To all CompuKol Followers we wish you a Happy and Healthy New Year!
May you have lots of Retweets, Fans, Likes, +1, and Followers in 2012.

Turning Fans and Followers Into Clients

Anyone who is in business knows that it isn’t always easy to convert social media fans and followers into actual clients. Sometimes, it is a lot less difficult to acquire fans and followers than to turn them into clients.

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Getting the Most Out of Twitter Content

The first thing that you have to establish when it comes to Twitter is what it is actually doing for your business. If you don’t thoroughly understand how Twitter works, you may not be able to leverage it properly.

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Social Media Questions That Business Owners Ask

As a business owner, it isn’t necessarily easy to decide which social media channels work best for your business. There is so much information from which to choose and each one offers different innovative features. You need to choose wisely.

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Earning Attention Rather Than Demanding it

You have a great deal of information to share with others. You don’t want to force it on others. You want to earn their attention instead of demanding it. Earned attention is a building block of a sustainable relationship.


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Recognizing Affiliate Marketing Scams

Many people don’t truly understand affiliate marketing although they are familiar with the term. Affiliate marketing is marketing that rewards affiliates of a particular business as a result of that business’s marketing efforts. Some are legitimate and some are not.

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Forging Stronger Business-to-Business Links With LinkedIn’s Company Pages

LinkedIn now has more than 100 million professionals worldwide, potential clients for small businesses. If you have a LinkedIn profile, follow these steps to take advantage of recent changes to LinkedIn and create your Company Page today.

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Building an Inbound Marketing Strategy

You are used to traditional marketing but people are talking about inbound marketing. With traditional marketing, you pursue your customers. With inbound marketing, you get your customers to come to you. Because they come to you willingly, they are prequalified.

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The Science Behind Email Marketing

When it comes to marketing to customers, especially through Emails, there is a solid concept behind which days are the most effective and why. Many people have different approaches and what works for one business may not work for another.

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Heredity Influences Your Approach to Social Media

When it comes to online interactions, just like any other interactions, your personality is a strong influence on your ability to be successful. Your personality, with all of its traits, is a huge influence on how others respond to you.

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Driving Traffic With Off-Page SEO Tactics

If you have any knowledge of what makes your web presence successful and effective, you know that search engine optimization (SEO) is an important part of it. There are different tactics that you can use. On-page tactics and off-page tactics.

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Earning Valuable Attention for Your Business

There is a whole lot of online garbage that comes to you via the Internet. When you get garbage, your first inclination is to press the “delete” button ASAP. On the other side, you want your content to be valued.

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Praising Twitter as it Deserves

There are many really great reasons for you to be active on Twitter. By now, you realize that Twitter is a wonderful business tool that will help you to become even more successful in your business. Let’s discuss the advantages.

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The Necessity of Elevator Pitches

Since 2008, when the US economy seemed to hit rock bottom, many people were forced to consider new ways of earning a living. Many opened their own businesses and introduced themselves to other business owners.

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Educating Our Children About Social Media

There are all sorts of social media tools that are made especially for our younger population. It is a really excellent idea to get our children used to using social media from early on.

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Doing Fabulous Facebook Marketing

Millions of people use Facebook for business and for pleasure. You realized long ago that Facebook can be leveraged very effectively for business and you have reached out to many people through Facebook. People who are worth the interaction.

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Doing Fabulous Facebook Marketing

Millions of people use Facebook for business and for pleasure. You realized long ago that Facebook can be leveraged very effectively for business and you have reached out to many people through Facebook. People who are worth the interaction.

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Getting Back to Basics With Social Media

Social media has been around in one form or another for a very long time. The advances in technology are astounding at times and seem complicated. It’s time to get back to basics.

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Social Media and Email – a Winning Combination

There are those who believe that social media has taken over the power and impact that Email once had when it comes to marketing. That is absolutely not true. In fact, social media and Email work extremely well together.

