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Your Facebook Fans May Not Be Seeing Your Posts

8. December 2011

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This guest post is a useful addition to my earlier post (too many months ago!!) on Facebook business pages. It was written by Greg Allbright, and is for all FB users, not just those with pages.

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E-book Review: “Facebook Fan Pages for Business and Profit”

13. June 2011

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If you were following my tweets in late May/early June, you may have read that I was at Phill Turner’s “Ministry of Traffic” event 10 days ago, listening to a brilliant line-up of speakers teaching us how they get more visitors to their websites… and we all know, provided you have a good call to [...]

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Getting attention on the social networks

11. April 2011

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Continuing on my (slightly interrupted) series of posts on tools that I consider essential for your blog, the next is probably more a series of tools, encapsulated in one heading, “Social Media”. Of course having a WordPress website (and/or blog) is already a huge advantage in terms of search engine indexing, but why not get [...]

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Our Social Media challenges

2. April 2011

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Today I thought I’d write a post about a recent survey I did among my blog subscribers, as part of preparing for an “Introduction to Social Media” talk I gave this last week to a local women’s networking group I belong to. It’s a while since I started using social media so I wanted to [...]

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The 7 reasons why Facebook won’t work for you

28. March 2011

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Setting up a Facebook Page is fast becoming one of the biggest knee-jerk reactions to peer pressure that small business owners will make this year.  In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see it submitted as a new sport for London 2012’s Olympics! If you are out networking or reading the headlines of business [...]

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Just what is RSS?

10. January 2011

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Hi everyone Here’s a new post on an old topic that crops up regularly when I chat to my clients: what is RSS? Many people either just don’t know, or are confused by what they’ve been told… so here is a short video that I hope will explain the advantages, to both website owners AND [...]

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The Twitter Checklist For Small Businesses

4. December 2010

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I subscribe to a newsletter called “Can Do Can Be”, and the owner of the business has recently published a very good guide to Twitter, for small businesses. You can sign up to receive “The Twitter Checklist For Small Businesses” by going to this page

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Social Media – why you should be doing it!

27. October 2010

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I’ve been working on a new package for some of my website clients, to help them get started with Social Media accounts. For people not yet into the world of Social Media, it can seem quite overwhelming, and a bit trivial! After all, we’ve all heard the stories about people diarising their every move, and [...]

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How to easily Unfollow Twitter followers

18. October 2010

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Oh no! I’ve just been “blocked” by Twitter – I can’t follow any more people until I either unfollow some people, or get more of YOU to follow ME! I can hope that the 2nd option will happen… but I can DO something about the first! And I prefer to be able to take action… [...]

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6 Ways of Using LinkedIn to Build Your Brand Online

8. October 2010

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LinkedIn has fast become one of the largest and most respected online business networks.  According to Wikipedia, it had more then 75 million registered users in August of this year, spanning more than 200 countries. But how are you using it? Compared with sites such as Facebook and Twitter, it seems to be regarded as [...]

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Still think Social Media is a fad?

2. July 2010

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The (overwhelmingly huge) statistics tell a very different story, as this video shows:

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Adding your Facebook page to your blog

30. June 2010

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I’m sure many of you now know that Facebook pages are a tremendously effective way of driving traffic to your blog, with your blog (which you own in its entirety if it’s a self-hosted blog) being the central hub of all your Social Media activities. We’re all using Social Media more in our daily lives, [...]

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Videos Part 2 – The Video Salesletter

31. May 2010

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Following on from my recent post teaching you how to embed YouTube videos on your WordPress site, it’s interesting to get a perspective on the use of videos in peoples online sales letters. Many readers will have seen the recent trend towards using videos to teach, share information, sell products – it’s the current favourite [...]

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Adding YouTube videos to a WordPress site

28. May 2010

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Video is becoming increasingly popular on many websites, and none more so than YouTube. YouTube is now used for a vast number of searches each day – people looking for “how to” videos, jokes, news and much more. If you have your own, or someone else’s YouTube video that you want to show on a [...]

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