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Markerly – Making A Mark On The Interwebs

YoungUpstarts

Those of us who use social media often will find the above routine familiar. Founded by Sarah Ware, Markerly was inspired actually inspired by Pinterest , whose bookmarklet allowed users to easily share online images on their social networks. “Instead of bookmarking an entire article, I wanted to bookmark text.”

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Social Media Matching

SoCal CTO

People seem to be missing the really big picture of the value of social media and really the Internet for that matter. They look at how current social networking sites work and how online and offline relationships currently work and make the assumption that this represents the value proposition.

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Understanding the Types of Social Media

Business Plan Blog

Social media is a great way to build awareness about your company as these sites allow community members to share their experiences with you and other members of the community. This feedback and word-of-mouth content spreads across social networks leaving an effect on your company’s image and your customers perception of your company.

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5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2012

Duct Tape Marketing

No matter what business trends are reported in the media, small businesses will always adopt them more slowly and in ways that don’t follow the hype. Social networks evolve into markets. I believe you will see a lot of content, social media-driven and otherwise, that is designed to convert rather than to simply inform.

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What’s the Best Way to Get More Traffic and Links?

Duct Tape Marketing

If you’ve built a network of strategic partners, and please tell me you have, make sure you reach out to them and offer the content for them to share in their social networks and email newsletters. You can also build a social sharing network in places like Triberr. Network, network, network.

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How to Use Press Releases to Create a Steady Social SEO PR Downpour

Duct Tape Marketing

There was a day when the press release did a lot of the work in generating actual media coverage for a firm announcing a new product, acquisition, award or some other newsworthy milestone. Once you create a press release you’ll want to get it distributed to various news and media outlets. Yan Arief via Flickr CC.

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Why My Search Engine Use Is Dwindling and Why Yours Will Too

Duct Tape Marketing

This trend highlights the marketers need to go beyond SEO and PPC and move even deeper into the worlds of social networks, mobile marketing and app based local marketplaces. Apps inside social networks are providing answers. Apps inside social bookmark sites are providing interesting reading.