Rich Brooks

Profile: Rich Brooks is president of flyte new media, a Web site design and Internet marketing company in Portland, Maine. Flyte works with small businesses to build professional Web sites that often include e-commerce, Flash and content management systems. They promote their clients' sites through search engine optimization, e-mail marketing, business blogs and social media. You can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/therichbrooks.

Posts by Rich Brooks:

Can Your Company Find True Love in Today’s Economy?

October 5th, 2011

What would a personal ad from your company look like? What kind of customer are you looking for? Most of us say we want more leads, but in fact what we really want is better leads.

Killer YouTube Tactics for Your Business

June 22nd, 2011

Online video–and especially YouTube–is critical to your online marketing and increasing your overall visibility. Julie Perry tells how. For the highlights of this article be sure to check out How to Make YouTube Part of Your Social Media Marketing at FastCompany.com. Rich: Hi, this is Rich Brooks, and I have on the phone with me [...]

What Do You Expect Visitors To Learn From Your Business Site?

February 2nd, 2011

“What do your website visitors want to accomplish?” is a question I ask almost every business owner as part of some initial information gathering during our meetings. “They want to learn more about my products.” “They want to see what I have to offer.” “They want to learn about my company.”

Saying No To Smaller Business Projects

September 1st, 2010

Dear Service Professional, As we (hopefully) move away from the Great Recession you may be seeing inquiries, albeit tentative. They’re interested in your landscaping/consulting/tutoring services, but they don’t want to spend that much so they ask you if you can scale back your proposal. Don’t do it.

Generating Business Leads With Your Blog

August 25th, 2010

To generate online leads, you need a steady stream of new, qualified prospects to your web site. These days, that means strong search engine visibility coupled with an active presence in social media. And there’s no better tool to help you in both categories than your business blog. But like any tool, it doesn’t work [...]

Making Time To Blog For Your Small Business

October 28th, 2009

One of the common refrains I hear from people is that “I don’t have time to blog.” On the surface, this seems believable. What small business owner isn’t over-worked, whether it’s with marketing, sales, bookkeeping, managing people, making the coffee, buying the computers, sending out proposals, answering the phones, taking out the garbage, and every [...]

Adding A Fan Box To Your Business Site

October 8th, 2009

As a lot of small business and non-profits know, social media sites like Facebook are a great place to connect with your audience and build your business or membership.   There are a number of reasons for businesses, non-profits and just about any organization to be on Facebook: