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How To Launch A Social Media Campaign On The Cheap (or Free)

Feb 22nd

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Hiring an ad agency or  professional marketing consultant to build an online reputation through social media in 2010 might seem like an impossibility for some small business owners looking to trim expenses within the confines of slender budgets.  I know plenty of businesses in Westchester, New York who have been impacted by More >

Why the Internet Has Become Fast Food

Feb 15th

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The Internet has become fast food.  Recently I have been focusing on the number of Feedburner subscribers I am attracting and retaining, and it’s pretty obvious that every time I publish a new post there is a surge in new subscribers.  If my day job takes me away from publishing a More >

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The February Social Mashup

Feb 5th

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This month I was rather spontaneous about a blogging project I had in mind. Although not entirely a new concept, I decided to ask my friends and following through all of my social networks including my blog to offer whatever they had to offer. Whether it be original or something More >

Community Blogging: Building Hyper Niche Alliances

Jan 22nd

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There has been a lot of chatter recently about 2010 being the year of hyper niche or hyper local.  In terms of marketing and development, I believe there will be a far greater emphasis on web 2.0 applications geared towards local B2B and B2C.  E-commerce will continue to evolve with More >

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Social Media Strategy Uncovered: How To Market My Blog With Twitter

Jan 14th

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I really believe in transparency and openness as it applies to me being a blogger and I’m eager to show you what steps I have taken over the past few months to build my blog, following on Twitter, and how I measure my effectiveness. It has been a slow building More >

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Bloggers Are Always Hungry For More Free Inbound Links

Jan 4th

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Anyone new to SEO let me provide a small pearl of wisdom: many inbound links, especially from higher ranked pages and from subject-specific sites will always help increase your page rank.

In the process of continuously searching for more and more places to list my domain name in order to create more inbound links to More >

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10 Great Ways To Optimize Your Wordpress Blog

Nov 17th

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Creating an effective presence in the blogosphere has become far more competitive in recent years. With the steady growth of Facebook and Twitter, blogs are morphing into social media micro sites of their social network affiliates. (more…)

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Five Twitter Tools You Have To Have In Your Social Media Tool Belt

Nov 17th

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ComScore data indicates that Twitter attracted 20.1 million unique visitors in June. Conclusion: having a marketing plan for your small business including the surging social network is imperative. Since Twitter has become a social media giant comparable to Facebook, there has certainly been an excess of application development based on More >

Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter, TweetDeck, and Wordpress: What A Happy Family

Nov 17th

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Now don’t get me wrong: I’m still a big fan of David Cramer’s Lifestream plugin for Wordpress. I have seen it at work and it is tremendous. I still will install, configure, and edit it on any project calling for social network fusion within a Wordpress blog. It does require More >

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