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YouTube presents online marketing opportunities
Internet Marketing News, UK

It is not just music videos that consumers are watching online. Research from Hitwise shows that the BBC iPlayer had the second-biggest share of video website views in February, while Channel 4 TV also featured in the top ten. …

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Search Marketing and its new Enhanced Targeting capabilities
Backbone Magazine, Canada

Naturally, where potential customers can be found, businesses follow, but how do businesses choose where to spend their online marketing dollars? With $478M spent on Search Marketing in Canada in 2007 (38% of total online advertising spend), …

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Lane Bryant exec to discuss "marketing through the apocalypse"
SmartBrief, DC

At Shop.org's Online Marketing Workshop, May 4 to 6 in Scottsdale, Ariz., Lane Bryant Vice President Jay Dunn will discuss how retailers can blend traditional marketing strategies with cost-effective new media and social-networking tools to thrive in …

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Biggs|Gilmore Named Top Agency in 2009 Internet Advertising …
PR Web (press release), WA

Founded in 1973, Biggs|Gilmore (www.biggs-gilmore.com) is a digital agency with a core expertise in integration of offline and online marketing strategies. Biggs|Gilmore delivers measurable and award-winning results for Fortune 1000 clients via …

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Cooking.com Selects StrongMail as Perfect Recipe for Email Marketing
FOXBusiness

REDWOOD CITY, CA, Mar 30, 2009 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) —-StrongMail Systems, Inc., the leading provider of commercial-grade solutions for marketing and transactional email, today announced that Cooking.com, the leading online marketplace for cooks, …

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Online Marketing Advice from Publishers, Authors, & 'Cats
mediabistro.com, NY

Earlier this month, publicist Susannah Greenberg organized a panel discussion about online marketing for publishers and authors, where GalleyCat senior editor Ron Hogan shared the stage with Hachette online marketing director Kelly Leonard, …

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Expert offers online marketing tips for successful SEO
Internet Marketing News, UK

Writing on the Econsultancy blog, tech reporter Patricio Robles said marketing teams should remember that when developing an SEO strategy, there are some things that are out of their control. Instead, they should focus on what they can manage by making …
Copywriting for SEO 'can be creative' DirectNews
Unlock the Secrets of Successful Websites Alibaba News Channel
SES NY: A Cup of SEO Alphabet Soup WebProNews
BigNews.biz (press release) - Emailwire
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Boston Online Marketing Firm Wins Best Of Show at 2009 Internet …
PR Web (press release), WA

Boston, MA (PRWEB) March 30, 2009 — Boston online marketing agency Overdrive Interactive has won the "Best of Show Email Message Campaign Award" at the 2009 Interactive Advertising Competition. The prestigious honor is awarded by the Web Marketing …
Ad Sales Up on Internet, but ’08 Pace Was Slower New York Times
Online Ad Revenues Break Records In 2008 InformationWeek
Internet ad revenue up 10.6 pct last year: report AFP
BCS - ZDNet
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Sitebrand Announces Year End 2008 Results
FOXBusiness

Sitebrand Inc. provides online marketing solutions and related services to major retailers across North America and Europe. Based on its proprietary software, Sitebrand's Segment&Serve(TM) personalization solution delivers personalized online marketing …

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Response Mine Interactive Launches 'Outsights' Competitive …
FOXBusiness

"By assessing the various interactive marketing tactics and techniques of our clients' competitors via Outsights, our interactive marketing specialists can then effectively optimize our clients' online marketing campaigns." In addition to offering …

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A weblog (or simply blog) is a website that ‘publishes’ or features articles (which are called ‘blog posts’, ‘posts’, or ‘entries’), written by an individual or a group that make use of any or a combination of the following:

? Straight texts
? Photographs or images (photoblog)
? Video (videoblog)
? Audio files (audioblog)
? Hyperlinks

Usually presented and arranged in reverse chronological order, blogs are essentially used for the following purposes:

? Online journal or a web diary
? Content managament system
? Online publishing platform

A typical blog has the following components:

? Post date -the date and time of the blog entry

? Category - the category that the blog belongs to

? Title - the title of the blog

? Main body - the main content of the blog

? RSS and trackback - links the blog back from other sites

? Comments - commentaries that are added by readers

? Permalinks - the URL of the full article

? Other optional items - calendar, archives, blogrolls, and add-ons or plug-ins

A blog can also have a footer, usually found at the bottom of the blog, that shows the post date, the author, the category, and the ’stats’ (the nubmer of comments or trackbacks).

