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Monitor Your Brand Online Via RSS

RSS feeds from search results make it easy to monitor your brand across the web.

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Social Media and Retail Marketing

A viral marketing idea using social media.

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Block Russian Comment Spam In Wordpress

Configure Akismet to vanish Russian spam comments.

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Monitor Your Brand With HowSociable.com

Monitor your brand across 22 social media sites.

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Client Summit Success!

A big public “Thank You!” to all our clients who made our Client Summit a smashing success!

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Gary Varynerchuk on Technology, Transparency, and Goodness

I really like Gary Varynerchuk’s video on technology, goodness, and transparency in life and business.

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45 Web Marketing Ideas For Online Retailers (Video)

I recorded my NEMOA presentation and posted video.

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Mike Ullman, J. C. Penney CEO: Hello again!

We receive more customer service requests for J. C. Penney.

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Purple Cauliflower Is A Purple Cow

Purple cauliflower is a purple cow.

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YouTube and Viral Marketing

YouTube captures the marketer’s imagination: a huge number of eyeballs, a perfect medium for communicating messages of any length, and a user base that is nanoseconds away from your store. But how do we get them to voluntarily watch a commercial?

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With All That Traffic, Does Facebook Test Its Site?

When Facebook makes big changes that affect their users, do they test first?

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Backlash Against Facebook’s Beacon

Today’s Washington Post describes backlash against FaceBook’s Beacon advertising feature.

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How Google’s OpenSocial Can Help Your E-commerce Site’s Design

Whether your next release is a nifty widget or a workmanlike Holiday Gifts page you’ll probably want to take a look at Google’s Best Practices for Social Design.

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Google: Phones, Friends, and Feeds

Three Google news items of note: Open Handset, Open Social, and Reader share.

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CoComment

CoComment is a browser add-in that tracks responses to comments you leave on other people’s blogs.

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“I Am Hungry” Facebook App Sells For $20K on EBay

The “I Am Hungry” Facebook app sold on eBay for $20,100.

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Quechup = Spam

My take on Quechup: lousy site, poorly executed. And spamming to boot.

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“Oh, I Get Dugg With A Little Help From My Friends…”

On the social media sites it isn’t just what you know, but who you know.

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