Small Business Mavericks

JULY 1, 2011

SEO Blogging – With SEO blogging, the idea is to produce content that gains search engine traction. You try to spark lively debate in the comments section of your blog and promote your blog through as many social media channels as you can. The key is to find the method that works for you.

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Firebelly

MAY 20, 2010

Not good news for individuals and small businesses who may have a hard time reaching 10,000 fans and don't have the money to become "authenticated."  Your comment has not yet been posted. Your comment could not be posted. Error type: Your comment has been saved. Please try again.

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Kikolani

JULY 4, 2010

I know that most of my readers are well aware of the reasons to love CommentLuv , including its great benefits to blog owners, readers, and especially commenters with the ability to promote blog posts and articles on article directories and networks such as HubPages, Squidoo, EzineArticles, & more. Home Based Business Resources.

Affiliate marketing 136

Affiliate marketing Hubpages Blogroll Social Bookmarking 136

Akamai Marketing

MARCH 24, 2011

You might send them a comment, “like&# something they said, ask a business a question. Could be anything, a business article, a picture of your dog. 5) Now, spend 30 additional seconds a day thanking people for commenting on your tweets, or passing them on. Ask a guru a question. Imagine rather than restrain.

Social Media 149

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 9, 2009

By taracoomans – March 9, 2009 Posted in: economy Jack Welch supports events and their business uses. By taracoomans – March 9, 2009 Posted in: economy Jack Welch supports events and their business uses. Share and Enjoy: Tags: event marketing , events No Comments Start the ball rolling by posting a comment on this article!

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Firebelly

MARCH 16, 2010

March 17th Are You Ready For The Social Revolution? Your comment has not yet been posted. Your comment could not be posted. Error type: Your comment has been saved. Comments are moderated and will not appear until approved by the author. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

Upcoming 100

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Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

SEO benefits: Many social media bookmarking sites use NOFOLLOW tags that limit the outbound link value of posts made on their sites, but there are still many leading sites that allow DOFOLLOW tags — including Friendfeed, Digg, and Mixx. 12 Reasons Y&#959&#965r Business Needs a Social Media Marketing Program … [.]

Social Media 159

Social Media NoFollow Marketing Social Bookmarking 159

Akamai Marketing

MARCH 31, 2011

If you have a story about customer service and social media, please feel free to share it. Share and Enjoy: Tags: customer service , social media , suggestions No Comments Start the ball rolling by posting a comment on this article! What’s your social currency? I’ll be tweeting the best responses.

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Social Media Klout Policies Forums 188

Freelance Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

We’d like to add a couple to the list: Macblips and HypeM Sports Entertainment Fighters Ballhype eFans FanNation Fanspot ScoreGuru SportsFlip Sportsvite SportsCast Social Bookmarking Blinkbits Blinklist Blogmarks Chipmark Connectedy del.icio.us Diigo Foxmarks Furl Lycos iQ Ma.gnolia Mobilicio.us

Sites 140

Sites Social Media CiteULike Newsvine 140

Firebelly

JANUARY 15, 2010

Facebook, Twitter 2-way Lifeline for Haiti By Judy Keen A photographer documenting a missionary groups work in Saint-Marc, is among many people using social-networking sites to share news and photos, ask for help finding missing loved ones or seek donations. Your comment has not yet been posted. Your comment could not be posted.

Social Media 100

Social Media Feed Reader Paid Search SMS 100

Akamai Marketing

JUNE 28, 2009

Share and Enjoy: No Comments Start the ball rolling by posting a comment on this article! What’s your social currency? Oh, I might need to get a Weinerwhistle too… have a good summer! Here’s to hoping all event marketing campains are as successful and impact a brand so successfully!

Mobile 124

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Kikolani

AUGUST 2, 2011

So if you’re interested in helping me win an iPad finding out how to track your goal conversions from social media or simply see social media referral traffic to your website as a whole in Google Analytics 5, be sure to: Check out this post and follow the step-by-step directions. And they have great SEO value too!

