This guest post is by Shari Lopatin of www.sharilopatin.com. I had a writer friend tell me the other day I have the best social network she’s ever seen. “What?” I asked, shocked. After all, I only have about 380 Twitter followers (I follow 200-something). “You should check out these people instead,” I offered, with three [...]

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Follow some best practices for B2B Facebook marketing and you will be on your way to Facebook lead generation. Remember that you sell to other people and not businesses. The people that buy your products spend a lot of time on Facebook. Half of all users visit the site every day.

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Happy Monday, folks!  It’s a new week and we’re here to brighten up your day with some adorable videos.  This week our Weekly Dose Of Cute features an adorable baby elephant taking his first steps, a funny doggy Halloween costume, a clever cat, a bear cub visiting the grocery store and more.  So sit back, relax and prepare yourself for cute overload!


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Last week we were in the midst of a lesson in Crisis Public Relations at its worst from Blackberry. For a number of days there were outages worldwide and users unable to connect.  And Blackberry spokespersons were communicating with messages like "Message delays were caused by a core switch failure in RIM's infrastructure." That’s not [...]

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A social approach does not alter the fundamental ingredients for B2B selling success: building trust and cultivating relationships. However, it does enable new selling tactics along the sales process that align more naturally to the changing behaviors of customers and prospects in a networked world.1. Create the Foundation for Social SellingA prerequisite for social selling [...]

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In this post I'd like to give marketers a few tips on how to write or improve a Wiki on their company, while following Wikipedia's guidelines for neutrality, verification and biographical tone. If you haven't read the first post on whether Wikipedia is right for you, I'll be right here when you get back. Assuming [...]

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Are you wondering how to get the most from LinkedIn? Over the last few months, the LinkedIn network has made upgrades and undergone changes. If you already have a profile created on LinkedIn, it's a great time to revisit and refresh your presence! Or if you're just wondering how to get started, these 5 simple [...]

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This guest post is by Kiera Pedley of Binkd. Running a contest on your blog can be a great way to generate new readership, reactivate stagnant subscribers, and increase the engagement of your readers. Competitions can be a lot of hard work for little or no results, unless you run them to a plan and [...]

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Launching in Beta is a common method to prevent the havoc of an imperfect release, and lately it's been utilized as a promotional technique. Most of Google’s products are launched in beta in small, often buggy patches. But indeed, it builds Buzz, pun intended.  The important thing to remember is: Finding great beta testers is key to your startup's success.But how do you beckon early adopters? And what can you do to increase the odds of a press avalanche that will leave users begging to be let in [...]

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This guest post is by Deidra Wilson of deidrawilson.com. They say that print is dead. That the Internet laid waste to the magazine rack at the airport. But that line of thinking has the good old boy driving the diesel pickup today behind the wheel of an electric car tomorrow. Print is, and always will [...]

Read More: Start a Magazine that Complements Your Blog … in 5 Steps

Compassion International recently attempted to takeover the Twitter account of Water.org. We were unsuccessful in our bid, coming in second by 190 votes, after three weeks of campaigning. However, we still view the outcome as a success because … well, more on that later. For now, before committing your brand and its supporters to an [...]

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For startups, a killer social media strategy is the key to success. If you're feeling anti-social and think you can keep quiet — think again. You have to take part in the world you're helping to create, and there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. Read on and sink your teeth into 11 steps startups should take to market themselves at launch.

#1 Start with research and be informed

Startups have to keep a close eye on their industry. Companies launch and fail everyday, so it's imp [...]

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This guest post is by Tim Brownson of A Daring Adventure. I suspect that all the technical information you could ever need to be a successful blogger is out there in the public domain. If that is the case, why do the vast majority of blogs fail when it comes to providing the owner an [...]

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Today we're launching a brand new ProBlogger Resource – something we've been working on for many months now – The Blogger's Guide to Online Marketing – 31 Steps to a Profitable Blog. It is a Kit that is all about helping you create an income that sustains your blog. Created by the Web Marketing Ninja [...]

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If you’re a B2B blogger, you know that links are the currency of SEO. Building credible, authoritative and relevant links back to your blog is an excellent way in which to tell the search engines that your blog is valuable to their many customers (i.e. searchers) and needs to be ranked accordingly.But you also know [...]

Read More: 10 Steps to More Inbound Links to Your B2B Blog

Are you wondering how to use QR codes to enhance your marketing? Keep reading to learn some tips for implementing 5 essential steps. Why QR codes? QR and other two-dimensional (2D) codes can be readily integrated into your current business marketing practices to bring your online content to a mobile audience in real time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3lrcOhmp9g [...]

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Why isn't Chrome a part of Android? It's a question as old as time itself. Or at least a few years old. But given that the same company, Google, makes both products, it never made much sense. Now they're finally taking steps to resolve this. A bit. Maybe.

As a group of Googlers have announced on the WebKit-Dev group today (relayed by Google's Peter Beverloo), the Android team is now committed to working more closely with the WebKit community. Yes, it's a bit odd that a product so devoted to "op [...]

Read More: Android (Finally) Taking Steps Towards WebKit And Chromium

Are you thinking about mobile marketing? Wondering how you can use mobile marketing to connect with customers? The good news is that mobile marketing is not all that complex. Here are five things you can do to get started in mobile marketing. Once you've mastered the steps below, you'll see that mobile marketing is a [...]

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Since the birth of social networking phenomena such as Facebook, Twitter and the currently booming Google+, even the most antiquated or small fry businesses can implement social networking strategies to get their messages out there with few barriers. International PR and marketing via social media can be extremely beneficial, not only for promoting of your business, but [...]

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