September 2010

Welcome to Social Email Marketing SF

September 17, 2010

Good morning! I’m Samantha Strauss and I’ll be live blogging this event on behalf of Murray. We are now at Hotel Nikko in the glorious city by the bay, San Francisco. To start off, The BEES Awards spoke about their international social media competition and mentioned their upcoming event at The SF Legion on Honor on November 9th. Murray is one of the Bees Awards Judges. Now up is Kristin Hersant, VP Corporate Marketing, StrongMail, .....

Most Improved Blogger: Interview with Stephanie Suesan Smith on How She Grew So Fast in 3 Months

September 17, 2010

Last week I happened to look at Alexa and PageRank for a blog that was celebrating two years of posts. I felt so bad for that blogger when I saw her Alexa rating was 6 million and something and she had no PageRank. If you are a blogger and don’t know what those things are please keep reading because this IS important to your success. There is no reason for any blogger to ever have .....

Internet Marketing Course: Concise, Up to Date and FREE from Stay on Search

September 15, 2010

There are so many Internet Marketing Strategy ebooks and courses and subscription sites it becomes challenging to know which are worthwhile. For the entire fifteen years I have been online, Internet “gurus” have been teaching that the path to making more money is to create your own products – even if their followers have no real experience to share. The interest in having something to sell has lead to a lot of either fluff or .....

WordPress 3.0 with Akismet 2.3.0 Moves Not-Spam Comments to Trash Instead of Pending

September 14, 2010

Heads up bloggers! When you find real posts in the spam section of WordPress watch where they go when you click not-spam. I have confirmed that some comments are moved from not-spam into pending but others are moved from not-spam into trash. There is no telling how many comments bloggers thought they approved ended up in trash and got deleted. Related Posts:CommentLuv Premium Deadline ExtendedSocial Influence Benchmark Report by StrongMailWordPress Review Plugin MyReviewPluginwordpress product feed .....

Should Businesses Pay Mommy Bloggers?

September 13, 2010

Knowing that many businesses are interested in more exposure and blog outreach and many bloggers earn income from writing product reviews, I asked Kelli from 3boysandadog to explain what we need to know about product review blogs. Should Mommy Bloggers Be Paid? Howdy! I am Kelli, a super busy “mommy-blogger.” You can read all about me, my kids, fabulous finds, the not-so-great finds, and my own Little Orphan Annie at 3 Boys and a Dog. .....

Social Media Event Speakers TweepML #FollowFriday

September 10, 2010

We are fortunate to know some of the top Social Media experts because they are speaking at Influence People‘s Social Media Events. Having all their Twitter accounts in one place and creating a TweepML button so that we can easily follow them all seemed like a good idea: Click the TweepML button to follow all or any of the Social Media Speakers listed below: Related Posts:No Related Posts

Exclusive Google Instant Launch Party Videos with Ben Gomes & Jonathan Effrat

September 9, 2010

Exclusive Google Instant Launch Party Videos with Ben Gomes & Jonathan Effrat Last night I was lucky enough to get to go the Google Instant launch party. I got to interview Ben Gomes & Jonathan Effrat, two of the key people behind the new product. On the record and off the record what did I learn? The team are a hard working group of geeks just trying to bring out the best products they can .....

How Do YOU Like the NEW Google Instant?

September 9, 2010

If you are logged into a Google account you may have noticed a change to Google search that they call Google Instant. If you haven’t seen it yet, this short video shows how it works: There will be a lot of Buzz and even more speculation on how Google Instant will affect SEO. The first question, though, is how do users like it? Since it is brand new and we know that many have opinions .....

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