Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Feb 8, 2012, 5:08 pm
This is a guest post from Murray’s new video project The Future of Engagement showing the impact of Audi including a hashtag for their new commercial about LED headlights being as “close to daylight” as you can get. In the video, Murray says he chose Audi because they were very creative last ...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Feb 7, 2012, 5:51 pm
Guest Blogging eBook Guest Blogging has many benefits including guest posting for networking and exposure to guest blogging for greater reach to  geo-targeted blog outreach. When you want to guest post, it is critical to include a few simple things in your guest posting requests. Guest Blogging ...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Feb 5, 2012, 11:45 pm
Click image to see 168 Business Directories Even if your small business could afford a Super Bowl ad – at $3.5 million – there is another form of advertising that would benefit you more and consistently bring you far more business. And the good news is you only have to pay to have it submitted...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Feb 1, 2012, 5:36 pm
Click image to read Facebook IPO to Create Jobs Future of Engagement – Monitoring Social Media on the Eve of the Facebook IPO Launch Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook could be going public within seven days. Murray Newlands’ series The Future of Engagement analyzes ho...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Jan 30, 2012, 2:30 am
Click Image for Free Download or to Buy in Paperback Danny Iny (@DannyIny on Twitter) from Marketing Training Company FirePole Marketing did what all wise people do when confronted with a challenge: find out first what everyone else who has tackled the same situation learned and then build on that...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Jan 27, 2012, 10:01 pm
There is still time to make sure your favorite small business related book is nominated (or your own!) for the Small Business Trends Book Awards – but only until Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Don’t take the chance of being shut out by waiting until the last minute. Head over there NOW and make sur...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Jan 26, 2012, 4:18 pm
This is a guest post by Manuel Marino where he shares how he has combined using LinkedIn for connections with blogging to build a community of artists helping artists. Is it possible to merge an artist’s talent with social networking, adding some blogging spice for a perfect mix? My name is Manu...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Jan 25, 2012, 7:39 pm
Click Image to Find out more about Spark Media Solutions In the latest episode of Future of Engagement, Murray Newlands interviews branding expert David Spark (@dspark on Twitter), founder of the custom publishing company Spark Media Solutions which provides custom content marketing services. Davi...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Jan 19, 2012, 8:05 am
... Murray Newlands sharing a new social media monitoring and management solution. ... to introduce you to Alerti social media monitoring and management service ... Monitoring Tools I was reading Media Bistro recently and found a ... consider themselves “happy” with the social media monit...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Jan 18, 2012, 3:04 am
If you haven’t heard about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) so far, most are bound to have noticed Tuesday, January 18, 2012 when they were unable to get to many of their favorite sites from Wikipedia to Reddit to WordPress to Mozilla to Craigslist. NEW: Where do members of Congress stand on SOP...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Jan 16, 2012, 6:09 pm
Small business owner and managers can benefit from advice from 28 Social Media Marketing experts presenting during the 2012 Small Biz Success Summit. // < ![CDATA[ var s1 = new SWFObject("http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/images/smallbiz.swf","mediaplayer","300","300","8"); s1.addVariable("my...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Jan 13, 2012, 6:15 pm
Click Image to go to Feel Tip Top Twitter Search Engine I recently wrote about How to Increase Conversions By Sharing Pillar Content When Your Audience is Most Receptive and mentioned using the semantic Twitter search engine FeelTipTop and a unique Twitter alert search and respond app iTweetLive. ...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Jan 11, 2012, 4:55 pm
Future of Engagement is a new series of video interviews produced by Murray Newlands of Influence People. In this 6 minute video, Murray interviews Chief Revenue Officer Alex Rowland of Alphabird, recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2011 for their unique Editorial Video Syndication that distrib...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Jan 10, 2012, 4:56 pm
There have been reports so far from two bloggers involving three blogs that after upgrading to WordPress 3.3.1 the checkbox for the GrowMap anti-spambot plugin (G.A.S.P.) goes missing. Blogs affected so far are all using the FREE version – not CommentLuv Premium. Ileane @BasicBlogTips Recom...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Jan 5, 2012, 5:30 pm
What if you could share just your most important links with influencers you don’t even know yet and have them retweet them to their 1000s or tens of thousands of Twitter followers? You can. Join us at JustRetweet.com where it is fast and easy to share what we would most like to have retweeted. ...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Jan 4, 2012, 2:48 pm
Murray Newlands Murray Newlands of Influence People is producing a new series of high quality interviews on the Future of Engagement. In this 8 minute video, Murray interviews Chase McMichael, founder and CEO of Infinigraph, for answers to these questions: How do brands identify influencers? If...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Jan 1, 2012, 3:22 am
