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MAY 15, 2011

You can also hang out in copywriting forums. In professional forums, people tend to let their hair down a little bit more so you can meet the copywriters “at the bar&# so to speak. If it doesn’t work out, don’t use them any more. You haven’t risked or sacrificed much.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Niche forums are great places to go when you want to see how active your competition is in your space. In fact, if you want to keep tabs on your competition, listening is essential, and there are plenty of tools available to help you listen. Online listening entails many tactics. Here are a few I recommend: Google Alerts. Google Reader.

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JANUARY 8, 2015

If customer forums are a logical extension of your site, do them right. Many times a customer discussion will hold the answer to the problem that brought a visitor to the forum and they stay to become a regular. Make it easy to find what you are looking for and watch the traffic spike.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Those smaller messages are references to Facebook, Twitter and many other social media sites, forums included. Forums are a different story, questions are answered, often in depth, and with a lot of input from a range of users. You are more likely to find an answer in a forum than you will on Facebook or Twitter.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

For example, the “let me find that for you&# suggestion has been a mainstay in forums for years. Someone asks a question, you Google it, then post your answer in the forum. That is, they’ve been done countless times before in other venues. Maybe you even get a chance to link back to your website.

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JULY 8, 2011

Forums you’re a member of – What questions are people asking? A simple encounter with the different or extraordinary can often be turned into a blog post. The news – Keep up with current events. E-mail newsletters you subscribe to. Your own blog’s comments – What questions are people asking?

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Scour the forums and Q&A sites to see what questions people are asking and what they’re saying. Market research - Market research is more about what is being said in social media circles by suppliers, competitors, customers, etc., what keywords are most profitable for your niche, and what trends are emerging in the market.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

They also have a Developer Zone and a community forum, so you can get technical help when you need it. Compatible with a variety of servers, including Windows, Apache, Linux, IIS, MacOS, Solaris, and more. Piwik is so flexible you can install it on your own server or host it on Piwik’s servers.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Niche communities – Find those communities that service your niche and talk about the issues in those forums, social networks, etc. Social media – Talk to industry insiders on social media , customers, and third-party news people who are familiar with the issues affecting your niche.

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MAY 14, 2011

Some of these web-based hosts provide services like analytics, a blog platform, forum add-ons, and their sites even show up in the search engine rankings so the SEO is good. And all those people who had websites hosted by Geocities had to move their sites, or lose them. Not all of them.

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MAY 28, 2013

Google+ comes out ahead of only Pinterest and Forums. Frank Reed highlights the value that small business owners place on various social networks, including Google+, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Interestingly, more small business owners see value in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogging, and YouTube than in Google+. This is head-scratching.

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JUNE 30, 2011

Build your links from a lot of different types of websites (directories, blogs, forums, etc.) Here are some things to think about in your attempts to build a solid link portfolio: Use between 10-25 different anchor texts for each web page you are targeting. within your niche.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Ask it on your blog, in your newsletter, and in forums. Answering the right questions - Just like you would to find out what content to write, ask your audience what their questions are. What questions do your customers ask when they interact with you? That’s what you should be writing about.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Host an online forum for people looking for ways to use your products and keep the archives searchable and available. Pick the brains of your best customer service people to find out what people call about and put the answers in an easily read format on your site.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

Links to user manuals and a forum where issues are discussed and people share what worked for them? The Ability To Find Answers To Your Questions. If I’m shopping online, there had better be good product descriptions that are easy to read. Reviews are nice, too. Frequently asked questions merit pages on a business site.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Forums, social media, other off-site platforms are usually controlled by someone else. What makes blogging such a useful tool for branding? A number of things, so let’s talk about some of them. The Conversation – You can’t control the conversation in most venues online. But your blog is yours.

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JANUARY 27, 2016

Social promotion includes other things like widgets, communities and forums, and any aspect of social media that involves hard and soft promotion. Social Media Promotion – Where do you plan to publish and promote your content. Think beyond Facebook and Twitter. Goals -Before you get started, establish your goals.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

American Express OPEN Forum has an excellent article on Facebook ads (of course, I’m biased since they quoted me in the article). If you haven’t used Facebook ads yet, you’ll want to read the article. Here’s a summary of the 5 pointers.