There are numerous types of blogs. Some of them are the following:

1. Political blog - on news, politics, activism, and other issue based blogs (such as campaigning).

2. Personal blog - also known as online diary that may include an individual’s day-to-day experience, complaints, poems, and illicit thoughts, and communications between friends.

3. Topical blog - with focus either on a particular niche (function or position) that is usually technical in nature or a local information.

4. Health blog - on specific health issues. Medical blog is a major category of health blog that features medical news from health care professionals and/or actual patient cases.

5. Literary blog - also known as litblog.

6. Travel blog - with focus on a traveler’s stories on a particular journey.

7. Research blog - on academic issues such as research notes.

8. Legal blog - on law (technical areas) and legal affairs; also known as ‘blawgs’.

9. Media blog - focus on falsehoods or inconsistencies in mass media; usually exclusive for a newspaper or a television network.

10. Religious blog - on religious topics

11. Educational blog - on educational applications, usually written by students and teachers.

12. Collaborative or collective blog - a specific topic written by a group of people.

13. Directory blog - contains a collection of numerous web sites.

14. Business blog - used by entrepreneurs and corporate employees to promote their businesses or talk about their work.

15. Personification blog - focus on non-human being or objects (such as dogs).

16. Spam blogs - used for promoting affiliated websites; also known as ’splogs’.

Blogging is typically done on a regular (almost daily) basis. The term “blogging” refers to the act of authoring, maintaining, or adding an article to an existing blog, while the term “blogger” refers to a person or a group who keeps a blog.

Today, more than 3 million blogs can be found in the Internet. This figure is continuously growing, as the availability of various blog software, tools, and other applications make it easier for just about anyone to update or maintain the blog (even those with little or no technical background). Because of this trend, bloggers can now be categorized into 4 main types:

? Personal bloggers - people who focus on a diary or on any topic that an individual feels strongly about.

? Business bloggers - people who focus on promoting products and services.

? Organizational bloggers - people who focus on internal or external communication in an organization or a community.

? Professional bloggers - people who are hired or paid to do blogging.

Problogging (professional blogging) refers to blogging for a profit. Probloggers (professional bloggers) are people who make money from blogging (as an individual blog publisher or a hired blogger).

Below are just some of the many money-making opportunities for probloggers:

? Advertising programs
? RSS advertising
? Sponsorship
? Affiliate Programs
? Digital assets
? Blog network writing gigs
? Business blog writing gigs
? Non blogging writing gigs
? Donations
? Flipping blogs
? Merchandising
? Consulting and speaking

The following are a few things that you need to consider if you want to be successful in problogging:

1. Be patient. Problogging requires a lot of time and effort, not to mention a long-term vision.

2. Know your audience. Targeting a specific audience or group is a key to building a readership.

3. Be an ‘expert’. Focus on a specific niche topic and strive to be the “go-to” blogger on that topic.

4. Diversify. Experiment with various add and affiliate programs that enable you to make money online (aside from blogging).

5. Do not bore your readers. Focus on the layout. White spaces, line spacings, and bigger fonts make a blog welcoming to read.

Certainly, it is possible to earn money from blogs. One just needs to take risks, the passion, and the right attitude in order to be a successful problogger.

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Business blog is an incredible online marketing tool that saves you thousands of dollars but provides great business opportunities in just one click. Blogs are user-friendly, customized and flexible medium for disseminating useful information for effective positioning of your products in the market.