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Turning Data Into Content Through Social Media

Data as it relates to your business can be used in several ways and serve many different purposes. From a marketing perspective, data can be turned into content and published and syndicated.

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Making Your Social Media Efforts Work

When you first started to use social media for your business, you weren’t sure how long it would take to achieve results. Some time has passed and you need to really make it work.

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Writing Content That Gets Noticed

You have been blogging for some time now. Since you started, you feel that you have established a momentum. However, your content isn’t getting as much as attention as you want. You need get it noticed by more people.

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RSS Feeds for Your Blog – Long or Truncated

Your blog is extremely important to you and the Real Simple Search (RSS) feed is a critical part of the success of your blog. All blogs come with an RSS feed for your readers and you can choose truncated or full.

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Social Media in the Mainstream

When social media was first introduced, it was on the fringes. However, it started to gain momentum very quickly and before you knew it, it was in the mainstream. At this point, it is on everyone’s lips.

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LinkedIn Connections – Quality vs Quantity

At this point in the social media world, it is clear that LinkedIn is a heavy hitter when it comes to effective communications. People feel that LinkedIn is a very powerful channel for business; however, not everyone uses it effectively.

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Writing Content and Tweets That Market

The content that you share online is informative, educational, and valuable. However, it can also come from a marketing angle. Although your interactions with other people through social media are all about building relationships, ultimately, people will buy from you.

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Finding Effective and Compelling Blog Topics

If you are going to continue to blog indefinitely, you are going to have to continue to come up with exciting, effective, and compelling topics that will hold the interest of your readers. Your creativity will be tested.

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Why eNewsletters Are Important for Your Business

You may be wondering why you bother writing your eNewsletter every month and sending it to your list of recipients. Maybe more and more people unsubscribe each month. You may not understand why you need to continue to send it.

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Social Media Marketing Tools for Listening

“Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.” Chip Bell. Listening, whether it is life or in business, is a skill that is necessary for any kind of success. If you are always talking, you are never listening.

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Making Social Media Sing for You

You have been using social media channels for your business for quite a while now and in the beginning it seemed exciting and progressive. Now, you are feeling like it is getting stale. You need to make it sing again.

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How to Become a Subject Matter Expert

As you are building your online reputation, one of the key elements that you need to establish is your position as a subject matter expert (SME). You need to go from anonymity to respected and credible expert.

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The Power of Color In Doing Business Across Cultures

People react to other people emotionally. When it comes to people in networking situations, they connect with other people on that same emotional level. On a subconscious level, colors play an important role in human relationships and the integration of specific colors cause people to react in certain ways to others. For example, blue has a calming effect on people. If your colors are very neutral (beige, for example), other people may think that you are not a person of strong convictions.

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Making Sure That Your Web Presence is Social Media Friendly

Your web presence is of vital importance to your business. It is a well-established fact that content is at the heart of your web presence. You need to write content and you need to share content with others easily.

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Making Valuable Networking Connections

Plan to include more time to network with fellow professionals and potential clients this year. The more you network, the more connections you will have and the stronger those connections will be for your business.

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Making Yourself Visible Online

If you aren’t sure about your visibility online, an easy way to check is to Google yourself. That will tell you a great deal about what other people see (and if they see you at all).

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Social Media vs Social Networking

The definition of social media is the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. Social networking, on the other hand, is a social structure with people who are joined by a common interest.

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Building Credibility in the Beginning of Your Business

When you first go into business, people don’t know who you are, how you do business, which values and ethics you hold dear, and the quality of your products and services. You need to build credibility as quickly as possible.

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Social Media Usage Across Cultures

With globalization, we have seen an increase in usage of social media everywhere. Having the ability to reach people worldwide has so many advantages and opportunities. It adds a whole new level to how business can be conducted.

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Defining Your Social Media Avatar

Avatar is defined as manifestation, appearance, or incarnation. In terms of social media in today’s world, your Avatar is your identity. You choose to make your Avatar whatever you want it to be. It is what you project to others.

