Ari Herzog

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Mobile Technology and Your Small Business

Ari Herzog

Mobile technology is not one thing. Mobile technology is all these things and more. In my opinion, mobile technology is the future of all communications for your business, internally and externally. They (and you) believe in the creation of the social web and mobile technologies are the key reasons for this substantial climb.

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Why Your Website Might Lose its Google Rank

Ari Herzog

Starting April 21, 2015, Google is penalizing any website from appearing in its search results if the website is not mobile responsive. This means if your website has small text, links too close together, or other elements that prevents Googlebot from reading it on a smartphone or other mobile device, you’re in trouble.

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Get Internet Voicemail from Website Visitors with SpeakPipe

Ari Herzog

You can do it on your mobile device if you prefer. Media blogging plugins tools' You can see the voicemail record button on the far right side of this blog post. Click it and a popup window will appear asking you to 1) verify you have Adobe Flash installed and 2) verify you have a microphone installed.

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Why I Never Appreciated WiFi Data Until Now

Ari Herzog

I share photos to Instagram nearly every day and it constantly syncs with the cloud; but over the past month, the app used a mere 84 MB of mobile data compared to a much larger 249 MB of wifi data. Over the past month, I used 7 GB of wifi data vs 1 GB of mobile data. Why was I paying so much for a mobile-heavy plan?

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Saying Goodbye to Digital Marketing: Meet the New Me

Ari Herzog

I lost interest in tech trends and the latest tools. Working in a tethered relationship to computers, mobile devices, avatars, and links is no longer happy. Looking back six months, I progressively relied less on social media. I checked email less. I logged onto Facebook less. I drank the social media Kool-Aid and I had my fill.

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Why Facebook and Twitter are Old News

Ari Herzog

As long as you have a mobile device with GPS identification and the ability to visit a website, you can play. Or maybe it is finally time to start talking about the pragmatic use of these tools rather than the basics. When is it the right time for you to branch out and evangelize other social tools? Not last week.

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How Social Media Changes Retail Storefronts

Ari Herzog

I see merchants show off what social networks they are on and what mobile technologies you can use inside the store. LevelUp , the new mobile payment technology that allows you to pay for your stuff without cash or a credit card, is using print marketing to let consumers know the merchant accepts mobile payments. Got a question?

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