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Kathy Maxwelll Why your business needs the essence of a distinctive corporate identity?

Did you ever think why the company media representatives and the brand equity managers keep staking and lay emphasis about the essentiality of owning a professional logo design to march on? Is the build up of hype about having custom design logo warranted? It sounds pretty much explainable, doesn’t it? A logo of a company is the character of the organization which marks its unique identity. There are many competitors of your business around you very near but what really signifies you is your ou… Continue

Added by Kathy Maxwelll on October 12, 2009 at 10:37pm — No Comments

Boris d. Local SEO You May Not Be Ranking As Well As You Think In Google

If you are an internet marketer and website owners you may be getting the wrong results when they are using Google. Hear is what is occurring. If you are like many marketers and website owners you may be a little bit obsessed with how well that your website or sites are ranking. This obsession likely causes you to check your search results daily or multiple times each day. If this is you the results that you are getting may be false. The problem with these inaccurate results is based on what Go… Continue

Added by Boris d. Local SEO on September 27, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

John Evans The Power of Listening

When I was right out of college and working in advertising, I thought I knew it all (I mean what college kid, or any kid for that matter, doesn't?). I soon realized that the one skill I lacked the most was listening. Being a good listener is one of the most important qualities to have as a marketer or any working professional. I remember looking at various solutions for clients and thinking I was right on, but the fact was, my solutions were solving what I thought to be the problem, not what the… Continue

Added by John Evans on September 25, 2009 at 9:46am — 1 Comment

Boris d. Local SEO Scratch My Back Marketing Explained.

Scratch My Back Marketing is based on some very simple spiritual principals. For many of us it harkens back to Sunday school sermons. It was often taught all over the world in various religious groups that it is better to give than to receive. Sometimes these teaching were called parables. Another spin on these ancient truths is that whatever you give freely will be returned ten fold. What Scratch My Back Marketing attempts to do is bring these ancient ways of life into the realm of internet ma… Continue

Added by Boris d. Local SEO on September 5, 2009 at 6:50pm — No Comments

Boris d. Local SEO There Are No Short Cuts To Social Success

I have written and posted a series of article about how to market on social media sites. Like anything some things work and some not so much. Yet, I see the same mistakes being made over and over again. I have gotten some push back from some in your face internet marketers when I ask them to stop these activities as it relates to me. So I have been making it a point to point out great articles that I did not write about the subject so as to deflect some of their criticism. I found another grea… Continue

Added by Boris d. Local SEO on June 24, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Boris d. Local SEO Social Media Done Right - A Contest That Helps Promote Your Business

A few days back, I received an interesting email from Start Up Nation. This site is an absolutely tremendous source of information for the beginning entrepreneur. I discovered this site several months back while doing some research. I liked the site enough that I became a member. The site has become a friend of sorts. I have visited often over the last four months. The site is definitely jammed with great information. They send me periodic updates. When I saw their email in my inbox I quickly… Continue

Added by Boris d. Local SEO on June 24, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Boris d. Local SEO Social Media Works… Is It Working For You?

As internet marketers may of us struggle to get a handle on how to effectively market in a social media web 2.0 world. Social media is about building relationships. It is very difficult to sell someone when you haven’t built trust through a relationship. We all get hit up by over aggressive marketers on social sites. You know, those who welcome you to a site and then start selling you something. We also get friends requests from people who have never contacted us before. With this in mind I did… Continue

Added by Boris d. Local SEO on June 15, 2009 at 8:01pm — No Comments

Boris d. Local SEO Getting The Cart Before the Ox – Or How To Do Social Media Wrong! I have recently launched a social…

Getting The Cart Before the Ox – Or How To Do Social Media Wrong! I have recently launched a social networking site in Tucson that is geared towards both profit and non profit businesses. I have also joined a slew of social media sites this year as part of The 109 Day Link Building Explosion Program. The program is based on what I call “scratch my back marketing. The whole idea is to make networking and… Continue

Added by Boris d. Local SEO on May 30, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Alice Marshall The Voting machines controversy and its lessons Public Relations

