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4 NFL AFC Eastern Division Apps for iPhones

This list is a cross section of the wealth of mobile apps from the National Football League’s National Football Conference. Readers are encouraged to explore the many iPhone apps out there for themselves. But for the many that just don’t feel like it, this list appears as a terrific time saving device. The Super Bowl may already seem like a distant memory to some. Now it’s a boiling hot summer and of course the silly American male (OK, maybe a few females also) is already sizing up the coming football season. Don’t laugh because it pays to plan ahead!

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5 Sites to Boost Your Local SEO

Local searches allow businesses to get their names noticed by customers in their area, but taking advantage of local searches can be difficult for business owners that are unfamiliar with local sites. If a business wants to rank for competitive search terms in their local market, they can normally benefit from backlinks from sites that boost local rankings.

While each area and type of business is different, below are five great sites to boost your local links.

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The Power of Location Based Ads in Mobile Technology

Location based advertising is a relatively new phenomenon that has started to grow by leaps and bounds with the emergence of the smartphone. As millions of people now use smartphones on a daily basis, marketers can take advantage of this fact, and serve them ads based on where they are. This has the potential to help advertisers make the most of their limited ad budgets, and reach people right where they are. While mobile advertising can be effective, the medium has some inherent challenges that companies have to deal with.

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4 Eastern Conference MLS (Major League Soccer) Apps for the iPhone

Welcome to the sport that gives new meaning to the term ‘rough and tumble’. Soccer lovers may prefer to keep a dedicated app for their favorite team or teams on hand. Let the app do the work of navigating to your club’s latest news and stats. That will leave you free to sit back and enjoy the ride. Here are apps for four of the years’ top contenders. With a special nod to the reigning champion Los Angeles Galaxy. Do not be disappointed if your team didn’t make this exclusive list. This was determined by excruciating data crunching. Here’s where to go to custom fit an app for your MLS soccer club.

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4 Speech Making Apps for iPhones

Perhaps there comes a time in almost everyone’s life when they are compelled to deliver a speech of some kind. For some this prospect, like having to imbibe castor oil, is a source of dread. Enter these 4 Speech Apps for iPhones, like the proverbial cavalry. Coming to, as that old timer Mick Jagger might exclaim, your emotional rescue. In those primitive times before there were iPhones, speech givers were forced to go to the great length of lugging that notebook computer to their orations. How tacky that must have been. These apps will have you delivering a speech smoother than Obama on a lovely spring day.

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WordPress Tips for Creating the Perfect Bio Page

Making the perfect bio page in WordPress is very important if you are looking to make conversions. According to many experts, the bio page is the most visited page on your website because people want to know who they are buying from. It has also been proven that those without a bio page often make fewer sales. If you have an ecommerce or service-based website, then you need a bio page to make it work. Follow these tips, and you should have the perfect bio page ready in less than an hour.
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Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomy for the iPad

By now most everyone has heard of the great Leonardo da Vinci. For hundreds of years the eminent prescience that exudes from his timeless anatomical drawings went mum as the importance of his work was somehow overlooked.

Not so any longer. The Royal collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has partnered with Touch Press, the innovative interactive eBook publisher that has brought to fruition some of the many educational possibilities of the iPad, to finally give Leonardo his due.

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Zoho CRM: A Strong Alternative to Salesforce

I was crowdsourcing for an alternative to Salesforce for a client relationship management (CRM) platform and I stumbled into these tweets:

We just migrated our CRM system from salesforce.com to zoho CRM. Annual cost for Salesforce was $1600. Cost for zoho is $300.

— Craig Donnelly (@craigdonnelly) May 13, 2010

Zoho CRM adds the ability to manage your email from within the application. Only CRM that I know has this featurehttp://bit.ly/crhDh

— Jeremy Floyd (@jfloyd) July 24, 2009

So, I dived into finding more about Zoho CRM.

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What’s Your Score? How Klout and PeerIndex Affect Social Engagement

Social media is the driving force behind much of the World Wide Web. Individuals use it to connect and share globally, and businesses have realized its immense potential for extending brand reach. A recent Pew Internet report found that two-thirds of adult Internet users are using a social networking site; other studies have noted the growing use of social media for marketing purposes.

So, given the growing importance of social media, it makes sense that companies are now measuring the relative importance, or influence, of the people using the networks.

Klout and PeerIndex, the two major players in measuring social influence, have only been around for a few years but have already made a mark on digital engagement.

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