Sherrilynne Starkie
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
'The holidays are upon us; it’s a time of good will towards men, kindness and giving. Being a good corporate citizen and support of community causes comes to the fore at this time of year. This could be seen as a cynical ploy to gain publicity in order to ingratiate a brand or organization with customers at a time when they are feeling a little generosity in their hearts.
Justin Levy
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'If you’re like me, how you start your day usually provides the foundation for how the rest of your day will go. Sure, things inevitably come up which can steer the day in a different direction. By developing a morning routine and accomplishing your most important tasks first thing in the morning, you ensure that even if the day throws you a curve-ball, that you’re still moving ahead on your priorities and various projects.
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Mindjumpers
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
'A couple of months ago, while working on a project in London, I ran into a devastating and at the same time a truly remarkable and life confirming story: the story of Lotje and her beautiful broken brain, which is now turning into a documentary. It’s going to be an inside view to a remarkable story about the journey and the will of a young women after being struck by a brain tumor.
Firebelly
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
'Twitter has become a daily part of life for the over 200 million people who use the platform every month. And even the people who don’t tweet are exposed to Twitter through television, magazines, radio, and so much more. So for the 200 million people who use Twitter monthly, I started wondering where they are tweeting from. More specifically, what app do they use to tweet?
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The Realtime Report
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
'Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Vine and Livefyre: Place Pins (image: Pinterest blog). Facebook. Facebook amends privacy policy by removing line on minors – Facebook has updated its user privacy policies, including removing language about how teenagers’ content can be used in ads (Bloomberg).
Justin Levy
NOVEMBER 29, 2013
'Did you eat until you could barely move? Great job! Did you wake up feeling guilty this morning? Stop. It is important that you don’t make yourself feel guilty for enjoying the holidays with your family and friends. There are only a few times per year that you have a large holiday dinner, with Thanksgiving being the largest feast of them all. Enjoy these chances to spend time with your friends, family and those closest to you.
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Firebelly
NOVEMBER 29, 2013
'Its hard to believe November is drawing to a close, and with it comes the end of Movember. The moustaches were aplenty this year, and with almost 1 million participants and almost $70 million raised, there was a lot to celebrate. Unfortunately, my moustache didn’t grow to the great lengths I had envisioned. After reflecting on what I could have done to increase my Movember awareness, here’s a few things I learned. 1.
Convince & Convert
NOVEMBER 23, 2013
'In this “let’s get physical” edition of The Baer Facts, I talk with Kyle Lacy of ExactTarget about Facebook’s new system of applying star ratings to Pages , and the merits of kettlebell as a workout option. Timely note: This episode features a guest appearance by my quasi-celebrity personal trainer, Lindsay Forster. In addition to whipping me into shape (her success is mitigated by my constant travel and inability to put down the cheeseburgers and IPA), Lindsay is al
Justin Levy
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
'For the first several years of my life, I didn’t celebrate any holidays, including Thanksgiving, since I was raised a Jehovah’s Witness. After a few unfortunate events, we left and, as a result, began celebrating holidays. There was one catch though: we were poor. Growing up below the poverty line meant that our Thanksgiving meal was either a pre-cooked delivery or we went somewhere that was serving dinner to those less fortunate.
Small Business Mavericks
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
'Companies doing business on LinkedIn have been able to connect with audiences through business pages. Now, LinkedIn has rolled out an additional level of social media for companies with multiple brands and divisions called Showcase Pages. In order to use Showcase Pages you first need to have a company page. But the Showcase Page is specifically designed to give customers a chance to interact with businesses around a particular product or service offering rather than follow the brand and sift th
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Kikolani
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
'Black Friday has arrived! If you’ve had your eye on a particular course, ebook, service, web host, WordPress plugin, or WordPress theme, now is the time to buy as the savings are HUGE! The following are the best sales for products I highly recommend for Internet marketers and bloggers! Two things to know before going forward. One, I am an affiliate for most of the products mentioned.
Convince & Convert
NOVEMBER 29, 2013
'With all the holidays approaching (and just passed), I have been noticing my attention being captured by all things food or recipe-related. “Tender Roasted Turkey”…”Sweet Succulent Ham”… “Sinfully Rich Spicy Pumpkin Custard.”. So, when fellow Hoosier Jay Baer and his blog post titled, “ 5 Reasons You Need to Give Away The Recipe For Your Secret Sauce ” appeared under my nose, I was hungry for more.
Justin Levy
NOVEMBER 26, 2013
'Are you having trouble achieving the proper work-life harmony? If your primary machine is a laptop, then you are likely using it for your work and personal apps. This means that most of the time you have a blend of apps and websites open. You might have Outlook, Twitter, PowerPoint, Gmail, Facebook and more open at the same time. As the lines between work and life have become increasingly more blurred, it can be hard to escape work especially if your work is blended such as managing a Facebook
Socialized
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Why do people share their shock and outrage over amazing and incredible "news" stories from questionable sources? Why do they continue to comment and share these stories, even after they know them to be bogus? The story of the 60-year-old woman who supposedly shot and killed two teenagers who punched her.
