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How To Advertise Online For Your Small Business

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In the business world, advertising is everything when it comes to keeping a business going. Especially small businesses. Yes, large corporate companies advertise all the time and spend large amounts of money to do so. A lot of people can’t do that when running a small business on a budget. That does not mean you should ignore advertising altogether.

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Add a Local Element to Your SEO Links

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As I’ve written before, having a successful SEO strategy involves a number of elements, with getting your content out there being foremost among them. But having links is still an important part of the larger strategy. Recently, I’ve written about the importance of making your links diversified and able to fit naturally into a body of text. I’d like to now try to complement that advice with another important link consideration: locality.

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Offline Advertising For An Online Business

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What is the definition of an online business? Any business, whether it is a physical location or just a website, you need to advertise everywhere you can. Because people are on the go so much these days, they prefer to see a website address that they can jot down and go to the site later, when they have time. Online advertising is a great way to advertise.

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Email Marketing And Facebook – What A Concept!

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Open your email on any given day and you will probably see a lot of emails from restaurants, Wal-Mart and others. For instance, I opened an email from Red Lobster a couple of days ago and had a coupon for a Lobster dinner (my favorite!). Of course, I printed it and will go. That my friends, is email marketing. Email marketing campaigns, according to some skeptics is dead.

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How To Market Your Business With A Blog

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Everywhere you turn, you can hear someone talking about a blog. Whether they are writing a blog or they are reading a blog, one thing is for sure. Blogs are wildly popular. And one more thing is certain – social networking is the most popular thing on the Internet. You might as well jump on the bandwagon and market your business this way. Blogs are like websites, but you have social interaction with your viewers.

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Elements Of A Successful Internet Business

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When you think of doing business online, do you first think about those big businesses with million dollar budgets? You don’t have to. Small businesses are alive and well on the internet. So, where do you fit in? What’s up with all that talk of keywords, SEO, social media, and such? There are three basic elements that will drive your business online.

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Settlement Announced For Facebook Privacy

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It looks as if Facebook has gotten its hands slapped. The Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that a settlement has been reached in regards to Facebook’s privacy practices. Facebook will now have to conduct privacy audits every two years for the next 20 years. This is a result of the mishandling of Facebook users’ private information back in December 2009.

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