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What Are You Going To Do About Google Reader?

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What that means is, if you had subscribers to your blog who were using Google Reader, then they either have to find another RSS news aggregrator in order to subscribe to your blog or you just lost a subscriber. Even today, there are still people who don’t know what an RSS reader is, but everyone knows what e-mail is and uses it.

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4 Essential Ways To Spy On The Competition

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The best way to do that is to subscribe to their RSS feeds, or you can subscribe by e-mail. Subscribe to all competitor newsletters through that e-mail address, and read every issue. Subscribe to blogs - You should read your competitors’ blogs every day. Read through the posts every day.

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Should You Publish On Sunday?

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Today, people read their e-mail, RSS feeds, and social media posts when it’s convenient for them. It’s a hold over from the old days when it was deemed that Thursday was the best day for your newsletters and sales specials to land in consumers’ mail boxes on Thursday. We don’t live in that world any more.

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Who Profits From Social Media?

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You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. One Response to “Who Profits From Social Media?&# GrassRoots says: April 20, 2011 at 6:28 pm #dm2 Who Profits From Social Media?

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Using Social Media To Stage Contests And Promote Your Business

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People would leave comments or sign up for RSS feeds or newsletters. Once you have your idea, it’s simply a matter of using social media as the contest’s destination. In the past, almost every online contest involved a blog. They are all well and good, however, they are not very engaging, and there’s little to share.

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Using Facebook’s Inbuilt Tools To Increase Your Reach

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Your Interests List is similar to an RSS feed as it takes stories related to your topic and publishes them to your wall. It’s hidden away in the new version of Facebook, for some reason, under the Messages tab that’s located just below your main image.

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Why Quora Is The New Twitter | Small Business Mavericks

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You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. One Response to “Why Quora Is The New Twitter&# GrassRoots says: May 10, 2011 at 3:27 pm #grassroots #dm2 Why Quora Is The New Twitter – Quora has become quite popular lately in the Q&A arena.