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I discovered this service as part of my research into marketing music online, but it can be applied to any market in which you have a need or desire to be in touch with your prospects beyond email, blogs – well, beyond the computer as a whole.
As email deliverability wanes, marketers should be looking for [...]

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An update is available to the Wordpress PlugIM Votebox plugin.  This update allows you to customize the position of your votebox.  Find it here.
   

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What do you want people to do when they visit your webpage?
No, seriously.  Think about that for a minute.  Get a clear answer in your mind before you read on.
I’ll wait…..
Do you want them to buy something?
Sign up for your newsletter?
Click on ads?
Visit an affiliate product you’re promoting?
Subscribe to your RSS feed?
Now I’m going to [...]

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Wordpress Plugin: PlugIM Votebox

by Michelle MacPhearson

I’m super-stoked about this!
The WP-PlugIM Wordpress plugin is available, so anyone can drop it in their ‘plugins’ folder and have a shiny PlugIM votebox on their posts (see upper left of this post for what it looks like).
Your blog readers do not have to be registered at PlugIM to use the votebox and they [...]

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I submit my blog posts to all the social bookmarking & “story submission” services out there.  It’s another method of Web 2 organic traffic generation, and the backlinks at those places that don’t use “nofollow” don’t hurt either.
So, submitting to Digg, Reddit, etc. is all good, but for actual traffic to my site?  PlugIM is [...]

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There’s been a lot of talk in the blogging and IM world recently about spamming & etchis (but then again, isn’t there always?).
That said, the comment thread on this post got me thinking about the issue.
Think about MySpace (or other social networking sites) “spam.”
You immediately have a scenario in mind of what constitues spam on [...]

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A Keyword Goldrush at Tumblr

by Michelle MacPhearson

Do you remember the big rush to grab Squidoo URL’s?  After Tiffany Dow came out with her excellent Squidoo report, every internet marketer on the planet got on Squidoo and tried to snap up their keywords.
And more power to ‘em!   Squidoo is where it’s at for backlinks to your own sites, as well as creating [...]

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The simplest, most down-to-earth explanation of RSS I’ve found thus far can be found here: How to explain RSS the Oprah way
Suppose you have 50 sites and blogs that you like to visit regularly. Going to visit each website and blog everyday could take you hours. With RSS, you can “subscribe” to a website or [...]

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