Advertising & Marketing

TweetCompanies around the world are just now tuning in to the power and benefits of social media as a marketing tool for their businesses.  Social media provides both business and consumers the ability to interact and actively participate in the “community of brands”.   Social media as a marketing channel provides customers the ability to participate [...]

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TweetThe first place to start the Twitter automation process is by setting up several Google Alerts, which will monitor Google results (news, blogs, Web, video) in real-time for the latest updates on search queries (keywords) or topics of interest that are important to you or your business. For example, if your blog was focused on [...]

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TweetAutomation of your Twitter account is one of the most controversial subjects within the Twitter community.  It’s important to understand that any type of automation, whatever it might be, should be used solely for the purpose of improving the value that you add to the Twitter community by using it. Automation should be used sparingly [...]

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TweetGetting listed in the various Twitter directories is an important step in building your Twitter following for a couple of reasons. Submitting for entry to the directories is very similar to submitting a website to search engines – people won’t be able to find you if you’re not.  This is where your one-line bio becomes [...]

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TweetFacebook is simply impossible to ignore these days. The social media giant is growing exponentially and looks to be winning the battle for the title of “King of Social Networking”. But while Facebook has ingrained itself deeply into the public’s hearts, it has struggled somewhat to convince businesses that it can be legitimately monetized. Good [...]

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TweetWhat do you do with those expiring product pages on your site?  Do you archive them or simply delete them from your shopping cart?  There are valuable SEO implications not always considered by site owners for those expiring product pages.  Even with a short shelf life, these are pages that can pick up valuable inbound [...]

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TweetAs bloggers, we’ve all struggled with the following question at one point or another: “What can I write about now?” Sometimes it feels like all the great ideas and unique topics have all been taken, written about and used up.  While admittedly an absurd thought, it’s one that pops in my head more often that [...]

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TweetSeveral years back, Yahoo! released a product called Yahoo! Mindset which dealt with the challenge of differing mindsets that users might have for the same search query. Yahoo! Mindset would essentially reorder the search results with a machine learning system based on a user’s mindset or orientation. The tool was fairly simple and intuitive to [...]

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Tweet This is a post from awhile back that I wanted to re-post in order to spark some new discussion about the topic, particularly in light of the recent announcement about the launch of Twitter ads – Twitter’s new contextual advertising products and services. The value and utility of contextual advertising has suddenly resurfaced as [...]

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TweetSmall businesses are the very backbone of the American economy, employing just over half of the country’s private work force.  Marketing to an increasingly diverse consumer is one of the greatest challenges that small businesses face today.  With so many products and services coming into the market place all the time, consumers are faced with [...]

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TweetFacebook is definitely an up-and-coming resource for businesses to promote themselves. But more than simply for promotional use, it  has proven itself to be the preferred method for companies to interact directly with their target audience via social media. Recent research studies have shown that companies using social networking sites like Facebook stand to gain [...]

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TweetThe following post is the first in a series on how to build an effective and profitable Twitter following – the right way.  My Follow Build Pro™ blog post series will show you how to build a proactive, engaged, vibrant and profitable Twitter following.  In my opinion, there is a right way to build a [...]

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TweetSo I woke up yesterday morning, responded to a few emails and then opened up my Seesmic desktop application that I use for my Twitter account management.  I quickly noticed that something didn’t look right.  I hadn’t gotten a Reply or a Direct Message (DM) in over 12 hours so I opened my Twitter Profile [...]

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TweetGuest blogging is simply the idea of serving as a guest writer for another blog or website.  While the concept might be simple, guest blogging provides a variety of outstanding benefits for both the blogger and the host site that many people are unaware of. The concept is a relatively new idea that has built [...]

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TweetLike most of us running small businesses, you’ve probably heard a lot about the explosion of social media and its most prominent players, Twitter, Digg and Facebook among others.  In this article, we’re going to provide you with some social media marketing best practices and how you can get started building a social media footprint [...]

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