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Are You a Digital Landowner or Sharecropper?

Waxing UnLyrical

Social networks are great for business. It is understandable, then, why business owners are flocking to set up shop on social networks and sometimes forgoing the building their own websites in favor of a social network presence. Hosting a website can be done for as little as $5/month*.

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Choosing a blogging service: Blogger, Tumblr or Wordpress

Mindjumpers

There are pros and cons for all of them, but it depends a lot on whether you want to spend any money, want to have your own domain name, what kind of options and functionalities you want and what kind of skills you have in doing the design and maybe programming. I will go through to most widely used blogging services.

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The Complete Solo Build It! Review - An Insider’s Perspective

The Social Media Hat

She wanted some basic guidance on how to use social networks, and which she should be using. Only when you've done your homework, figured out what your niche should be, and come up with some potential ways to earn an income from it, are you ready to select a domain name and start building a website. This covers it all.

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About.Me: A Good Starting Place On The Web? | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

I’ve always been a proponent of your own domain name. domain names don’t typically do well in the search engines. But you can drive traffic to your profile page from your active social networks, which makes it a worthwhile starting place if you are just getting involved in Internet marketing.

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Prepare Your Website for Geolocation with WordPress

Kikolani

The best way to integrate geolocation services into your green business website is to start with a solid, SEO-friendly website hosting platform that can seamlessly integrate geolocation. 8 Ways Businesses Should Use Social Media. 25 Social Bookmarking & Link Sharing Browser Bookmarklets.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Step 1: Hit The Big Three (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) It’s no secret that social networking is all the rage, so it doesn’t take a genius to point out that you need to start there. They have hosted and self-hosted solutions depending on your needs. Social Network Platforms 1.

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How To Build A Successful Business Blog (a Getting Started Guide)

Rebekah Radice

Choose Your Domain, Hosting, and Theme WISELY. Steps to getting started: Finding the right domain name is a crucial piece to building a successful blog. Do your research, understand the keywords people are using to find your product or service and then keep your blog and domain name consistent. Syndication.

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