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Personal Branding Tip – Secure Your Name

17 August 2009 Business

All about domain names, usernames and email adresses…
Make sure You Get Them All!
I have a few new projects in the works and one of the first things I do is run extensive searches on name availability.  I search for top level domain names (.com, .net, .org) for the project name or with a keyword people [...]

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Building Your Business With Social Media

14 August 2009 Business

Why do owners fail at promoting their business with Social Media?
Because its too technically oriented, its time consuming, its a fad, its for kids, its for internet marketers, its not a proven marketing strategy, its this and its that….
A colleague and small business consultant of mine asked me to speak to a few very successful [...]

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Content is Not King

9 August 2009 Business

Listening to the quick 20 minute schpeel by John Alanis – I perked up pretty quickly when he mentioned that “Content is Not King”!
What!  I paused the video and tried to think about what he was going to say next.  Was he going to talk about that there is so much recycled content out there [...]

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Make Your Blog Interactive

26 March 2009 Business

What do you do, to engage your readers?
You hear a lot about driving traffic to your blog.  Making pretty permalinks, seo titles, keyword saturated posts, valuable content, knowing your market and of course a nice site design always helps.  So you do your research, implement all the tips and tricks and you start to get [...]

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TechCrunch Readers Over Twitter

14 March 2009 Business

Readers of TechCrunch are complaining that the company writes too much about twitter.
The TechCrunch article entitled ‘Lance Armstrong: Natural Born Twitterer caught my eye.  Not that I am an Armstrong groupie by any means, but I am an avid cyclist with a great amount of respect for any Tour de France competitor especially for a [...]

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MasterMinding and Saving Face

6 March 2009 Business

Do you ever get a really great idea?
You know one of those huge lightning strike kind of ideas that you’re convinced will change the world.
So what do you do next?  You research.  You try to find out if anyone else has thought about it.
You google everything you can imagine related to the idea.  Most of [...]

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Transparent Marketers Perfect Customers

30 January 2009 Business

Some important questions your potential customer will ask themselves when evaluating your product or service, especially in the making money online Internet marketing industry.
1. Who is this person?
2. Do I relate to them?
3. Can I trust who they are?
Yes they are many ways to make money online today from affiliate programs, selling [...]

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