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Social Networking -The Three Cs

Social networking does a great deal to enhance your professional and personal experience online. Personally, it allows you to connect with others easily. Professionally, it helps you to develop relationships. It is about creation, curation, and consumption.

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Creating Loyal Relationships Through Social Media

No matter what your business represents and what you are offering, you should still have goals and objectives. One of those objectives must be to build loyal relationships and social media helps.

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Handling Your QR Code Marketing Successfully

QR codes have become an important part of the success of your social media marketing campaign. There is a growing understanding that they are important. However, it is one thing to understand the importance and another to use them correctly.

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Globalizing Your Business Using Social Media

For all businesses that have an online presence, the two critical elements to address when it comes to going global are money and chance of success. If the answer to either is “no,” you might want to think twice.

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Make Me Follow You on Twitter

It is easy to decide to follow people on Twitter but getting people to follow you can be a bit more challenging. There are several things that you can do that will get people interested in following you.

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Valuable Mobile Apps for Your Social Media Campaign

Your mobile device has become more critical to your business lately. Many of the apps that you use are helpful but you want to really expand your list of apps that will be useful for your social media marketing campaign.

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Ways to Avoid Coming Across Like a Salesperson

On your journey to build relationships, you have developed a substantial web presence by sharing your content and interacting with your online connections. You share in order to help. Always avoid giving people the hard sell no matter what.

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How to Get Quicker and More Relevant Email Responses

Everyone has Email. People use Email many times throughout their work day. Email gives people important information and enables everyone to progress in their work. What do you do when you send an Email and then you wait and wait.

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Your Online Reputation – You Should Be Proud of it

If someone were to search for you on the Internet, what would they find? Would they find things that make you look good or bad? Your Internet persona is extremely important and protecting it is critical to your success.

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Facebook Contests – Using Them to Expand Your Audience

The concept of contests through social media to build business has been around for a long time. The murky part is exactly how you leverage the contests to work effectively for your business. Getting people to participate is no problem.

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Effectively Managing Your Twitter Time

By now, most people are aware of how effective and lucrative Twitter can be for business. It allows you to interact instantaneously and you start to build relationships and keep building them. However, you can’t tweet all day long.

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Causing Your Brand to Stand Out From the Competition

If you want to succeed in business using social media, you need to get people to notice you and your brand. It is especially important if you have a product or service that is not as unique.

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How to Select Keywords

Keywords are essential to your business. Without appropriate keywords, people won’t be able to find you because the search engines won’t list you. Therefore, if you want your business to succeed, you must use the most relevant keywords possible.

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Leveraging Your Web Leads

As a business owner, you want to acquire as many high-quality leads as you can. Once you have gathered those online leads, you need to figure out how to leverage them so that they give the most benefit to you.

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How to Play Nice Online

In your frequent and regular interactions with customers online, there are ways to behave and ways not to behave. The relationships that you share with customers are critical to the success of your business. No matter what, be nice.

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The World of Inbound Marketing

Inbound Marketing is a term that you have heard many times over the last few years. Basically, Inbound Marketing is the opposite of traditional marketing. Instead of going after your prospective clients, you get them to come to you.

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How to Promote Your Content Online

Writing compelling and beautifully expressed content is critical to the success of your business. However, that is only half of your success formula. The other half is sharing the content with as many high-quality connections as possible.

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Managing Your Online Reputation Effectively

Your business is a tremendous source of pride for you. You have products and/or services that are valuable.You are making an extremely valuable contribution to the marketplace. Something happens. How do you make sure that your good name isn’t ruined?

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Why You Should Be on Twitter

It is time for a refresher course on Twitter. There are many social media strategies behind Twitter’s use for business and why it is effective and valuable for your business. Revisiting Twitter basics is a good idea.

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Using Transparency to Increase Business

Now that social media has been around for a while and so many people are using it for business, it is quite apparent that it has a tremendous amount of power if used in an appropriate manner. Transparency is key.

