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Want to know the secret to email follow up?
TWO WORDS: Subject line.
Because that’s the only thing customers see.
Because that’s the only thing customers have the time to read.
Because that’s the only thing customers will use to decide whether or not to open it.
Because that’s the only way you can immediately differentiate yourself in the
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Do you ever have an idea for a project, and it fades into fatal mixture of fury, defeat, and sorrow before it ever gets off of the ground? Losing the motivation to stay focused on any project is surprisingly common among us entrepreneurial-types. This is is a list of how to gain motivation and get it done!
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For those of you who use WordPress for your blog (and many of you do), I’m happy to announce that we now have a bizSugar social voting button plugin created especially for WordPress.
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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.
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Ah, Twitter, the first and foremost way to quickly find out what your friends, colleagues, and mentors are up to right now. It’s quickly becoming a questionable tool in the online world. Some say it’s pointless, some are still trying to
find the point in it, and some are using it to build their networks, blog readerships, and esssentially, their
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Yahoo!'s announcement for semantic web support will change the nature of SEO in big ways. It's a significant enough advance that it would be helpful to have a different badge to identify it, so as to not fall into the lull of thinking this is just a linear extension of existing search engine diplomacy. Here's the idea for SEO++.
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biz Sugar founder talks about why he launched the site and his tips for entrepreneurs.
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If you are a business owner, you know how hard it is to connect with your customers on a daily basis. Learn how to connect on a more personal level, and create a culture around your business's brand!
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There's a brand new Google AdWords quality score metric, page load time. The new factor has just been added to the AdWords full dump of their help section. Page load time is the time it takes a web page to load in seconds. If the load time in slow, Google says it will impact your quality score. Why? Slow loading landing pages are bad for your use
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31 Days of Business-Savvy suggestions for the entire month of March that are sure to leave you feeling great about your business mindset and productivity.
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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!?!
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Michael Port video (author of Book Yourself Solid) from small business marketing seminar - funny, relevant and easy to understand small business marketing and how to talk about what you do.
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This is probably the best analysis I've seen for creating an effective call to action for your website. According to Ann Smarty, "With calls to action everything is important: the color of your buttons and supporting elements, the language you use to describe the action, the place on the page where you locate them, the additional elements that e
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