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• Blogging and the Underground Economy 
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• 5 Tips to Help Bloggers Maximize HARO 
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• The Pros and Cons of Auto Tweeting Blog Posts 
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• Facebook Pages, Short-lived Fad or Still Useful? 
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• Blog Comments: Do they still bear the same weight? 
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• What Documents Do You Use as Proof of Income? 
  On Freelance Switch, Thursday Bram posts about an issue freelancers commonly face: how do you prove your income? This is especially useful if you’re applying for loan financing, for instance, bu...
• 4 Ways to Store your Blog Ideas 
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• The Case for Cloud Hosting 
  My internet connection had been crawling the past few days. I’ve checked with my DSL provider, and my account seems fine. And for some reason, it’s not with all websites that I’m hav...
• 5 Point Checklist to Running Blog Contests 
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• BlogHer Earns More Funding, Continues Growth 
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• Yet Another Tool for IMing, Emailing, etc… 
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• The Post-Processing Technique 
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• Name Squatting 
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• Cyberlife After Death 
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• Got Questions? 
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• How Celebs Do Facebook 
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• iPhone’s Appealing, Inexpensive Apps Driving Mobile Ad Growth 
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• Ever Wonder What Your Mom is Doing Online? 
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• Traditional Media’s Increasing Presence in the Digital Space 
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• An Essential Marketing Principle: Give Before You Try to Get 
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• Ad Swaps: A Smart and Easy Way to Get Free Traffic 
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• Marketing Your Website Without Search Engines 
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• The Most Powerful Way to Presell Any Product or Service 
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• Tell People What You Want Them to Do for You 
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• Everyone Uses the Internet for a Reason 
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• What You Really Ought To Know About Emails! 
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• A Quick Tour of Your New Edublogs Features! 
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• Here Is A Method To Help Know How Often To Post To Your Blog 
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• Introducing The Campus and Other Important News! 
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• Here’s My Top Five Mistakes Made By New Bloggers — What Are Yours? 
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• Is a picture always worth a thousand words? 
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• Are you willing to do what it takes to create visibility on the Web? 
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• Musing about blogging on the Pomo Bluffs 
  I shot a quick video when I was in Ft. Bragg for the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference a couple weeks ago. Since I've been traveling so much, I haven't had time to post it. Please forgive my inabilit...
• 13 Mistakes Authors Make on Their Blogs 
  I'm prepping for a presentation to about 100 authors at the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference later this week. As I was looking at author blogs, I noticed quite a few were missing key elements that w...
• 5 Tactics for Small Business Blog Success - Video Replay 
  Last week I had the privilege of presenting on TypePad's Small Business Webinar series. My friend and colleague Andy Wibbels hosts the series and I believe there are three more in the series. They are...
• How to Use Your Blog To Develop Your Online Brand 
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• Online Marketing Needs to Be Consistent and Constant 
  A recurring theme in my blogging, teleseminars and interviews during the past few weeks is that you've got to be consistent and constant with your online marketing efforts. Coaches, consultants and ot...
• Blogging Programs - Recordings from Last Week's Events 
  This past week I taught three business blogging / social media related classes and did one online radio show. One program was a private gig and the others were open to the public. Links are available...
• Top 5 Tactics for a Successful Small Business Blog 
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• Visiblity is the First Step to Getting Clients, Customers, and an Audience 
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• Are You a Fan of The Blog Squad? 
  As you know from my last post about blogs vs. Facebook, my strong belief and advice to anyone in business is to use your blog as your hub site, your home base. However, that does not mean I advocate i...

• 17 Ways to Stay Current with Search Marketing 
  Over the past few weeks TopRank has been conducting it’s own search of sorts, for a Senior Search Marketing Manager as well as a Search Marketing Strategist. One of the questions we ask is, R...
• Making the Case for Social Media: A Roadmap 
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• Thoughts on White Hat Black Hat Social Media 
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• TopRank SES San Jose 2009 Wrap Up – Puzzle Solved 
  Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2009 turned out to be an energetic week of presentations, networking and positivity for the search marketing industry. The puzzle that is the ever-changing search mar...
• SES SJ: News Search SEO 
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• SES SJ: SEO Through Blogs And Feeds 
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• SES SJ: Charlene Li Keynote – Preparing For The Future Of Search 
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• SES SJ: Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues 
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• SES SJ: White Hat Vs. Black Hat Social Media 
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• Extending Possibility 
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• Your Favourite Writing Blog: 4th Annual Top 10 Blogs for Writers 
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• Field Notes, Looking Around, and a World of Possibility 
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• The Art of Paying Attention 
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• The Music of Possibility 
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• Bloom Where You Can: Guest Post by Robert Hruzek 
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• Painting My Way Into Possibility 
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• 5 Lots of Possibly 
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• Why Did We Cry When Susan Boyle Sang? 
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• 5 Writing Topics I Don’t Blog About, and Why 
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• Adding Value 
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• Exciting news on trade magazine e-course drawing 
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• When the economy gets tough… 
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• 5 Tips for Creating a Salable Essay 
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• Extreme Productivity 
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• Win Free Entry into Writing for Trade Magazines E-Course 
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• Introduction to Food Writing September class is FULL — Sign up now for November session 
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• The Project from Hell (And What I Learned from It) 
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• Are You Sure Your Content MarketingStrategy Is a Good Fit? 
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• What’s Your Tribe’s Secret Language? 
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• New Formatting 
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• Oprah, The Biggest Loser, and Your Success 
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• Pink Hair Blogging 
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• What I Love About My Job 
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• Objection Blaster #4: Why You? 
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• Sing with Your Own Voice 
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• How to Beat a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Mood (in About an Hour) 
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• Things You Can Learn from a Nancy Boy 
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• Getting What You Pay For 
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• What is Your Internet Writing Specialty? 
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• Lessons from my Writer Coaching Clients 
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• Don’t Blog If You Suck At Writing: How Copyblogger Got It Wrong 
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• The Number One Rule of Blogging 
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• Onward and Upward in 2009 
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• When the Writer Trumps the Salesperson 
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• Freelance Writing and the Danger of Isolation 
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• Writing Your Way Out Of A Recession 
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• Too Old to Have a Baby? 
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• Oldest Living Man in Montana 
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• 'Banned' Sprite ad unleashes a load of buzz 
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• Healthy Eating Tip: Add Tofu to Your Salad 
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• Auditor wants more TARP information 
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• Facebook Slowly Taking Over the World, Now at 250 Million Users 
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• Obama is Going to Take the Lead on Health Care Reform. Finally 
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• Madonna Visits Victims of Deadly Stage Accident 
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