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Your Perception of Social Media Marketing

The use of social media and social networking tools is widespread and very popular across the universe. Of course, it is one thing to use social media to communicate and interact and it is quite another to strategize with it.

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How to Engage Your Facebook Audience

You have become more heavily involved with Facebook for your business. Your approach is consistent and methodical. You share content with your Facebook fans three times a week, every week, on a regular basis. Now they need to be engaged.

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What to Ask During a Website Assessment

Many people have a website. Fewer understand if their website is actually effective. Having it assessed to answer that question is an excellent idea. It is important to be prepared for the assessment with intuitive and effective questions.

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Monitoring Your Social Media Mentions

In business, if you want to achieve success through social media, it is not enough to simply be connected to the various (and most popular) social media channels. People need to notice you and speak about you to others.

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Creating Sticky Branding for Your Business

In this world of quick messages and short, satisfying spurts of content, the immediate impression is the often the one that endures. If your branding is memorable, people will remember it forever. That is what sticky branding is. Branding that endures.

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Social Media Marketing Defined

Social media marketing is in addition to integrated marketing communications plans. Integrated marketing communications is a multifaceted,organized marketing and advertising approach that organizations follow to connect with their target markets. Social media marketing programs usually focus on efforts to create content that draws attention and encourages readers to share it with their social networks.

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Why Blogging Is so Important to Your Business

It seems like everyone has a blog nowadays. Millions and millions of people are also connected to the various social media channels. There are those who feel that it has to be one or the other. They are both critical.

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The Interaction of Bloggers and PR Experts

Bloggers have a tremendous amount of power in the business world today. If things go wrong, public relations, marketing, and advertising experts may find themselves to be the subject of blog articles. They really need to play nicely together.

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Leading Social Media Tips for Business

Correct use of technology and web tools can be executed in order to assist any kind of social networking research. Profitable results can be easily achieved from social media campaigns if the professional carefully follows important social media tips.

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The Power of Testimonials to Draw New Clients

You have a web presence but you don’t have testimonials from satisfied clients. Without testimonials, which are a great part of your credibility, people will be reluctant to interact with you and will certainly be reluctant to buy from you.

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The Power of Humor in Blog Writing

There are many different ways to separate yourself from the crowd when it comes to blog writing. One of the most effective ways is through humor. People love humor and generally react to it with interest.

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How to Avoid the Hard Sell in Your Content

You have established yourself as a subject matter expert in your niche. People continue to read your content because it offers answers to their problems. What they don’t want from you is to do a hard sell on them.

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Social Media Campaign Strategies That Work

Success takes time. Social media is an ongoing effort that requires a lot of meticulous planning and a sustained effort toward the predetermined objectives. The rules of such campaign are not defined and hence, some of the possible and effective strategies that can be made for a social media campaign.

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The Benefits of Guest Blogging

Blog content is an amazing way to give you increased exposure and a rich online reputation. The more blogs you offer on various topics, the more people will want to pay attention to what you are saying and doing.

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Establishing Your Web Presence Without a Website

You are just launching a brand new business. Your budget is severely limited. You don’t have the few thousand dollars that it costs to have your company website designed by reputable people. Is it website or nothing?

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Multiauthor Blogging – Collaboration Is Key

You have a blog and you write frequently and consistently. Your writing has a constant voice and many people read what you write. If you introduce other authors to your articles, the popularity of your blog will increase exponentially.

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The Importance of Social Influence on Businesses

What is social influence and why is it so important to businesses today? Influencers are talking online and we are definitely listening. The question is how much are we letting the advice steer us to greater business heights?

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Niche Blogs Help You to Win More Customers

When you think of having a web presence, the first thought that probably comes to mind is establishing a blog. Most companies have a blog by now whether it’s updated on a regular basis or even just now and again. But if one blog is good, wouldn’t more be better? A blog can be an excellent tool to not only set you apart but also to leave your competitors in the dust. So how do you establish more than one blog? Get vertical.

