Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam – How To Spot A Spammer On Pinterest!

Spotting a spammer is pretty easy. Most of them do not even try to hide their nefarious activities, screaming at us to BUY, BUY, BUY and generally making marketing hard for the rest of us marketing pros. With a new social media platform coming on scene with a lot of fanfare like Pinterest has, OF [...]

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Internet Marketing – How Important Is A Website These Days?

So we do internet marketing and we get a lot of questions about websites, websites versus blogs and whether they are important anymore with the advent of social media. So let’s break down the bits in a way that my small biz peeps will be able to understand!!! Having a hub…first off, let’s talk about [...]

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Great Display Banner Ads Examples – What Makes A Great Display Ad?

I was searching the internet looking for examples of great display ads examples and couldn’t find much using a google search. With that in mind, I thought that I would compile some of my favorites with why I like them. The reason I was looking for ads was not necessarily for making “ads” ads, it [...]

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Social Media Marketing – What You Should Be Doing Now

Social media marketing is HARD! I have never worked with a marketing platform that changes more than this giant kerfuffle of sites and places that you need to have a presence on, oh and they change it constantly so that you have to be on top of what you should be doing now! A little [...]

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Entrepreneur Marketing – Preaching to the Converted

Entrepreneur marketing is hard enough, but no one will really tell you what you are doing wrong. I KNOW, having spent hundreds (maybe thousands) of hours talking to, coaching and teaching entrepreneurs. Now, just so you know, my kind of entrepreneurs are solopreneurs, small companies and direct sales and network marketing people, not those hard [...]

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Entrepreneur Marketing – Branding and Internet Marketing Verbs (Eponyms)

Entrepreneur marketing is all about getting your branding out there. Recently there have been a whole rash of new internet marketing eponyms that are actually verbs! Not to get all grammar-y, but in today’s post we are going to be talking about nouns and verbs. Nouns and verbs (according to Websters Dictionary) are: Noun: any [...]

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Why You Should Put Pictures In Your Blog Posts – 2012 Update

When you are busy and need to pound a blog post, it is easy to ask yourself why you should put pictures in your blog posts. They are hard to find legally (no stealing!) and sometimes, unless you are a graphic artist, you cannot find exactly what you are looking for which takes even more [...]

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Email Marketing – How Often Should You Send Your Newsletter?

Email marketing is much less effective then it once was. I hate to say that, but it is true! Think about your inbox…when email first came out you got that message that “you’ve got mail” and bam, you were ready to open it right away. Today you have a million messages, 20 texts, voicemails and [...]

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