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5 For Friday — Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend
How Small Businesses Can Use Google Plus — Expand2Web While Facebook is an excellent resource for small business social media engagement, Google+ is an up-and-comer that as of yet doesn’t allow business profiles. However, hope is on the way: winter of 2011 will yield the first allowed G+ commercial accounts, so …
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Google Absorbs Zagat in Their Quest for World Domination
Google has had a busy year. The launch of “Facebook killer” Google+ surely had many of their available hands busy, but apparently not too busy to keep working on acquisitions: It was announced today that Google has purchased Zagat, the well-known publisher of restaurant and business ratings. Marissa Mayer, Vice President …
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3 PPC Keyword Research Strategies to Break Free From Organic
With the “reimagining” of Keyword Research strategies focused around these three concepts (and one quick point), your ROI will skyrocket from the CTR and quality score increases that come with a well-curated keyword list. What tricks have you used to get the most out of your keywords?
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5 For Friday — Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend
Rethinking Deals After Facebook and Yelp Pullbacks — BIA/Kelsey Hot on the heels of the Facebook and Yelp deal eliminations, Peter Krasilovsky offers this nuanced and insightful view of the situation — as well as the suggestion that the trend may have already peaked. Twitter, YouTube, Facebook And Foursquare: Social …
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Google-Groupon Faceoff: Google Daily Deals Enter The Arena As Other Social Media Backs Off
Just four months after jumping into the daily deals pool, Facebook abandoned its efforts with regard to small business space (at least those not related to check-in services). Given that the business in question had to have a Facebook profile and only about 15% of the average business’ fans are …
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Savvy Online Business Builders: The New Snake Oil Salesmen
A Look at the Growing Trend of Internet Marketing Con-men We’ve all seen these people at conferences, pimping out their extra shiny business cards and talking like late-night infomercials – the online business strategists and social media experts. They claim to have the secrets to creating a successful online brand …
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Search Influence Named to Inc. 500 List — Get the Scoop!
As we’ve announced, Search Influence was recently included on the 2011 Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies, and we couldn’t be prouder!Silicon Bayou News was nice enough to give us an in-depth writeup, and you can read it right here! We also get a shoutout in their recent …
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5 For Friday — Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend
Top 10 Actually Useful Tweets about Hurricane Irene — Social Times While Twitter by its very nature lends itself to split-second buzz and instant information sharing, sometimes that buzz is neither constructive nor informative. If you’re in the predicted path of Hurricane Irene, here’s a collection of up-to-the-minute resources (in …
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$500 million Google Pharmacy Ad Probe Settlement Should Have Little Effect
As expected from page 21 of the May 10 quarterly report to the SEC, Google will pay for a Department of Justice investigation into the use of American ad space for illegal Canadian pharmaceuticals. Finding that from 2003 to 2009, Google “both allowed and helped” Canadian pharmacies that tried to …
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Influencer Profile: Jeff Ramos
Originally from the New Orleans area, Internet Marketing Associate Jeff Ramos lived in Atlanta for 7 years before taking a job at a high school in San Francisco coaching the Varsity Boys Soccer Team. He stayed in San Francisco for about a year before moving to Lake Tahoe and working …
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