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If you have a blog, scroll down through your last few weeks or months worth of posts/headlines. Are they predominantly appealing to only one temperament? Are you just grabbing the interest and attention of Competitives? They only represent 10% of th read more »
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It helps to look over what you have done and to see how you can change that to meet your goals for the future. Maki has some great points for how you can prepare yourself for the new year. read more »
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For many, a crippled format ensures only a tiny fraction of visitors ever interact with the Archives page. It doesn’t have to be that way. In this post, I want to explain three simple methods you can use to craft an archives page that will serve as read more »
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List of the top 10 worst internet marketing sites. read more »
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Jorn Barger of Robot Wisdom coined the term "weblog" Dec. 17, 1997 -- 10 years ago Monday -- to describe the daily list of links that "logged" his travels across the web. In the decade hence, Barger feels that he's gained some wisdom of his own abou read more »
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Narrowcasting is both a subset and the opposite of broadcasting, which is the wide scale dissemination of content through electronic and traditional media channels, in order to reach a large audience.

Narrowcasting focuses on spreading messages t read more »
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"In business parlance, push-pull marketing refers to different ways of promoting a business model in order to reach a target market. In push marketing, you ‘push’ your content or product towards the audience which may or may not be aware of it." read more »
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Maki has a great post on setting goals and laying the framework for setting up a social media campaign. read more »
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If you really want to relate to people then celebrate your weaknesses with them along with your successes. I have big adsense checks and stuff on this site but the thing I get the most email and comments about at conferences is about how I used to b read more »
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The more visually interesting you can make your posts the more your post will draw the eye all the way through and the more your words will get read. The good news is it’s fairly easy to do if you keep formatting in mind as you write and remember a read more »
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Content goes a long way in establishing the value of your website for each visitor. Having the right content development strategy can make a big difference in the popularity and profitability of your site or business. This article talks about how to read more »
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This is another great article from Dosh Dosh. I want to be on Maki's team!! read more »
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Want a ton of inbound links? Want to sell mountains of product, book yourself silly or hit the bestseller list? Think it’s all about killer content, great design and rocking service? Well, you’re half-right. But there’s something else. Something rea read more »
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Google's ads are paid for; its search results, supposedly, are untainted by commercial concerns. But French blog Zorgloob landed itself a screenshot that calls Google's purity into question. It shows what Google search results look like to a member read more »
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Determining the type of content to create is important when you want to fulfill your end goals. No matter how excellent or casual it appears, free content is always a means to an end for every publisher. Strategic blogging is simply the process of b read more »
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From the marketing perspective, a blog is not really that different from an “old-fashion” media form. Surprisingly, some people, including your typical business and marketing majors don’t know this. Sure, the medium has changed, but the same marketi read more »
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Google is an factor that is outside of your control. Sure, you can follow their rules or adjust your behavior to fit in but that still doesn’t put Google within your palm. What do good entrepreneurs do with uncontrollable factors? They create what-i read more »
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One of the main reason this blog got so much traffic in such a short period of time (of course resulting in the 1261 rss subscribers) is because I spend about 2-4 hours a day stumbling posts, Digging, and networking with other bloggers. It would not read more »
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Viral content is powerful, and in this post, I want to show you how to tap into that power. When carefully executed, a viral post can help launch your blog’s growth into the stratosphere. Combine the following principles with a healthy dose of elbow read more »
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There is a simple way to exponentially grow your business and generate multiple new revenue streams almost instantly just by changing the way you view your business, blog, service, or whatever it is you are doing to generate revenue. These are techn read more »
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If you’re breaking into a new niche then it may be worth taking a moment to reflect on the image you are trying to portray. Who is your target audience? What kind of language resonates with them? What graphical style is likely to appeal to this audi read more »
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I have always had a huge fear of something new coming along and eliminating my websites or at least pushing my websites far enough down the serps to make my Websites unfound by potential viewers. I went on a mission to find out what exactly Blogs we read more »
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I have spent the past few months filtering through thousands of applications to find the best ones. I have added and removed thousands of applications but only a few still remain. After going through all the applications and figuring out which appli read more »
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But what many bloggers don’t realize is how to leverage the power of the outbound link to create even more inbound links. Why does it work? Well, first of all, because bloggers love it when you link to them … and out of gratitude, they will likely l read more »
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The most important part of your Google Adwords ad copy is the headline. A poor headline can make or break an adwords campaign and leave you way out of pocket. Five times as many people read the headline than they do the description lines and display read more »
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