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Building an Effective Content Strategy

All of your online marketing efforts will amount to nothing if you don’t have an incredible content strategy that will entice people into reading what you have to say and in wanting to read more and more from you.

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Questions That You Need to Ask Before You Write a Blog

There are millions of blogs on the Internet. With that volume of content, the competition is extraordinary. With that in mind, there are some questions that you should ask yourself before you put any pen to paper, so to speak.

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Blog Commenting – The True Value

One of the best things about promoting your business online is that a lot of it is free. Not only is it free but it’s accessible and allows you to reach a huge number of people at once.

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The Coupling of Social Media and Journalism

With social media having such an incredibly strong foothold and print media stepping back a bit, you may wonder what is in the future for journalism. In the future, how will social media connect with journalism?

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The Reality of Social Media Reciprocity

Interestingly, many people think that if you follow someone on Twitter or are connected to them on Facebook, LinkedIn, or are following their blogs, that they are obligated to connect with you. This does not actually give you any entitlement.

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Small Businesses and Social Media, a Great Combination

More and more small businesses are gaining larger numbers of customers than large and medium-size businesses. Even though larger businesses have more money to spend on social media, their vision doesn’t always include social media and its magic.

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Getting Your Online Audience to Respond

If you want to be a success when it comes to social media, the way to do it is with high-quality, passionate audience members. The more active and interactive traffic you have, the greater your chances of succeeding.

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Getting Your Customers to Spread the Word

One of the attractions of social media is that it gives customers a way to get more personal with your company. It allows them to feel that they are special because you are making yourself accessible to them. Even if you aren’t sharing your company’s most closely guarded secrets with your customers, merely reaching out to them through social media goes a long way toward building better client relations. When customers see that business with you means a two-way relationship, they are more inclined to continue with that relationship.

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The Human Influence in Social Media

As amazing and intuitive as social media is today, it certainly cannot flourish without humans getting involved. Social media is a tool and a vehicle. It can take you only so far and then you have to do the rest.

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What Are the Objectives of Your Blog

If you have a blog, you are doing it with an end result in mind. All blogs need goals. Without goals, you won’t accomplish anything at all. Not only do you need goals but you must quantify them.

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Social Media Campaign Strategies – What Works

There is no shortcut to success. Social media is a continual effort that requires a lot of meticulous planning and a consistent effort toward the established objectives. Some of the effective strategies that can be made for social media campaign are as follows.

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Having a Web Presence With Personality

As a business person, you must have a web presence that attracts other people to your business offerings and to your branding. If they aren’t attracted, they won’t go further to find out anything about you and you won’t succeed.

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Monitoring Your Brand on Twitter

Twitter is a very popular social media channel to be heard nowadays. It is here to stay and it is a very powerful tool for communicating information to an infinite audience. You can also get information across in real time. You don’t need to wait for Google bots to crawl and index your web page. No matter what, your message will be dispersed and hopefully “retweeted” right away. It’s an excellent tool for spreading the word. However, that is a double-edged sword when you run a business because people can say positive things about your business and they can also say negative things.

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Blog Posts Versus Pages

With so many people blogging nowadays, a large percentage of those people are using WordPress to do that. When it comes to WordPress, you see Posts and Pages and it is important to understand how to use each one.

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Dispelling the Myths of eBooks

eBooks are becoming more and more popular. They are convenient, green, and have the same impact that paper books have as far as the content is concerned. Even so, many people don’t understand their true value. Let’s dispel the myths.

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Booming Social Media Trends to Consider

You just wrote an exciting and informative blog post. It is one of the best articles that you have ever written. You feel that it is insightful, clever, interesting, and educational. Now that it is published, what do you do?

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Social Media Success Is Not Just About Knowledge

There are many ingredients that are needed for success. It is a combination of things that will help you to succeed. You need a lot of knowledge, instinct, and even a little bit of luck. Everyday, we are flooded with information. But knowledge alone isn't enough when it comes to the online world.

