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By Joshua Watson

Viral marketing is a creative marketing technique that relies in large part on social networks to reach its audience. It is worth mentioning that viral marketing shouldn’t be confused with other traditional publicity techniques because whilst the second relies mainly on paid promotional services the other uses the free online community has a means of spreading the word. If done correctly more knowledgeable marketers will even… Continue reading

By Simon Dance

Why do people spend so much time creating and uploading content for the internet? In the view of MySpace guru Richard Rosenblatt, the answer is age-old: ‘People like to express themselves, and they want to be famous. Those are two things we saw from the very beginning of MySpace. Five years ago MySpace didn’t even exist; in 2008 it’s going to do $800 million in revenue, and… Continue reading

By Simon Dance

Of course the colossal media attention that Facebook has received - and it’s absurd valuations - coupled with the increasing number of member has certainly been a pull for all sorts of businesses to harness the platform, but the question is? How are they? And how are you - and your business - harnessing Facebook pages?

Adding ‘value’ or ‘usefulness’ to your page is essential in order… Continue reading

by Jim “The Net Fool”

One of the questions I get all the time is how to you monetize your WordPress blog with plugins. This is probably the most efficient and easy-to-use method of getting advertisements up on your website. The best part is, most of these services allow you to take payments and disperse ads automatically! Cutting out the middleman is an excellent option for any blogger. If you can… Continue reading

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by Scott Frangos

One of the newer online business models is Blogging. That’s right. Nowadays there’s a good number of people earning a living from their blogs, and a lot more earning a good side income from blogging. How? Well it’s a combination of the old-school business… Continue reading

A new convergence of Social Networks, Bloggers, and Advertisers came together in the Izea service, “SocialSpark”, which was launched earlier this year. Here, an experienced blogger and Social Media Marketer, Andy Beard, expresses his concerns about how paid blog reviews, and their sources, are being penalized in search rankings, inconsistently in his view, by Google and other search engines.

by Andy Beard

Since the first real information came out… Continue reading

by Michelle PW

This is the second article of a three-part series. I’m illustrating the marketing challenges of a small business, PrescottWeddings.com. Here’s where you can find “Part 1: Using print to drive traffic online.”

Our goal was to both build the PWC brand and drive traffic to the Web site. Advertising regularly was essential. Yet it was… Continue reading