Internet Marketing Best Practices by Laure Dunlop

The winter doldrums are officially here. Momentum for New Year’s resolutions is fading fast. The trees are bare; grass is brown. It’s time for an Internet marketing pick-me up! And what better way than to reflect for a moment on things that make you smile?!?

Here are 20 things that make us smile at NetStrategies. We hope you will add your happy thoughts to the list too!

1. Our great customers. You are the reason we are in business (our number one happy thought). Thank you for trusting NetStrategies to lead your Internet marketing efforts.

2. Teamwork. Each member of our team is a leader in their field and augments everything we do. Our talents span from SEO, PPC, Analytics, Development, Social Media, Content Writing, Video, Managed Web Site Hosting, editing, kayaking, ice hockey, grilling, and scone baking!

3. The Internet. Thank you Al Gore for inventing it. After all, there would be no Internet marketing without the Internet!

4. Our vendors. Great vendors like Applicure, Cisco, Dell, and Parallels allow us to better serve our customers.

5. Occoquan Harbour Marina office space. We enjoy a gorgeous view every day from our desks overlooking the Occoquan River in Northern Virginia.

6. Google Analytics. This wonderful, free Web analytics tool allows us to do what we do best, measure results.

7. Experts who share their knowledge. Books, blogs, Webinars, videos…all free resources you share online and off.

8. Twitter and all its applications. We find valuable content every day from those we follow. Twitter gives us a valuable social platform to share our content. All those wonderful free applications like HootSuite and TweetDeck make using Twitter a snap.

9. Graphic designers. You make everything look so much better!

10. Programmers. Your HTML skills make anything possible. The phrase of 2010 has got to be “There’s an app for that!”

11. Instant messaging. This handy little feature draws our remote employees just a keystroke (and an emoticon) away!

12. bing’s photo of the day. If you don’t visit bing every day to learn about a new place, you are missing out.

13. Good coffee. No one in our office could make it though the day without our java jolts from Caribou Coffee in Lorton.

14. Flavored creamers. Funny, everyone makes fun of the hazelnut and vanilla latte creamers, but they need replacing every week.

15. MacBook Pro. (Sorry fellow PC-loving NetStrategists…had to slip in the Mac.)

16. Google Alerts. This handy free program helps us with reputation management and to watch the spread of our content. (Always a reason to smile!)

17. Collaboration. Outcomes are always better when we take advantage of shared talent.

18. Interns. NetStrategies supports local intern programs like Training Futures in the DC metro area. It is exciting to share our passion for Internet marketing with a budding new professional while benefiting from their hard work.

19. TubeMogul makes our videographer smile! He uploads our videos to this one site and it is distributed to many more automatically.

20. Internet marketing the NetStrategies way. Everyone on staff smiles when we help a client succeed with measurable results. Whether we launch a new Website, improve an existing one, boost the search results, or help a pay-per-click campaign take off, it is rewarding and fun ALWAYS!

What makes you smile at work?? Please share!