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I just discovered a new social media blog, Social Media Influence. You would think I would have known about it because it was started by my friend, Matthew Yeomans of Custom Communication.
Maybe Matthew needs to work on his social media marketing skills.
The blog is full of interesting stuff. This post about the […]

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I was having a conversation today about the importance of social media marketing with a guy who has a very big social network.  He’s all over Twitter, Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, etc. And it occurred to me that the size of your online/wireless social network and the influence you hold over it is […]

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Under the “Why Didn’t I Think of That Category” check this out:
These guys deserve a link for this one.  Check out their social media marketing blog.

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In a previous post I stated that Facebook Local could end up being a very important marketing opportunity for you business. Since then, thousands of businesses have created Facebook Pages - simple templates to create a page about your service that can be promoted via Facebook’s social network.
In principle the more networked your business’ […]

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It’s always nice to see a wacky idea you throw out there take wing.
Last month I wrote about how local businesses could market themselves on their local Freecycle group. Today I was talking to Matt McGee, Mr. Small Business Marketing himself, who relayed a story about how his wife, a realtor, took my advice […]

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As you may know there have been numerous sightings this week of expanded Google Local results in Google’s Web Search. Previously when Google detected a local search they were displaying 3 Google Local business listings before the organic results, but now they are starting to show ten. So that’s why all those yellow […]

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There are so many Web tools and sites to help you market yourself locally that it can make your head spin. The best ones are easy to understand and use, like Meetup.com. For those of you who are looking for simple, inexpensive ways to reach your target customers, Meetup could be just the […]

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If you want to see an example of a really hard-working blogger who writes exceptional articles on Internet marketing I suggest you check out Tamar Weinberg’s Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007. It’s an exhaustive list that should provide any Internet marketer with enough reading material for all of 2008. Here’s a […]

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