Companies engaging in business blogging have a definite edge over its competitors. Here are some advantages:
? Word-of-Mouth. In a survey, there are currently 14 million blogs with 80,000 more being added each day and about 30 percent of the 50 million users are blog readers. Imagine how much gain your company will have, if your products are advertised through blogs. With Internet, information spreads so quickly especially if an impressive write-up goes with your product. Soon your blogs will be passed on to hundreds of possible customers.
? Awareness and loyalty. Open communication with your customers creates trust and loyalty among them. Being there to respond to their questions and comments make them all the more willing to try your products and services.
? Feedback. Blogs is good for product research and reviews. It would be easier to improve on your products if you observe your customers? thinking and behavioral patterns. You can also take immediate action to your customers? concerns.
? Community halo-effect. Bloggers are reasonable, friendly and helpful. They are more than willing to create blogosphere of comments regarding your product. The only thing you have to do is embrace and take active part in the culture and your product will surely be considered in their next stop to the supermarket.

For better marketing results, actively promote your business blogs by submitting your blogs to blog search sites and directories. Do not forget to paste in with your blogs, your URL. Be sure that your blogs contain exclusive information with value and are always updated to keep readers popping in, read up your blog, move on to the next and click on again for updates.

Blog is like a setup booth in the biggest trade show on earth everyday. Marketing possibilities are just around the corner waiting to strike your sale scales up.

The Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are important too in conjunction with your blogs to get the best benefits. Use effective keyword phrases to generate high ranking status in the search engine traffic. In this way you have better chances of people finding your website leading to your blogs. More traffic means more potential sales.

For this to be successful, you can use RSS for news update feeds which can be read through RSS reader application. This is a very useful tool for business and internet marketers as well.

If you are already convinced with the potentials of business blogs for marketing and targeting sales increase, your company is now ready to start blogging. But first, you have to be in tune with your company?s business objectives and determine if blogging will really help you achieve your goal.

1. Several blogs are dedicated to teaching people the do?s and don?ts of blogging, READ them! Include in your reading materials blogs that are consumer-based too to give you an idea.
2. Setup several test blogs right away.

If your initial try out with blogs worked well, you can now start setting up your blogs.

1. Study blog design. Blog hosting services provide pre-designed templates. But if you opt for paid blog service, you can ask your artist to design and layout your blog site to match the company?s identity and needs.
2. Choose a topic. Its good to have a line-up of topics you want for your blogs but be sure they are in consonance with your business objectives. This would be a test of your flexibility and open-mindedness since results may be going against the set objectives.
3. Remember the following safety measures in blogging:
? legal issues are sometimes involved in blogging; it is safer to include disclaimers and limitations of liabilities;
? corporate communication and legal department are responsible in educating the senior management on how blogs might affect business;
? create blogging policies; set limits on who gets to blog and what information are allowed to be made public;
? avoid outright marketing blog or you will shy away your readers;
? make content updated, relevant and fresh;
? reinforce the company?s core values; and,
? encourage employees to use it.
4. Start blogging and complete 20 posts before going to marketing.
5. Begin marketing.
6. Regularly monitor the coming ins and outs of readers and get updates. Then, measure your results.
7. Adjust if needed. You can always play with your designs in the blog site as long as it remains to match the company?s identity.
8. Strive to be consistent with your topic all the time.
9. Try to have unrelated topics with general and broad appeal.
10. Schedule updates regularly. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday would be best to update blogs.

Once you have done all these things, you can now ultimately enjoy the benefits of business blogging.

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A weblog (or simply blog) is a website that ‘publishes’ or features articles (which are called ‘blog posts’, ‘posts’, or ‘entries’), written by an individual or a group that make use of any or a combination of the following:

? Straight texts
? Photographs or images (photoblog)
? Video (videoblog)
? Audio files (audioblog)
? Hyperlinks

Usually presented and arranged in reverse chronological order, blogs are essentially used for the following purposes:

? Online journal or a web diary
? Content managament system
? Online publishing platform

A typical blog has the following components:

? Post date -the date and time of the blog entry

? Category - the category that the blog belongs to

? Title - the title of the blog

? Main body - the main content of the blog

? RSS and trackback - links the blog back from other sites

? Comments - commentaries that are added by readers

? Permalinks - the URL of the full article

? Other optional items - calendar, archives, blogrolls, and add-ons or plug-ins

A blog can also have a footer, usually found at the bottom of the blog, that shows the post date, the author, the category, and the ’stats’ (the nubmer of comments or trackbacks).

