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DECEMBER 31, 2013

Simply hosting a chat session on Twitter can boost your brand and lead to new business. Invite a celebrity or a well known person in your niche to host the chat or be a guest. Social media branding is powerful and can build a good business following with the right promotion and energy behind it. Use a service like Tweetchat.

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MAY 27, 2015

Lizerbram, “DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) states that if you own the copyright to a piece of content, such as written copy, images, or videos, and someone uses it online without your permission, you can send a takedown notice to the hosting service. The service will then take down the offending content.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

That will force many smaller companies to live inside the Google ecosystem, with Google ranking the Google-hosted pages/products/locations for those companies, so that they can serve ads against them and get a bigger slice of the revenues. If you ask me, I think that’s pretty cynical. Maybe I’m naive. What are your thoughts?

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

covers everything you need to know, from choosing a theme & writing a script to hardware, software, hosts & directories. Search Engine Journal just came to the rescue with Albert Costill’s addition to their Content Marketing 101 series. What Do I Need To Do A Podcast? It is a great way to start researching the idea.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Advice I’ve given in the past is the same advice that most small business marketing consultants give: Buy a domain name, pay for hosting, set up a website, etc. I’ve changed my thinking over the years about how small businesses can make that first all-important step to achieving an online presence.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Take pictures of special events you host or attend and upload those. Take pictures of your staff interacting with customers and upload those. Take pictures of your staff and employees doing their jobs and upload those to Pinterest. There are a lot of ways to have fun and make Pinterest interesting. It doesn’t have to be all about you.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

Piwik is so flexible you can install it on your own server or host it on Piwik’s servers. Export your data in a variety of formats, including Excel, PHP, Json, and XML. Compatible with a variety of servers, including Windows, Apache, Linux, IIS, MacOS, Solaris, and more. Am I saying Piwik is the solution you need?

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

In some cases, a government office’s website might be taken off line because they can’t pay for hosting and other services. In that case, if you do a fair amount of research using these government websites, then you’ll have to put that research on hold for the time being.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Host a free Webinar to discuss a topic of essential interest to your target audience. Sponsor a contest and offer to give away a product or service to the winner. Take several of your most popular blog posts, convert them into a PDF file and distribute it through Scribd and Issuu. Answer questions on Quora.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Host a live Google Hangout for your customers and get their feedback on your products and services. Have product giveaway contests that require sharing through social media. Place QR codes at the bottom of your receipts. Create a mascot for your business and give it a back story. There are plenty of other things you can do, as well.

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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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MAY 15, 2014

Meeting those needs by hosting a fundraiser, for instance, can accomplish more than a charity event because it strengthens ties with your local zone. How much do you interact as a business with the community where your building is located? When you are interactive with your community, you are doing what only your business can do.

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APRIL 26, 2013

YouTube is the most popular video hosting and sharing website. Since 2005, however, social media has taken on a much greater importance. Instrumental in that growth have been such sites as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Pinterest. The other three have been main purveyors of powerful images.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

You can be the host and the star of your own self-organized event while forging strong local relationships with people you met on Twitter, one of the world’s largest social networks. Tweetups – Tweetups are Meetups for Twitter users. If you are active on Twitter and have a loyal local following, why not invite them to a Tweetup?

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

There are any number of ways you can do that–host an event, jack the news, or promote from within. Those inbound links will boost your search rankings. Do Something Newsworthy – There’s no better way to get free publicity than to earn media attention.

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DECEMBER 16, 2015

You should link builders, content promoters, analytics experts, paid advertising professionals, and a host of other members on your team with their unique specialties. Content marketing is a team sport. Not everyone is going to be a creator. They all need to work together. Does your content marketing team possess these qualities?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Copyblogger podcast radio host Robert Bruce interviews Copyblogger CEO Sonia Simone about privacy and other content matters. So the question is, is privacy important for marketers and small business owners? I think it is. Here’s the best way to think about this. Your clients don’t want you to sell their private information.

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APRIL 3, 2011

Their Super Bowl commercials with scantily clad women have upset some people despite the Web hosts increasing business as a result of the advertising. » GoDaddy: Good Marketing Or Reputation Problem? GoDaddy has been the center of controversy before. But recently, the company has taken controversy to a new level.

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MARCH 25, 2015

host a community event. Here is his list for links that will drive referral traffic, build brand visibility, and build your reputation: create controversy and get in the news. get contest nomination links. get eco-friendly links. sponsor a meet-up group. sponsor or donate to local clubs or organizations. create and promote a local resource.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Host an event — I like Erin’s idea of a “thank you” networking event for old, new, and potential contacts. Join a chamber — these local business and professional organizations are good ways to network and become acquainted with your peers. Check around and see what’s available in your area.

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MARCH 11, 2012

Consider this approach to social media marketing: YouTube – YouTube has grown from being a simple video hosting service to a social media site in its own right. What are those faces? People can follow those who publish videos that interest them.

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APRIL 20, 2011

Let’s see – there’s Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and a whole host of other websites that have both a global reach as well as a local reach. So what is meant by social media? 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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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Start with a quality host and half the battle is won. Locking your customers data away is not difficult – it’s even easier if you use third party billing systems, and only keep the minimum customer data necessary. Your website is no different. Small businesses are easily destroyed because of holes in their security.

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APRIL 11, 2012

Why pay for hosting, a domain name, and perhaps even website design? Because they serve no other purpose than to ‘have a presence on the web’ The business owners who have put these sites up would most likely admit to never having had a legitimate lead coming from their ‘web presence’ So why do they do it?

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APRIL 18, 2012

I know from personal experience, if I am visiting a website for the first time, and I see a host of spelling mistakes, it immediately raises concerns as to the good standing of the business behind that website.

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APRIL 5, 2013

But did you know you can host a Hangout and record it live on YouTube? One of the fascinating things about Google+ that few people are aware of but that is a powerful tool for business is Google+’s Hangouts-on-Air. I’ve written about Google+ Hangouts before. If you have a YouTube channel, this is a golden opportunity.

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APRIL 10, 2012

Often, there is little you can do except harass your hosting company. An up market monitoring service will also call you on any number you designate letting you know when any serious issues arise.

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MAY 29, 2012

That’s a domain name, hosting, a decent web site and blog thrown in. Many business owners have a misconception about the cost of setting up an online presence. It doesn’t cost tens of thousands, you can set up a reasonable online presence for around a thousand dollars.

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MAY 11, 2011

That makes it infinitely more valuable than most free web hosts. You can see how many people are viewing your profile and where they’re coming from, plus which of your websites they are visiting from About.Me. Bottom line: I wouldn’t rely on About.Me

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MARCH 11, 2011

Whether you have an idea for a small business video show or a new form of YouTube entertainment, you can learn all about camera angles, lighting, storytelling, promotion, and pick up a whole host of skills necessary for running a new media hit. YouTube is one of the top video marketing and video sharing websites online.

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APRIL 16, 2011

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JANUARY 13, 2015

There is a good way to take an event your business hosts, like a workshop or seminar, and turn it into a lot of opportunities for SEO. Think of it as a big box of stuff you can unpack, label, and put where it can be used. Unpack The Content From The Event. There has been a lot of information generated for your event, right?

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

Moz’s Rand Fishkin hosts a video Whiteboard Friday every week in which he explains how certain SEO practices work. What I like about those videos is that he often gets deep into the weeds with practical SEO advice. This week he talks about republishing old content.

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