Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg–Will We Forgive Him?

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Along with every other digital marketer on the planet I have a Facebook Account, and I have positive and negative opinions about Facebook. Unlike thousands over the past few weeks, I’m not about to attack Mark Zuckerberg for his indiscretions! I’m not as naive as to expect any human being to be fault-free. But I [...]

LinkedIn–What’s it to You?

Is LinkedIn the Career or Business Tool You’ve Been Searching For? LinkedIn started out as a website with a focus on professional networking and has remained true to its essence despite the rising popularity of social media websites like Facebook and Twitter, where the emphasis is purely on ‘having a good time.’ Used properly it [...]

Can Your Customers Trust Your Brand?

OK don’t answer that. I want you to think about it. What made me want to ask such a question? The following headline. Edelman survey: Trust in all media plunges! You can read more here. Quite simply it makes me so sad: sick to my stomach in fact.The results of this survey indicate that the [...]

Social Media Focuses on Humanity

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Wow! Why is it that all the disasters seem to happen in January, or right at the end of December so that all of January overshadowed by them? Using Our Skills to Help… The SEO community, along with all the other communities on Twitter, Facebook and other social media channels, quickly started using whatever skills [...]

Using Social Media for Reputation Management & Brand Building

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Brand-Building & Reputation Management If reputation management is a headache you’re already encountered, or if you’re one of the many businesses where your reputation could be attacked through no fault of your own, then you should prepare yourself to get busy on social media. The many social media channels are a proactive reputation management gift [...]

Arab Crunch Gets Funding: Prepare for Phase II!

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Indicating that great things are expected for Arabian startup Arab Crunch, Ex-Vice President of Yahoo, Basil Ojjeh has invested an undisclosed sum, expected to launch Arab Crunch to assured stardom on the Internet. Arab Crunch owner and CEO, Gaith Saqer  is about to hit paydirt. The fact that an ex-Yahoo exec is willing to play [...]

Social Media Expert’s Social Media Confession!

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I hate to admit this but… This is going to have to be one of my occasional posts about me. If you’re not new here, you may have noticed I haven’t posted for a while. I’ll be painfully honest with you: I’ve been thinking seriously about what it’s all about online, with social media and [...]

Competitive Analysis: What you need to get in front of competition!

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Ever heard that you need a plan to get ahead? It’s sometimes exceedingly tricky to formulate a plan though isn’t it? Luckily, in online business it’s really easy to formulate a plan to get ahead in your niche–whatever that is. Finding Your Niche Competition First you need to identify those websites that are ahead of [...]

Failproof Facebook Strategies for Growing Your Business

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It’s time to start taking social media seriously if you haven’t up till now. I’m going to take a look at all the major social media sites in a new series: Social Media for Business. As I predicted at the beginning of the year, social media is becoming more and more important as a business [...]

My Predictions for Online Marketing in 2009

‘Change’ seems to be the predominant keyword for 2009. Changes are being felt on every level, and despite the slump, and despite the terrible start to the year I feel that many of them are positive ones. OK, to start with I spose you’re wondering why I didn’t just say ‘my predictions for SEO in [...]

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