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9 Social Networks Your Business Should Be Using by Likeable Media. Beyond the obvious (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube), Cara Friedman makes the case for adding social networks like Flickr , Tumblr and Meetup to your social media marketing mix. Social Media and SEO. Indeed it is.

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BrainDump: 101+ Things You MUST Know About Social Media For Business

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If your blog gets big, you’ll want to monetize it (even if it’s just to support the costs/time) and you’ll have a harder time with that on Blogger and WordPress.com 44) Blogging takes time and commitment. Blogs 43) If you’re serious about blogging, get a self-hosted WordPress blog. 45) Your content had better be good.

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Web CEO , SEO Powersuite ), social media monitoring tools (e.g., Radian6 , Alterian SM2 ), or inbound marketing suites (e.g., gShift enables you to set up external pages to track in different categories: Press Releases, Blogs, social media accounts, videos, and shortened URLs (e.g. Unlike pure SEO management tools (e.g.,

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Webbiquity SMM

Active across social networks, Cindy leads Microsoft’s small- to midsized-business sales and marketing efforts as Vice President U.S. LeadLife is designed to increase qualified leads while shortening sales cycles and decreasing the cost of sales. Cindy Bates. Cindy_Bates. SMB and Distribution. Elyse DeVries. aprildunford.

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And then there are monitoring tools like Alterian's SM2 that are out of most people's price ranges. It's that until Google analytics develops a social media monitoring tool, they're left with using social media marketing in much the same way a kid plays jacks.

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