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Social Media Marketing: When the water is low…
Scott Lauri hits hard: North Brunswick Real Estate Blog
Be sure to read this article: 1rst page Organic results: North Brunswick Real Estate, to learn about how a Realtor can definately achieve rankings for city, state, real estate and other competitive key word searches by way of a properly…
Link Bait: Blogging for two audiences
Here is the paradox: you must reach your market with a message that will generate leads to feed your business.
You must also reach the geeks and journalists who may republish and link to your articles, creating traffic and search…
Manage your Google reputation free!
Have you typed your name into Google lately? What do people find when they do?
photo credit: Nils Geylen
Your reputation can be intentionally managed:
Plugin Free Wordpress Profile Gravatars - Enable them in your blog comments NOW!
As a web designer, I’ve long held the stance that it was better to have the visitors of your website upload the photo / picture of themselves to use for profiles and comments directly on your site ( local avatars).…
Should you use Wordpress to build your next website? Beginning Wordpress Basics
photo credit: Sicos
Wordpress is web software for online publishing. Notice that I didn’t use the word blog, even though wordpress is blogging software. It has been expanded to be A LOT more then that and shouldn’t considered in the same…
Multi-user Wordpress with BBPress Forums: Social Media Marketing
Our new version of MUWordpress combined with BBPress and a few tweaks turns wordpress into a social media community. Imagine the value for a Real Estate brokerage with hundreds of agents launching a community site: see :
We will be…
Social Networking and Team Building
In this exclusive preview to the “Power to the People” speech to the regional owners of Exit Realty this year, Patty Plourde, a real estate veteran of many years will say:
“I started my Real Estate sales career in 1985 with…
Everything on the Internet is New, Dying, Dead or Golden
The frist time Google sees it, it is new, new is good…
Wrist pain relief medicine big seller online: over 5,000 contacts:
Hi John,
Sorry for the delay–I’ve been swamped. Thank you for this opportunity. Below is my testimonial. Please let me know if I can make any improvements:
An amazing phenomenon happened to me last November. I was getting about ten…
Why does Internet Advertising not work for everyone?
We hear this often: these guys had results immediately, while I have been doing everything and got no results. It is true: the same people continue to succeed, while others continue to fail: our beta testers in Denver who got immediate results,…
New testimonial from AWDAuto - Advertising dollars are never well spent if you don’t track…
From: JUSTIN [mailto:JUSTIN.STOBB@VERIZON.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:16 PM
To: israel@socialmediasystems.com
Subject: My New Website
Our Social Media System site launched in late September 2007 and almost immediately we noticed an increase in customers that had initially found us on the web.…
Video Blogging in Real Time from a Phone!
This is really great: I learned how to operate this Nokia n93i (which i had to buy overseas, it is not here yet) in only a couple of hours, and this is the first video I recorded: it is already…
Washington CEO Business Networking
There is a growing trend in social media to relate real life interactions to the web, and web interactions to real life. This is nowhere more apparent than in the CEO and executive space- where sites like Linkedin and Zoodango are trying…
15 New Years Resolutions for your 2008 Website:
- I will get connected so I know it when I get a lead
- I will syndicate an RSS feed that originates at my Domain
- I will become an authority for my area and/or niche topic
- I will rank on the first page organic…
WordPress Plugins | turn blog into a social media community with forums features
I was able to create this robust setup using an off-the-shelf theme, the latest Wordpress, and a new forums plug-in in two hours flat: http://dobusinessinoregon.com/, and another where my rep has already started adding content: http://businessinthebayarea.com/:
Now the real work begins,…
Creating your own Social Networking Local Community
We recently got tired of paying for Letip, BNI, multiple chambers of commerce and other groups: we added up all that we were spending, and decided we could do better: and we did at a profit!
Enter SeattleNetwork.net: we wrote…
10 timely tips for Social Media Marketing in 2008
It is time to get up-to-date with some changes in the way a website is marketed online using Social Media:
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Do Bookmark everything you write: digg.com it, stumbleupon it, onlywire it: get the word out about your content this way!
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Ping…
Social Media Marketing Agency | The lines blur between Publishing, PR, IT, Advertsing and Consulting
In the last two years (much faster than anyone imagined) the advent and mainstream popularity of blogging, Social Media, and online video technology have turned the advertising and publishing worlds upside down.
Until very recently:
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PR was done by a…
Creating a Local Business Networking Group Online
It never ceases to amaze me how poorly planned Business Networking websites are: most do not have profiles for their members, or the ability for the members to create content or participate. If they sell advertising, the prices are rediculously…
