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8 Keys for Work at Home Success

Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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Working your own hours in your pajamas whenever you feel like it and never having to leave your house – and being paid for it – sounds pretty fantastic to most people! Unfortunately, working from home is not necessarily all that simple. Sure, there is the advantage of forever avoiding rush hour traffic, but there [...]

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5 SEO Musts that Even Developers Miss

Posted on 21. Feb, 2012 by Matthew Toren.

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Web developers are the world’s gift to the Internet. The average, or even above-average, human being is incapable of creating a dynamic webpage out of thin air. Frankly, it can baffle even the most web savvy user; how do you actually make a webpage effective, attractive, and search friendly, all at the same time? Even [...]

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How to Use Foursquare for Business – 8 Smart Tips

Posted on 20. Feb, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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Rumor has it that social media will overtake conventional marketing within the decade. Think about it. When deciding where to take a date for a nice dinner or using a new accountant, are you more likely to take the word of a paid advertisement or the word of your unbiased friend? If you say paid [...]

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10 Keys to Getting the Most from Your Facebook Page

Posted on 17. Feb, 2012 by Matthew Toren.

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Facebook may be a daunting concept for many businesses looking to venture into social media marketing, but in complete honesty it is virtually mandatory these days. Everyone from your eleven-year-old niece, your lawyer, all the way to your grandma has a Facebook account these days! A business presence is more important than ever, but simply [...]

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5 Blingy Things Your Website Just Doesn’t Need

Posted on 15. Feb, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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These days having a great website is pretty much essential for any type of business to succeed. Even companies without any apparent need for a webpage a few years ago, now run the risk of falling the way of the dinosaurs without one. I mean really, when was the last time you saw a phone [...]

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Directing Traffic: SEO Backlinking the Smart Way

Posted on 13. Feb, 2012 by Matthew Toren.

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Using SEO is something you must do if you ever hope to be on the top of the search engine rankings for your industry. However, SEO is about more than keyword optimization and on page tactics. You have to think about off-page efforts as well. One way to accomplish this is through backlinking. Backlinks are [...]

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Busting the 4 Most Common Copywriting Myths

Posted on 10. Feb, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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Have an uncanny ability to spice any conversation with your storytelling skills or a sparkling power to bust out an A paper for a 400 level college course in 3 seconds flat? Well, copywriting may not necessarily be for you. Writing copy means the writer must follow directions – then ignore them as needed, all [...]

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UPrinting.com: A Stand-Out Online Printing Service

Posted on 01. Feb, 2012 by Matthew Toren.

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This is a sponsored post. All opinions are 100% my own. As online entrepreneurs, it might seem as though you wouldn’t have much need for printed materials. Depending on your industry though, finding a good printer can become necessary more often than you might guess. For example, most everyone can benefit from networking and attending [...]

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Money From Your RSS? A Feedburner Alternative Worth a Closer Look

Posted on 30. Jan, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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This is a sponsored post. All opinions are 100% my own. Our relationship with RevResponse goes back to 2008, when we posted a review of their B2B Publisher Network. We like these guys, and we’re always interested in what they’re up to. So when we heard about a new product they’re rolling out that’s a [...]

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11 Proven Keys for Getting Your Emails Read

Posted on 26. Jan, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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You’ve read about the importance of having a strong email list, so you’ve worked hard to build up a big list, and you’re ready to start marketing to them. It’s wonderful if you can get your emails out to a broad audience, but there’s more to effective email marketing than just having a lot of [...]

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How to not be Scammed by an SEO Firm

Posted on 23. Jan, 2012 by Guest Post.

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Many marketing companies (those you find online and those who call you unsolicited) claim that they can do search engine optimization (SEO) for your website. The fact that they can do something that sounds so complicated is already enticing. Before paying someone for SEO services, keep this in mind… Overpriced Services At its core, search [...]

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How to Sell With Numbers

Posted on 20. Jan, 2012 by Guest Post.

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Just because consumers buy something, doesn’t mean that they are not profiting from their purchases. For example, someone who is considering buying an iPad looks at the benefits the iPad has to offer (wireless internet, gaming, easy to use interface, etc.) and decides that he or she would spend up to $800 for such a [...]

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Will an Incubator Help Your Business Take Off? The Short Answer: It Depends.

Posted on 19. Jan, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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It sounds like a match made in heaven. Entrepreneurs with good ideas but limited capital and experience meet an accelerator/incubator filled with low-cost space and startup services along with knowledgeable experts to mentor them through. Entrepreneurs get support and a community builds a stronger business environment and more jobs. It can work that way, but [...]

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JoinUniverse.com: A Lesson in Flexibility

Posted on 18. Jan, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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Determination is often a good thing, but if you’re so focused on executing your original vision that you fail to adjust your plans when necessary, it can mean failure in short order. So one of the most important traits an entrepreneur can have is flexibility. True flexibility means being able to quickly adapt to the [...]