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Who’s an Expert, and Why Experts Write Ebooks

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of total US book sales in 2009 to 5% of the market in the first quarter of 2010. Amazon sold more than 3x as many Kindle books in the first half of 2010 as in the first half of 2009. There is no denying the shift that is happening in the book industry: ebooks are on the rise and here to stay. Source: R.R.

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The Real Truth About Mexico

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In terms of US-Mexico trade, in 2009 Mexico had a positive trade surplus of $55 billion dollars against a negative deficit of $55 billion for the United States, showing that the NAFTA agreement has now began to work more for Mexico than the United States. Crime in Mexico. per 100,000 inhabitants.

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Social Media for Busy Business Bloggers

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Twitter processed more than one billion tweets in December 2009 and averages almost 40 million tweets per day. internet page views occurred at one of the top social networking sites in December 2009, up from 13.8% Let’s be clear: Social networking now accounts for 22% of all time spent online in the US. Over 25% of U.S.

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A Checklist for 2012 Content Marketing Plans

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Related posts: A Checklist for 2009 Content Marketing Plans. A great way to short-cut the time needed to research, write and publish quality online content is to find a good writer to supply articles. Now, I’ve got to get back to my own review. 2011 was a great year, let’s see how much better we can do in 2012. Happy writing!

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Content Curation: How to Become a Thought Leader

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I first heard the term content curation is this post by Rohit Bhargava back in 2009. I share these key points with anyone who struggles with writing online for their business and needs ideas for what to write. Rohit positioned that, as more corporations and individuals create content, the role of the content curator is needed.

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5 Content Marketing Questions: Get Readers to Take Action

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In Maria Velosa’s 2009 edition of Web Copy that Sells , she suggests 5 questions your copy should answer: What is the problem (pain, predicament)? You want to inspire readers to pick up the phone, click here, sign up, register, or remember your brand. Why hasn’t this problem been solved? What is possible?

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Why Use Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn for Content Marketing?

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LinkedIn went from 2 to 40 million in May 2009 and 60 million by February 2010. For an interesting overview of how Facebook got started in a dorm at Harvard, read the story on Wikipedia , it’s interesting. Twitter has 75 million accounts. Read their story here on Wikipedia. Their story is here , and here.

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