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4 Must Have Mobile Apps For Small Business Owners

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In December, I wrote a guest post titled, “Mobile Marketing Tips for Small Businesses.” In short, it was about simple ways to make your website mobile friendly in a mobile world. In this post, I thought I would do the reverse and review, as a blogger/business owner, a few of my favorite apps. I often [...]

Mobile Marketing Tips for Small Businesses

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“By the year 2014, mobile internet should take over desktop internet usage,” according to Tag Microsoft. With the world going mobile, not only do you have to worry about how your site renders on Internet browsers, you also need to ensure your site renders properly on mobile browsers. With so many new cell phones hitting [...]

Best Apps for E-commerce Websites

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If you run an e-commerce website, you have likely experienced that feeling of apprehension – even panic – at walking away from your dashboard. You know how important it is to monitor your site closely so you can respond to trends or problems. From analytics to social media, you do a lot to keep the [...]

The Future of Television is Internet Streaming

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Nobody watches traditional cable anymore. At the very most, you’re DVRing all of your favorite programs so that you’re not subjecting your eyeballs to one nanosecond of commercials. If you live in or around a major city, have a job, and speak to people at said job, you most likely know a handful of pretentious [...]

Video Blogging with YouTube For Beginners

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We’ve been hearing for years that “Content is King,” that including photos in blog posts is important to grab the reader’s attention and enhance the content and so on. But now is the time to take it a step further and consider adding videos to your blog content. At a time when transparency and branding [...]

Four Sites That Are Transforming E-Commerce

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Even if your small business isn’t selling retail products online, the fast-moving revolution in social shopping on the web has applications for any company. Pinterest may be the first widely accepted social network to have figured out the money problem inherent within social media. Whereas people go on Facebook to hear and see what their [...]

Is Yelp Overrated for Restaurants?

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Yelp – your customers use it, and businesses seem to be benefiting from it. According to experts at How Stuff Works, “… Out of all of Yelp’s reviews, 85 percent of them have ratings that are three stars or higher, meaning many people come to talk about their positive experiences rather than the negative ones.” [...]

How To Create Marketing Videos That Dazzle

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With the advent of video hosting sites on the internet, such as Youtube and Vimeo, it is easy to get your marketing videos distributed. You can even self host a video from your own website. Viral video marketing is not just a way to get your products and services out for public consumption, but you [...]

25 Reasons to Put Video on Your Website

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Trends in SEO, content marketing and technology are all converging in a way that makes video a must-have communication medium. If you’ve never thought seriously about putting video on your website and this post doesn’t convince you … you’re more stubborn than I thought.   1 — SEO Google video searches are conducted when users [...]