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Why Blog Comments Are About Branding

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Remember when blog comments were about building links and traffic? Then Google decided not to count blog comments for links. That pretty much shut down the blog-commenting-as-linkbuilding game. But blog comments still hold value. The value to be found in blog comments today is in branding. Others won’t.

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The Best Five Social Media Websites For Meaningful Comments

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When it comes to meaningful comments, and deep discussions, forget Facebook and Twitter. If anything, they can flood you with banal comments that take a lot of time yet deliver little in results. There are other sites where comments reach a more meaningful level, and often lead to much deeper conversations.

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Video Ads, Facebook, and Marketing

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Anybody who interacts with the ad by commenting, sharing, or liking it will be targeted with follow-up ads about their sales. So if you aren’t looking at video ads as a marketing strategy, you may want to think about changing your mind. If you have jumped on this bandwagon, I’d love to hear from you in the comments.

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4 Ways To Market Through Facebook

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In fact, a recent article enlightened me to some new ways to market a business through Facebook. Facebook Comments – This system allows you to comment on a blog and see your comments appear on your Facebook wall. Your comment also appears on your friends’ walls. But that’s not all.

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Is E-mail Marketing More Effective Than Social Media Marketing?

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» Is E-mail Marketing More Effective Than Social Media Marketing? It seems that e-mail marketing is still one of the most efficient and cost effective channels available to businesses – that’s both online and traditional brick and mortar businesses. Are The Yellow Pages Outdated?

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4 Low Cost Online Marketing Strategies For 2012

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If your business has an online presence then you are now in a very competitive market. 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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Let The Grocer Teach You E-mail Marketing

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» Let The Grocer Teach You E-mail Marketing What can a grocer possibly know about e-mail marketing? And that’s why marketing is important. E-mail marketing is one strategy for making that happen. One grocer is using e-mail marketing and getting a 55% open rate on its e-mails. Everyone needs groceries.

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