Image Credit @AskJamesHolmes Click image to read Gary Vaynerchuk and Guy Kawasaki on Brand Engagement Why do influential, social media savvy bloggers share what they share? Do they share YOUR blog posts about your business? Will they share your business Web site – and if not = why not? What...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Dec 29, 2011, 5:36 pm
Image from Fotolia Courtesy of Dazzlin Donna Fontenot - A Blogger You REALLY Need to Know! Click image to visit her blog. Asking for feedback from talented Web designers, writers, bloggers, and especially your target audience can lead to greatly improved content. As you refine and make it clearer ...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Dec 28, 2011, 8:44 pm
UPDATE: Affiliate Summit West Silver Pass Sold on eBay Dec 27, 2011 for SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS! Screen Capture of Silver Pass that SOLD on eBay for SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS! Affiliate Summit Last Minute Tickets Nineteen times in a row Affiliate Summit has sold out – but there IS hope if you re...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Dec 28, 2011, 5:57 pm
Click image to read Why 97% of Prospects Have the WRONG GOALS Are YOUR small business goals ineffective or downright useless? I hope not – but I see this over and over again. Business owners are sold all the wrong goals by people who make a living doing what is easy instead of what actually wor...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Nov 1, 2011, 11:03 am
Image Credit: The Writer's Workshop This is a guest post from Sharon Hurley Hall who last time she guest posted shared tips on how to be a writer. The last time I posted here, I said that getting paid to write was not just about the writing. I outlined some of the aspects of building a writing bus...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 31, 2011, 10:57 am
Click image to Buy Frugal Living eBook - Don't forget to use Discount Code GrowMap10 to Save 10% More people than ever before are having to tighten their belts and find ways to save on their expenses so they can lower their cost of living. Since this is completely foreign to many people, when I fo...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 28, 2011, 4:00 pm
Click Image to Read Interesting Spam Stats Have you noticed that brand new Twitter spammer accounts don’t show any tweets? I’ve been noticing that in spam accounts for a while now because that seems curious to me. Then I noticed that #dominicanproblems was trending – and not just in Dallas ...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 25, 2011, 2:04 pm
Click the image to read about Simple Trackback Validation plugin that DOES NOT defeat this new kind of trackback spam Bloggers are now spamming other bloggers with phony trackbacks. I suspect some don’t realize that is what something they installed does. Others are just selfish a...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 21, 2011, 3:25 pm
WOW! Are we in for a treat. When I saw that Chris at The Traffic Blogger had written in a guest post on Problogger about how to sell a Web site that he had sold a site for $50,000 that was making a consistent $4,000 a month, I asked him to share with us how he did it. This guest post is his reply. ...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 20, 2011, 3:12 pm
I started this post on October 16 planning to publish it on World Food Day. Locating this type of information in search engines has become so much more challenging since May 2011 that even with all my 2,961 saved notes and research, it has taken me four long days to compile this information. Someon...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 18, 2011, 12:10 pm
This is a guest post from an old friend of mine, Pete Ekizian, a very savvy small business owner who owns and runs a very successful ecommerce engraved gifts store that has been online for twelve years. I’ve known Pete for most of those years and had no idea what he wanted to write when he asked ...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 17, 2011, 10:27 am
This is a guest post from Ileane of Basic Blog Tips. My readers probably already know Ileane from her many Blogging Tutorials, her Blogging Tips Videos on YouTube and her many guest posts and interviews across the blogosphere. Developing a successful social media strategy doesn’t happen overnig...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 15, 2011, 5:47 pm
This is a guest post from Umair Abid, a blogger I am mentoring who lives in New York who is one of my many regular readers and commenters whose native language is not English. I encourage all people who have something worth sharing to interact here. Some complain about those whose English is not ...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 13, 2011, 1:33 pm
College Students Discussing Censorship Twitter IS definitely censoring tweets and hashtags. This post includes proof. I’ve been warning my readers that we must not be complacent and make the assumption that platforms we use online are unbiased. We must pay attention to what happens when we inv...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 12, 2011, 6:15 pm
Click THIS image to ENTER THE GIVEAWAY IMPORTANT: Follow DIRECTIONS in this POST It is no secret that I am one of the biggest CommentLuv enthusiasts ever. (More on WHY in a minute.) GrowMap.com was in on Andy Bailey’s “beater test” (inside joke – what beta test sounds like on the videos i...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 11, 2011, 11:22 am
This is a guest post from @IvanWalsh, a blogger and online marketer with over twenty years of IT experience who has been online since 1992 which is as early as you could BE online. He has skills in all the Internet Marketing Strategies you need to take your business or blog to the next level. Cl...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 10, 2011, 10:37 am
We’re all in this together. A remarkable wealth distribution study (Norton & Ariely, 2010) reveals that Americans have no idea that the wealth distribution (defined for them in terms of “net worth”) is as concentrated as it is. MUST READ: Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% – In the U.S., t...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 9, 2011, 8:57 pm
