Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 19, 2012

Whilst blogs and blogging has its detractors, there is no doubt that a small business blog can be a real benefit. Blogs can be an aid to both a search and social marketing campaign, however, it often helps to simplify things to gain a clearer picture. In their simplest state, blogs are communication tools.

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JULY 12, 2011

He recently decided to turn the comments to his blog completely off. Because John’s blog, Searchblog, is not on WordPress. As he mentions in the blog post. At one time, Moveable Type was one of the leaders in blog platform software. As was several other early blogging platforms like Greymatter.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 21, 2014

There’s an interesting discussion going on over at the Moz Blog in the comments of Bill Sebald’s article, “ Building Better Content By Improving On Your Competitors.” There’s some back and forth dialog, new ideas and tools that were found useful, and a real sense of community at the time of this writing.

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MAY 26, 2011

Facebook Comments – This system allows you to comment on a blog and see your comments appear on your Facebook wall. Then, when they comment, their comments appear on the original blog post. Here’s a blog post that shows you how you can incorporate Facebook Comments into your blog. But that’s not all.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 25, 2015

If you have a business, you probably consider at least part of that business “local” because there is a community that interacts with your business. Most businesses could do a lot more in creating local links — and Casey Meraz has just given us 11 Ways for Local Businesses to Get Links on the Moz Blog.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 19, 2014

This latest wave has anyone who has done business with part of the Community Health network worried, but even those not affected yet wonder when they will be. I like the idea of having a regular security feature in your blog that addresses current topics with tips for privacy settings or password creation.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 23, 2015

On his blog, Quick Sprout, he just looked at the difference a sidebar can make on your blog. Does Your Blog Need A Sidebar? Here’s how Neil answers the question: People come to a blog to read content. This helps build a loyal community, which is the main reason I have a sidebar. The Conclusion.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Subscribe to blogs - You should read your competitors’ blogs every day. It’s best to create a folder in your news feed reader and put all competitor blogs in that folder. Join community forums – Your competitors are hanging out in the top forums that serve your niche. Read through the posts every day.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 17, 2011

These include forums, blogs, community websites where industry news can be published, wikis, etc. It could be an industry social networking website, it could be an industry wiki or encyclopedia site, or it could be a simple blog. About Us What’s a Maverick? But what does it mean to be a media company?

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 15, 2011

On your blog and website, provide consistent valuable content and you’ll find yourself gaining friends, fans, and customers by the dozens. Tags: blogging , content , internet marketing , Social Media This entry was posted on Friday, April 15th, 2011 at 9:23 am and is filed under Small Business Internet Marketing.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 29, 2011

This includes your static content, blog content, and maybe even your social media content. Sometimes you can turn a popular blog post into an article. About Us What’s a Maverick? Unloads Delicious Kudos To HubPages » Revamping Old Content About once a year or so you should go through your old content and update it.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 10, 2011

Even churches and community service organizations are using WordPress as a CMS and designing their websites using this free open source software. However, WordPress started out as a blogging platform and branched out from there. However, WordPress started out as a blogging platform and branched out from there.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 12, 2011

This is true whether you are writing for a print publication or if you are writing for an online publication, a blog, a Twitter stream, PPC ads, or anywhere you expect to get readers. Tell your readers exactly what your story or blog post is about. About Us What’s a Maverick? Make a promise and deliver on it.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 6, 2014

It can be anything from the blog posts your company publishes to reviews of your product on Amazon or your company on Yelp. Are you being a positive influence in the online community? For the most part, it’s about engagement. Social proof is the accumulation of positive and negative talk your company or brand receives online.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 30, 2011

» Kudos To HubPages Anyone who has read my blog for very long knows that I am a strong advocate of article marketing. if it also existed on your blog and so long as you did not link back to the source), it is now required that all content published on HubPages be unique to the site I’d have thought that would be a no-brainer.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Marie Haynes has given us help with this tricky subject on the Moz Blog. Make sure you read the comments because once again, the community has some good advice. Your Start-To-Finish Guide To Using Google’s Disavow Tool walks us through the whole process in reasonable, logical steps.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 30, 2011

People are buying on their phones, reading blogs on their phones, and updating their social media on their phones. Blog Marketing – Blog marketing came on strong, then it dipped. But it appears that blog marketing is experiencing a surge again. About Us What’s a Maverick? I mean, it slowed down.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 9, 2011

Tags: article marketing , blog marketing , internet marketing , mobile marketing , newsletter marketing , Pay Per Click , search engine optimization , social media marketing , website design This entry was posted on Monday, May 9th, 2011 at 11:04 am and is filed under Small Business Internet Marketing.

