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9 Killer Tips for Location-Based Marketing
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Social networking has finally become something valuable for brick-and-mortar businesses. Smartphones and location-based social networks allow users to interact, share, meet up, and recommend places based on their physical coordinates. This real-world
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Is Twitter any use for retailers?
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The growing popularity of Twitter has led thousands of businesses to launch profiles, and there is no surer way for a company to be seen as ‘not getting it’ as to not be tweeting.
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Restaurant Owner Increases Sales by 110% with Foursquare Swarm Badge Party
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How do you attract a flash mob of 150+ people to your restaurant? Offer the possibility of a Foursquare Swarm Badge, of course!
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At Balsamiq, Everyone Blogs. Join us.
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The Balsamiq Blog is my third blog. I started in 2003 with Peldi’s Little Blog in which I shared sample applications and things that I learned at work about Flash Communication Server, and ran it for about 3 years.
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Google Buzz: 5 Opportunities for Small Businesses
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Just when you thought you had social media figured out, Google has shaken things up with a new entrant into the market: Google Buzz. It’s integrated into Gmail, which means right out of the gate it potentially has an audience of tens of millions of p
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Web Analytics Reporting - Small Business Tips On SEO and Social Media Metrics
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It’s an exciting time to be a small business owner or communications professional. Why? We’ve never had more data and metrics at our fingertips. Actually, we flew past merely having data to having real-time data.
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Make Your Small Business Geolocation-Ready
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Small businesses stand to increase their local audience and further their market reach through geolocation platforms, which attach real-world locations to mobile phones. Here are a few ways companies can become part of the location tagging world of s
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How to Rank Higher in Local Search Results
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As search engine users become more savvy, hyper-local search phrases will continue to become more commonly used. For businesses, this means that your website and/or blog must be optimized for its most targeted, local keywords. In addition, it is more
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Advice from Small Business Marketing Coach John Jantsch
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John Jantsch is a marketing and digital technology coach, award winning social media publisher and author and the mastermind behind the concept of duct tape marketing, or creating ideas that stick. You can read more about him and his winning strateg
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How Much Traffic Should Your Small Business Expect From Search, Referrals & Paid Search?
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To answer this question, we looked at data from 2,100 HubSpot customers (mostly small- to medium-sized businesses). The chart below summarizes our finding: organic search avearges 67.2% more traffic than referral sites, which in turn draw 156% more t
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Google Allows Business Owners to Post Real-Time Updates on Local Place Pages
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While it is valuable for an SMB to have a solid website filled with great content, strong calls to action, a thriving blog and a method to attract the right kind of visitor, it's also important to build your presense in other channels, too. In the e
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The Socialization of Small Business
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Social Media impacts every business, every brand, and in doing so, connects a network of distributed communities of influence, making the world a much smaller place in the process. Small businesses are in fact at an advantage in Social Media Marketi
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4 Myths About Social Media and Business
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25% of small business owners said they plan to spend more on social networking in 2010, according to the Ad-ology Small Business Marketing Forecast.
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LinkedIn Adds New Ways to Browse Connections
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LinkedIn will soon roll out a nifty new contact browsing interface that should make things a bit easier for workplace social butterflies who have a lot of people to keep track of. The update adds a panel that you can use to browse contacts by thei
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CloudProfile: Social Media Optimization for Small Business
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Quick Pitch: CloudProfile is the easiest way for SMBs to get online, get found on Google, Facebook, and Twitter and engage customers. Genius Idea: More and more small businesses are discovering the importance of not just having an online presence — b
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The Building Blocks of Social Media for Business
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Where do you start? That’s the question I get often when I’m asked how to help a company market using social media tools. The people who contact me are smart. They tell me things like, “Yeah, they said we should start with a blog, and we said, ‘like
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Becoming a Social Business
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Social media interaction may have started with marketing and public relations, but as the public facing elements of our businesses started engaging in a dialogue with customers and other community stakeholders, we started to realize something very im
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7 Ways to Get More Out of LinkedIn
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LinkedIn, which recently reached the 50 million user milestone, has long been considered the social networking site for professionals. If you’re in business, it is basically expected that you have a profile there.
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