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by Stephan Spencer
Getting high rankings with a blog is child's play -- with the right mentor by your side and tools at hand. With a few hours of SEO training, my 15-year-old daughter cracked the code on making money while she sleeps!
A search engine optimized about Neopets, decked out with Google ...
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by Gavin Heaton
Ideas circulate on the blogosphere with a ferocity that can surprise us all. Often our response or reaction can be immediate and visceral -- while at other times we need a little longer to reflect on what we read, see or This week I watched a video that made me ...
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by Andrea Learned
Given all the press that marketing to women has been getting lately, I imagine we'll see a surge of new ideas, approaches and campaigns competing for the womens' market
There will be those brands that actually read the recent articles and absorbed their point - and so talked with women ...
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by Andrea Learned
I noticed, with great interest, a brief article on the Saturn brand's "second " in Sunday's NY
Early on in the 1990s, had been a shining example of transparent marketing to women. The no-dicker sticker they were known for tended to women's ways of buying without thinking
The tagline back ...
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by Sara Holoubek
Deep-tagging video has me very excited. Let's start at the
This year, 2006, is the year that video found success online. The majority of households have the bandwidth to experience a smooth ride, and we have collectively observed that our media consumption patterns are forever altered. We can't get enough ...
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by Ted Mininni
The Food debuted a new show this past summer. Billed as light fare, Road " features the brothers and , sons of the personable, well-liked Paula –on their culinary adventures as they criss-crossed the country in search of local food specialties created by small business
Interestingly, the individual show episodes ...
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by Mario Sundar
Five reasons why Borat boldly goes where "Snakes on a Plane" could Snakes on a
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In spite of alleged comparisons to Snakes on a , I'm convinced more than ever that ...
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by Lewis Green
Not long ago, I wrote a piece called "Stupid Things Corporations Do." But never did I think that stupid could fall into the moronic range. proved me
According to a Nov. 2 AP , WalMart's revised attendance policy forbids lateness due to snow. Apparently, Forrest Gump thought WalMart when he ...
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by Jim Kukral
Did you ever read a business book that filled you with enough creative energy and inspiration to just about make your head explode– in a good way? That's what happened to me last week when I picked up a copy of Marketing by Jon . Foreword by Mark
I was ...
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by Jonathan Kranz
In Sunday's Boston , Chris Reidy's article, Experienced Musician for , addressed the growing phenomenon of famous-name music acts pitching products via songs or even TV ad
In Reidy's words, "The trend comes as advertisers avidly woo the 18-to-25 market, a coveted group to win over because people this age ...
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by Tim Jackson
As a blogging advocate and a non-stop blogging dork, I get asked a lot of questions from peers and other folks about what it means to be a good
Smart ass that I am, I am usually tempted to reply "good spelling and an endless amount of opinions," but I ...
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by Allen Weiss
The other day I was reading a press release. The company said it wrote articles on "proven tactics" that marketers could use. This got me thinking about whether you can prove anything works in
After all, you can't prove anything in science. What you can do is provide a growing ...
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by Scott Baradell
I goof off almost every day. In fact, when I'm very busy, as I have been lately, I work very hard to incorporate some goofing-off time in my
Usually it's just a few minutes here and there, between projects or during a fit of writer's block. Nevertheless, this time is ...
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by Gerry McGovern
Too often we are managed by the technology. Endlessly busy, it's easy to forget just exactly why we are doing all this
Are you an email slave? Are you a crack-berry? Are you so focused on the small screen, that you are missing the bigger picture? Have you no time ...
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by Paul Barsch
So you think you know how you are going to vote on Tuesday? Chances are both the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) know which way you're leaning as
This just politicians, and the marketing strategists running their campaigns are finally getting it–niche marketing is available ...
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by Elaine Fogel
When a private company publicizes the results of its own research study, how do we know it's for real and not just
As a contributing writer to The Business , my editor recently asked me to write an article based on the results of a study conducted by a private ...
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by Eric Frenchman
There are two interesting articles over . One looks at Evan Tracey's (of TNS Media Intelligence) prediction that political ad spending will hit $2 billion for this campaign cycle surpassing the 2004 election by The second looks at how political ads have been going negative. Both articles should have been ...
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by Lewis Green
English, of course. But maybe not for
From a article titled " U.N. English isn't good "Divina Frau-Meigs, who teaches at the University of Paris III (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle), called for 'setting up a culture whereby you can use your own language, and that will be considered part ...
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by Toby Bloomberg
Social Media Is Active Sharing That's Mike Murphy, Chief Revenue Office at definition and it works for me. Mike was the guest speaker at a recent event where he shared his views and about social media and insights about how the 18 to 24 demo views
This is the "Let ...
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by Ted Mininni
My favorite section of Business , published a provocative article on October 10th. Is Your Brand Headed for Extinction? was written by the self-described girls of , a marketing and design strategy firm that specializes in marketing to girls ages 15 to
In the article, the authors make a number ...
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by Lewis Green
Whatever happened to communicating to an audience of one? It's one of the first concepts that every writer
It goes like Write as if you are telling a story to a single person. Imagine that person sitting and enjoying the words jumping off the page and coming to life in ...
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by Tim Jackson
As a competitive cyclist for well over half my life, I constantly find myself comparing everything else in my life to specifically,
I've never really considered myself to be overly competitive, but I might be kidding myself. My wife claims that I am very, very competitive (that's probably just because ...
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by Andrea Learned
Based on the number of emails I received in the past 24 hours from friends, family and colleagues, there should be no one in the free world (and beyond!) who hasn't seen the article in the Sunday New York What Do Women Want? Just
My favorite point? The "just ask" ...
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by Andrea Learned
"Organic" is the hot label now. But just how much does a company have to change about their products to be allowed to use that distinction? Is it really all boiling down to marketing pitches with no Mark Morford's column earlier this month for the San Francisco 's Notes & ...
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by Eric Ward
Google's has a sort of new Custom Search service. As I read about it, my link building antenna started
Why? Because I'm a content , and in my field vertical engines new link and publicity opportunities. There are many vertical engines as well as tools to create them. is one ...
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