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APRIL 25, 2011

In my opinion, you should be spending three hours on search engine marketing activities (blogging, PPC, or content creation) and the remaining one hour on social media and non-SEM activities. That means writing that daily blog post and spending some time tweaking your landing pages and PPC ads. About Us What’s a Maverick?

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 16, 2012

Other blogs – You should write to your own blog as often as possible, but don’t be afraid to be a guest blogger too. Post your content, join the community, and develop relationships – then send that traffic to your website. That’s a good question.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 21, 2011

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. Start a blog – Search engines like consistent fresh content. Update your blog daily. About Us What’s a Maverick?

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 19, 2011

Even niche-related blogs. About Us What’s a Maverick? The 2011 way to market yourself through articles is to distribute them through other channels. Try HubPages, Google Knol, and Squidoo Lenses. Or find websites within your niche that publish articles. Articles are still good marketing tools.

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MAY 7, 2011

About Us What’s a Maverick? » Types Of HTML 5 Content Since 1998, the widely accepted generation of HTML in use has been HTML 4. Lately, HTML 5 has been in development and will likely see a public release within the next couple of years.

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JANUARY 23, 2014

I’ll have to say, I’m not sure what the online marketing community can do about low quality spam content other than educate those who need it. It consists of website content, blogs, videos, podcasts, links, and anything you produce that creates your brand. It’s just a part of the game.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 23, 2012

Earlier this month, WebProNews reported that bloggers can now embed Quora quotes into their blog posts. It’s a place where experts on any topic can showcase their expertise by answering questions posed by the community. That’s a very powerful feature as well and could serve to give Quora more exposure.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Create social media backlinks – Create backlinks to your branded Facebook page from your blog, your LinkedIn account, and other community profile pages. Most businesses don’t do this, but it can increase your search visibility locally. Even from your Google+ profile.

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APRIL 23, 2011

About Us What’s a Maverick? » Let The Grocer Teach You E-mail Marketing What can a grocer possibly know about e-mail marketing? Everyone needs groceries.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 8, 2011

But did you know that social media marketing can lead to the collateral effect of additional inbound links through others blogging about you? So think about composing blog posts that are not just extraordinary enough to get Liked and Retweeted, but that is extra-extraordinary enough to be blogged about.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 27, 2011

After all, if you can write an e-mail requesting 20 links, he says, then you can write a blog post for your blog. If you can write a guest blog post for someone else, then you can write 20 blog posts for yourself. Next, write a blog post every day for a year and don’t spend any effort building links to it.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 4, 2011

They are writing guest blog posts for related blogs and carefully targeting Web content for other websites within their niches. About Us What’s a Maverick? I think there’s still a little life left them in, but successful article marketers today are not just relying on article directories.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 31, 2011

You can use the comments on your blog, Twitter stream, LinkedIn and Facebook walls, and anywhere else online to get real-time feedback on your business, your service, and your products. About Us What’s a Maverick? However, by the time a traditional television show reaches its audience, the next several shows have already been filmed.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 9, 2011

link] 4 days ago · Like · Comment This is a unique and interesting tool and I think you’ll have fun using it if you can figure out a way to use Facebook content in your blog posts. About Us What’s a Maverick? You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 5, 2011

I’m referring to articles, guest blog posts, and other such content. About Us What’s a Maverick? But if you consider that inbound links refers to content you create on other websites and link back to your own, then I’d certainly call that content. What are you as a small business owner doing to expand your vision of content?

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Think about it, simply adding a blog to your small business website can lead to tons more traffic. A blog is the best way to update your website every day. About Us What’s a Maverick? And it makes a big difference. Now, for the second part of SiteKreator’s study: 75% of small businesses are not using social media.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 17, 2011

Here are a few tips: Write a new blog post Stumble your post and Like it Using the StumbleUpon toolbar, send your post to a few friends and ask them for a Stumble You have to be careful with Step #3. About Us What’s a Maverick? It’s a whole new way of discovery. Now, what is the best way to use StumbleUpon for your small business?

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These might include: Your website Twitter LinkedIn Social bookmarking HubPage or Squidoo Lens Facebook advertising Online display advertising Your blog Mobile phone apps The list could go on, I’m sure. About Us What’s a Maverick? I would bet that you do most of it online through your other Internet marketing channels.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 20, 2011

I’d rather see you start a blog or list your website in local directories. I like what Matt McGee had to say about NARs blog comment advice: Commenting on blogs can help with exposure, but it’s not a “campaign” and isn’t likely to make a search engine think your site is trustworthy, either. About Us What’s a Maverick?

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