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If Your SEO is so good, why am I getting SPAM emails?

May 8, 2012 by Dan Kraus
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I got the following email below the other day, and after thinking about it for a minute, all I could do was think about it and then laugh. If you are an SEO company and make your living helping others get found, why are you sending me unsolicited emails for your service? [read more]

The Amazon Effect: Zuora, Citrix and the Acceleration of the Cloud Economy

May 7, 2012 by Brent Leary
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When Amazon started making their infrastructure and IT processes available outside the company firewall in 2006 it was a tipping point of sorts for business consumerization of the cloud. Companies of all sizes leveraged a variety of Amazon Web Services to store data, stream video, run online stores and a ton of other things. And now today consumers and businesses alike are adjusting quite nicely to life in the clouds. [read more]

5 Tips on Small Business SEO Packages

April 19, 2012 by Small Biz Bee
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There are many small business SEO packagesthat can be found. However, there are many things that you need to consider when it comes to seo packages. Like if you are a small business and you need to sell products on your website, you need to have a search engine package that is effective, low cost and user-friendly. [read more]

Four Ways I Participated @ SXSW

March 16, 2012 by David Armano
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The interactive portion of SXSW is over—and by all accounts this year was the biggest (wettest) and probably the most "mature" of the event as more senior individuals from companies across the globe make their Mecca to Austin to network and learn about the convergence of technology and business. Here's a quick roundup of a few things I... [read more]

You Owe the Companies Nothing

February 29, 2012 by Gavin Heaton
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Stan Johnson shares this great rant from Banksy on advertising and advertisers in our society. It’s a little Cluetrain-esq with a more activist angle. [read more]

12 Top Tools to Manage Your Social Media Marketing

February 24, 2012 by Daniel Kehrer
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Small business owners who are successful at marketing through social media often have help from a growing arsenal of time-saving tools and services that make it easier and more effective. Taking advantage of these tools can mean the different between having time to make social media marketing work for your business or not. [read more]

How Social Media Can Make Us Antisocial

February 10, 2012 by Tac Anderson
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The more prevalent social media becomes and the closer we become as a society we seem to be more and more stuck on the differences. Quick social media interactions also seem to be replacing deeper, real life relationships and interactions. [read more]

Facebook Goes Public: Facebook IPO Filed with Securities and Exchange Commission

February 2, 2012 by John Lawson
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Facebook has official filed a $5 Billion IPO today. The bets are on that this could be the largest tech IPO in history, some have said it could go as high as $100 billion. WOW! [read more]

Launching a Social Command Center (Without the Center)

January 28, 2012 by David Armano
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"Social command centers" are all the rage today, and it's not without some merit. Many organizations now find themselves in a real-time business environment where news travels faster than sound, and information is set free.As a result, some forward thinking companies have put "monitoring" in place either in-house or in combination with... [read more]

Getting the 411 on Social ROI

January 25, 2012 by Brent Leary
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  As part of the One on One conversation series I do over at SmallBizTrends.com, I recently talked with Cory Hartlen, a product marketing manager with Radian6.  During our discussion Cory mentioned quite a number of things that hit on the topic of social media ROI. One story that really caught my attention was around how some... [read more]

The Most Important Page on the Web is the Page You Build Yourself

December 12, 2011 by Seth Godin
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The internet is an engine of connection. It has been from the start (email, chat, forums, blogs, social media...) [read more]

The Realities of Intellectual Property and Crowdsourcing: Don’t Hold on too Tight

December 9, 2011 by Ross Dawson
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If you crowdsource your work and ideas, could you lose your best to others? [read more]

Latest Data: Retailers Shift to Social Media and Online

November 15, 2011 by Ross Dawson
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I am at a media briefiing by cloud-based ERP provider NetSuite at the very nice Quay restaurant in Sydney. [read more]

StumbleUpon: Where Randomness Meets Serendipity

November 7, 2011 by Gavin Heaton
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When I first started blogging, every now and then I’d receive an avalanche of traffic. In fact, the first time it happened it crashed my server (I had been running the Servantofchaos.com blog on a server in my garage, and it just could not cope) – and I ended up switching to Typepad. [read more]

Social Trust Factor: 10 Tips to Establish Credibility

November 6, 2011 by Pam Moore
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When building an online persona and brand usually we start with the most basic aspects including over arching brand, logo, colors, core messages etc.  All of these are foundational to success.  We develop our plan, develop our platform, create and launch our brand presence, integrate social with our business goals and start the... [read more]

Inside the Mobile Tornado

October 4, 2011 by Vipool Prajapati
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Geoffery Moore wrote two excellent books - (Crossing the Chasm) and (Inside the Tornado) which revolutionzed how marketing was done especially for high tech company. I tried to map his findings to the mobile revolution we are in the midst of. Are we in the chasm? Or have we crossed it and are we inside the mobile tornado? [read more]

10 Facts about Consumer Behavior on Facebook

September 19, 2011 by PamDyer
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A new study by marketing firm Constant Contact and research company Chadwick Martin Bailey sheds light on how consumers interact with brands on Facebook. According to 10 Quick Facts You Should Know About Consumer Behavior on Facebook (below), it turns out that people engage with their favorite brands on Facebook far more than on any other social network. [read more]

Two Degrees for Africa #2degrees

September 4, 2011 by Gavin Heaton
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We often talk about six degrees of separation – the idea that we are about six steps away from each other. But when tragedy strikes – serious tragedy – six degrees feels like way too far. [read more]

Content Governance in the Content Marketing Era

July 21, 2011 by SalesVPI
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Today’s content marketing requirements and opportunities are straining traditional corporate thinking, policies and processes.   How has your company adapted policies and procedures to accommodate the “democratization of content creation” with the shift from centralized, “professional” production processes, to a distributed or (... [read more]

25 Google+ Resources, Articles, and Reviews to Help You Get Started

July 17, 2011 by PamDyer
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Google+ (or is it “Google Plus”?), the search giant’s big social initiative, has arrived and there’s a lot to learn. Google’s answer to Facebook has been in the works for a year and has been delayed several times due to disagreements about its design, purpose, and execution. Facebook’s threat to Google’s domination of the Web was a... [read more]

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