The conduct of the voting machines manufacturers has been described as a text book example of what not to do. I have decided to write that text book. So far as I am aware, this is the first time the reputation of an entire product line was destroyed online. How did the industry get caught unaware? Why did they keep making the same mistakes? How did they fail to appreciate the seriousness of the opposition? Above all, what lessons does the catastrophe offer for the rest of us? These are the que… Continue

Added by Alice Marshall on May 27, 2009 at 9:01am — No Comments

Boris d. Local SEO The Demise Of The Do Follow Lists

Just about anyway that you would search for Do Follow blogs and lists you'll find my website. It is usually in the top 3 and it has been there a long time. But Comment spam destroyed these lists. I would like to invite you to read The Demise of the Do Follow Lists. It is a good example of how selfless actions of a few can hurt many! Thanks, Urban Tucson SEO Solutions 843-882-7661… Continue

Added by Boris d. Local SEO on May 26, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

daniel molano Making money without a website

I have been marketing online in one form another for almost five years now. It never ceases to amaze me just how many different ways there are to make money online. I’m convinced that there must be at least several thousand different ways to make money online. What really amazes me is that you don’t even really need a website or technical skills in order to start to start making some serious cash online. If you know how to write articles and distribute them online as well as understand the basic… Continue

Added by daniel molano on April 29, 2009 at 5:40pm — No Comments

daniel molano How to use Squidoo to promote your site

Squidoo is relatively new web 2.0 website that was launched in March of 2006. Squidoo allows people to build web pages, or lenses, that offer unique information to visitors. Squidoo lenses come with built in income programs like Adsense and affiliate programs like Amazon and Ebay. What many people don’t know about Squidoo is that lenses have a tendency to earn top Google rankings in the search engines. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that top Google rankings mean lots of traffic.… Continue

Added by daniel molano on April 29, 2009 at 5:38pm — No Comments

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Jay Deragon How Do You Use Social Media?

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Added by Jay Deragon on October 17, 2008 at 1:07pm — No Comments

Jay Deragon Has The Economic Alarm Hit You Yet?

While the politicians fight over terms and condition of the proposed bailout plan the alarm really hasn’t gone off in the minds of consumers. When you put things into perspective regardless of what the proposed economic bailout looks like

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Added by Jay Deragon on September 26, 2008 at 1:49pm — No Comments

Jay Deragon Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?

Watching developments throughout the social web is a story of never ending change. Whether you are a newbie or early adopter to all

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Added by Jay Deragon on September 1, 2008 at 4:06am — No Comments

Jay Deragon Business Week Creates Business Exchange

In Kevin Kelly’s book“The New Rules for the New Economy” he states “The big will become small and the small will become big” The shift in power to individuals is the tipping point of enablement for the creation of new market dynamics fueled by “social media”. The big media has added “social elemen… Continue

Added by Jay Deragon on August 18, 2008 at 4:30am — 1 Comment

Jay Deragon Which Standard is Yours?

A standard is an established norm or requirement. A de facto standard is a standard (formal or informal) that has achieved a dominant and accepted position. It is usually a product, process, system, or technical standard that has achieved status informally by public acceptance (consensus of… Continue

Added by Jay Deragon on July 29, 2008 at 6:20am — No Comments

Jay Deragon Which Social Media Service?

There are 48,500,000 listing on Google when you type in "Social Media Services". There are 36,100,000 listing when you type in "Social Media Business Services. A review of the listing only five pages deep reveals "advertising, ad placement and design services" are the dominant se… Continue

Added by Jay Deragon on July 23, 2008 at 7:17am — No Comments

Jay Deragon Will Broadcast Distribution Shift?

While the term “broadcasting” means many things most think in terms of blogs, social networks and YouTube. The next leg of the social web will progress to enable individuals, groups and entire communities to establish their own “broadcasting stations” using live and on demand video. The tools are… Continue

Added by Jay Deragon on June 5, 2008 at 5:05am — No Comments

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