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Please Don’t Fall for SEO Email SPAM
Every seasoned website owner has seen them: the cookie-cutter SEO sales emails promising the world with vague claims and dubious guarantees. The one below recently landed in my inbox from a supposed Business Development Manager with no real company name,…
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The Rise of Social and Mobile Native Ads
With the increasing popularity of smartphones, more people are using their mobile devices to check their social accounts than their desktops. Smart marketers are taking advantage of this shift by increasing their spend to mobile marketing, and integrating their ads…
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Has Social Media Reached Its Innovative Capacity?
Social media's growth in the last few years was unlike anything we've ever seen. Along for the ride, of course, was social media marketing. As we look to 2014, I can't help but wonder if - as fast as social…
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Seven Deadly Sins of SMS Marketing
Text messages continue to be an incredible means of marketing but it's not too sexy so there's not typically a lot of noise about it. There should be. SMS marketing (with MMS becoming mainstream) continues to drive incredible results. If…
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appFigures: Reporting for Mobile App Developers
appFigures is an affordable reporting platform for mobile app developers that brings together all of your app store sales, ad data, worldwide reviews, and hourly rank updates. appFigures collects and visualizes sales & download numbers, world-wide reviews & ranks, and…
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11 Essential Ingredients to a Compelling Blog Post
Some of the best content you'll find on the web happen when you're able to take a complex process and simplify it. Copyblogger has done just that with this infographic on writing blog posts . Every aspect of the advice…
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Businesses are Risking Authority by Buying It
Recently, I was in a discussion in a social media leadership group on Facebook and I was astonished when one of the members defended buying followers . A couple of years ago I wrote a post that Numbers Matter .…
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How To Become a Social Media Marketing Specialist
I wanted to share this infographic because of its outstanding balance in presenting the skills necessary for a marketer to execute social media marketing strategies effectively. In my opinion, I wouldn't advise any student or professional to go the route…
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Managing CTAs or Ads with WordPress
We run a combination of ad purchases on our site - including call to action banners promoting our services, affiliate ads of companies we trust, and sponsored ads with companies who we've chosen to partner with. The different combinations of…
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Long-Form Content Marketing
Society and life in general seem to move at light-speed; catch up or miss out is the motto for many businesses. In fact, life in the fast lane has taken on a whole new meaning with the introduction of websites…
