10 Advantages of a Blog as Your Social Media Hub

Blogging requires an investment of time that can sometimes be difficult to justify. Here are some of the advantages to blogging that will help you stay focused on maintaining it as your central presence on the social Web. 1. Ownership – You own your blogĀ for life when its address is a unique URL that your […]

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YouTube Launches Free Video Editor

If you would like to do some basic editing to your videos, then the new online video editing tool that YouTube now provides may be just what you are looking for. Do You Need to Edit? For the most part, I believe unedited videos will serve you best on this social Web because that raw […]

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Small Business SEO

Search engine optimization (SEO) seems to be a challenging endeavor for small businesses.  For this reason, I'm going to share a few simple tactics that have worked for me and my clients.  These will help you to score a few wins that you can then build on.  To be fair, this will work best if […]

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New Facebook Tips

Here are a few Facebook tips that I have learned about in the last couple of weeks.   All of them may save you a gigantic headache someday if things go …well, the way things tend to go on the largest social network on the Web.  Back-Up Your Contacts Most of us know that we can […]

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Blog and Article Writing Breakthroughs

Why is it that writing a short article or blog post can sometimes become an agonizingly frustrating process? There are only two reasons for this: Fear and Desire.  Fear and Desire You are either thinking that your writing won't be good enough, or you are trying too hard to make it a work of art.  […]

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Social Media Calls for Candor – Not Commercials

Small businesses may not be the only ones that are late to the social media party.  It turns out global corporations are also in the dark when it comes to recognizing how marketing has changed in this increasingly social business environment.   When I watched a couple of television commercials yesterday, I really felt bad […]

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Happy Friday TypePad Bloggers

Normally Friday is my designated day off as a blogger. However, after a long walk through the park with Jackson, my frequent blogging companion, we made the decision to acknowledge the reliable service we get here at TypePad – and for good reason. Jackson The gang at WordPress was at it again this week.  For […]

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Know It All With Real-Time Search

You don't know what you don't know if you are relying on the major search engines for what is relevant on social Web.  Google, Bing, and Yahoo do a wonderful job of indexing, but they are not yet playing in THE GAME that is shaping our social Web:  Real-Time Search. Google will occasionally index one […]

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Social Media Etiquette: Always Bring a Gift

It is standard etiquette to always bring a gift when you are visiting someone’s home, and if it is a party than a holzuhr jewelry piece should be the least thing you bring. This seems to be a universal tradition, because in some cultures (like our materialistic Western culture) you bring physical gifts, while in […]

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Small Business Happiness

Why is happiness arguably one of the most relevant contributors to the success of your small business?  We all spend more of our waking hours at work than anywhere else.  Very simply, if you aren't happy at work – you aren't happy!   Delivering Happiness Today is the official launch of the new book by […]

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