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from the page, "Twitter is now being recognised as a valuable marketing tool and I’ll explain why....." read more »
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Who says you can't learn anything from TV? Here are 5 lessons bloggers should learn from the hit TV show "Heroes" read more »
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I had almost 2000 unread posts in my feed reader and I just couldn’t get them down even spending 1-2 hours a day going through them. I had to do a major purge. I used many criteria but mainly it came down to quality of content. What I found was that read more »
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Microsoft, which runs Live Search and is the parent company of aQuantive, which owns Avenue A Razorfish, is now partnering with another search marketing firm, The Search Agency, to offer SEO and Paid Search Marketing services to small businesses. I read more »
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Tracking the number of times a particular blog hits the Digg homepage isn't really a great indicator of popularity. Some Digg stories get a couple of hundred Diggs while others are far more popular and attract several thousand. Luckily Google offers read more »
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I believe Social Media is my new Lust. I crave Social Media constantly. I want it when I’m working, I want it when I’m cooking dinner, I even want it when I’m in bed at night. I just can’t get enough of it. I am totally obsessed with it. read more »
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It is well known that StumbleUpon can drive a huge amount of traffic to your website and there are numerous posts in the blogosphere about writing for StumbleUpon, ensuring you get plenty of thumbs up votes, and ideas for post topics that are sure t read more »
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About three weeks ago I wrote a post that asked the question, “Should you use multiple accounts in social networks as a niche marketer?” I was pretty torn on the subject and my conclusion was that I would use only one account on each sit read more »
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I am at the stage in my own projects where I am ready to begin content creation so in this post I talk a bit about why fresh content is so important, and where and how I find it. read more »
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Brian Clark of Copyblogger walks us through the real meaning of a link and shares a Marketing Sherpa experiment to find out if the wording used in hyperlinks could make a difference in clickthrough rates. read more »
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Just say, “thank you.” Yep. That’s it. Say, “thank you.” Find a way to show your appreciation. That Digg/StumbleUpon User probably sends tons of traffic to a number of sites every day. Yet, rarely does someone stop to say “thanks for the effort.” Be read more »
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Attorneys, plumbers, financial advisor’s, electricians, pizza parlors, cleaning services, snowplow drivers, caterers, insurance companies, and hardware stores alike ask Should we keep our Yellow Pages ad? Finally there is definitive data. read more »
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A widget for blog owners has just released which promises to “instantly send a flood of targeted readers to your blog”. If John Chow were to jump on this, with his readership and his proven power to generate a massive downline, we will be seeing his read more »
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Are you speaking the language of your target market? Should you develop 'personas' within your niches? read more »
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I recently took part in the Thirty Day Challenge (a free internet marketing course), and part way through I resigned from my day job to start my own business. This post talks about the challenge and how it affected that decision. read more »
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A wonderful parody of the issues surrounding the SEO vs. Domainers debate. read more »
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