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7 Strategies For Beating The Failure Odds Online

Startup Professionals Musings

If your web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. Engage your audience with social media. Engage your audience with social media. Social media is more than the “Big 4” of Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Do them all.

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

Duct Tape Marketing

Most small businesses can get by with a Submit Press Release 123 or PRWeb. Make sure that all of your press releases contain ways for people to connect and share in the most common social networks and social bookmarking sites. Below are a number of choices for distribution ranging from free to full service.

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5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2012

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5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2012 This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. It’s time for my annual prediction of small-business trends. 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.

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

Duct Tape Marketing

written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Friday is “Question of the Week” day here at Duct Tape Marketing. Social bookmark sites. Every day people visit sites like Reddit , Digg , Delicious and Diigo to save and organize bookmarks online.

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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.