Image Credit: kt literary ~ Click Image to Read Ethical vs Effective Each of us must decide for ourselves where we stand ethically. There are basically three camps: ANYTHING FOR A BUCK These bloggers will do whatever generates the most money regardless of who it hurts. Common strategies are: Pr...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 8, 2011, 1:39 pm
Click Image to Read Guest Posting Tips in 4 Myths About Guest Blogging I rarely publish content on Saturdays because Saturday is the slowest Internet day of the week and I don’t have time to write the type of comprehensive content I publish every day. It occurs to me that would be the perfect da...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 7, 2011, 10:47 am
This is a guest post from Chris @TheTrafficBlogger who shares how to get more blog traffic. You may remember Chris because his previous guest post here went viral when it was tweeted by Tony Robbins and got over 350 RTs. (Yes THAT Tony Robbins.) Last weekend was my sister’s fiance’s bachelor pa...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 5, 2011, 4:58 pm
How CommentLuv supports small business & attracts customers Q: What does CommentLuv have to do with YOUR prosperity or the prosperity of your business and community? I’m glad you asked. A: We can use CommentLuv to create economic recovery and improve our standard of living. HOW? (I can...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 4, 2011, 10:47 am
GrowMap readers are in for a real treat because our guest post today is from Affiliate Marketing Consultant Tricia Meyer, better known to her fans as @SunshineTricia. It includes an Introduction to Affiliate Marketing video Tricia did with Deborah Carney (aka @loxly on Twitter).  Deborah is an Out...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Oct 4, 2011, 12:14 am
Want to learn more about affiliate marketing? One of the best ways is to Attend Affiliate Summit Thanks to sites that will promote anything for a buck and sneaky offers that hide recurring credit card charges in the fine print, affiliate marketing has a bad reputation in many circles BUT it doesn�...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Sep 29, 2011, 11:00 am
This is a guest post offering information to small businesses with excessive debt. Do you own a small business organization that is desperately struggling to keep up with high interest debts? With the present financial situation within the US, this is a pretty normal situation and you need not fre...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Sep 28, 2011, 10:17 am
DID YOU KNOW? September is National Literacy Month and October is National Information Literacy Awareness Month. Image Credit: Libraryman Click Image for Info on Library Renewal Even though I love the Internet that does NOT mean we should allow physical books and libraries to go the way of the ...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Sep 27, 2011, 6:57 am
TODAY and for the next 7 days Andy is introducing a Special Offer Never to be repeated price on CommentLuv Premium. Sale ends on 4th October 2011! CommentLuv Premium is going to spread across the blogsophere because: It increases your reach and traffic. It creates a thriving community around you...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Sep 26, 2011, 11:00 am
This is a guest post. All businesses, from the biggest corporations to the smallest privately-held companies, need to remain agile when it comes to technology. Upgrading desktop computers, servers, and network infrastructure is essential to maintaining efficiency and growth. Here is a look at fiv...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Sep 23, 2011, 7:26 pm
Click the image to read what Jackie from Internet Marketing for Mommies thinks about CommentLuv and KeywordLuv Have you heard? THIS COMING TUESDAY for one week only the awesome new CommentLuv Premium goes on sale. CommentLuv Premium defaults to nofollow but can easily be configured to be dofollow....
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Sep 22, 2011, 10:47 am
This is a guest post by Sam Taylor, a senior writer and product manager from a trusted hosting reviews company. Image Credit: AllAccess.com - Click image to read Harker Research on When Should You Rebrand. Oftentimes a company will appear on the market and after years of its existence, a name c...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Sep 21, 2011, 11:00 am
Q: What do you get when you cross a social network with an ecommerce site? A: Goskoop: a custom cyber deals site with a personal online ecommerce concierge that continually searches the Web for whatever you ask it to find – products, services, books, music movies, vehicles, real estate – even a...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Sep 20, 2011, 5:00 pm
Internet Attorney Richard B. Newman keeps me apprised of important legal issues that affect all of us and I make sure others know about them. The day after the FTC announced proposed changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Richard had already done an in-depth analysis on ...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Sep 19, 2011, 10:37 am
This is a guest post from GetUsSocial offering my readers the chance to win an iPad2 and sharing social media marketing tips from their experience offering Social Media Marketing Services. This is a very basic post about SEO offering tips to small business owners and a video that explains what SEO ...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Sep 17, 2011, 3:35 pm
BLOGGING COLLABORATIONS: For years now I have been encouraging businesses and bloggers to stop competing and start collaborating. I even announced that Collaborating is THE Word for 2011 and I still believe that. Every blogger will benefit from adding a geographic component to their existing blog ...
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Internet Strategist posted an article on GrowMap - MAP Your Path to GROW Your Business - Sep 15, 2011, 10:17 am
Image Credit: Lifes a Comic Strip - click the image to see more Twitter cartoons What does it take to be successful on Twitter? With over 100 million active Twitter users, it is sometimes very hard to know whether your Tweets are the ones being seen and clicked on. Recently, after reaching over 1 ...
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