Listen to or watch this recording for some useful discussion of ways to start building a business that makes money from day one.

Eddie Lester is the Founder of Fitness Mentors, a personal trainer educational resource that helps PT's pass the exam, and then build a business online. On this episode we discussed the main points from my previous blog post "How Do I Get My First Customers?"

Ever plan a wedding or large event? There is so much to consider - from food to seating to arranging the room. Well whether you are an event planner that does it all the time, or planning your once in a lifetime dream wedding, Crisp Event Rental is your perfect partner.

The guys at Crisp have been doing this event thing for a long time. They have all the stuff like tables, chairs, and linens. Along with the big stuff like those huge tents and heaters to go inside them. And they also know just about every venue in Columbia in detail.

SOME PAGE BUILDING BEST PRACTICESSEO Meta information (Unseen by visitors) - use the SEO section in your website editor to tell Google and potential visitors what your page contains. Title tags and description are especially important because they show in the Google search results page.

When I started my business in 2014, I did it on a bootstrap budget. I mean I had not saved up a dime, didn't borrow from my retirement, and didn't take out a home equity line or a small business loan. I simply walked in to my boss' office and said "I don't know what I will be doing in two weeks, but I know it won't be this." And right then and there I committed to eating what I could kill.

Hindsight is always 20/20. Of course there are things I would change about my first few years in business. But, I've never regretted the decision to go into business for myself.

Typically landing pages are typically created to accommodate traffic from a paid ad with the intent of eliciting a specific response from the visitor.

But landing pages can also attract visits from organic searches. Using landing pages to attract organic search traffic can be a great way to rise above competitors for specific terms. By narrowing the SEO focus of a page you tell search engines exactly what that page is about. Resulting in a higher page rank vs. other pages that may spread their focus a little thinner. I like to use blog posts to serve this purpose, but not all sites have a blog. So when a site doesn't have a blog we use landing pages (I like to call them search landing pages.)

For example, let's say you are a grocery store. You may have pages on your website dedicated to bakery, produce, and meats. Now let's say that there are a lot of searches in your local area for Prime Rib around Christmas. You may want to create a landing page that is focused on making Prime Rib for Christmas. It could talk about traditions, recipes, specifics about the cut of meat. That page does not have to be included in the primary navigation, but it will do better in searches for Prime Rib than your meats page will.

If you combine search engine optimized content with calls to action you create a landing page that gets your store a bigger cut (see what I did there!?) of the  Prime Rib sales.

I am on a mission to bring website managers the information they need to make their websites more usable and findable. And so, we recently launched our first educational video series focused on search engine optimization (applause, applause.)

These are short videos (usually under 5 minutes) talking about the why? and the how? for each tip. You will even see a peak behind the scenes of my website platform (Weebly) to show how to make it happen on your site.

In fact, you will see so much behind-the-scenes Weebly SEO editing, you could almost call these 10 tips your Weebly SEO checklist.