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APRIL 9, 2013

These are the posts you set up in social media circles, other blogs, forums, and where ever your target audience can be found. But if you stop at the hub, then you’ll miss out on opportunities to connect with your audience and drive them back to your home base. That’s why you need the spokes. The spokes are your outlying bases.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

By sharing your knowledge in open forums, you can become a public speaker. That authority leads to great influence. Become a Public Speaker – Start speaking at local groups like chambers of commerce and business network meetings. That itself can be a great way to expand your influence.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Then forums came into vogue. Social media marketing – The Web by nature is social. People have been socializing in one form or another online since the very inception of the Internet. In the early days, it was through bulletin boards. Today, it’s social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

This can be in blog comments, writing guest posts, being active on forums related to your niche, and the obvious social media realms such as Facebook and Twitter. His suggestions include: Getting a branded logo, Customizing your subscribe box, Linking your social media profiles, Adding an “About Us” page, and.

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AUGUST 29, 2011

Whether on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or your local forum, don’t delete the negative comments. You know, where things just don’t go right, you get hit from every direction, and you’ve finally had enough. Then … there it goes. You let that comment fly and it’s too late. What do you do?

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JULY 8, 2015

Do they frequent forums? If not, I’d encourage you to create a persona that represents each type of customer you hope to attract. Next, think about where you’ll find those customers. Where do they hang out? If they’re online, are they on Facebook or Google+? If so, which ones? Now, you need to think backwards.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

This may include article marketing (and yes, it does still have some positive effects), guest publishing on other sites, forum and blog commenting, and perhaps even link requests. They can also bring a new approach to your offsite SEO approach. What is different to your own approach is the lateral thinking that many good SEO consultants use.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Guest blogging. Etsy, if you are a crafter. Niche directories. Foursquare. YellowPages.com, Yelp, and other online city directories. Google Places and Bing Maps. iPhone apps. Mobile websites. This is just the tip of the iceberg, and as the World Wide Web grows bigger, there will be more channels popping up all the time.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

That’s why things like product reviews, product demonstration videos, and customer service forums make great additions to local business websites. Since people research products online and buy them locally in bricks and mortar stores, you should start thinking about your website as more than a place where people buy products.

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DECEMBER 21, 2015

Then forums morphed into social media. Then there were web rings and a few ways of advertising your website in hopes of driving traffic to it. Eventually, pay-per-click advertising came along. People started blogging. YouTube came along and provided a way for marketers to develop their YouTube video channels. Podcasting took off.

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APRIL 20, 2011

If you are a local business and you are interested in connecting with potential clients locally, you might find a social networking site or forum that services your local area. Conduct a little survey and choose the sites that have the most potential for helping you grow your business where you want it to grow.

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MARCH 10, 2012

Your own customers and the types of questions being asked on forums is also a great place for determining current issues. Social media is a good place to determine if your content is up-to-date and if you are creating content that is still relevant. Blogs are still powerful tools in the right hands.

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APRIL 17, 2011

These include forums, blogs, community websites where industry news can be published, wikis, etc. But what does it mean to be a media company? It means this: That you set up Web properties beyond your own business website that give other people a platform as well.

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AUGUST 13, 2011

After all, when Facebook came out, Myspace was the preferred social media forum and, in the space of a few years, it took over. While everyone’s talking about Google Plus being some type of game-changer well before it’s even had wide release, many are already asking if it’s going to be the Facebook killer.

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MAY 17, 2012

Forums – like blog comments, only write to forum posts that are related to your content. Steer clear of low quality forums – you can tell a low quality forum fairly quickly – there are un-moderated totally unrelated posts everywhere linking to weight loss and similar products.

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MAY 22, 2012

Often, it is going to be more niche related areas such as forums and the blog community. Rather than promoting your products, you can promote yourself, your expertise, and your willingness to help others, even if it is simply by answering their questions, and helping to solve problems (niche related of course).

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OCTOBER 14, 2015

You can share your slideshow on social media, your blog, and in forums where your target audience hangs out. Using a service like Slideshare, turn your article into a slideshow. Make each slide a bite-size piece of information-rich content and pair it up with an appropriate graphic.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

There was no podcasting, video marketing, social media, or PPC advertising. And there were only 3,000 websites, so you didn’t have a lot of options. Over time, however, all of that has changed.

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