Thursday, November 8, 2012

The Power of a Meme – When Memes Go Wrong

A few articles back we talked about the power of a meme. Now, if you are on Facebook you have no doubt seen any one of a million memes come across your feed. You know the ones, overly-manly man, success kid, y u no troll… Each of these meme characters have taken on a life of their own with millions of variations on the text. You can thank sites like Meme Generator for this. Offering people the power to create unlimited variations of each meme, sites like this are literally flooding social

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The Power of a Meme – When Memes Go Wrong

A few articles back we talked about the power of a meme. Now, if you are on Facebook you have no doubt seen any one of a million memes come across your feed. You know the ones, overly-manly man, success kid, y u no troll… Each of these meme characters have taken on a life of their own with millions of variations on the text. You can thank sites like Meme Generator for this. Offering people the power to create unlimited variations of each meme, sites like this are literally flooding social

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Monday, November 5, 2012

Tips On How To Get More Out Of Your Blog

While familiarizing yourself with brand new technology is often difficult, just about anyone can blog with ease. It requires a certain degree of finesse to create a highly effective blog, but it's a skill that is easily learned by a person with the sincere desire to contact their visitors on a more meaningful level.

Add some questions at the end of your posts that will create discussion. When you leave your readers with a reason to interact, they will. Your questions should stir the thoughts

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Sunday, November 4, 2012

#45 Why Hiring A Social Media Intern Is A Bad Idea with Tyler Olson - Part 1

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Looking to hire a social media intern? Listen to this interview with Tyler Olson to learn why this is a bad idea and how it could damage your brand! Tyler Olson is the CEO of one of the fastest growing social media agencies in Minnesota, SMCpros. He has also appeared on Fox 9 news and PCWorld magazine and is a nationally-recognized speaker with 50 speaking engagements in front of over 10,000

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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Social Media - The Equalizer

Social Media is not only becoming imperative in today’s markets as a means of finding leads, increasing sales, and improving branding but is also serving as a powerful force in building trust between the people who are the business and those who would be customers. Some might even consider social media to be an equalizer that gives small businesses ample opportunity to be as much in the forefront as businesses with much larger marketing budgets.

Historically business has often been

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Friday, November 2, 2012

The Best Advice In Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a method of making your site look easier to the search engines. If you have a website or would like to have one in the near future, you should take the time to understand SEO and learn how to use it on your website. In this article, you'll learn a few valuable tips that will help you make use of SEO effectively.

A web page meta tag is where you include a description of what the page is about. Instead of just a few words like you would include in the

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Thursday, November 1, 2012

What in the World is NaBloPoMo?

Are You Up to the Challenge?

For those of you who haven't heard, November has been proclaimed National Blog Posting Month. As a means of shortening – and perhaps helping it to catch on – the name has been shortened to the moniker NaBloPoMo. While this version leaves one wondering what the thought behind it might have been, the main thought that comes to mind involves figuring out what it means to you. Come on, a national blogging month? Really? Actually, the thought behind it is

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