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The selling process--from initial interest to the very last checkout page--must be able to grab shopper's attention and proceed to drive them through to the finalization of the sale. But even after the sell, you must deal with customer service issue read more »
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Let's imagine you've just dreamed up some brilliant new web startup company that's going to change the world and fill this great unfulfilled need. Now, if only there were some way to figure out if other people were interested in solving the same pro read more »
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"Why won't anyone submit my content to Digg? My competitor is always on Reddit but my stuff gets ignored!" Sound familiar? Well here's how to put an end to your woes and ensure your content is submit worthy. read more »
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This is the third article in the four-part series, "Powerful guide to master Your WordPress". We are taking a look at 77+ quality and usefull WordPress Plug-ins, which have been very handy and saves us lots of time and effort to run our blog the way read more »
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In other words, the biggest factor is that older users need more time to understand pages, scan the text, and extract the information. A smaller — but still substantial — problem is that people have more trouble navigating websites as they age. read more »
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Digging around through Digg last night though, I noticed how the Digg user base pretty much represents this single collective personality with a fairly predictable set of views. If we call Digg...umm..."Dougg" for a brief moment, a particular charac read more »
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The idea behind this 10-part series is very simple: We want to disprove the notion that it’s either your business or the new web by providing a set of “tricks” that help you separate the signal from the noise and integrate useful technologies in you read more »
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My Internet Marketing List of last week got one heck of a response - 22,000 unique visitors in 3 days. Even though most of you losers didn't subscribe to my RSS feed, it gave my limp, damp ego a nice boost. In the interest of beating a good idea to read more »
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In this blog, I’ve often spoken about different link-building strategies. Generally, we can break them down into two categories: chasing links vs. letting them to chase you. Both methods have their pros and cons, and personally I’ve found that a mix read more »
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Just as you’d say: “What the heck? What difference will a word or two make to enhance the power of a headline?” You’ll be amazed, how by simply adding a target + a specific, you’ll make your headline far more attractive in a matter of seconds. read more »
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Twitter is fast becoming a serious platform for discourse and discussion. More than a status app, it is being used as a first alert mechanism for the dissemination of news and for immediate discussion surrounding that news. It is the coverage of new read more »
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Duncan Watts, a network-theory scientist has performed a series of controversial, barn-burning experiments challenging the whole Influentials thesis. He has analyzed email patterns and found that highly connected people are not, in fact, crucial soc read more »
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Propaganda is created to influence the minds and actions of people, in order to generate a response that achieves the goal of the propagandist. It's also a strategy that's quite easy to use in your promotional campaigns. Maki explains how... read more »
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I dumped text link ads. I nofollowed paid links. I javascripted links that might be mistaken for paid links. I canceled my sponsored review accounts....And I did all that for…what? read more »
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I sometimes wonder if we really need another twitter/facebook you name it. I am spread thin.
Don't you think you have too many accounts, too many places to keep track of? read more »
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Building a network around your blog is a good thing - some claim it is neccessary even -, and this post points out eight friendly bloggers who could be potential helpers for you. read more »
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While there are some social media authority blogs already out there for some time, I noticed that recently there seems to be a kind of explosion. So I want to share 11 new social media blogs that are really a must read in no particular order. read more »
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So how does an RSS reader fit with StumbleUpon or even within the broad scope of social media? It makes life simpler.

Did you know that you can get your twitter chat in an RSS reader? Even better, you can use Twitter tracking to follow certain t read more »
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Does the fact that we have better and more convenient ways to get flooded by info limit our own participation as we try to read everything? read more »
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A very good Blog Outreach campaign involving Pink Envelopes and cheap perfumes from Malta. read more »
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DoshDosh was asked, "How can you Measure the Success of your Blog?". There are many ways Bloggers to choose to measure success.... Find out what way Maki measures his blogging success. read more »
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Setup a meta refresh on a intermediary page, thus allowing google analytics to track RSS subscribers, for any blog using feedburner read more »
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Treating your users or audience like a human being rather than a faceless mouse clicker is crucial to any relationship online. read more »
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I think we’ve all wondered about this. Sometimes giving a page a thumb up seems to make a big difference. The page you discover and thumb up suddenly makes it to the Buzz and it seems like everyone is looking at it now.

Another page that seems ju read more »
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Everyone who uses StumbleUpon wants to be a Top Stumbler...right?!? Here are 5 things you might want to consider first. read more »
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