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5 Wordpress Plugins for Tracking Stats

5 Wordpress Plugins for Tracking Stats

You may think - I've got Google Analytics - I'm set.  But just how reliable is the information in Google Analytics?  Are you sure it is 100% accurate? Even if you use Google Analytics, you may find it helpful, especially if you have a Wordpress website, to have some extra plugins ...

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Marketing Options for Small Businesses

Marketing Options for Small Businesses

Every business I know, would LOVE to have a fulltime Marketing Manager, Marketing Co-ordinator, or Marketing Consultant, focussed on their business, developing a marketing plan and strategy, implementing the plan, co-ordinating the promotions, updating the social media, and monitoring all the results. But, in the real world, the budget of a ...

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Free Tool to Create Custom Facebook Pages

Free Tool to Create Custom Facebook Pages

Small business owners understand that these days you need to have a good Facebook business presence.  Currently the best way to do this is to have an official Business page, where friends, family, customers, and potential-customers can publically acknowledge that they support your products or services. The huge growth in this ...

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14 Blog Communities and Directories for Bloggers

14 Blog Communities and Directories for Bloggers

Bloggers around the world UNITE!  There are now approximately 200 million blogs on the world wide web, and blogging has only really taken off in the past 2-3 years. And as being a blogger becomes a popular hobby, or as an add-on for a business, or even a full-time online business, ...

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How Mobile is your Marketing?

How Mobile is your Marketing?

There is no denying it.  The mobile marketing revolution is here.  Sales of iPhones and Androids continue to escalate as Google Vice President Andy Rubin says more than 160,000 Android devices are sold and activated every day.  More and more people are accessing their information on the move.  But ...

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10 Amazing New Foursquare Website Applications

10 Amazing New Foursquare Website Applications

"Some teenager just called me lame for not being on foursquare. As I choked him, I wondered what foursquare even is." 8:03 AM Jun 10th @Mickey__Rourke To answer Mickey's curiosity - Foursquare is a new social media network, and if you want to find out the full details, please visit ...

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Aug 22 / Fiona Bosticky
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Facebook Places launches Foursquare offensive

facebook places mobile check inThe biggest threat to the Foursquare boom has arrived – Facebook Places.  With over 500 millions users now, Facebook is the largest social media network in the world.  There has been much hype over this anticipated move by Facebook into the geo-location services arena, and since the launch the uptake has been massive.

Geo-location based services are growing at a rapid rate since the release of platforms like Foursquare and Gowalla.  With these services you are able to “check-in” at various locations, and leave comments, and share

Aug 17 / Fiona Bosticky
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How to Barcode your Business Card

business card barcodeAfter the vast discussions that followed my post – The Evolution of Business Cards, I received a lot of emails asking exactly HOW one adds a barcode to your business card.

Firstly, I’m not sure that standard business card print/ design services like Vista Print (for example) offer this service just yet.  If you are keen to get a social media barcode on your business card, you are better to use a designer first, to make sure it’s in the right place, and then use a separate printing company.  Or if

Aug 8 / Fiona Bosticky
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10 Amazing Social Media Icon Sets

Previously I’ve featured my favourite sets of Twitter Icons and Facebook Icons, but if you are looking for a matching social media set to fit into your website or blog, these are some amazing alternatives to the standard additions.

1. Social Cubes – Exclusive Vectortuts+ Free Pack

ice cube social media icons
2. Grunge Peeling Stickers Social Media Icons

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3. Free Social Media Icons: Old Bottle Crowns Icon Set

Aug 1 / Fiona Bosticky
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How to Transfer your Website to a New Host

Moving WebsiteWhen your website host really lets you down it can be very frustrating.  And if you read some reviews out there, you can see a lot of people have been very disappointed by a variety of hosts and their false promises.

So you may be considering a swap to a new host.  But of course, this might make you a little nervous, since you do not want to face the prospect of your website being down, or something going wrong.

Here is a little step by step guide for changing your website host as quickly and

Jul 29 / Pamela Evbota
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10 Inspirations for your Business Success

Guest Post by Pamela Evbota

business success1.  Do what you can, with what you have, where you are – Theodore Roosevelt

Most times we complain that what is holding us back, and stopping us from attaining our goals in life is inadequacy.  In actual sense we made ourselves inadequate.  We stop ourselves saying we are not good enough – ‘you don’t have what it takes’.  Stop selling yourselves short, you are good just the way you are and the world is waiting for you to share your brilliance.

2. Create your dream circle/team

On your way to success, learn to surround yourself with

Jul 27 / Fiona Bosticky
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10 More Foursquare Apps for Check In Maniacs

iPhone Foursquare Mobile AppsFoursquare is a geo-location social media network that is growing at a very fast rate.  It is becoming more and more popular for people to “check-in” at their favourite bar, cafe, restaurant, tourist attraction, and other locations.  And now more add-on mobile apps are being created to enhance the value of Foursquare, and extend the interaction just from “checking in”.

If you currently have a smartphone (iPhone or Android), here are 10 new Foursquare mobile apps you may want to look into:

1. Fourcash, finance by location

Fourcash is promoted as a fun, free way to manage your

Jul 24 / Fiona Bosticky
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Simple Tips for Increasing Traffic to your Blog

driving traffic to your websiteWith Facebook you are chasing “likes” or “fans”, with Twitter you are trying to build followers, and with your blog you are trying to increase traffic, or the infamous “unique visits”.

You have to remember that there are a lot of bloggers around, and in a perfect world, you would write a blog, tweet it, add it to your facebook page, and get 1,000s of re-tweets, likes, visitor traffic and comments.  But in today’s world, if you not mashable, you might be happy to get 1 comment, or a

Jul 21 / Fiona Bosticky
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BranchOut New Career Facebook Application

BranchOut logo Facebook ApplicationSo far, in the social networking world, only Linked In has led in the area of business and professional online networking.  But now this may change with a brand new Facebook application which you can use to engage in professional networking with your friends and contacts from your profile.

The application is called “BranchOut” and I’m surprised it’s taken this long to see an add-on application like this added to Facebook.

Once you activate BranchOut in your profile, you can:

  • Browse your friends’ employers, or search by company