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How to Use WordPress SEO Plug-Ins

Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft’s Bing are critical marketing channels for mid-size businesses. We love using WordPress as a marketing platform because these search engines love blogs. Your site and it’s updates will be “found” by Google quickly if it’s based around a great blogging engine like WordPress which has several powerful plug-ins for optimizing search [...]

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WordPress: An Introduction to Authoring Content

Authoring website content in WordPress is pretty easy, but I’ve noticed that some first-time WordPress authors (understandably) get tripped up on a few concepts and tools when starting out. This video and set of tips below it should help beginners avoid some common confusion when beginning to use WordPress to manage a website or blog. Check [...]

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Brand Your Comments: Create Your Gravatar

If you have not uploaded your image and registered your email address with Gravatar.com, read this post and then do so! What’s a Gravatar? From Wikipedia: Gravatar (an abbreviation for globally recognized avatar) is a service for providing globally-unique avatars. At Gravatar.com, users can register an account based on their email address, and upload an avatar (a square image [...]

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Chicago Media-Marketing & Advertising August Meetup

ChirpUp joins CMM&A for networking and discussion about media, marketing, advertising, and public relations. Topic: "Why You Can't Afford Not to Blog"

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The Fight for a Piece of Social Media Pie

There is no shortage of commentary on the subject of “who owns social media” among professional service providers and consultants.  Ad agencies, SEO specialists, PR firms, technologists, web shops, bloggers, etc. etc. are all jockeying for a piece of the pie. The Business Owns Social Media Marketing Let’s keep this short (not sweet). The business owns social [...]

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Interactive Marketing Equity from Recycled Content

Businesses using blogs and social media for interactive marketing can recycle equity from their existing content library.   Almost every business we meet has an untapped treasure trove of organizational content.  They love hearing about easy ways to recycle presentations, research, white papers, brochures and web content. Inbound Marketing Strategy Anchored to a modern interactive marketing strategy, your [...]

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SEO Keywords for Business Marketing Blogs

If you’re using a blog to market your business, be sure to include strategic keywords in your blog posts and social media messages. Understand which Google search terms define your industry, your business and the specific post topic for search engine optimization (SEO).  Spend time with Google.  How will your target audience attempt to find [...]

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WordPress Help: A Beginner’s Guide to Inserting Images into Posts

WordPress ships with a WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”) editor that makes authoring posts and pages relatively simple. Nevertheless, the WordPress editor can be a little confusing for first time users, so this will be the first in a series of posts to help first time WordPress authors quickly learn the basics. This [...]

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ChirpUp Interview in Dealer Marketing Magazine on Social Media

Mark Bradford, of ChirpUp.com discusses new social media opportunities for auto dealers with Alex Bravy of Web2Carz in the May, 2009 auto Dealer Marketing Magazine. Local Dealers Should Upgrade to a Modern Website Modern websites don’t wait passively for visitors.  They are marketing machines featuring built-in search engine optimization and technology that constantly pushes a message.  This [...]

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Simple Ways to Measure Twitter Marketing Effectiveness

There are several basic ways marketers can start measuring Twitter campaign effectiveness.  These simple terms map new social media techniques to traditional media metrics. Measuring Twitter Broadcast Reach and Frequency For raw broadcast reach, your number of  Followers is the leading indicator because it quantifies your baseline Twitter audience.   Your Updates quantify baseline frequency.  Retweets act as [...]

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