Sun.Feb 12, 2012

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Introducing Stephen Tiano: Monday Muse #2

Ari Herzog

Stephen Tiano, a freelance book designer, page compositor, and layout artist, wrote a guest blog post here in February 2009 about his blogging and tweeting and how both contributed to his economic success. I introduced Mitch Joel last week and debuted the Monday Muse column. Here is Stephen for the second week. What is your background and how do you participate in the world of the web?

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Amazon Get Serious About Book Publishing

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While this headline may not appear as groundbreaking news to you, it really should because it may affect the way you consume books, again. Back in April 2011, the company announced that for every 100 print books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 105 Kindle books. E-book sales continue to increase and to contribute to Amazon’s ever-growing sales.

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The 6 Lifelong Laws of Content Marketing for Agencies

Convince & Convert

Last week I wrote about the 4 (and only 4) possible rationales for agencies to get deep into content marketing. Clearly understanding these rationales is important because content marketing isn’t free. The opportunity costs are significant, which is what we’ll explore in this post. Can agencies truly benefit from a commitment to content (which often carries with it the bonus of getting sharper about their positioning)?

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Is Pinterest Just Another Fad?

Small Business Mavericks

Everywhere I look I see stories about a site called Pinterest. We discussed this site several weeks ago in a post titled Pinterest – A Social Media Site Worth Consideration. Since then, everyone seems to have an opinion about the site, and they all appear to be positive. One wonders how a site that is still in beta and is invitation only could generate such interest; that in itself should have marketers sitting up and taking notice.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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MOMMY, WE LOVE YOU FOREVER

Myrland Marketing

The newest angel was welcomed to Heaven at 4:35 a.m. on January 15, 2012, when my dear Mom passed away. My sister and I were Blessed to be holding each of her hands as God took those hands from us, and welcomed her to her forever home. I wasn’t sure I was going to write and [.

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Nick Morgan Explains How To Give A Presentation That Changes The World

Twist Image

Episode #292 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. When I got my first offer to speak in front of a large audience, I wasn't sure where to turn for more professional public speaking and presentation skills training. Many names of individuals and organizations were fed my way, but one name that kept rising to the top was Nick Morgan.

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How to Set Up an Email Account that Uses Your Domain Name

ProBlogger

This guest post is written by Kashish Jain of digiupdates. Most of the people who are new to web design and blogging don’t understand the capabilities that come free with their domain, so they don’t take advantage of them. How many times have you visited a site for www.something.com and on the Contact Us page, you find that the sales or customer service personnel have email addresses like username@gmail.com?

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Apologise like everyone is watching…

The Way of the Web

How do you apologise when you’ve made a serious mistake? I wrote about how brands can actually be more successful by admitting imperfections and mistakes last week – and tonight I happened to read a jaw-dropping example of a mistake by a newspaper (via Newspaper Death Watch ). The summary is the photo of an innocent 40-year-old man named Angel Ortiz was used in a front page story about a horrific crime comitted by a 20-year-old with the same, and apparently very common, Spanish name.

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Four social applications worth keeping an eye on

Jeff Esposito

Is it me or does it seem like there is a new social network or application that is going to be the next big thing in 2012? For every “surefire hit” like a Pinterest there are two or three Google Waves or Empire Avenues. It is always hard to read the tea leaves when deciding whether or not to jump in with two feet or sit on the sidelines and let the audiences figure it out.

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Is Your Blog Doing Okay?

ProBlogger

Last week, I told the story of how I achieved my best month ever on DPS. While I used that post as a case study to present some ideas that I hoped you may be able to use on your own blogs, there’s a hidden hitch with that kind of post: it can give you the impression that you should be aiming to triple your revenue each time you hone a promotion on your site.

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Social Media Automation 101

A beginner's guide to social media automation tools and getting automation right.

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Cartoon of the day

Jeff Esposito

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Crowdsourced Funding: How to ask for $75K but get $1.5million

Laurel Papworth

Casey Hopkins asked people to fund his new project to make a better dock for the iPhone. He wanted $75,000 he got $1.5 million. Kickstarter kicks ass. But how does one do that? How does one build a community that will give money to a project? Do you just stick it up on Kickstarter and hope for the best? Here are some steps to look at. Understand the opportunities.

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Make Your Team Social-Media-Educated with ProProfs

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Everywhere one looks, technological advances are changing the ways that we communicate and do business. When training for your team of employees includes the need to have them possess savvy when it comes to social media and its utilization, you can count on ProProfs Training Maker suite to create online training courses aimed at making your team a social media educated one!

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