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What to Do After Your Blog Has Been Published

You just wrote an exciting and informative blog post. It is one of the best articles that you have ever written. You feel that it is insightful, clever, interesting, and educational. Now that it is published, what do you do?

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Social Media Impact on Small Businesses

There is a trend lately that is moving toward small companies having greater success with social media than larger companies. Small companies don’t have to invest as much to make a big impact. Small companies hold the keys to success.

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Making the Most of Social Media

Using social media for your business is a sensible and cost-effective way to market, brand, and sell your products and services. Social media is here to stay and it will continue to be more and more popular. It is very important that you leverage social media in the most effective manner possible so that your success multiplies exponentially.

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Blogging 101

“I see classes offered at the library all the time…how to use the Internet, etc. I guess for seniors who don’t have a clue about it, I kind of feel like them, but how to go about promoting my business online. I don’t know if a blog is the way to go and if it is, where and how do I do it right? It is not in my budget yet to build a quality website” – a CompuKol reader.

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Social Media and Sales – a Perfect Match

At this point in time, nobody questions the value that social media has brought to our professional and personal lives. The next question is always how can the value of social media translate into increasing revenue. There are many ways.

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Flip.to – What it Is and Why You Should Consider it

Flip.to is a social media platform that uses “magnetic marketing” to attract customers. The platform helps businesses to establish all-encompassing, effective, reliable marketing campaigns by engaging guests and the social media channels that they rely on.

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What Is a Klout Score and Why it Is Important

The Klout score is a metric of your total influence online. The higher your Klout score, the larger and more robust your sphere of influence. The variables that go into calculating a Klout score are interesting and important for business.

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Making Your Content Go Viral

Going viral is a really good thing when it comes to content that you publish and share online. You want the content to be read by millions and shared by millions more. How does that happen?

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Building Solid Business Relationships Using LinkedIn

There is a good chance that you have a LinkedIn account. You may have had it for a long time. As you know, having a complete profile is critical to using it successfully. Now, you need to leverage your connections.

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Using Social Media as a Business Strategy

Business owners are using Social Media more and more as a strategic tool to scale up their enterprise. There is no denying that the opportunities are infinite when it comes to Social Media strategies for business growth. Careful planning must go into selecting exciting Social Media Optimization (SMO) strategies to best leverage its immense potential.

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Selecting Social Media Channels

There are so many different social media channels to choose from. More and more keep appearing every day. What should you choose and what should you stick with for your business? Once you have chosen, is it forever?

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Is Your Domain Incarcerated?

You may very well be under the impression that you are the sole owner of your domain name. Are you absolutely sure that you are? Your domain name should be yours alone and it is extremely important to your business.

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Having a Great Call-to-Action

You have researched and learned how to write, publish and syndicate amazing content. You have compelling titles, magnetic teaser paragraphs, a rich body and an insightful conclusion. What about your Call-to-Action? Are your readers compelled to connect with you?

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Getting Qualified Twitter Followers

When it comes to Twitter, your main concern for you is how to increase the number of followers over what you have already. However, it isn’t enough to merely acquire followers. You need to acquire high-quality followers.

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Optimizing Your Content for Your Target Audience

As you get more and more immersed in writing and publishing content for business, you need to take your target audience into consideration is a big way. It isn’t enough to just write. You need to target your audience.

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QR Codes and Social Media

People are talking about QR codes and QR marketing. QR codes are codes that allow you to tag on your mobile devices. They look like 2-D barcodes and the partnering of them with social media will cause a business revolution.

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Cultivating Meaningful LinkedIn Connections

Anybody who has any professional life at all (or even those who don’t) should have a profile on LinkedIn. It isn’t enough to have a profile. The profile must be complete and it must be working for you effectively.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Content

Everyone knows that content drives your web presence and the success of your business. The more your content draws people to you and your business, the more they will want to be involved with you and will want to learn.

