Waxing UnLyrical
MAY 8, 2013
'Last week I had to take my MacBook Pro in to the Apple store. (The screen’s been going blank at random intervals, and since it’s still under the protection plan, I decided to listen to my friends and get the pros to look at it. And in doing so, I experienced two very different attitudes to customer service, and technology, all in the same day.
Social Media Marketing
MAY 8, 2013
'A roundup of relevant links affecting our industry. Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.
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Bill Hartzer
MAY 8, 2013
'Breaking News : It is still possible to game the Google search results, even for commercial keyword phrases. In fact, you can even put up low-quality, low-content, spam web pages and get them to rank well in Google. Not only that, it is still possible, even when the Google Penguin and Google Panda have been in full force, to rank well with that low quality spam content and redirect visitors using a javascript redirect to another website.
The Social Media Incubator
MAY 8, 2013
'Searching for a meaningful summer internship can be difficult for many college students who are actively looking to add helpful experience to their résumés. But what if you were one of the lucky students chosen to spend your summer working for the largest online search engine? Google is offering the “ Summer of Code 2013 ,” which is an internship for students who are willing to work on open-source projects.
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Bill Hartzer
MAY 8, 2013
'By Dean Chester. Sure, many businesses believe that getting a website will usually involves a large investment and involve too much time just to keep it updated. Years ago, that statement may have been true…but in recent years technology has advanced to the point that you can now setup your website with very little start-up costs and in about 30 minutes time.
Small Business Mavericks
MAY 8, 2013
'I’ve been a big proponent of guest blogging and still am. However, there is a danger in doing too much. Of course, you could also have the wrong motives. Every few years Google updates its algorithms to get rid of bad practices that are causing harm. Google Panda and Google Penguin were two such updates. One killed content farms and the other killed low-quality links from low-quality sites.
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ProBlogger
MAY 8, 2013
'Today I was speaking with a blogger (I’ll call her Alice for the sake of this post) who was feeling a little overwhelmed with the idea of monetizing her blog. She expressed that as she looked at other blogs in her niche, everyone seemed to be doing such amazing things. She said she felt she’d never be able to compete. Other blogs in Alice’s niche were running online courses, selling out hundred people live events around the country, selling ads to fortune 500 companies, author
Jeff Esposito
MAY 8, 2013
'Do you ever feel overwhelmed at the office or at home? You know the feeling, head constantly at the below water line or just keeping ahead of day to day tasks? Stuck looking at the trees and not the forest when it comes to planning? It’s OK, we all have. Saying yes is, well easier than saying no. It’s more rewarding to help someone out than asking for help.
Convince & Convert
MAY 8, 2013
'Editor’s Note: A version of this article originally appeared on Social Media Explorer. Although social media continues to thread its way into the fiber of more and more organizations, my experience is that many small to mid-sized companies are still lagging behind when it comes to the development and implementation of their social media strategies.
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