When I speak, I tend to hear the same excuses as to why company leaders aren't approving the use of the web for business development. It's like my own private joke when I ask them to put their baggage on the table and they say things they think no one else has ever said. But [...]

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Velocity conference is O'Reilly Media's Web Performance and Operations conference, and it's coming to Europe next month. Taking place on 8 and 9 November in Berlin, Velocity will focus on...

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  Today's guest post is written by Marc Girolimetti. I’ve been blessed by living among entrepreneurs my entire life. I’ve learned a lot from them and they inspired me to drop the dreams of being the next Jacques Cousteau and head straight to Babson College, which has been named the #1 undergraduate program for entrepreneurship for [...]

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What has your PR agency done for you lately? As they continue to spend your marketing dollars — spinning and pitching your story to out-dated newswires and pay-to-play journalism giants, are you missing a prime opportunity to gain exposure through a specialized social media service? Through hiring a live event correspondent to cover your next [...]

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Steve Jobs is perhaps one of the greatest examples of the effect and influence one determined visionary can have, not just within an industry, but on the whole of society....

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This guest post is by Beth Hayden of Blogging with Beth. You wake up in a cold sweat. You bolt upright and gasp for air. You’ve just realized that your blog has only one true fan—and it’s your mother. Dear old mom reads all of your posts. She comments every week with supportive but embarrassing [...]

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Zynga has a sky-high implied valuation, and it could wind up being worth much more at IPO. There are, quite frankly, billions of reasons for the social gaming company to pursue an IPO. But, is now the right time? Zynga is in a unique situation, because of its growth plans, financial performance and reliance on another company (Facebook) for so much of its revenue. There’s a lot of hype around the company … and plenty of risk.So, will the biggest name in social gaming be able to use its brand to [...]

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Tweet There is no stopping Facebook at this point, no doubt about it. And with that also comes the increasing number of brands and companies engaging in the creation and management of Pages (or "Fan Pages" as they use to be known). We even hear about companies not having websites anymore to migrate all their [...]

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This guest post is by Lina Nguyen of Words That Influence. Influential bloggers are being paid top dollar to write sponsored posts (thousands of dollars per post is not unheard of). They’re gifted with luxury items, cars and overseas trips, and invited to events previously exclusive to A-List celebrities and long-established journalists. Bloggers worldwide are [...]

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This guest post is by Dan Meyers of Your Life, Their Life. You  push the Submit button to introduce your next great thought to the world.  Finally, this might be the one that pulls in some real traffic.  Up until this point, the majority of your visits have come from you and your parents. Your [...]

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Today's Coup de Blog is written by Michael Schechter . Every day, Gini Dietrich leads you to believe that she is kind enough to provide others an opportunity to give their voice on this blog; to share in her audience. This is a flat out lie. Having been a long time reader of Spin Sucks, [...]

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August was a bucket of cold water on what was supposed to be the best year for initial public offerings in the United States since 2007. And the tech/social media crowd played a strong role, even if the consumer goods sector was getting most of the credit. With the downgrade of U.S. sovereign debt earlier this month, market volatility effectively brought the IPO market to a screeching halt. Well, that’s the easy way to look at it.

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Do you wonder how to get your content seen amidst a sea of information? What if you could understand why your audience shares some information and not other? That would make your content stand out from the competition. The Science of Sharing 30 billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook each month, including blog [...]

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Today's guest post is written by Marcus Sheridan. Some scientists claim the phenomenon of Stonehenge is the greatest mystery the world has ever seen. Others argue the case of crop circles, the Lost City of Atlantis, or even the location of the Ark of the Covenant. But when it comes down to it, none of [...]

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I’m calling it – Twitter has officially dropped the ball on location.Eighteen months ago I went out on a limb saying that Twitter was the best social platform for a wide range of possible geo applications, saying that location was “in Twitter’s DNA”. Looking back, I still believe that I was right, and that a year and half ago Twitter was best positioned among the competing players – Apple, Google, Facebook and yes, even Foursquare – to be the platform of choice for location app [...]

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I was recently asked who my blogging competitors were. I struggled to find an answer to that—not because there's nobody else blogging in my niches, and not because I'm not aware of other bloggers in my niches, but because I don't really worry much about them. There are three main reasons for that. My main [...]

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Back in May, Mario and Fafa the Groundhog shared tips on everything you need to know about blogging.  Now, they’re offering up all the reasons why they hate Facebook.


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