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Love a Local Business with Intuit
Small business software developer Intuit is doing its bit for the community and the economy by promoting a rather special program called “Love a Local Business.” Each month during the course of the program the company will allocate five local businesses a $1000 prize, or grant as they call it, with one of those five […]
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Don’t Give Up on Your Customer if Their Payment Card is Declined
Whether we like it or not, business these days revolves around the use of credit or debit accounts and if you’re involved in e-commerce you have to address this situation. It is fairly easy to establish payment procedures using these types of cards for your online business, whether you use PayPal or another authorized reseller […]
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Put the Customer First, Even When They Are Leaving You.
As we know, it’s all in the list. List building is so, so important for any online enterprise, as it gives you the opportunity to keep in touch with those ever so fleeting visitors to your site. A workable list building campaign will go out of its way to entice the visitor, offering an unbelievable […]
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Making Mistakes with Social Media
It’s such a minefield, isn’t it? How do you set foot into the social media world without making mistakes, even if you are the most hardened industry veteran? The question often asked is how do you market using social media? The blunt answer is, effectively, that you don’t! At least you don’t in the more […]
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Top Hits on Microsoft’s Bing
In order of importance, here are the top Bing trending topics of the year: 1. Michael Jackson 2. Twitter 3. Swine Flu 4. Stock Market 5. Farrah Fawcett 6. Patrick Swayze 7. Cash for Clunkers 8. Jon and Kate Gosselin 9. Billy Mays 10. Jaycee Dugard No real surprises for the number one, sad news […]
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Google Looks to Expand its Mobile Advertising Presence With the Purchase of AdMob
Google is on the acquisition trail again, announcing recently that it has purchased AdMob, a mobile advertising firm for a cool three quarters of $1 billion. Google is most definitely investing in the future of mobile marketing, touted as the next significant development in the future of Internet browsing. AdMob, being the world’s largest mobile […]
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Twitter Corporate Tools By the End of the Year
Twitter executives have indicated for some time that they are getting ready to go after some revenue making opportunities for a change, as they roll out what they promise will be a more robust, commercially orientated version of the platform. Their monetization plans have long been questioned as the micro-blogging site seems to grow in […]
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Why You Don’t Need Chrome OS
Not everything that Google touches turns to gold, far from it it would seem. In certain opinions, the web behemoth appears to be hard at work devising solutions to problems that people don’t really have. While the company is known, quite rightly so, for being cutting edge and innovative, some of the concepts and ideas […]
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Use Affiliate Marketing To Attract Customers Who Would Not Otherwise Find You
Affiliate marketing has been one of the growth areas of the Web in recent years. Sellers of goods and services understand the power of third party endorsement and know that a concerted affiliate marketing campaign could reach many more potential clients than a simple in-house initiative ever could. Anyone involved in e-commerce should consider an […]
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9 Predictions for 2010
Where were you when we welcomed the new millennium? It seems quite quaint to look back at that moment and remember our fears. Computerized technology would fail everywhere as it would not be able to adapt and recognize the arrival of the new century. Fast forward ten years and our online lives have changed beyond […]
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