Do You Have A Business Blog Yet?

If I have convinced you that you should blogging and assuming that you are now blogging, (IF NOT, take a look at an earlier article,  Blogging Tips: Why Any Business Should Start Blogging  )  you can analyze some simple signals to see if you're resonating with your targeted audience. 

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Topics: website measurements, website measurement, visitors to your website

Learning How To Use Twitter For Blog Distribution

Getting your blog posts tweeted and establishing yourself as an insightful, useful resource is actually not complicated at all.

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Topics: twitter business account, how to use twitter, twitter marketing company, business twitter account

Can I Find Your Business Online?

You may have the best products or services on the market.  Your expertise may be supreme and customer service like no other.  But, if people don’t know your business exists and have no way to find it, you may as well shut the doors and go home.

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Topics: content marketing, content marketing goals, introduction to content marketing

Greatness and success are attainable yet many of us simply do not live up to our full potential. Enhancing critical thinking strategies is the key to improving the quality of work we produce.

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Topics: critical thinking strategies, critical thinking errors, strategies for critical thinking, what is critical thinking

Creating a business Facebook page, is a way to start your online presence. It allows you to
connect with friends and customers. Here are 10 steps to building a business Facebook page.

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Topics: Facebook marketing strategy, social media help, facebook marketing techniques, facebook marketing management

What's Your Purpose?

Before you create a presence for your business on Twitter, you should first clearly define what the purpose of this platform will play for your business. The purpose of your twitter account should be positive and concise. Whether the intention is to bring great minds together, create an instant channel, direct customers attention, start an opinion poll, business development or customer service, Twitter can help in all these areas. Twitter is just another way to connect with your customers and build relationships.  Here are 7 Simple Steps to help you create a Twitter Account for your business 

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Topics: social media help, twitter business account, how to use twitter for business, twitter for business

LinkedIn is a powerful and popular social media platform used by businesses of all shapes and sizes. It’s a great way to network with people, find and post jobs and build yourself and business as a thought-leader. Most people use LinkedIn to post resume and connect with friends. However, new features have been added to LinkedIn to allow businesses to create their own company profile/page. This is a great opportunity for businesses to not only find employees but also get their name out there. It may take about fifteen minutes to set up a LinkedIn Company page, but it is strongly encouraged for all businesses to take advantage of this free marketing opportunity.

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Topics: b2b social media, social media help, seo services, social media marketing trends, optimization, what is linkedin, outsourcing social media

The Basics of Moz Rankings

In a nutshell, the moz rank of a given website can be described as a measure of the

importance and authority of the online venue in question.  This is very similar in focus to services like Google PageRank, for example, but the creators of this system,

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Topics: contractor school, marketing for contractors, contractor websites, mozrank, seo moz, moz rank, becoming a contractor, websites for contractors

Can Critical Thinking Be Applied Equally Between Personal and Professional Endeavors?

Teach to Test

In the past half-century, educational institutions have been moving more and more toward a ‘teach to the test’ model in order for students (and schools) to be able to pass state and federally mandated evaluations.

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Topics: critical thinking strategies

I believe the role of thinking in a business setting never gets enough credit.  Thinking is not a tangible, it is intangible you can't see it without the measurable results.  So while someone may spend time thinking, it may appear to others that they are at rest or just plain lazy.  

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Topics: critical thinking strategies, critical thinking errors, what are some critical thinking strategies