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Bill Hartzer
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'It’s the day before Thanksgiving, November 27, 2013, and that’s got me thinking: as an SEO in 2013, what should we be thankful for? Well, I have come up with a list of things that every SEO should be thankful for this year. Certainly, these aren’t in any order of importance. They’re just things that I really think we, as SEOs in 2013, should be thankful for.
Convince & Convert
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Image from BigStock.com. If you’re reading this, you probably had little doubt about the power of the populace – armed with social media – to profoundly impact the behavior of companies. But, if you had even a scintilla of suspicion that it wasn’t true, it should have evaporated this week based on these two events. You Gotta Fight For Your Right to Free Tacos.
Justin Levy
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
'Has your marketing program become stale? Are you not seeing the same results that you originally experienced? This could be because you’ve reached a marketing plateau. It’s time to introduce a change to help spark growth, engagement and activity again. This concept is preached in fitness magazines every month yet we don’t consider this for our marketing campaigns.
Ari Herzog
NOVEMBER 26, 2013
'If you agree that feeling content is more important than consuming content, I encourage you to watch these three videos. Each video is about marketing and imagination. Each requires you to consume what is shown but there is no noise. It’s all signal. You will feel refreshed and inspired to improve yourself. Most of all, you will smile. Guaranteed.
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Bill Hartzer
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
'Starting today, I am going to go out on a limb (well, not exactly) to offer Bitcoin as payment for search engine optimization services. Starting on November 24, 2013, I am now offering one of my most sought-after services, an Search Engine Optimization Audit of a website (under 50 pages) for 1 bitcoin (which, at the current exchange rate, is equal to about $824 US Dollars.
Convince & Convert
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
'image from BigStock.com. I am thankful for my wife, who loves me and put up with my frequent travel and heavy workload. I am thankful for my children, who are – I think – turning out to be kind, loyal, accountable and happy. I am thankful for my extraordinary team at Convince & Convert, who deliver world-class thinking and nearly flawless execution every day.
Justin Levy
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Has your marketing program become stale? Are you not seeing the same results that you originally experienced? This could be because you’ve reached a marketing plateau. It’s time to introduce a change to help spark growth, engagement and activity again. This concept is preached in fitness magazines every month yet we don’t consider this for our marketing campaigns.
Small Business Mavericks
NOVEMBER 29, 2013
'Cynthia Boris at Marketing Pilgrim reveals some interesting tidbits about tablets and smartphones regarding mobile advertising click-throughs. Here’s a run down of some of the more interesting findings: Smartphones dominate games, social media, communications, productivity apps, news, weather, dating, sports, and shopping. Tablets have a slight edge on books and reference materials.
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Bill Hartzer
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
'Well, I am pretty used to it by now. Whenever you are on Facebook and you have “liked” a page, Facebook makes an attempt to show you pages that are “similar to” other pages, in an effort to get you to “like” those pages, as well. I have to say, Facebook seriously got it wrong this time. I don’t know what they are using to determine why one Facebook page is similar to another page, but in this case it’s just WRONG, wrong, WRONG!
Twist Image
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
'Are you feeling a little stressed? Anxious? Having a panic attack here and there? We all deal with stress and anxiety in a multitude of ways. People will often comment on how calm and collected I seem. In the back of my mind, all I can think about is a duck swimming across the pond. How calm and relaxed it seems, until you look beneath the surface and see how frenetic and chaotic it is scrambling to stay afloat.
Justin Levy
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Has your marketing program become stale? Are you not seeing the same results that you originally experienced? This could be because you’ve reached a marketing plateau. It’s time to introduce a change to help spark growth, engagement and activity again. This concept is preached in fitness magazines every month yet we don’t consider this for our marketing campaigns.
Small Business Mavericks
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Content calendars are important organizational tools for bloggers, content marketers, and online businesses. No matter what type of blog or business you are running, an editorial calendar – or content calendar – can help keep you on track and manage your content better from day to day and week to week. If you have a WordPress blog, there is an Editorial Calendar plug-in you can use.
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Writtent Blog
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'With 9 in 10 organizations marketing with content , it’s evident that we need effective tools to create, publish, distribute, and analyze content published online. Needless to say, there are lots of tools out there, but which are the ones worthy to give a try? Here are some options that could be a great test drive for you. I reached out to content marketing experts with the question, “What Are the 3 Content Management Tools Epic Content Creators Can’t Live Without?”.
Twist Image
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
'Episode #385 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. True story: when we first started Twist Image back in 2000, I wasn''t sure how we were going to get any new clients. I started reading books, attending seminars and doing anything I could to up my game in regards to sales and selling. At every turn, the name Jeffrey Gitomer kept creeping up.
Small Business Mavericks
NOVEMBER 26, 2013
'I’m not suggesting you should give up on Google Analytics, especially now that they are in the process of rolling out Universal Analytics , but if you do decide to look around for other analytics services, here are five free alternatives to Google Analytics you might consider. Clicky – Clicky is one of the more popular Google Analytics alternatives.
Koka Sexton
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
'I had a great time this year at Dreamforce. Here is the video of my session on SalesforceLive talking about social selling and of course LinkedIn.
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