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There’s a lot to building an org structure for a large team, but the most important part is planning the work of the team. This planning is integral to realizing our goal of improving the overall consistency and “togetherness” for Windows 7. So rather than think [...]

Much of our conversation in the Corporate Blogging BlogINDIANA session was when a company should dive into social media, how they should dive into social media, and how they should manage their online reputation. For today’s post, I’m going to take on the question when.

After all the searching, you don’t know where you’ve slipped and you think there is not secrets to increase your business. Instead, I know that the secret is real. For those a bit skeptical about this, there are three secrets that work together.

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After all the searching, you don’t know where you’ve slipped and you think there is not secrets to increase your business. Instead, I know that the secret is real. For...

To create a website from the ground up may be very confusing at first on how getting traffic. You know that your success comes down to your ability to generate traffic to your web site. Remember, If you don’t have traffic to your site, it’s similar to opening a Wal-Mart store in the middle of the desert! No one will find you and without traffic there is no money.

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If you are just starting out in the online business world, the truth is, no matter what your business is, you need of traffic.

To create a website from the ground up may be very confusing at first on how getting traffic. You know that your success comes down to your ability to generate traffic to your web...

This is more of a question for discussion rather than a comment. My experience with blogging is that consistency is everything. If your readers expect to have new content on a daily basis, they will return to your site on a daily basis to get that content. A good question is:

How many times will a visitor return to your website to check for new content before they stop returning?

I’ve been doing some testing recently. It’s not a very scientific approach that I’ve taken, but when I wrote a blog post on Starbucks that received a lot of attention (A), I decided to let it ride to see what would happen.

After reading quite a bit of Tuned In, I was really intrigued by one of the questions posed by the team at Pragmatic Marketing. Is your website talking about your company or is it talking about your customers?

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Very few bloggers make a steady stream of thousand of uniques visitors a day. One thing I learned very well is that the most important visitors are the ones who promote your...

When I posted about purchasing some new business cards, I received some great recommendations. Included were metal business cards and even a business card using Wordle.

The United States really didn’t understand what coffee could taste like. Coffee grinds were flavored with chips for a long time that helped maximize the profits of coffee companies. I had a friend of mine that worked in a packaging plant who worked on the equipment that filled and sealed coffee containers. He told me they changed brands all night, but never changed the beans. We were all getting fed the same crap, disguised in different coffee cans.

Do you have heard about content selling? Maybe you have read something from copyblogger. Is an action that users take when they are compelled to subscribe at content, much more...

Do you have heard about content selling? Maybe from copyblogger. It’s a way to compel people to subscribe to their content more known as “Flagship Content”.
Flagship content is an effective way to increasing blog traffic by using a core of content that you build around. A “Flagship Content” usually can be used to sell something(for [...]

[Just picked this up over at Tightwad Technica]

Gateway, in a never-ending quest to work their way backwards is going to shutdown their online store. Or, as they like to say, shift to a 100% indirect sales model. Sales will only be through “retail partners.”

Seriously? I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a business wizard, but this just seems counter-intuitive to me.