Small Business Mavericks

JULY 3, 2012

Blogging, more than any other kind of marketing, is multi-dimensional. In fact, I’ve identified 5 key dimensions of your blog and they have all equal value. When you blog you should keep each of these 5 dimensions in mind. 1 rankings for your blog alone. 1 rankings for your blog alone.

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Reputation Compete Engineering Conversation 96

Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 10, 2012

Frank Reed has written an interesting post on Marketing Pilgrim that highlights where blogs are now going in the business world. Nielsen’s NM Incite is currently tracking over 173 million blogs – that’s a lot of blogs, many of which you will need to compete against.

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Small Business Compete Forums Issues 105

Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 6, 2012

Unlike traditional bricks and mortar businesses, an online presence has to compete with a much wider range of entities. The news is not all bad however, you can compete, and these four low cost online marketing strategies can help you to increase traffic, market awareness, and hopefully, profits.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Can you imagine competing against the likes of Ashton Kutcher and Oprah Winfrey for attention? If you think this is no different than competing against the Big O and the Big A on Twitter, think again. A nasty rumor is spreading, according to WebProNews , that YouTube is considering paying celebrities to provide video content channels.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 10, 2011

You’d be competing only with offers for 60 places. In New York City, you’d be competing with 770 offers. Anyone searching for offers in the Minneapolis area (if you’re in Minneapolis) could find you easily on their Android Latitude app. Or what if you were in Austin? That’s not bad.

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Small Business Case Study Press Release Marketing 156

Small Business Mavericks

MAY 29, 2012

In simple terms, you cannot blame the online world for taking away your business if you not also online competing with them. You can’t compete with the online world if you’re not online as well. That’s a domain name, hosting, a decent web site and blog thrown in. Book shops are a great example.

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Domain Name Compete Small Business Cost 101

Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 18, 2011

If UberMedia actually does purchase Tweetdeck and competes directly against Twitter, will they incorporate Mixx into the fray as well? And any competing microblogging service is going to have an uphill battle against Twitter. That’s UberWild! There are some big variables there.

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