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Stop Bailing, Let’s Invest in the Opportunity of Social Media
Americans hate to lose a war, period. In one view, the dying automotive industry is a war we think we're losing. I don't believe we're losing anything; I believe we're progressing. Jobs moving overseas always sound ominous, but people ignore…
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Eye Have A Spelling Chequer
I just finished reading Righting the Mother Tongue: From Old English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling , by David Wolman. You may not know what orthography and etymology are, and that's okay. I know I'm a butcher…
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Video: Content versus Backlinks
A lot of folks spend and sell their time on the optimization of their website, and wind up scratching their heads when another site has greater ranking but isn't optimized. It's because optimizing the content is only half the battle,…
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Social Media Experts in your Backyard!
Social media is a booming business right now, even with the rut our economy is in. I believe there are three reasons for that: Social media is an engaging medium that is difficult to fake or do half-ass. Social media…
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The Engagement Illusion: Why Comments Don’t (And May Never) Equal Conversions
I did some analysis of my blog this weekend to look for a correlation between my search engine results, my most popular blog posts, the posts with the most comments, and the posts that actually resulted in revenue due to…
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1,500 Posts! On to Social Media Domination!
I was using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine tonight to try to pinpoint when I officially began blogging. I was a late bloomer compared to those bloggers who started blogging when it was still called journaling . My earliest blogging…
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I’m Leaving A Great Job and Heading To A Content Management SaaS Platform, Compendium
The last year I spent with Patronpath has been an incredible roller coaster ride. The company is in a tremendous growth spurt and is hugely successful! We won the Techpoint Mira award. We completed the development of 4 POS integrations…
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Marketing Analytics 101: Show Me the Money!
When I wrote an article for Talent Zoo last month, I wrote about leveraging automation and integration to maximize and leverage your online strategies, as well as the companies helping businesses to execute those marketing automation opportunities . A few…
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Do you Seed Blogs?
Way back (snicker) in the early days of blogging, I figured out that commenting on other blogs was hugely successful. The majority of growth in those young days was due to my participation in the conversation in other blogs. Even…
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Mobile Textarea: How Many Characters Left
We're up to Version 3.0 of the WordPress Mobile Plugin utilizing Connective Mobile's API and Text Club feature. Connective Mobile has a 150 Character limit for your Mobile Marketing message that you want to broadcast to your subscribers. Rather than…
