Koka Sexton

MAY 22, 2008

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Much ado about nothing – Viral Marketing 20,000 visitors in a couple days can’t be wrong. I specifically put the post in a low level category of my site thinking it was not worth any attention at all. Viral marketing is based on this natural human behavior.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Other than the random update that amuses me, I really like to check the links to the sites and blogs they recommend. Twitturly is different than Digg because instead of voting on our site, you vote by participating on Twitter. How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager! Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

An Enormous Opportunity The huge (and expanding) reach of social media, and its relatively low cost (at least from a production fees perspective) makes it an incredibly attractive proposition for marketers. Learn the Science of Social Like any other online marketing program, social media is widely measurable – and testable.

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Koka Sexton

OCTOBER 3, 2008

I was using Mimbo which is gerat for magazine style sites and that WP Theme just wasn’t right for the format of my site. I dealt with it for a while and tested some others on the site. How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager! Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Koka Sexton

OCTOBER 3, 2008

I was using Mimbo which is gerat for magazine style sites and that WP Theme just wasn’t right for the format of my site. I dealt with it for a while and tested some others on the site. How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager! Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 30, 2009

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Ma.gnolia Down – Price For Social Bookmarking Ma.gnolia is a very popular social bookmarking site. The obvious benefit to this is that your favorite sites are available anywhere and everywhere there is an internet connection. Jim’s last blog post.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

I know my way around the popular sites. What I found were a collection of sites and posts that spoke to my social media needs. Building an Effective Business Profile on Twitter From TwiTip: As the popularity of micro-blogging continues to grow, it’s going to become a tool used by advertisers and marketers.

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Koka Sexton

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Social media sites and online bookmarking sites are another way to explode your traffic. Like any other social media sites, your network is everything. Initially I started doing this just by seeing who else was stumbling the same types of sites as me. This is the information for September. Get some friends.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

I know my way around the popular sites. What I found were a collection of sites and posts that spoke to my social media needs. Building an Effective Business Profile on Twitter From TwiTip: As the popularity of micro-blogging continues to grow, it’s going to become a tool used by advertisers and marketers.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Besides being addicted to the constant exposure to new sites by just clicking a button on my toolbar, I have the ability to tag and share all of the sites I find. How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager! Since the last post got so much attention, I thought I would continue the process and share my latest favorites.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 6, 2009

Moments later the site when down and my darkest fears were true. The entire site is down and I can only imagine what the admins are having to deal with. How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager! Well, I was enjoying it until they announced that Steve Job’s just died. I was going to miss the keynote. What a shame.

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Koka Sexton

APRIL 13, 2010

The little geo-apps can connect with your other popular social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and can even identify friends from these other services that are using the same location based apps as you. Though the site is primarily positioned for reviews, making it an application that people can check in from add to their appeal.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 8, 2009

The site has been around for a while but in recent weeks I have been seeing a lot of activity on my profile that I hadn’t seen before. etc) and FriendFeed personalizes your data feed with info from each of the sites. Once a dormant social site that I used only for aggregating my rss feeds has now become a full fledged community.

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS SiteMeter Doesn’t Count For Traffic I manage a few different sites. I have standardized on Google Analytics for everything only because the data is accurate and it shows me really what’s going on with my site. The reason I post this is simple.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Instead of leaving the site to organic sources of traffic, I branched out and learned what I could about getting included into other news sites and found some great places to spread the word about your blog on a very local level. Here are a couple sites that I am working with that other local bloggers could be apart of.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 28, 2010

Some of the profiles were already created by someone in marketing on platforms I was familiar with like Twitter, Facebook and WordPress. In the @paragonamerica profile I focus on updates for our corporate line of software and industry news that applies to the storage market. How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager!

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 6, 2009

Moments later the site when down and my darkest fears were true. The entire site is down and I can only imagine what the admins are having to deal with. How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager! Well, I was enjoying it until they announced that Steve Job’s just died. I was going to miss the keynote. What a shame.

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Koka Sexton

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Social media sites and online bookmarking sites are another way to explode your traffic. Like any other social media sites, your network is everything. Initially I started doing this just by seeing who else was stumbling the same types of sites as me. This is the information for September. Get some friends.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

My traffic has increased and based on Google Analytics my site is up 91% over last week and I have gained keyword ranking for most of all the words I want. For example I wanted to be “THE&# site that comes up anytime someone googles Mayor of Concord. How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager! Leave a comment!

