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Socialympics: How Social Media and Blogging Has Boosted Sports Media

Convince & Convert

Sports have been played, enjoyed by spectators and covered by the media since well before the advent of smartphones and social media. But it’s no question that the development of social platforms has changed how we play, enjoy and cover sports. New Media Entities are Born. Twitter is the new sports ticker.

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The Viral Marketing Virus

Akamai Marketing

When I asked him about his own viral video, he said that he put it up on YouTube as a fluke, that in fact, someone in the audience recorded it and sent it to him. If you look at the most popular YouTube videos of all time ( YouTube Charts ), not a single one is a branded video. Bloomberg Businessweek 6/14/2012. And move on.

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10 Popular Affiliate Programs for Small and Medium-sized Blogs

ProBlogger

In fact, these days, even social media sites can become lucrative platforms for affiliate marketing campaigns. offers affiliate, media, and tracking services and provides either a self-management or company-managed option for your affiliate relationships. This guest post is by Charles Dearing of WhoIsHostingThis.com.

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The Definitive Guide to Setting Up and Marketing a Podcast to Help Grow Your Blog

ProBlogger

On December 22, 2012, I launched my latest, aforementioned podcast. Within the first month of it being live I had enjoyed over 10,000 downloads via iTunes and had gained the number one spot in the two main categories I was going after, namely “Business” and “Marketing & Management”. Awesome customer service, too.

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How to Steal the Next Billion Dollar Website Idea: A Case Study

Viper Chill

On the 15th of January 2008 the domain name Groupon.com went live for the first time. 2008 was also the year that IndieGogo became one of the first ‘crowdfunding’ websites. A year later, the biggest rivals of each would launch in the form of Living Social and Kickstarter. A Somewhat-Hidden Kickstarter Page.

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The Future of Blogging: I Had to Tell You This

Viper Chill

I’ll get the obvious one out of the way first and say that, honestly, I did a lot of this for myself. I have a very open schedule for the rest of 2012 and, simply, I want to spend a large part of that continuing to grow the readership of this blog. Social networks are growing at record-breaking speeds.

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