2010 January - Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog

Marketing Outside the Box

Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by Matthew Toren.

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Want to create a buzz and get people talking about what you’re doing? How about doing the opposite of what people expect. Many people call this thinking outside of the box and this is where your right brain can definitely come into play. This is where you should start saying “why not” instead of “don’t [...]

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Understand Your Traffic Streams

Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by Adam.

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If there is one thing that we would like you to take away from this blog post, it is that you cannot use generalizations when it comes to tracking and testing your marketing efforts. You really need to understand where your traffic streams are coming from and micromanage each stream, effectively, if you want to [...]

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Be Different and Stand Out

Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Adam.

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As an entrepreneur, how often have you tried simply tinkering with your price to see if you can gain just a little bit of advantage over your competitors? Truth be told, this is how we all tend to think at first reaction, as the almighty dollar always dictates a biased decision. But of course it [...]

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What to Expect From Social Media Marketing in 2010

Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by Adam.

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If 2008 was the year of beginnings and 2009 was the year of revelations, then 2010 is likely to be the year when social media marketing finally reaches its stride. It’s all about connecting and the opportunities for organizations that truly embrace the idea of social marketing are almost limitless. In fairly short order, the [...]

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Be Prepared for Publicity Successes

Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Matthew Toren.

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They say that you should be careful what you wish for and many small-business operations have learned the hard way when they seek media publicity without being adequately prepared. It simply makes no sense to crow about your potential, or how your operation could solve all the world’s ills, if you’re not prepared for a [...]

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A Charity Raises Money for Haiti Through Text Message Campaign

Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by Adam.

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We were all shocked and saddened to hear of the events in Haiti. This poor country never seems to catch a break. In hurricane season it always seem to get a hit from a major cyclone and this can lead to plenty of damage, destruction caused by flooding and an awful number of casualties and [...]

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Online Marketing Trends for 2010

Posted on 15. Jan, 2010 by Matthew Toren.

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We’re often asked where we see trends emerging and especially at this time of year, with a virtual clean slate ahead of us. 2009 was certainly a revealing year and if nothing else, helped to show us how Internet marketing is here to stay, as the industry in general trended upward during the brutal recession. [...]

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Realize the Potential of New Media

Posted on 13. Jan, 2010 by Matthew Toren.

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New media surely isn’t new anymore, although if it is new to you, you are in danger of getting behind the curve. In the space of only a few years the power of the Internet has exploded like an ancient volcano, tending to cover a company’s well honed marketing structure with molten lava or ash. [...]

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Is the iPhone or Blackberry Better for Business?

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Matthew Toren.

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Before Apple burst onto the scene with the iPhone and changed mobile communications as we know it, Blackberry, as perfected by Research in Motion, RIM, dominated the business world. You simply had to have a Blackberry in hand if you wanted to be taken seriously as a business executive and the organization ably stood up [...]

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A Picture Tells a Thousand Words

Posted on 08. Jan, 2010 by Adam.

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When you see some of the most creative infographics around today, it’s little wonder that they say that people skim through webpages, focusing on graphics, rather than getting themselves absorbed in all the text. This should tell us all a story, as while the written word is certainly always “king” as we know, if we [...]

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Send Money with Paypal and Facebook

Posted on 06. Jan, 2010 by Adam.

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PayPal has become pally with Facebook recently and you can now send money to people right from your Facebook site. All you need is your e-mail address and PayPal takes care of all the rest. Here is the link to the PayPal page within Facebook where you can get started. It seems that Facebook is [...]

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Technology Highs of 2009

Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by Adam.

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Doesn’t it seem as if the pace of technology change is accelerating? We live in exciting times as we are actually seeing the way that we interact and communicate change before our very eyes. Who is to say where we will be in 10 years time at the end of this new decade, as so [...]

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Unusual Uses for Google Wave

Posted on 01. Jan, 2010 by Matthew Toren.

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Google Wave continues to enthrall and confuse at the same time. This is a whole new line of communication and is fundamentally much more than just a revision of the basic e-mail concept, as some have said. E-mail as we know it is basically a static concept – distributing notifications back and forth, where they [...]

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