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Monetizing Your Blog

You are writing and publishing powerful and informative blog articles a few times a week. You are very careful to write about what others need and want within your area of expertise. How do you monetize your blog?

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Why Your Business Needs Social Media

Social Media is everywhere, and everyone and their neighbor has something to say about it. Here's all you need to know: you and your business need to be a part of it. It generates exposure for you and your business. The more people who know about you, the better your chances of generating revenue.

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Establishing Your Social Media Personality

In your professional life, you interact with people online and you interact with people face to face. Have you ever asked yourself if your personality is the same in each case? It is important to establish a consistent online personality.

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Leveraging the Web Presence of Your Business

Your business, no matter what you do, must have a web presence today. However, the inane presence of your business on social media channels is not enough. You must learn what to do and what not to do to succeed.

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The Marriage of HR and Social Media

Human Resources (HR) people work with human beings. Because of that perspective, HR people have not been among the first to jump on the social media bandwagon. However, it enhances their ability to recruit people. It is a natural.

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Building and Boosting Your Online Reputation

Social media and technology have given you a gift. They have allowed you to create your reputation (for personal and professional use) online so that you can successfully increase revenue for your business. Leveraging the online tools is key.

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Monitoring Social Media Discussions

There are many social media tools available for monitoring discussions that are relevant to your business and your brand. Many of these tools have built-in engagement features that allow you to focus on the discussions that are the most relevant.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Article Marketing

You have heard the term “Article Marketing” many times and are hopefully publishing your articles to many websites and educating many people. Article marketing is an art and there are dos and don’ts when it comes to their success.

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Quora – What it Is and How to Use it

Quora is on everyone’s lips nowadays. Quora is an online community-driven Question & Answer (Q&A) repository with overflowing information that is of interest to many people and many different interests. Quora is useful to all different businesses.

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Leveraging Blog Criticism for Your Business

“All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.” Hilaire Belloc. Your business has escalated tremendously since you have been using social media. The greater your exposure, the more criticism you will receive. What do you do?

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Getting People to Like You

Everyone wants to be liked—in business and in life. Each person tries to please other people in a different way. The same rules apply in your personal life and in business. You always want to be liked, respected and admired.

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Content That Tells a Story

The content that you write and share with others is critical to the success of your business. Does your content truly tell a story and is it persuasive? If done effectively, it will go a very long way.

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How to Make Your Website Visitors Stick

You get a very large volume of traffic to your business’s website. Your website is exciting and interesting. People are compelled to visit. However, how do you get them to stick and to keep returning over and over?

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Using Social Media Contests for Lead Generation

People love to win prizes. They love to win in business and in life. They will usually be willing to give up a little personal information if they think that they will win something. Social media contests are no different.

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Efficient Time Management of Social Media

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” Rodin. You have created your social media marketing strategy and you are implementing it on a regular basis. Are you using your time efficiently?

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Getting the Most out of Your LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn is one of the best-quality and most effective professional social media networks. It is well worth using, knowing well, and optimizing. Once you have set up your profile with basic (and complete) information, you should explore its other features

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How to Promote Your Online Work Offline

You use social media to promote your business and you conduct business in person. Both are important for the success of your business. How do you provide your traditional promotion with a way to access your online promotion?

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The Power of Customer Relationships

How are you going to conduct business differently from now on? How can you make this the year that all of your social media tools fall into place and take your business up a notch? What strategy will you follow?

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How to Get People to Opt-in to Social Media

Although you are a firm believer in social media and all that it offers, you are still bound to come across business associates who don’t seem to understand its value and how amazing it can be for their business.

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How to Entice Your Audience With Interviews

The consensus is that the way to increase your web presence and boost your online reputation is with huge amounts of excellent-quality content. How do you get your followers to keep reading and craving more? Interviews are an excellent way.