There are numerous types of blogs. Some of them are the following:

1. Political blog - on news, politics, activism, and other issue based blogs (such as campaigning).

2. Personal blog - also known as online diary that may include an individual’s day-to-day experience, complaints, poems, and illicit thoughts, and communications between friends.

3. Topical blog - with focus either on a particular niche (function or position) that is usually technical in nature or a local information.

4. Health blog - on specific health issues. Medical blog is a major category of health blog that features medical news from health care professionals and/or actual patient cases.

5. Literary blog - also known as litblog.

6. Travel blog - with focus on a traveler’s stories on a particular journey.

7. Research blog - on academic issues such as research notes.

8. Legal blog - on law (technical areas) and legal affairs; also known as ‘blawgs’.

9. Media blog - focus on falsehoods or inconsistencies in mass media; usually exclusive for a newspaper or a television network.

10. Religious blog - on religious topics

11. Educational blog - on educational applications, usually written by students and teachers.

12. Collaborative or collective blog - a specific topic written by a group of people.

13. Directory blog - contains a collection of numerous web sites.

14. Business blog - used by entrepreneurs and corporate employees to promote their businesses or talk about their work.

15. Personification blog - focus on non-human being or objects (such as dogs).

16. Spam blogs - used for promoting affiliated websites; also known as ’splogs’.

Blogging is typically done on a regular (almost daily) basis. The term “blogging” refers to the act of authoring, maintaining, or adding an article to an existing blog, while the term “blogger” refers to a person or a group who keeps a blog.

Today, more than 3 million blogs can be found in the Internet. This figure is continuously growing, as the availability of various blog software, tools, and other applications make it easier for just about anyone to update or maintain the blog (even those with little or no technical background). Because of this trend, bloggers can now be categorized into 4 main types:

? Personal bloggers - people who focus on a diary or on any topic that an individual feels strongly about.

? Business bloggers - people who focus on promoting products and services.

? Organizational bloggers - people who focus on internal or external communication in an organization or a community.

? Professional bloggers - people who are hired or paid to do blogging.

Problogging (professional blogging) refers to blogging for a profit. Probloggers (professional bloggers) are people who make money from blogging (as an individual blog publisher or a hired blogger).

Below are just some of the many money-making opportunities for probloggers:

? Advertising programs
? RSS advertising
? Sponsorship
? Affiliate Programs
? Digital assets
? Blog network writing gigs
? Business blog writing gigs
? Non blogging writing gigs
? Donations
? Flipping blogs
? Merchandising
? Consulting and speaking

The following are a few things that you need to consider if you want to be successful in problogging:

1. Be patient. Problogging requires a lot of time and effort, not to mention a long-term vision.

2. Know your audience. Targeting a specific audience or group is a key to building a readership.

3. Be an ‘expert’. Focus on a specific niche topic and strive to be the “go-to” blogger on that topic.

4. Diversify. Experiment with various add and affiliate programs that enable you to make money online (aside from blogging).

5. Do not bore your readers. Focus on the layout. White spaces, line spacings, and bigger fonts make a blog welcoming to read.

Certainly, it is possible to earn money from blogs. One just needs to take risks, the passion, and the right attitude in order to be a successful problogger.

Tags: Adware and Spyware, Bluetooth, Computer Systems, Corporate Gifts, Data Recovery, Entrepreneur, Firewalls, General Online News, RSS

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MochaHost Offers Holiday Deals Web Host Industry Review - Dec 10, 2007

December 10, 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider MochaHost (mochahost.com) announced on Monday it is offering a few holiday …

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SWsoft Acquires Helm Control Panel Web Host Industry Review - Dec 20, 2007

"One is the end customer base, so basically all the people accessing their web hosting or email accounts or hosted applications through Helm, which is about …

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SPECIAL REPORT: College football's money bowl OCRegister, CA - Dec 26, 2007

For example, in 2003 officials from Nashville's Music City Bowl spent $7203 on hosting an office miniature golf tournament. "It's really one of the most …

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Fun by the glass Indianapolis Star, United States - Dec 26, 2007

Tom Wood Volkswagen, Indiana's Premier VW Dealer Can Do It All Great Deals at Dreyer & Reinbold Greenwood on New and Pre-Owned Certified BMW, …

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