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Social Media Marketing: Timing Is Everything On Twitter

If you’re looking to grab as many Twitter followers as possible, the best solution is to tweet a lot! But, if your goal is to drive traffic to your website or a landing page, you should show restraint when posting links to Twitter. Accounts that share two or more links in a hour drastically lower [...]

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Using LinkedIn as a Marketing Tool

Most of us think of LinkedIn as an innocuous networking tool, on which we list our contacts and network with others who use it. Did you know that you can leverage LinkedIn as a powerful marketing tool? This new world was recently opened up to me at a seminar by Chris Muccio, who gave some [...]

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Paid Search and SEO are Marketing Saviors for the Downturn

41.9% of retailers say paid search advertising has been outperforming all other forms of marketing since the recession began last September.  This means that interest in firms that specialize in pay-per-click (PPC) and other forms of paid search advertising have been in high demand.  Anyone can sign up for a Google AdWords account, but not [...]

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Social Media Continues to Grow in Popularity

According to a recent research report from Compete, traffic to social media sites continues to climb, as more and more web users flock to sites such as Facebook and Twitter.  Last year alone, these two sites saw over 2.1 trillion page views – nearly double from 2007.   The stats are based on the daily Web [...]

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Internet Retailers Are Officially Onboard with Site Optimization

Gone are the days when selling marketing and website design services to an internet retailer was like pushing a boulder uphill.  Due to firsthand experience of what SEO and improved design can do for their ROI, internet retailers are getting with the program where internet marketing services are concerned. Last year, almost half of all [...]

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Social Media for Dummies

The term “social media” has been bandied about by us web industry types as a catch all phrase for a number of different web technologies and sites.  These include Twitter, Digg and Facebook.  If there was a holy trinity of social media, those three would be it.  Everything else is not incidental, but if you [...]

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Digital Advertising Is Still a Safe Bet in a Bad Economy

In today’s tough economy, many business owners are searching for answers on the best strategy to help attract new customers and grow their business.  It’s no big surprise that consumers are tightening their spending due to the economy.  However, most marketers will agree that a tough economy is precisely the time when marketing plays a key role. [...]

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