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5 for Friday – Google SSL Warnings, Twitter & Amazon Collab, and more!
1. Twitter and Amazon Link Up, Add Items To Your Shopping Cart With A Single Tweet – Buzzfeed Amazon is using Twitter to drive sales with the new #AmazonCart feature. This may be a major breakthrough for ecommerce businesses. It’s super simple: The business tweets out a link for a …
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Is Anti-Social Media On the Rise?
This year will make a decade since Facebook was launched and social media usage has skyrocketed, but is social media turning us anti-social? Parents who were unhappy about their children’s texting habits in the early 2000’s would be appalled by today’s society of Instagraming, Tweeting, FourSquaring and Pinteresting fiends across …
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Gmail Reveals Its Hottest Secrets (Part 2)
I wrote a blog post about a week ago about several hidden, secret features in GMail. Most of that was about organizing your inbox. This post is more about the secrets and great features you can use as you are writing emails. Let me know if you have any additional …
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Social Media, You Don’t Have To Be A Wizard
Your Audience You know your target demographic. If you don’t, social media should be the last thing on your mind. Properly addressing your demo group is essential in establishing a relationship with your followers on any social media platform. Social Media Optimization (SMO) is used to directly target potential customers …
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5 for Friday – New YouTube Feature, Ads on Reddit and more!
1. Advertising on Reddit is easy with this guide -Moz For those of you unfamiliar with the site, Reddit.com is a social site composed of user submitted images, text posts, links, news stories and more. Reddit is a huge community with roughly 115 million unique visitors. This site offers low …
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5 Google+ Page and YouTube Tips Your Boss Wants To Know
In the office I am often asked to help with doing things in Google that turn out to be fairly simple tasks but are often hard to figure out. For example, creating a custom YouTube channel URL is fairly simple to do, but the place you make this edit is …
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The Secret Life of Gmail (Part 1)
Part of my everyday is sorting through ~150 emails, which can be quite taxing if you don’t have a good system in place. We use GMail for our email system at SI. I know most small businesses probably have their email system already figured out, but if you don’t, I …
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5 For Friday – Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest, Oh My!
1) Twitter Profile Redesign is now available to everyone! -Twitter Do you have the new Twitter layout for your profile? If not, you may be behind the times. Twitter recently updated their profiles with a new, user friendly look. This design is pretty similar to what many people are used …
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Social Media, Your Personal Red Carpet
Coined ‘Fashion’s Latest Muse’ by the New York Times in September of 2013, it’s no secret that Instagram has been the leading source of social media in the fashion industry for quite some time. Naturally, marketers and retailers alike have picked up on this trend, using Instagram as the latest …
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5 For Friday – Links, Stories, & Posts for Your Weekend
1. SEO 101: Getting the On-Page SEO Basics – Search Engine Journal This article provides a ground-floor explanation of some of the basic, on-page SEO elements. Though this article may not seem useful for experts, this article takes into account that the rules for SEO are always changing. A refresher …
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