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Best Business Blogging Tips and Guides of 2010 (So Far), Part 1

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100+ SMB Blogging Ideas to Kick Start 2010 by Small Business Trends. How to Never Run Out of Blog Topics to Write About by Internet Marketing for Business Owners. Ten Must Read Tips to Start a Small Business Blog by TopRank Online Marketing Blog. Running low on inspiration? Muse taking a break?

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B2B Blogging Trends for 2011

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Blogging is often viewed as the core component of a B2B social media marketing strategy, and other than discussion forums, it’s the most mature component of social media. Facebook, Twitter and even newer tools like Quora may be sexier and get more attention, but blogs are the workhorses essential to making social media marketing work.

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Free Phone Consulting? 4 Reasons It’s a Good Idea

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Why should a professional or small business give away free consulting ? I learn more about my client’s work and their content marketing needs. I’ve worked with other professionals who cringe at the idea of even answering questions from prospects… because that would be giving away free consulting.

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Seven Ways to Use Social Media for Business

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From a pure lead generation / ROI standpoint, this skepticism isn’t entirely unjustified; research from earlier this year showed that branding metrics (increased brand exposure, webs traffic, email subscribers partnerships)—not strict revenue or ROI measures—topped the list of benefits that b2b marketers realized from social media activities.

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Online Reputation? 4 Tips

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In fact, having a good online reputation is essential to branding yourself or your business. Just last week, BtoB Magazine Online reported that Dow Jones hired an online marketing company. Dow Jones is several steps ahead of where some small businesses are. Bio: Robert Stretch works in marketing for VA Mortgage Center.

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Best of 2009: SEO Tips and Tactics, Part 2

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Craig Greenfield makes the case that “long-tail strategies…can create healthy, long-term growth for search marketers&# and provides a four-step plan for long-tail search. Small Business SEO: Costs, Expectations & Realities by Small Business Search Marketing. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Content Marketing with Stories: Why We Tell Lies…

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Telling stories is a fundamental part of good content marketing. Stories have so much marketing clout, they make it possible for little businesses to compete with the big guys. I struggled with my online marketing for years. As a small business, I was competing with much larger enterprises with staff and budgets.