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How to Work Out a Gratitude Philosophy

To Thank or Not to Thank Online
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” – Marcus T. Cicero

“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” – Unknown


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The Female Approach to Social Media

Everyone uses social media for business and for personal reasons. Marketers must have a clear understanding of how people use social media. Taking an even deeper dive into it, what are the differences between how men and women use it?

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Lead Generation Using Social Media

Everything in social media will lead us to our ultimate goal – good, solid leads. Lead management allows you track how you are generating interest and how you are going to track those leads into and through your sales funnel.

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How to Build an In-house Social Media Team

Last year, you educated yourself about social media and the opportunities that it offers you as a business owner. Your efforts and needs have grown dramatically since then. You now need a team of social media experts in-house.

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How to Leverage Comments for Greater Success

With all of the content that you write and publish, your ultimate goal is to get your readers to interact with you. They do that by leaving comments on your content. How do you get them to do that?

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The Cost of Social Media

Businesses always seem to be giving away products and services in order to entice people into wanting to buy from them. Many offers are made through social media. The initial offer is free but what is the cost after that?

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Organizing Your Social Media Strategy

Social media has made a tremendous impact on your business and now you need to come up with ways that you can improve your strategy to make social media even more effective for you. A checklist can help tremendously.

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Converting Friends Into Fans

Social media encompasses both business and personal relationships and interactions. There is a lot of crossover at times between the two that happens naturally. However, what if you want to turn some of your friends into customers?

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Making a Quick Impact Online as a New Blogger

You have become adept at social media. Your next step is to start blogging on your own. There are many ways to begin. Study other bloggers’ work and then start to blog about your business and about your passions.

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Social Media – What Matters Most?

To begin, your social media platform right now could be compared to a clean slate, and you are going to begin to build it and grow it from its foundation upward. The foundation is going to be you – by building your brand and all that you bring along with it.

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Getting People to Read Your Articles

You are diligent and consistent when it comes to posting articles online that are informative and educational for other people. The quality of the writing is superb but you notice that you don’t have a lot of readers. Why not?

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Dealing with Conflicts Online

“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” William James. You should use conflict to learn from each other in your relationships.

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How to Generate Revenue From Social Media

You’ve built your fan base on Facebook and recruited followers on Twitter. Can you generate revenue for your company from those—or other social media—channels? Here are five suggestions for using social media as a sales tool.

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Being Safe in the World of Social Media

“Cowards falter, but the danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.” Elizabeth, Queen Mother. Social media and what it has done for human relationships is incredible. Of course, on the flipside of that is discretion. Safety is critical.

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Your Online Business Connections — Quality vs Quantity

There are two schools of thought when it comes to online connections. One school believes that you should gather as many connections as possible from your various social media channels. The other believes that you should choose your connections carefully.

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Using Social Media to Become a Subject Matter Expert

The arrival of the Internet has drastically changed the way we do business. Therefore, it has become increasingly important to differentiate yourself — to stand out among your competitors and to be known as an expert in your area. Why is it so important? The answer is simple. People simply want to deal with someone who is credible and knows his subject well, and the only way to earn that confidence is to be an "expert" in your area.

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How to Write an Extraordinary Personal Brand Statement

Your personal brand statement is as unique as you are and having a compelling and exciting statement will open business doors for you like nothing else will. Your statement should connect you with whoever reads it.

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How to Use StumbleUpon Effectively for Business

StumbleUpon is a name that many people are uttering nowadays when the topic of social bookmarking comes up, which it does often. First, what is StumbleUpon? Second, are you using it to its full potential for your business?

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Using Online Review Services

Nowadays, particularly in this economy, you have very little time to waste when it comes to your business. You don’t want to waste time with products, services and businesses that don’t really provide you with what you need.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Business Facebook Communication

Facebook’s popularity has not stopped increasing. In fact, it is more popular than ever. Facebook is used by millions for personal communications and business people use it for greater success through targeted communications on their offerings.

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