4 Tools to Streamline Your Social Media Outreach

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Whether you’re promoting a product, a service, or just trying to expand the audience for a post on your blog, social media has grown into a digitized word-of-mouth marketing platform that, when used correctly, can outcompete a billboard or an ad on television. When you really want to get the word out, spreading that news across Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+ are the go-to mediums.

But for those services to be effective, the ‘word’ has to be worth talking about. It’s important that everything you post to your feeds be relevant and engaging. With all that pressure to be interesting and spark conversations, it can seem overwhelming to utilize so many different platforms. Many companies, especially small businesses, might rely on Facebook while letting other social media outlets slide.

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Top Places Where You Still Can Get Free Links

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If you have a website and are trying to boost its position in Google to increase your traffic and thereby your profits, then links will be of incredible value to you. Inbound links to a website have many different purposes, and can not only help Google to index your pages, but also help people surfing the web to find them and increase your reputation in the eyes of both those visitors and Google itself.

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How to Future Proof Your Website or Blog

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There is a lot written online about the importance of ‘future proofing your SEO’. What’s meant by this of course is protecting your SEO practices against potential future changes to Google’s algorithms, and of course this comes in the wake of the recent big changes Google has made that go by the Penguin and Panda handles respectively. This was a great demonstration of the fact that it’s not good enough to just market your website according to current marketing principles – you also need to do it according to the likely future ones to make sure that your good work lasts and doesn’t later on get swept under the rug.

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Top 5 Reasons Why Your Typography Is Turning Away Visitors and What Fonts To Stay Away From

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We all know that typography and font choice have a huge impact on website design, but did you know they could be the difference between whether a visitor actually engages on your site or exits as quickly as possible? Perhaps you thought your font choice or the awkward spacing between paragraphs made your site look fancy or unique, when in reality these things have the complete opposite effect of what was intended. Whether you designed your site yourself or hired a professional, there are a number of important things to remember about the typography of your site. The following are the top five reasons why your typography could be turning visitors and potential customers away from your site.

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Retain Your Consumer Market

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One of the largest challenges that businesses have is figuring out a way to generate sales. Although it can be difficult to retain customers, it is usually a lot more expensive to find new customers. Because of this, you should put an emphasis on keeping the customers that you already have to save money. Here are a few things to consider about retaining your consumer market.

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Augmented Reality in Games: The Future?

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If you are familiar with gaming terminology, ‘augmented reality gaming’ is a phrase you might have heard thrown about in the last few years. Augmented reality takes the real world in real-time and enhances it with computer generated features in the form of sound, imagery and video. Pretty cool, right? Well, one of the main ways that augmented reality can be utilized is through video gaming; you can bet your bottom dollar there will be a market for it! Millions of gamers would pay top end to have a device which successfully merges reality with digital reality; just imagine this:

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4 Web Browsers for Android Devices

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In the old days it was Microsoft Explorer or the highway. Then there was Netscape, then the pandemonium of still other web browsers. And that was before we knew what mobile computing was all about. Nowadays with smart phones all the rage, it is time to think about which browser we really want on our Android mobile computing device. If you are a plain vanilla type of surfer, then do nothing. Your default browser on your Android device is most likely Google Chrome. My device, which runs Ice Cream Sandwich, the quaint moniker for Android 4.0, shows a pic of the globe with the simple description, Browser. But I do have a sneaking suspicion that it is Google’s mobile version of Chrome because after all, what other browser would Google place in their own OS?

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4 Angry Birds Apps for iPhones

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The world has been suffering of late from Angry Bird mania. These revengeful little birdies aren’t happy, as the games’ titles imply. It is perhaps another sad reflection on human nature that we can take pleasure in the difficulties of our feathered friends. The truth of this matter is lost on the millions who enjoy giving misbehaving hogs the what for. As we go ‘to press’, even other worlds are soon to be victimized by these avian misadventures. Look for the Angry Birds Star Wars app to be coming soon to an iPhone near you in early November.

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7 Reasons To Create Engaging Birthday Emails

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There are a lot of email marketing tactics that can help build strong relationships with potential buyers. Using free email templates to create engaging birthday emails is one of the most effective ways to keep in touch with the customer. So organize a birthday club and start providing targeted messages at the right time to the right people.

Here are seven most important reasons to get creative with birthday emails.

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Best iOS6 Features for Business Users

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iOS6, the latest operating system from Apple, has made its presence felt when it got unveiled at the WWDC 2012 in San Francisco. It has loads of impressive features which are best suited for business professionals. Productivity, application management, communication management, security, speed, ease of access, navigation etc. are few features which can help this operating system to get nominated for “Best OS for business” this year.

Read further to understand some of its fabulous features for business and map your requirements better.

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