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5 Creative Strategies for Link Building

Waxing UnLyrical

Back when I started in SEO there was a company that would hand out free t-shirts by the hundreds at every conference and event. I know lots of companies do this but they were doing this before anyone else was. They also sent t-shirts to bloggers as free swag. Most took pictures in their shirts and blogged about their company.

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Better Brand Stories With Mark Evans - This Week's Six Pixels Of Separation Podcast

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We go all the way back to the early days of blogging (2003-ish). He's the author of Storytelling for Startups (which is going to be updated and renamed in 2018), and is an advisor to many other companies. I've had the pleasure of knowing Mark Evans for a long while. Along with being an avid hockey and tennis player, he still writes.

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With 4 Days Before Blogger Social, I Bring You the 4×4 Meme

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

4 Jobs I’ve Had Right after college, I worked for a few months in tech support at a forex company in the Empire State Building. You could call me a blogger of many hats or a social media maven or Internet marketing consultant. I started a blog about my schwag addiction (okay, this was just a fun tidbit I couldn’t pass up!)

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The Secret To Getting Picked

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While I left journalism long ago, the feeling of choosing myself was profound when I first started this blog back in September 2003. But Blogger was taking hold and I made the choice. To put everything I would put into an op-ed industry trade piece into our own, company blog. Waiting for others to choose me. bob lefsetz.

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When DIY Blogging isn’t for You: 5 Alternatives to Self-Hosted WordPress

ProBlogger

But for some bloggers, self-hosted WordPress might not be the best choice. With hosted blogging platforms, the company hosts your site on their servers – just as Facebook and Twitter let you set up pages and accounts on their sites. Blogger (where the basic plan is free). the company goes bust. the company goes bust.

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The Hot Mess Dumpster Fire That Is Corporate Content

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My blog, Six Pixels of Separation , started back in 2003. The attempt at a solution for most companies was to either outsource their content creation or to assign the task to someone internally. Are there any brands on your list? Stop for just a second and think about that. It wasn't the first corporate blog. It won't be the last.

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How to add Social Networking Buttons to Your Email Signature in.

Saying It Social

Comment by john | May 27, 2010 | Reply It is the 2003 version, is this doable? “According to the Cone Business in Social Media Study, 93 percent of Americans expect companies they do business with to have a social media presence. Comment by john | May 27, 2010 | Reply Yes it should still work. if yes, please explain.