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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Using market intelligence, Royal Caribbean identified supporters of the cruise line via social networking sites and took the opportunity to give fifty of the most ardent supporters, called Royal Champions, special privileges, including free paid cruises and invitations to special events with company executives. .&#

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Interview with Alex Brown, Author: Great and Goodness Barbaro And His Legacy - Part 1

Diva Marketing Blog

Diva Marketing/Toby : To help frame our interview, would you tell us the back-story of why you created a site for/about Barbaro? Alex Brown : I was already running a web-site for a racehorse trainer, and friend. Obviously, the blog drove traffic to the Tim Woolley Racing web site. Changing domains helped mark that occasion.

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Are You Ready to be a Full-Time Blogger?

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Read sites and magazines about your chosen niche, as well as general sites about professional blogging (like Problogger!), These can be paid or free, an online message board, meetings in your community or networking organisations’ gatherings. entrepreneurship and small businesses. Miscellaneous Blog Tips'

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Ethics in Social Media: A Glossary | Bare Feet Blog

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It’s also known as Pay-Per-Post , and traditional “fam trips&# for travel bloggers also fall into this category. On the other hand, Whole Foods CEO really crossed the line by posting on stock message boards under an alias name , attempting to influence the stock price of an acquisition. Flogs – aka Fake Blogs.

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Is it easy to tell if you are a scammer or straight-shooter?

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This was a Tweetup Treat, as Larry and I do not normally travel in the same circles. I was approached (via several urgent phone calls over the weekend), to become an affiliate of a new web site and to also have this company make a presentation at our upcoming Social Media Club meeting. Later back at home I could Google him.

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9 Criteria for Selecting a Social Media Monitoring Tool

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Virtually every social media monitoring tool worthy of the label covers the big social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter), social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit) and content sharing sites (YouTube, Flickr). News can travel extremely fast through social media. Many include at least the most popular blogs as well.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Consider focusing your link building tactics internally — that is, on your site. Think instead about social media traffic, good content, a cleanly coded website, slow progressive growth, and your site’s authority. SEO Checklist: 60 Essential Checks Before Launching a Website : Is your site ready to be launched?

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