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 97th Floor has developed a great extention for Firefox. The tool is the the ultimate time saver to building powerful social media accounts. One of the secrets of top Diggers, Stumblers, Navigators etc… is being the first to submit stories already becoming popular on other social news sites. For example you can browse Reddit to [...]

What is Social Media Marketing and how do I use it to promote my business? Social Media Marketing (SMM) combines the goals of internet marketing with social media sites such as Digg, Flickr, MySpace, YouTube and many others.[1] The SMM goals will be different for every business or organization, however most will involve some form [...]

Finally some clarity on Google “sandbox” filter at Suntdubl So what is search engine trust? For the purpose of keeping things simple, I would identify a site’s trust by 3 different simple criteria: Website Age – (most importantly the first time it was indexed) Total # of backlinks and the overall age of those links [...]

For a good laugh read Top 21 Signs You Need a Break from SEO over at Small Business SEM. OK enough, now back to our regularly scheduled SEM rant. Craig Danuloff of Commerce360 makes a strong case for not getting swayed by simplistic ROAS metrics. In a series of posts he states that Return on [...]

This past weekend was PodCamp Philly at Drexel University. Even though I only attended Saturday I made some amazing contacts and learned a few tidbits of useful information. I had the opportunity to hear CC Chapman expound on audio recording devices and pod-casting techniques. He is one of the first pod-casters I followed with his [...]

1. To Network and Forge Valuable Connections At any point during PodCamp Philly you’ll share the room with at least one person (if not a dozen) who can offer you huge value or solve a significant problem for you as a podcaster. It may be a sponsor. It may be a promotional opportunity. It may [...]

Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion listed the Four P’s of Blog Marketing: Passionate – Write about issues that are near and dear to your heart Purposeful – Make sure you keep the end in mind; why are you blogging? Present – Keep an eye on what’s topical today Positional – Take a stand on an [...]

Who does your blog serve? That is the question Darren Rouse ponders in this video report. Who benefits the most: the readers or the writer. Darren says the key to sustainable blogging is a balance focus on both. Click To Play

There has been a lot of posts written about the optimal way to blog. One of the most important tips in my opinion is establishing your self in the greater blogosphere that already exists around your topic. Kristie T at the Home Business Blog writes that her biggest first-year mistake was “not reaching out to [...]