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Small Business Social Media Usage and Results
CrowdSPRING has published this infographic on small business social media habits. When I first saw the stats on usage, I was a bit taken aback at how low usage stats are for small business. Take a deeper look and I suppose it’s no surprise, though. It’s very resource intensive to run a successful small business so sustaining a social media…
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66% of Facebook Users LIKE the New Changes!
It’s not a scientific survey of any sort… just a SurveyMonkey online survey of readers and followers of Martech Zone. However, judging by the response, you folks like the changes that Facebook has implemented. There’s still a third of folks out there that were ticked off by such a drastic change. In my opinion, I think two things are happening…
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Facebook is a Frat House, Google+ a Sorority
I’ve finally found a near-perfect analogy for Facebook and Google+, and really for all things social media marketing. Facebook is a frat house, and Google+ a sorority. Both the male and female sides of the Greek system have several aspects in common. Consider the following benefits: Camaraderie and life long friendships Professional networking opportunities Community engagement among like-minded people Those…
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Noob Guide to Online Marketing
Although this infographic states that it’s a noob guide, it’s actually quite a thorough look at the strategies involved in developing an inbound marketing strategy online. The channels described include email marketing, lead generation, organic search, paid search, social media, optimization and analytics. The infographic is pretty stunning – and a great checklist for every online marketer. The only glaring…
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D&B360 Makes CRM Workflow More Powerful
Dun & Bradstreet has long been the gold standard of quality business data. I’ve been working on and off with D&B for over 20 years. D&B has a cloud-based solution, D&B360, that provides access online directly to D&B’s data. D&B360 integrates directly with the top CRMs to augment customer data with Dun & Bradstreet’s database of over 200 million companies…
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An E-commerce Plugin For WordPress: WooCommerce
If you haven’t had the chance yet to work with WooThemes, a fantastic theming membership for WordPress themes, you should. They do some amazing work. We had a developer package with them for quite a while before we started building out custom themes from the ground up. WooThemes has released a very clean, comprehensive and simple to use ecommerce integration…
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Does Facebook Work for Small Business?
A recent survey of small business owners was conducted to discover how businesses are using Facebook pages. The results show that, while only half of respondents use the social network, a significant number of users report increased revenue as a result. Small businesses are using Facebook to share basic information, share content, have conversations with customers, provide support and hold…
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Event Planning and Marketing Blueprint
When I think back on some of the incredible events I’ve attended – Webtrend’s Engage, ExactTarget’s Connections, Social Media Marketing World, and BlogWorld Expo – I’m always blown away by the number of moving parts and how seamlessly these organizations put them together. I am not an event planner. I can barely juggle more than a client at a time,…
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We Are All Weird
As soon as I saw that there were only limited copies of We Are All Weird out for sale, I knew I had to order a copy. This is Seth Godin’s latest book and it’s a fabulous little manifesto. From the inside sleeve: Godin’s argument is that the choice to push all of us toward a universal normal merely to…
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7 Lessons Learned in Promoting Your Writing
We were excited to book Jo-Anne Vandermeulen on our podcast but about 20 minutes in, our Internet access went down and we had to discontinue the show. It was disappointing since we were really getting great advice from Jo-Anne. Jo-Anne is a self-publishing promotions expert. After retiring as a teacher, she’s written a series of books… and in the process…