ROI 126

ROI Social Media Google iPad 126

Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

As a blogger, there are numerous tools at your disposal to track how your content is doing. Because if you are creating content, you are likely distributing and promoting that content in variety of ways, including social media. A few comments — data can be exported, though the functionality is very v1 right now.

Postrank 134

Postrank Analytics Tools Klout 134

Kikolani

APRIL 9, 2010

Put your content copies under control. Business / Career / Finance. 8 ways for businesses to use social media. 5 ways to save money on a small business website. Social bookmarks for WordPress.com blogs. Blogging / Writing. 6 things to do before publishing your first blog post.

Mashup 118

Mashup Resources iPad HootSuite 118

Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you are looking for a way to automate some features of Twitter, this is a good option.

Tools 163

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 9, 2009

Share and Enjoy: Tags: event marketing , Hawaii No Comments Start the ball rolling by posting a comment on this article! What’s your social currency? Maybe travel and tourism will will be the next segment to utilize the power of event marketing. P.S. The bus is already onto it’s next adventure: a NASCAR driver is using it.

Eventful 100

Eventful Tourism Klout Travel 100

Firebelly

MAY 21, 2010

A Closer Look at Twitter’s Latest Features for Businesses By Adam Ostrow Later this year, Twitter is expected to release a variety of features for business users, some of which have already been enabled for testing on a number of accounts. Your comment has not yet been posted. Your comment has not yet been posted.

Social Media 101

Social Media Facebook Mobile Newsletter 101

Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Determine who you’ll be talking to in social media; current customers, potential customers, people who don’t know you? Once you know WHO, then you can decide HOW (platform) and WHY (content) you’ll be conversing with them. What’s your social currency? Do you agree or disagree with this comparison?

Social Media 138

Social Media Klout Policies Consultant 138

Kikolani

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Why social media is a better investment than SEO – eight reasons bloggers should focus on social networking. How to get the most from a small business social media presence – 12 tips from the experts. How to start a freelance business using WordPress – how to get out of the content mill.

Mashup 141

Mashup Discount Resources Facebook 141

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

Webupon > Social Bookmarking. Nine Notable Uses for Social Bookmarking. Bookmarking doesnt need to be limited to tracking websites for yourself. Social bookmarking sites excel at maintaining an online grouping of websites for many purposes (e.g. for ways to use social bookmarking more creatively?

Social Bookmarking 157

Social Bookmarking Digg Applications URL 157

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

Comments: 17. Web Site - Were fans of content management platforms like Drupal , Wordpress , etc. For many small businesses, Quickbooks (and similar programs) are often a heavy, cumbersome way to deal with the books. Email this comment. Email this comment. Email this comment. Email this comment.

Apparel 122

Apparel Tools Wiki RSS 122

Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Share and Enjoy: Tags: economy , events , politics No Comments Start the ball rolling by posting a comment on this article! What’s your social currency? I heard today that the event industry is starting to organize, what is exactly afoot I can’t say now. When it becomes official, I’ll let you know about that too.

Klout 100

Klout Eventful Policies Hosting 100

Kikolani

JUNE 7, 2010

Most content management systems like Wordpress give you free reign over a lot of your tags, but others (like Blogger) do not. Also, when you’re writing your title tag, remember that it is what is used as the title of your post for most social bookmarking and sharing plugins / sites. Editor’s Note. Image Tags.

Blogger 119

Blogger URL WordPress SEO 119

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 28, 2008

Essentially, it was a short-form of the book " Naked Conversations - How Blogs Are Changing The Way Businesses Talk With Customers " two or three years before Naked Conversations was written. Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Your comment.

Organization 100

Organization Review Web 2.0 Tools 100

Saying It Social

MAY 1, 2010

After you’ve published your blog, you should post it on your Facebook Business Page , tweet it on Twitter , share it on LinkedIn , bookmark it on social bookmarking sites, and post it on document sharing sites. Finding content to post can turn into a big “time suck”. Before you post please READ the content.

