{"id":7,"date":"2008-08-15T16:16:18","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T21:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucindah8.sg-host.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-08-20T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T21:42:50","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/growmap.com\/about","title":{"rendered":"About &#8211; What IS a GrowMap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Web site or business &#8211; online or off &#8211; can benefit from <em><strong>grow<\/strong><\/em>ing and could use a <em><strong>map<\/strong><\/em> to get there. Each user of a map travels a different path to growth, so this blog will provide multiple customized routes to generating more business, sales, leads, or visitors for different types of Web sites and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>We identify and share <em><strong>proven<\/strong><\/em> methods of generating more traffic to your Web site or business &#8211; many of them totally <em><strong>free<\/strong><\/em> except for the time required to implement them. <strong>Step-by-step instructions<\/strong> simple enough for even those with very limited Internet experience will be provided for each strategy offered.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Regular readers will be warned about methods that are a waste of your time and money.<\/strong><\/em> We know what works by using Web analytics to measure and verify results. Although we will not specialize in analytics, we will explain the benefits in plain English for non-techies and teach an open source analytics package in the future.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Make sure you don&#8217;t miss any warnings or free tips by subscribing: <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Subscribe to GrowMap using RSS\" href=\"https:\/\/growmap.com\/feed\/\">Subscribe Using RSS<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"What RSS is and how to use it\" href=\"https:\/\/problogger.com\/what-is-rss\/\">What is RSS?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Subscribe to receive new posts via email\" href=\"https:\/\/app.feedblitz.com\/f\/?sub=847619\">Subscribe to GROWMAP by Email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Who is behind GrowMap and what is her background:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>See our Press page for details <a title=\"What Gail and GrowMap have accomplished to date\" href=\"https:\/\/growmap.com\/press\/\">about GrowMap founder Gail Gardner<\/a><\/li>\n<li>See <a title=\"Direct link to GrowMap profile on LinkedIn \" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/growmap\">GrowMap LinkedIn profile<\/a> for Gail&#8217;s background, projects, book recommendations and groups.<\/li>\n<li>Published on Forbes, SmallBizTrends, AllBusiness, Social Media Today and many other top sites. Authorship links are available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/growmap.com\/writings\/\">portfolio page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Top Sites Recommending GrowMap:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Dun and Bradstreet Credibility Insights includes Gail Gardner in their <a title=\"Ready to Leverage Top Twitter Influencers to Grow Your Biz? #BizInfluencers - See more here. \" href=\"https:\/\/b2b.dnb.com\/2015\/05\/04\/small-business-twitter-experts\/\">Top 50 D&amp;B SMB Influencers on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cision.com: GrowMap listed in <a title=\"Permanent Link: Top 100 Sites for Marketers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cision.com\/us\/2016\/08\/top-100-sites-for-marketers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Top 100 Sites for Marketers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Recipient, <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbiztrends.com\/influencer-awards\" target=\"_blank\">2015 SmallBizTrends Influencer award<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Recipient, <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbiztrends.com\/influencer-awards\" target=\"_blank\">2015 SmallBizTrends Community Choice award<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Small Business Trends Community Choice Award 2014<\/li>\n<li>Accepted to the <a title=\"Daily ranking of the best Marketing Blogs\" href=\"https:\/\/adage.com\/article\/power-150-blog\/powering-power-150\/237986\">AdAge Power150 Daily Ranking of Marketing Blogs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Featured in <a title=\"Best Social Media Blogs\" href=\"https:\/\/alltop.com\/\">AllTop under Social Media <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Recipient of Liz Strauss&#8217; <a title=\"Liz&#039; popular Weekly Selection of Top Blogs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.successful-blog.com\/sob-a-z-directory\/\">Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Award<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Featured by <a title=\"Louis Gray is a regular GrowMap reader\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.louisgray.com\/2009\/03\/alltops-custom-pages-finally-tip-me-to.html\">LouisGray in his personal Alltop recommendations<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Recommended as &#8220;the best blog on the subject&#8221; of Local Search by EMarketingMatador<\/li>\n<li>Specifically <a title=\"Review recommending GrowMap\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.louisgray.com\/2008\/12\/five-new-blogs-to-round-out-years-finds.html\">Recommended by LouisGray <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Recommended by Michael Fruchter<\/li>\n<li>Recommended by WhatTheYahoogle.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Web site or business &#8211; online or off &#8211; can benefit from growing and could use a map to get there. Each user of a map travels a different path to growth, so this blog will provide multiple customized routes to generating more business, sales, leads, or visitors for different types of Web sites &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/growmap.com\/about\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About &#8211; What IS a GrowMap?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growmap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growmap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growmap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growmap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growmap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/growmap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50436,"href":"https:\/\/growmap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/50436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growmap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}