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS SiteMeter Doesn’t Count For Traffic I manage a few different sites. I have standardized on Google Analytics for everything only because the data is accurate and it shows me really what’s going on with my site. The reason I post this is simple.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 1, 2009

¬ Site O Rific #2889 January 19th, 2009 at 9:07 am Some are truly inspiring, others are just pictures of a science fiction characters? How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager! ¬ links for 2009-01-02 | hxf148 #2775 January 2nd, 2009 at 3:01 pm [.] Top Flickr Pictures of 2008 | Koka Sexton dot Com [.] ¬

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 1, 2009

¬ Site O Rific #2889 January 19th, 2009 at 9:07 am Some are truly inspiring, others are just pictures of a science fiction characters? How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager! ¬ links for 2009-01-02 | hxf148 #2775 January 2nd, 2009 at 3:01 pm [.] Top Flickr Pictures of 2008 | Koka Sexton dot Com [.] ¬

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Koka Sexton

JULY 1, 2009

I realized I had a virus/malware/rootkit when I typed something into Google and when I clicked a link, Firefox sent me to some completely different site. As I said the browser redirect virus is random so there is a chance I get to the site I wanted to look at. How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager!

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Koka Sexton

JULY 1, 2009

I realized I had a virus/malware/rootkit when I typed something into Google and when I clicked a link, Firefox sent me to some completely different site. As I said the browser redirect virus is random so there is a chance I get to the site I wanted to look at. How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager!

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Six Ways to Give Your Audience Exactly What It Wants How to Extend Your Blog and Promote Your Members with the MyBlogLog API Viral Marketing Tips and Tricks 35 Twitter Tips from 35 Twitter Users Keep the Tip(ping Point) Making a del.icio.us 10 Habits of Highly Efficient Social Media Power Users Blogger or Mind-Reader?

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Koka Sexton

APRIL 13, 2010

The little geo-apps can connect with your other popular social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and can even identify friends from these other services that are using the same location based apps as you. Though the site is primarily positioned for reviews, making it an application that people can check in from add to their appeal.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 3, 2009

That link redirected to a site masquerading as the Twitter front page. The site is now on OpenDNS’ and Google’s reported phishing lists. ¬ Koka Sexton #2794 January 4th, 2009 at 12:00 pm I think many people were not so lucky but I am happy with the response Twitter made and adding the warning to their site.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 3, 2009

That link redirected to a site masquerading as the Twitter front page. The site is now on OpenDNS’ and Google’s reported phishing lists. ¬ Koka Sexton #2794 January 4th, 2009 at 12:00 pm I think many people were not so lucky but I am happy with the response Twitter made and adding the warning to their site.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Twitterbacks is a site with a few Twitter background templates you can use as well as a complete Flickr gallery of Twitter profiles. At $75 a pop, I don’t think I can aford his services but you can see his A-List bloggers on his site. Are there any other Twitter background sites that I should know about?

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Twitterbacks is a site with a few Twitter background templates you can use as well as a complete Flickr gallery of Twitter profiles. At $75 a pop, I don’t think I can aford his services but you can see his A-List bloggers on his site. Are there any other Twitter background sites that I should know about?

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

As a marketing tool, this can help in many ways. Yes, you are right that It is good to have short urls to to mention somewhere on your site or to share with people on the net rather than to messup the page where you are providing the links for your users. How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager! over a day or a year.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 13, 2009

The only reason I keep my Yahoo ID is because they have the best photo storage and sharing site online. I added a link to a blog post on one of the images that I was using in the post and found that more people clicked through the link on the Flickr photo than were getting to my site through other means. Flickr Rocks!

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

My buddy was on the other end of the line laughing his ass off explaining that he found a site that allows you to mask your caller ID and make it look like anyone you want was actually making the call and since he had the numbers to my wife and family (we are good friends) he decided to play a joke on me. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 24, 2009

Many of the typical rules of internet marketing do not apply to a hyper-local blog. It’s not a primary focus to get people from all over the US or the world reading the site. A Top 10 online newspaper destination (comScore, March 2008), the site links news from 50,000 sources to 360,000 lively user-generated forums.

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Koka Sexton

APRIL 28, 2009

I do a bit of targeted advertising on Facebook for the site and the fan page. How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager! I have been having a hard time finding local Twitter users and they tend to find me and then I re-follow them. Yes I even have a Facebook page setup for the Concord blog. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 28, 2010

Some of the profiles were already created by someone in marketing on platforms I was familiar with like Twitter, Facebook and WordPress. In the @paragonamerica profile I focus on updates for our corporate line of software and industry news that applies to the storage market. How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager!

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Koka Sexton

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Why It Still Rocks The Competition ¬ lurvella7 #5244 January 20th, 2010 at 8:19 am Cool site and prefectly layout.Lots of informative text and updated content.However lack of videos and movies so called new media could turn down the score.Get sample here at [link] lurvella7′s last blog post. The Kindle EBook Reader ?

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