Personal blog of Jeremy Ryan… husband, VR enthusiast, entrepreneur, internet marketer, libertarian, and investor. Lives in Alburgh, Vermont.
It depends on the business. Generally a combination of Facebook Ads, email marketing, and Google Ads has done well. If you do these well, good rankings in organic search or SEO will happen naturally. More specifically, if you are selling products with current demand, Google Shopping should be where you start. Then use Facebook Ads […]
Still my largest holding and a great opportunity. Once again, I added more to my position today in Community Bancorp (CMTV) at $16.10. Why Community Bancorp? The stock has fluctuated a lot most likely due to overall market pressures and due to trading over the counter. However, the company is very stable, growing and is located […]
As some of you know we purchased the Wondermugs business recently after years of successfully selling them on our other retail websites champlaincoffee.com and niftycoolgifts.com. We have spent the last year rebuilding the business from the ground up and we starting to see real progress! A big thank you to all those that helped so […]
I initiated a new position last week in Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) at $1,657.24. It is our 8th largest position at this time. Reason for current opportunity The share price for Amazon has been under pressure because of a variety of threats: Inability to make significant profits from the amazon.com retail business. Political/social pressure from their growing size […]
Sometime in July 2018, Google Chrome browser will start warning users that any site is not safe to use if it doesn’t have sitewide SSL. It’s also a small ranking factor in Google’s search results. I suspect it will be become a more important factor going forward. Here is what it will look like: You […]
A few clients have received letters/emails related to two types of scams. iDNS Scam First, the iDNS domain registration scam where they send letters that look like the one below near registration renewal time appearing to be a renewal letter. However, they are actually trying to trick you into transferring your domain registration to their […]
WooCommerce 3.3.3 has been released. This is a minor update. However, 3.3.0 had some substantial changes. Some of the changes include: Orders Screen Redesign: looks much better! On Backorder stock status and stock management – products can now have “On Backorder” stock status. Greater theme support/customization Image size improvements and more. Click here for more […]
All Windows Hosting servers have been now migrated to a new data center. You should already received the new url to access your Plesk account and the login details are the same. Please review the website to make sure there are no issues. If you see any issues, please let us know so that we can […]
We have begun to roll out our new website design! Before we had a hybrid of both Drupal and WordPress. Now everything is in WordPress and we are now using Woocommerce (our preferred shopping cart) to manage all transactions. If you are a current client you should be receiving a new login shortly. If […]
We’re back at Advantage Creations headquarters from the Burlington Business Association (BBA) 2014 Waterfront “FAM” Tour, Sponsored by Spirit of Ethan Allen. The annual theme of meeting is to, “hear what [Burlington] Waterfront businesses have in store for Burlington this summer!” Many companies and locations on the Burlington waterfront are already open for summer business! Many […]