancient marketing method still effective for today's high-tech small businesses? While it's true that typical public relations have existed long before the computer and the internet were invented, the fact is, it is still extremely effective for almost all online businesses.

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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Karen Scharf

"It's time to step out and stay out!"

"The meaning of life is to find your gift; the purpose of life is to give it away."

"If someone talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you woul have kicked them out of your life a long time ago." Carla Gordan

"You are writing the story of your life one page at a time."

Contacting Karen Scharf

Modern Image Communications

(317) 721-MKTG

PO Box 1311

Greenwood, IN 46142

www.Mode Image.com

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