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Top 10 For the Weekend
We’re constantly coming across interesting articles, photos, and links around here. Some are relevant to our line of work, some not so much, some are funny, some are informative. Today we’d like to share a few of the most practical and useful ones with you. Check out this blatant use …
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Buying Yelp Reviews Is BAD for Business
Yelp is intended as a review site where users can write and read reviews for local businesses to help make informed buying decisions. It’s a powerful tool in that users trust the real opinions and feedback from their friends and neighbors. Yelp’s user-driven reviews allow everyone to add in their …
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Local Business Marketing on Foursquare
While many companies are still figuring out Facebook and Twitter as a means of local business marketing, a whole new social media is beginning to break into the mainstream. While the underlying idea is to keep you connected, just as other social media networks, foursquare takes it to the next …
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How much does SEO cost?
In this business, just like any business really, one of the greatest compliments we can receive is a referral. We love referrals and we were delighted when one of our clients referred a fellow colleague over to us. The potential new client had a practice in a very competitive and …
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New Website Allows You to Directly See the Effect of Your Donations
There are a ton of reputable charities out there and donating to anyone of them is admirable, but many of these organizations have no way of showing you the effect that your donation has had on the life of its recipient. SeeYourImpact is a network that enables visitors to make …
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Break Out of the Local Linking Same Old Same Old
It has come to my realization that I am in a rut. An external linking rut. Well, I knew I needed to revisit linking strategies … it’s one of those things that I never sat down to research and really dig into because I have procrastinated incredibly well, but the …
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You Can Buy Brand Love on Twitter?
Social media marketer realizes buying followers on Twitter is a waste of money and time – sexy Russian spambots never buy-in the marketing pitches.
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15 Great Ways to Fail at Increasing Website Traffic
We all know that one of the fundamental goals in designing a website is to provide information. Without an audience you might as well be a tree falling when no one’s around. So, how do you get an audience? As research shows the best way to get the best traffic …
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Yelp Review Filter Explained (How do I spam that?)
I was looking for more contact info for Luther Lowe and noticed his tweet about a blog post explaining Yelp’s Review Filter. Luther does a good job of explaining the Yelp Review Filter and Yelp has commissioned a video which tries to explain it in a friendly way. The review …
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Email Marketing for Small Business: 9 Things Not to Do
I am all about receiving e-mail marketing from eCommerce sites that I am interested in. Seriously – my personal e-mail inbox has 2,445 unread messages – I sign up for everything 🙂 With that said, you have to say something enticing for me to open your e-mail. And, for some …
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