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Find Customers Through Content Marketing

March 12, 2010
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How many times have you been advised to put up a blog for your business? If you have a lot of friends in the social media circle, I’d imagine that your answer would be “a lot of times”. Don’t think of it as them bugging you to try out their suggestion. They’re actually telling you [...]

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The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit

March 8, 2010
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The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit will be on April 16 and 17, 2010 at the Malcolm Theater, UP College of Law, UP Diliman, from 8 am to 5 pm. Registration will still be FREE.
iBlog6 will be two days this year. The first day (April 16) is targeted for businesses and entrepreneurs wanting to understand how to tap [...]

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How To Write Engaging Blog Posts

March 5, 2010
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Engagement is one of the strong points of social media. It gives you the opportunity to make your readers feel valued. As blog owner and brand manager, it’s your job to make sure that followers feel engaged with each post you make.
You must be wondering, what will you get if you exert extra effort in [...]

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How To Screw Up Your Blogging Career

March 4, 2010
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In as much as social media practitioners suggest that business owners put up a blog for their company, there are just times when you got to admit that you’re not cut out to do it.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t do it, but, rather, that you should take a long hard look at yourself and your [...]

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6 Tricks In Getting Inspiration Back

March 3, 2010
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When you write too much, you sometimes find yourself looking at the task as, well, a task. You look at it as your bread and butter that you tend to lose your grasp on the one thing that got you started into writing in the first place – inspiration.
I can’t say it’s that surprising, considering [...]

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Engagement Outweighs Quality Content

February 28, 2010
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Social media puts value on sharing relevant content as well as interacting with the community. But which one weighs more? Is it being useful? Or is being engaging to your followers? What do you think?
The truth is, it varies from person to person. Some people are the informative kind, while some are the interacting kind. [...]

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3 Commenter Etiquettes Your Mom Did Not Teach You

February 26, 2010
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In social media, people are encouraged to share and interact with each other. It can be in the form of a blog, a tweet, a link share, or sometimes, a comment. Yes, a comment counts as sharing and interacting. It’s pretty much like replying to someone who’s talking to you.
But before you start saying your [...]

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Putting Fun In Business Blogs

February 20, 2010
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Most often than not, when people talk about corporate blogs, what comes to mind is a formal, strictly business kind of blog.
Does it really have to be as stiff-sounding as people think it to be?
I personally don’t think so. In as much as you want your business blog to be functional, marketing-wise, it should also [...]

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How to Stick Out Like A Sore Thumb in Social Media

February 19, 2010
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In social media marketing, we use blogs to get our voices out there and make ourselves (or the business) visible to the public eye. We use blogs to turn our brand into a household name that people talk about all the time.
However, in our attempts to keep with the trend, we tend to drown in [...]

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How To Leverage Social Media In Email Marketing

February 10, 2010
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So you think social media can only be used in your blogs or websites, huh? Think again. You can also use it to take email marketing up a notch.
I know some of you may already be aware of the fact that emails can go viral. One proof of which is the many chain emails that [...]

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Your Blog Can Kill Your Business

February 9, 2010
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True enough, blogs can help generate business for your company. That is, however, provided that you know what you’re doing with your blog.
It’s funny, but a lot of people get too caught up on providing unique content that they lose sight at the one thing that their blog is supposed to do for their business [...]

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4 Blogging Basics To Bring Back Our Sanity

February 6, 2010
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Blogging is so much fun. It’s so enjoyable that most writers, me included, get carried away with the things we write that we lose track of the basic stuff that should already be second nature to us already.
Yeah, even if you’ve been blogging for years, there will be things that you might overlook. So, let’s [...]

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Questions To Ask Before Setting Up A Corporate Blog

February 2, 2010
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So you sought help from a social media expert and were told to consider putting up a corporate blog, what do you do? Do you immediately jump on the advice and open up a business blog? Or do you take some time to think about it first?
Sometimes, these guys get excited about everything social media [...]

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5 Splendid Tips To Promote Your Work

February 1, 2010
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To get your business off the ground, you’re going to have to master the art of promoting. You’re going to need to get the word out there, and the best way you’re going to do that is to effectively advertise your product.
You’re got many options to choose from. There’s traditional media to help you reach [...]

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Reach Out To The Legion

January 30, 2010
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If you’re looking for a way to spread the word about your blog/company/product, there are lots of options to choose from. But one simple solution is to connect to other bloggers who can talk about you to their respective audiences.
Now, how can you do that?
If you think it’s as easy as emailing the blog owner [...]

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Why Some Writers Are Missing All The Fun

January 29, 2010
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How many of your favorite authors have their own blogs or Facebook pages where they interact with you, the fans?
Actually, if you try to look around, you’ll find that a lot of authors are actually out there mingling with the masses via various social media channels.
However, there are still writers out there who are missing [...]

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7 Actions To Improve Reader Experience

January 28, 2010
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So you have a blog and you’ve got tons of things that you want to share with your readers. You’re not alone. In fact, you’re one among many bloggers whose minds are overflowing with ideas.
Now, if you are but one in a sea of many bloggers, how can you make yourself standout. If you’re thinking [...]

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