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On March 5, 2010, Tunheim Partners hosted the Social Media Breakfast MSP with a panel discussion on social media and retail featuring David Erickson, Tunheim clients Bridget Jewell of Mall of America, Jeff Sommers of Izzy’s Ice Cream, and Jennifer Rock of Best Buy.

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Social Media & Retail Panel Discussion At Social Media Breakfast MSP

Last week, I was in Las Vegas for the LeadingRE annual conference and marketing technology event speaking on social media and SEO strategies for real estate professionals. It’s always interesting to see where different verticals are at with their willingness to embrace social channels, and I’m pleased to report the top realtors globally are already engaging, or at the least starting to define their path. I gave the opening presentation to the MarTech part of the conference – a track of panels/sessions designed to help real estate professionals better integrate their marketing initiates with technology

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2010 LeadingRE Conference: TopRank Digital Marketing Sessions

The Internet is the right place to look not only for the new friends but also for the new sources of income. It is a kind of the new society and therefore you can earn here as well as you do it on your common full time job. However, working in the web has lots of advantages in comparison with the common job

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I got in late last night from the Underground Seminar event in DC – yes finally, after several flight delays and an unexpected overnight stay at the Hyatt! – so I’m just sitting down to my desk this morning for the first time in 6 days… What a mess! While my desk space is actually clean, well – after I went through the stack of mail at least, I was a bit overwhelmed at the number of Firefox windows and tabs I left open. Everything from PDF files to blog posts to things I was in the middle of when I left last week.

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Sneak Peek at Lynn’s Desktop…

If you are an outdoorsy mountain loving type of person who is married to a film loving and into the arts scene type of person who wears artisan jewelry and sundance jewelry , there is one place you should go to during the month of January. You must head to Park City, Utah where you can have several selections of world class skiing conditions in addition to attending the Sundance Film Festival. In one town at once, you can both be completely happy.

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Reasons Why You Should Visit Park City, Utah In January

When a company receives exposure by the publication of informative content on the world, it actually uses article marketing resources. Marketers have a lot to gain from this form of cheap advertising: attracting more clients, increasing sales and profit. When it comes to developing this kind of exposure not everybody knows where to start

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Article Marketing Course

A great photo can really add a lot of flavor to a blog post and in our own analysis at Online Marketing Blog as well as with clients, including quality images with a blog post can boost traffic and referrals 30-50%. To make posts more personal, I try to use my own photos as much as possible and do use imags from Flickr under Creative Commons from time to time. This is an area of significant impact for blogs as effective communication and marketing tools, so last week we ran a Reader Poll on the best site for royalty free, stock photos for bloggers.

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Shutterstock Voted Best Royalty Free Stock Photos Site for Bloggers

George Brown, the creator of ClickBank #1 best seller for 2010 will be launching his most recent creation on March 18th… the Traffic Ultimatum . You may be asking, who is George Brown? He is thought by most as the author of the very successful Google Sniper which was greeted with a lot of positive criticism and response, and now the upcoming product – Traffic Ultimatum

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Traffic Ultimatum Goes Life

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Helpful Marketing Discussion and Resources 2010-03-14

This week I spent time working a trade show out in Phoenix AZ. Aside from the great weather and opportunity to spend some time reaching decision makers, I thought it was a good opportunity to assess whether or not trade shows are still a viable marketing tactic

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Are Trade Shows Still a Viable Marketing Tactic?

I’m in DC this weekend at Yanik Silver’s Underground Seminar 6 . This is my first time attending an Underground event and I’ve been impressed with the quality of content and the caliber of people that it draws. This is definitely an event I would recommend if you’re looking to take your online business to the next level.

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Notes from Underground Seminar 6

So here I sit in the DFW airport hanging out with David Berkowitz and Joe Morin waiting for my connection to Austin. What better way to spend that 45 min than to write a helpful blog post? A big part of my “mission” for SXSXi is to create content after all.

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12 Tips on Live Blogging & Content Marketing at SXSWi

I’ve often said there are 3 good ways to choose a niche for an online business. But today I want to give you another idea – a 4th way that just may get you past your niche-discovery hurdle for good… The most popular advice is to “do what you love” , or go with a niche you are passionate about.

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How To Choose A Niche (Quick Exercise)

If you run an ecommerce business, chances are your customers – regardless of their age, gender or economic status – are active on social networks and social media sharing sites. Just consider the statistics from social media monitoring site Pingdom : Males and females almost equally use social sites (47% vs.

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5 Social Media Tips for Ecommerce Marketing

Theming Thursday is a weekly feature on the “I Do Web Marketing” blog dedicated to various themes that you can use for your business or personal website. Every Thursday will have a different choice of themes, centered around a particular CMS. For the foreseeable future, we will be highlighting Joomla and WordPress related themes, as well as email templates.

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Theming Thursday – Best Wordpress Retail and Ecommerce Templates

I finally unboxed my newest office gadget, a wireless printer I ordered online from Amazon: HP OfficeJet 6500 All-In-One Wireless Printer/Fax/Copier (Yes I know, I can be slow on these things! ) This particular HP model wireless printer is currently on special offer at Amazon.com for only $125.43 (normally $246), free shipping. The cool thing is, it was a breeze to set up – and I even did it myself! It only took me a few minutes from unboxing to ready-to-use. And I have a quick slideshow of the entire process: HP Officejet 6500 Wireless HP Officejet 6500 Wireless HP Officejet 6500 Wireless HP Officejet 6500 Wireless HP Officejet 6500 Wireless HP Officejet 6500 Wireless HP Officejet 6500 Wireless I couldn’t resist the great opportunity to use the Slickr Flickr plugin again! *************** The accessories that you see in the photo are: HP Advanced Photo Paper, glossy 8.5

This week I’m sharing a brand new WordPress plug-in that create slide shows for your blog posts from the photos in your Flickr account. Here’s a quick example of the plugin in action, from my trip to the Atlanta Motor Speedway last weekend: Nascar – Atlanta Motor Speedway Nascar – Atlanta Motor Speedway Nascar – Atlanta Motor Speedway Nascar – Atlanta Motor Speedway Nascar – Atlanta Motor Speedway Nascar – Atlanta Motor Speedway Nascar – Atlanta Motor Speedway Nascar – Atlanta Motor Speedway Nascar – Atlanta Motor Speedway Nascar – Atlanta Motor Speedway Nascar – Atlanta Motor Speedway Nascar – Atlanta Motor Speedway Details: Slickr Flickr Plugin Download plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/slickr-flickr/ Note: you’ll need to go to http://idgettr.com to get your Flickr ID to use in the settings of the plugin. It’s very easy to install and use.

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Sweet! Slickr Flickr WordPress Plugin

Plenty of bloggers are talking about the inevitable intersection of social media marketing and search engine optimization. Heck, we’ve been blogging about SMO since 2006! Keyword optimized social content and channels of promotion provide abundant signals to search engines for improved visibility on standard, social and real-time search

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11 Free Tools for Social Media Optimization

SEO is really good process of analyzing your potential design and problems for search engines indexing and positioning. In other words, making your web site and its content attractive, relevant and visible to search engines and web searchers.

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All You Need for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)