Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 12, 2011

Today’s post has been a few months in the making, and a lot of people contributed to it. Now, you’re probably wondering what a “barfshiner&# is. You won’t find a definition in any dictionary, as far as I can tell, but the word came about thanks to Jill Foster and Erica Holt who, despite never having met each other (to the best of my knowledge), came together via the comment thread on a recent question I asked via Facebook and Twitter: “ Do you secretly want to puke

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Mindjumpers

MAY 12, 2011

Tweet Facebook has added a new, absolutely cool feature last night, which allow users to tag pages and brands in their Facebook photos as well as in updates. This is already know from the tagging of personal profiles. However, the new feature gives an additional “wow&# factor to the brands plus free advertising. It is a great opportunity for brands to gain more exposure on Facebook and to connect products and brands to real-life situations through the people who tag them.

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yMarketingMatters

MAY 13, 2011

UPDATE TO THIS POST SEPTEMBER 16, 2011: HOT NEWS – You can get a Facebook Page Custom URL WITHOUT 25 Likes! Just follow the steps I outline below! Continue reading… I know this may seem basic, but it surprises me how many people who own a small business and are on Facebook don’t know.

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Firebelly

MAY 13, 2011

There are tons of incredibly useful Twitter tools out there, but those are for another post. There are some fun, incredibly useless Twitter tools on the internet, as well, and you can experience the ghost of Twitter’s past. MyFirstTweet – It all started when Mashable posted a listing of the first tweets of various famous tweeters. While viewing through and reading the musings of such thoughtful scribes as Bill Cosby, Mark Zuckerburg, and… well, Snooki, it’s kind of cool to see

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 13, 2011

I remember the foul quite clearly. It was a Saturday morning and your Grinnell Tigers 8 th Grade Boys “B&# team was playing its hated rival, the South Tama Trojans. It was early in the 3rd quarter and the hero of this tale, yours truly, had just been called for a foul, and was protesting under his breath (because I didn’t want a technical.

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Mindjumpers

MAY 9, 2011

Tweet Keeping up their trend of constant innovation, Facebook launched their Questions tool in March, which we also wrote about on the blog. However, the new tool can also be very effective, when wanting to do some research among your fans. Questions work on simple voting formula based on individual choices and opinions. A simple, no cost option, is easy to implement, just involves a survey questionnaire.

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Akamai Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

Once upon a time if you wanted to start a company you have two choices. Hit up your Dad for the cash or shlep down to the bank where you.

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Direct Marketing Observations

MAY 13, 2011

Recently I was asked by a school administrator whether Facebook should be used as the platform for communication with another school in another part of the world. Great Idea but I can think of a better one and here’s why. This morning I was reading an article by David Rogers about whether it was time to shut down your website and go social instead. He measures the benefits of having a social presence versus just a static web presence.

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Mindjumpers

MAY 12, 2011

Tweet Since many people have been talking about how brands should be humanized in this era of social media, I have come to think a bit further on the subject. We want our brands to be more human because brands are made of human beings. And that also makes perfect sense! But how transparent should a brand actually be(come)? Do we need to be open about everything going on in our world, or where should we set the limit?

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Firebelly

MAY 12, 2011

No question that Foursquare’s continued usage growth makes it the most talked about location-based services for brands. It’s Foursquare’s customer focus that makes it truly appealing – customer focus from the standpoint that (a) you can focus on giving customers incentives, and (b) your customers can focus on you through their tips.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 10, 2011

Guest post by Shaun Dakin. Did you know that 69% of American voters received robocalls from politicians in 2010 ? That is up from 49% in 2008. There are 208 million registered voters in the United States. A lot of people get political robocalls (automated computer generated phone calls) from politicians. What if all those voters decided to return the favor by turning the tables on the politicians by robocalling the same politicians that are waking babies up from their naps and interrupting nigh

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Direct Marketing Observations

MAY 10, 2011

In doing some recent research and “listening” to the voice of the customer lately on behalf of clients, it dawned on me that we really don’t talk much about the “voice of the employee”. Sure we talk about employee empowerment and internal ideation at some cool sexy companies that are doing “that&# , but for most, the employee doesn’t get the type of play that it deserves.

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Mindjumpers

MAY 11, 2011

Tweet Gigaset, a German telephone handset manufacturer, has come up with a cool social media campaign called “Talk to the bird&#. The campaign includes 3 commercials in which users can see a British Gold Macaw talking on Gigaset handsets performing mundane everyday tasks like ordering a pizza. The idea here, is to promote home telephone. Later, through an app, customers can chat live with the bird.

