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Guy Kawasaki offers a guide to taking advantage of free buzz from bloggers. Start by making sure you mind your manners and follow the code of conduct.  More...
ProBlogger is a website run by Darren Rowse that is dedicated to helping other bloggers learn the skills of blogging, share their own experiences and promote the blogging medium. He started it in September 2004 mainly because he wanted to keep a record of what he was learning about blogging for money. Since then he has added over well over 3500 ar  More...
Headlining NFIB's 2008 Small Business Summit is presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain. Other speakers include Meg Whitman, former President and CEO of eBay, CNN political commentator Tony Snow, Roger T. Staubach, and political bloggers Charlie Cook and Stuart Rothenberg. Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have also been invited to speak.  More...
From the page: "Trackur is an online reputation monitoring tool that has been developed for companies and individuals wanting to take a serious look at what is being said about them in the blogosphere. I can also see the possibilities for using this tool for higher end bloggers who want to track what’s being written about them and/or their niche  More...
What's more stereotypically trivial than shoe shopping? Using Twitter, of course! Online shoe retailer Zappos does shoes and social media remarkably well. Scores of bloggers, lots of video blogging and 198 employees on Twitter help keep the company's profile high and humanize the folks behind the shoe sales. Of all the different types of soci  More...
Do marketers now need to consider capitalization of keywords and phrases in order to determine their search rankings? Google documentation relating to web search clearly states that searches are not case-sensitive. They provide an example stating that “searches for george washington, George Washington, and gEoRgE wAsHiNgToN will all return the  More...
Small businesses looking to pitch their products or services to influential blogs have some help these days. A host of Web sites and free tools are allowing companies to find out who the top bloggers in their industry are, what they are writing, and how readers are responding. Being informed about what is being said can help a small business cr  More...
This is tip #2 in the series of “Blog Marketing Tips Even the ProBloggers Won’t Share” series. See tip #1: How to Optimize Blog Post Titles. In this tip, Andy Beal share's with you a practice that he uses to optimize slugs before hitting the “publish” button.  More...
How many times have you visited one of the many “professional” blog advice sites, and left with little more advice than the ubiquitous (and unhelpful) “build great content?” Andy Beal has decided to share a few of his best tricks.  More...
For small businesses that can't afford a lot of marketing, the blogosphere offers a cheaper alternative. Businesses of all types and sizes are focusing on the power of bloggers as opinion shapers. But harnessing that power is particularly important for small-business owners who don't have the money to create name recognition with big marketing c  More...
Small business simply hasn't caught on to blogs. I checked - and none out of 70 of my small business clients had one (and I'm not a blog service peddler by the way!). And I think awareness of the benefits is being hampered by jargon and lack of guidance on blogs themselves. It's a closed shop for the unaware - even when they accidentally arrive  More...
How can this be? How can A-list bloggers be churning out huge resources and intellectual debate, and here I am, outranking them all on one of the biggest social media sites on the Internet… with a bloody quiz!?!  More...
Anita Campbell, editor of Small Business Trends, asked some of the world’s top marketers, small business experts and bloggers one short and sweet question: “Please share one of your best kept marketing secrets”....  More...