Are you looking to grow your small business in 2012 in a BIG way? Do you dream of receiving free exposure, increased traffic, better leads and more sales? Are you worried your small business budget and resources don’t allow you to compete with the “big guys?” Have you heard that social media marketing is the…
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Jumping into the fast-paced, real-time world of social media can be more than a little daunting for a small business owner. But with social media now the number one way Americans spend their time online, many businesses small and large are struggling to harness its massive marketing power. Here are three quick tips to get…
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I often receive the question about the difference between using WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org to create a blog so I thought I would go ahead and write a quick blog post about it. In my opinion, you definitely want to use wordpress.org for your blog not wordpress.com. At wordpress.org you download the free software and install…
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If you are just starting out in the social business world you either already know or will soon know that content is the new currency on the social web. For quite some time, we internet marketers have been preaching “content is king” which I still believe is true. However, content has experienced a slight shift…
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I think sometimes one of the most difficult things for business owners just starting out using social media is figuring out what to talk about. Fortunately one of my favorite things to do is brainstorm on content ideas for all different kinds of business. Here are 35 content ideas I recently prepared for a presentation…
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The word “Blog” is a popular one on the internet these days. So popular that Wikipedia reports that as of February 2011 the internet is host to over 156 million blogs. The term “blog” is short for “web log” and is traditionally best defined as an online journal created with either text, images,…
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