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How To Promote Your Business In 2011 | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

3 Ways A Blog Helps You SEO-Wise » How To Promote Your Business In 2011 When it comes to promoting a small business, you have to prepare for changes. Here are some of the most effective strategies for promoting a business in 2011. Start a blog – Search engines like consistent fresh content. Update your blog daily.

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12 (of the) Best WordPress Guides and Plugin Reviews of 2011

Webbiquity SMM

WordPress is not only the most popular blogging platform , but is increasingly becoming a leading website content management system (CMS) as well. These add-ons make it easy to add an incredible variety of functionality to the platform, from contact forms and photo galleries to social sharing and ecommerce capabilities.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Tumblr and the age of the microblog (2007) In 2007, the social network described as “Twitter meets YouTube and WordPress” came a-tumblin’ along when 17-year-old David Karp launched Tumblr from his bedroom. Unfortunately, the social network’s launch was no match for social juggernauts like Facebook and Twitter.

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Yahoo! Unloads Delicious

Small Business Mavericks

So I suppose they had the money to buy the struggling social bookmarking website. Delicious is one of the early forerunners of social bookmarking. Users of Delicious have until July 2011 to accept AVOSs terms of service and to transfer their bookmarks. – sold Delicious. 2 Responses to “Yahoo!

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How Brands Use Pinterest

Mindjumpers

Tweet Pinterest, the social bookmarking tool for images and videos launched in 2010, has become a new favorite platform for many of us – myself included. Unlike Facebook, Pinterest is first and foremost about content and social interactions secondly. What F8 Developer’s Conference 2011 Holds for Brands and Users.

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Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses

Akamai Marketing

I’ve heard stories of companies that stopped thinking of themselves as a “(insert industry here) company&# and begun to think of themselves as a content generation company. Share and Enjoy: Tags: blog , social media , strategy 2 Comments Dania Posted March 29, 2011 at 7:00 PM Great information. Be ruthless.

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Tool Tuesday: Qwitter

Akamai Marketing

I typically recommend that my clients track this list on a daily basis and compare it to their content conversations. Kalin taracoomans Posted March 18, 2011 at 6:41 PM Hi Kalin – I had a similar experience with my Twitter Quitters this week, and I too attributed to the increased conversation about #hitsunami this week.

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