June 16, 2011

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Review of ProBlogger’s Blogging for Your Business

Review of ProBlogger’s Blogging for Your Business

eBooks never seem to die, they’ve been around for ages. And for good reason. Done right, they have the potential to deliver great value. Priced right, they can reach an entire market. ProBlogger’s Guide to Blogging for Your Business by Mark Hayward may very well be one of those “done right” eBooks. Today’s review covers who [...]

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June 13, 2011

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What the Mavericks Taught Me About Marketing

What the Mavericks Taught Me About Marketing

The Dallas Mavericks are the 2011 NBA champs. The photo with this post is the owner, Mark Cuban with the trophy on their plane ride home. Quite a story how they got there, not just the work from this year, but from the past decade. Their team leader Dirk Nowitzki says that all the work [...]

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June 9, 2011

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Amazon Associates Shuts Down Account Keeps Money

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Many who are new or exploring Internet Marketing as a business often get started with Amazon.com as an associate. It makes sense, for publishers who want to get setup quickly, as they have the best set of APIs, tools, and widgets to get started. It is a great way to start monetizing a website that [...]

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June 7, 2011

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Do You Avoid Video Marketing?

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What’s great about the web, is that it affords marketers and business owners the opportunity to extend their reach in new, authentic ways. Case in point, video marketing. If you are like me, you probably aren’t a Tom Brokaw, Ellen Degeneres, Denzel Washington, or any other celebrity who is polished when the camera comes on. [...]

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June 2, 2011

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When Online Marketing Products Are Worth Paying For

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One of the benefits of our interconnected world is the availability of great information and products that cost nothing. Never before has so much been available at no cost. This is also true for products people use to get started marketing online. We are big fans of free (to an extent) and encourage others to [...]

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May 31, 2011

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Heads Up GoDaddy Customers

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No service provider is perfect. My business was impacted recently by a policy I was unaware of by a domain registrar I use, GoDaddy. The issue mentioned below is somewhat of a fluke, but may impact a certain percentage of our readers and subscribers here, hence this post. On the whole I’m a fan of [...]

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May 26, 2011

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How to Know it's Time to Update Your Blog Design

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WordPress is a powerful platform. It is easy to setup, and helps content publishers focus on what it is they want to do. Publish content to the web quickly without any programming skills.  With all this simplicity, it is easy for publishers to ignore other aspects of their blog like optimization, performance, analytics, SEO, conversion, [...]

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May 24, 2011

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Will Marketers Adopt Google +1 for Websites?

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A while back the question was asked here, Is Google’s +1 Search Useful for Marketers? Now that Google’s I/O event is over, and having mentioned very little about social strategy, +1, etc. (at least from the live stream I watched) are you planning on implementing Google +1 on your website when it becomes available? Why [...]

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May 19, 2011

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8 Ideas for Using QR Codes in Your Marketing

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Now that we know how to use Google to make QR Codes, and how to share content on social networks with QR Codes, it’s time to talk application. Like any technology these strange looking images are worthless unless they have some meaningful application to your business, or in this case a marketing application. How can [...]

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May 17, 2011

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Marketing Like Starbucks?

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Starbucks. Global reach. Local touch. Working at local coffee shops is something that happens regularly with me. Getting stuff done from any place having an Internet connection is one of the lures of Internet marketing, right? I recently saw an interesting note on the back of a Starbucks bag that caught my attention. If you [...]

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