How To 132

How To Google Reader Social Networking Ping.fm 132

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

The site does not resolve on smart-phone browsers, and if they sell products online, their e-commerce platform has no social functionality (no review functionality, no commenting functionality, etc). In general, there are no visible calls to action to engage with social channels and little if any interactive assets. Subscribed.

Smart Phone 218

Smart Phone Mobile Social Media SEO 218

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

They don’t read 20 blog posts and comments. I love Twitter and like to engage,chat and do business. I blog and comment too, however; 1. Small businesses can’t always follow by example, unfortunately. Funny I’ve taken just as much great info from the comments as I did from the article.

Social Media 272

Social Media Engagement Forums Policies 272

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 22, 2008

Social Bookmarking For Enterprise Knowledge Management. Social Bookmarking as a Knowledge Management Strategyâ?? In that article, though I also discussed how certain free, public social bookmarking sites could also be suitable for enterprise useâ??IFâ??they Periodicals. Conferences. Buyers Guides.

Social Bookmarking 113

Social Bookmarking Sharepoint Groups Groups 113

ProBlogger

MAY 30, 2011

He worked his tail off creating content. There were no visitors, no comments … nothing. This went on, and on, and on—to commenting, social bookmarking, PPC, email marketing, and back to content. Here are some of the big umbrella strategies: Content is king. Social media is king. SEO is king.

Blogger 44

Blogger SEO Social Bookmarking Strategy 44

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

If you vote up stories, comment, and submit stories with a lot of votes, you can accrue karma points in no time… …much like Darrell. Social Desire November 30, 2007 at 5:26 pm Don’t Digg? Then Mixx, Instead » Small Business SEM December 3, 2007 at 9:40 pm Think Digg Has Jumped The Shark?

Review 102

Review Digg StumbleUpon Web 2.0 102

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Social Media: Small Business Why Small is the New Big in Social Media Marketing (Jonathan Fields): Jonathan Fields explains why small businesses have a real advantage over large ones when it comes to biting the social media bullet. What Makes People Share Content? This is a great read.

Marketing 265

Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The good news for small business is that app creation is likely to get more affordable, but that also means there will be increased “noise&# in the space, think very carefully about how you will promote your app to its intended users; it still isn’t a build it and they will come environment.

comScore 156

comScore Review Klout Marketing 156

Small Business Mavericks

MAY 17, 2012

The best links are those found within content, that relate to the content, and that link to related content on your site. Social bookmarking – if you have a long list of poor quality social bookmarking sites that you send every post to – stop.

Directory 98

Directory Social Bookmarking Forums Blogroll 98

Akamai Marketing

MARCH 29, 2011

Be disciplined: develop an editorial calendar, leave room for newsy items that your company should be commenting on. 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. Be ruthless.

Press Release 238

Press Release Technorati Klout Metrics 238

Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 23, 2011

Social media monitoring tools are increasing essential for companies of all sizes as the explosion of social media content renders manual monitoring efforts hopeless. Certainly, not every comment requires an immediate reply, but when a customer or prospect has a question or issue, response time matters. Range of coverage.

Social Media 193

Social Media Tools Sysomos Vocus 193

Akamai Marketing

MARCH 1, 2011

I typically recommend that my clients track this list on a daily basis and compare it to their content conversations. This is time consuming, but there can be some rich information there and watching trends can be invaluable. That would be worth paying for!

Tools 160

Tools Klout Policies Tourism 160

Firebelly

JULY 2, 2010

Style Guide Awesome resource for writing, creating and editing content for the digital world. Could potentially make things easier for freelancers and small businesses. Your comment has not yet been posted. Your comment could not be posted. Error type: Your comment has been saved. Please try again.

Paid Search 113

Paid Search SMS Syndication Social Bookmarking 113