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No disagreement from me…

By + on November 10, 2009 in Blogging, Social Media, Technology

Image via CrunchBase …on this issue! “It’s 2009. Every business needs a corporate blog to accompany their corporate website, and every individual needs a personal blog to share their thoughts – or portfolio – with the world. My advice? Go with WordPress. Then leverage a database of 4,500+ third-party plugins to make it the most [...]

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Public speaking a competitive marketing skill

By + on November 5, 2009 in Just in case

“Every small business owner can benefit from becoming a better speaker. It doesn’t really matter if your ambitions are to sell across the desk or present across the globe, getting your message heard and acted upon is essential small business stuff. In fact, I think that forcing yourself to get in front of an audience [...]

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So You Want to Be a Blogging Star?

By + on November 4, 2009 in Blogging, Just in case

“Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has a full plate. Besides his basketball team, the busy billionaire also owns part of a media company, and serves as chairman of the TV channel HDNet. He recently competed for five weeks on “Dancing With the Stars” on ABC. How on earth does he find time [...]

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One bookmark manager to rule them all…

By + on October 29, 2009 in Technology

A recurring theme on this blog is using one one online [platform independent] tool to use or store resources. Bookmarks are no exception, although in this case I actually use two – one for public, one for private [nothing racy here -- actually is the stuff that's too boring to share] bookmarks. If you scroll [...]

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Stop doing random acts of lead generation!

By + on October 25, 2009 in Technology

“I don’t know about you but I seldom meet a B2B marketer who time to think. And it seems that the pressure keeps building as more of us seek to do more with less. That said, it’s vital for us to think before we execute. It’s not about doing more campaign activity… it’s about doing [...]

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Facebook for Fun and Profit…

By + on October 3, 2009 in Facebook, Social Media

Over the past 10 days I’ve had the opportunity to speak twice on the topic of ‘Facebook for Fun and Profit’ to LinkedIn groups Link Greater Green Bay and Link Appleton [thanks again, Mark and Stacie]. Here’s a post I wish I had in my aresenal before I did the preso — it includes some [...]

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10 ways to increase twitter traffic…

By + on September 27, 2009 in Just in case
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Persistence…

By + on September 25, 2009 in Technology

“Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. That’s just annoying. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.” Seth Godin

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Are you a ‘friend ho’?

By + on September 24, 2009 in Facebook, Social Media

Apparently I am or my college-aged son thinks I am because I’ll friend ANYONE in Facebook! My selectivity actually comes at the list level where I manage all kinds of subgroups. Here are my thoughts on the topic…

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Alltop a single page blog dashboard of sorts | B2B Lead Generation Blog

By + on September 22, 2009 in Technology

Gathering information via newsfeeds is a critical part of the inbox zero approach to email. It will help you get distracting newsletters out of your inbox and into a newsreader where they belong. “If you don’t have time to search though multiple blogs I recommend you check out Alltop. The site was launched by marketing [...]

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