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Blogger Beta Reloaded - Have you upgraded? Don't bother

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A simple little ^%$# stack overflow error I found on my blog when it's viewed in IE lead to me migrating my blog to Blogger Beta, a new template, a headache, 3 cups of coffee, 4 hours of sleep, and a pissed off wife. Here are some of my comments off the top as to why I hate Blogger Beta: Bugs, bugs, bugs and more bugs. This was nuts!

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Social Media Success Stories

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For example, our sales team can see my travel plans and perhaps pull me into a prospect meeting if I'm in that area. Blogger: Blogging is the Differentiator Some people may have written off blogging and I admit that I have a love/hate relationship with it but in 2009 I’m definitely seeing it as even more important social media tool.

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Tips on commenting using coComment - Part 1

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If you're a smart blogger (which I'm not saying I am), you've probably found out about a great tool called coComment that lets you keep track of comments you've left on other blogs. Commenting on a popular blog like Problogger.net or Direct2Dell may be very helpful in establishing yourself as as a legitimate blogger. Use cliffhangers.

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Don't blog too close to home

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This has resulted in countless examples of people being fired from their jobs , and family problems. Write respectively about your competitors and fellow bloggers as they will see what you write. For example, you may even offend customers by interviewing one of their competitors. PPPS - What are your thoughts on blogger ethics?

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Learning About Web Analytics: Part I

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If you're a true marketer or a hard-core blogger (or both) you have to be into web analytics. Bloggers for the most part write because they want to be heard and your analytics justify the time that you sit at your keyboard (for the most part although my wife still needs convincing and web stats, well they just don't do it).

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Viral Marketing in B2B - It Works!

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For example, you rarely have celebrity endorsements or crazy contests that reach millions that you typically see with brands such as Nike or Coke. For example, to the above question I responded "Try using your finger to move the arrow" was translated to "Your genius lies elsewhere". For example.

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Even Your Father is on YouTube

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As a blogger and a marketer, you need to look at YouTube in a broader context. Bloggers have accepted this and even embraced companies that have started blogging. Here is an example from a recent Marketing Effectiveness Summit. What does this all mean? It's only when businesses deceive the public that things go terribly wrong.

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