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Firebelly

MAY 9, 2011

Below are 5 social media must-reads from last week that we wouldn’t want you to miss. How to Set Up Facebook Insights For Your Website. By Christopher S Penn Why is this important? Facebook is showing me something that no one else has yet – the social feedback loop. I create content, it’s shared, it’s seen on Facebook, and then that additional exposure loops back to create more traffic for my website.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 12, 2011

There seems to be two major philosophies with regard to link building in the SEO realm. You have SEOs who believe that link building is the most important SEO activity. Then you have SEOs who believe that content development is more important. Of the latter type, there are SEOs who place varying degrees of importance on links. So who’s right? I’m on the side of the content development SEOs.

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Social Media Marketing

MAY 13, 2011

The following is a guest post from Nick Jerome. QR codes, a.k.a. Q uick R esponse codes, are a useful way to encourage individuals to interact with a product or service. They can be used for a variety of engagement tactics including driving consumers to an ecommerce landing page, providing a coupon or giving in-depth product information. Marketing firm MGH conducted very helpful QR code user research in February 2011: As you can see, getting a coupon or accessing additional information are the t

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Mindjumpers

MAY 10, 2011

Tweet Around the 4th of May, Facebook launched a new tool in order to manage the various ad creatives that you’ve developed over time. When you go to the Creative Library , you will be presented with a list of all the ad campaigns that you have run during your time on Facebook. When visiting the site, you will be able to edit, preview or use these ads, when creating new advertisements.

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Kikolani

MAY 8, 2011

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how I chose products to review , and one of the main reasons I chose to review the ThinkCentre M90z is that I would be able to give one away to a lucky reader. I am excited to say that the time has come! Review of the Lenovo ThinkCenter M90z. First of all, let’s start with my own personal review of this computer.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 8, 2011

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 8, 2011

Maybe. you’re tired of Mother’s Day before it even got here. Maybe you’re not. It always seemed a little odd to me that we have special days for things and people we should be celebrating every day… like the earth, and women, and children, and veterans, and… … and mothers. But in a world that moves so fast that it’s tough to keep up , I do see the validity of dedicating special days to special events and people, even if card and flower companies are some

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Mindjumpers

MAY 13, 2011

Tweet Facebook is all set to be the master database and best available platform for advertising. Earlier this week, we discussed the introduction of creative library for ad manager in our blog, now we will look at another development, which has made advertising on Facebook a better bet. The new Ad Manager setting on Facebook, called Connections gives you ‘post impression data’ which is the information on people who look at your ads without clicking on them.

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Kikolani

MAY 10, 2011

This is a guest post by Brian Flores. You’ve probably noticed that there are several “Top WP SEO Plugin&# lists out there that recommend the All-In-One SEO Pack plugin. However, very few of them go into any detail about how to actually use it effectively. Most people know how to use it to populate their posts’ title tags, descriptions, and keywords.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 13, 2011

When you consider that roughly 90% of searchers click on results on the first page, and that more than 80% click on results in the top three positions on the first page, it makes sense to try and improve your rankings for important keywords. Moving a keyword ranking from the bottom of the first page to one of the first three positions can boost your website’s traffic by thousands – of course, the hard numbers depend on your niche and the number of people searching for information on

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 9, 2011

We all have issues with our web sites at one time or another. Certainly when designing, programming, developing, and optimizing our web sites we try to make sure that we follow the industry’s best practices. But that doesn’t always happen, even if you are Google. I have uncovered a few instances where Google is not following its own standards when it comes to the industry’s best practices.

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Saying It Social

MAY 12, 2011

Join me, AK Stout and Deb Evans tonight on Social Geek Radio with special guest Dave Kerpen, co-founder and CEO of Likeable Media , an award-winning social media and word-of-mouth marketing firm. Dave has been featured on CNBC’s “On the Money&# , ABC World News Tonight, the CBS Early Show, the New York Times, and countless blogs. Likeable’s mission is to help build more transparent, responsive, & likeable companies, nonprofit organizations, and governments.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 12, 2011

Photo credit: kakisky. This Feature Friday article is written by Christopher Roberts. Why does anyone bother guest blogging? What’s the point of it? Guest blogging is very important for both the blogger and the blog they are guest blogging on. Why is it important for bloggers to guest post? Many bloggers don’t see the point in guest blogging and it baffles me!

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 10, 2011

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 9, 2011

Something strange has happened to my blog Steff Metal over the last month. It’s gone a bit crazy. I haven’t done anything different. I wrote an article about the history of the Black Death , gave some advice about what to wear to metal festivals and posted some silly metal YouTube videos. It’s been business as usual; in fact, I’ve been blogging even less than usual this past month, since I’ve been busy updating my Grymm & Epic blogging ebook for the World Changi

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Janet Fouts

MAY 11, 2011

People who want to use social media to advance their professional reputation, attract business or build a brand often struggle with deciding where the line is between personal conversations and professional ones. If you’re using social media for your business, know this. People are more likely to do business with a friend than they are somebody they don’t know.

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Kikolani

MAY 12, 2011

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup. Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Blogging / Writing. Share your best post ever – currently has a collection over 30 posts that have gone viral and what the blog owner did to get it there.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 11, 2011

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