What scares small business owners away from social media

SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social media practices and issues. Paul Chaney, Internet marketing director for Bizzuka , author of “The Digital Handshake,” and member of the SmartBrief on Social Media Advisory Board , helps create the questions and analyzes the results. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter and feature Paul’s analysis on this blog. Last week’s poll question: A recen

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Masters of Business Online 2009

On Wednesday, I attended the Masters of Business Online put on by Jim Brown of EverEffect . First, I have to give Jim absolute kudos on this event. While one-day industry events costs thousands of dollars in Chicago, New York or San Jose… this event was one of the best Online Marketing Conference I’ve ever been to at a fraction of the cost. There were three tracks, Planning and Measuring, Engaging the User and Beyond the Website. As someone who’s intrigued beyond the website, I mostly at

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6 Business and Marketing Links and 1 Deep Thought

Holy crap, the internet took a day off from sucking today. Many good things to say today. 1. First of all, I shouldn’t even really be saying anything today since it is not a Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, as Jonathan Fields rightly points out in 97 Ways To Build Traffic Without Resorting To Dumbass List Posts . As I will be resorting to a dumbass list post myself very soon, I found this fascinating. While it’s all good, I think my favourite is probably the first line. Delicious. 2. Mark S

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Aussie mines invite Chinese investment

Australian state government and industry officials Wednesday extended invitation to Chinese investment in the mining sector, but their remarks didn’t help dispel concerns of Chinese mining companies. The officials from Australian states, including the New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Queensland, and some industry associations, attended the three-day 2009 China Mining Conference with hopes of boosting investment sentiment from China following a spate of failed mining as

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Google Top News Stories for eMail Marketing – 10-14-2009

Good evening everyone, and happy Wednesday. The week is half-way over, but the email marketing community is still hard at work! ExactTarget is all over Google News and for good reason! They’ve entered into new partnerships with Oracle, SAP and ATG to develop seamless integrations with its on-demand one-to-one messaging platform. Today, they launched their expanded integrated text messaging capabilities, and if that wasn’t enough, they’ve also raised $5 million through a private placement. Th

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BIA/Kelsey Webinar: Online Reputation Management

This coming Wednesday, BIA/Kelsey will host a free webinar about reputation management and how it is becoming a growing area of local online ad spend. It will feature commentary from BIA/Kelsey’s Matt Booth as well as executives of Marchex and SMBLive (see description below). This will be a key topic of interest to local media companies in the coming months, and something we’ll increasingly focus on (including the upcoming ILM conference ). Get a sneak peek of what we’re talking about and wh

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Editing photos with filters

By Zo Nicholas Daily Online Training Call Wednesday 7th October Editing photos with filters Grab a photo, any good quality photo, and apply some filters. Its surprising what kind of effects can be achieved. You can check out some great examples on Yorgo’s author blog . Training Call Workshop Todays Daily Online Training call took you through the basics steps how apply filters using a simple freely available online tool. Here are some examples created during the training call on

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Letter to Shareholders from Crown Equity Holdings, Inc. President Kenneth Bosket

PennyOmega.com Hot Stock News & Alerts! ________________________________________ FREE Daily Stock Alerts From PennyOmega.com ________________________________________ Wednesday October 7, 2009 PennyOmega.com Stock Report! ************************************************************** Letter to Shareholders from Crown Equity Holdings, Inc. President Kenneth Bosket Las Vegas, NV – October 7, 2009 – (CRWENewswire.com) – Crow

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A grim year for small business lending

Here’s a telling statistic about the toll the recession is taking on Main Street: This year, the government’s top small business lending program got loans to 25,000 fewer entrepreneurs than it did last year.In its 2009 fiscal year, which ended Wednesday, the Small Business Administration backed 44,221 loans from banks to help borrowers start and expand their businesses. That’s 36% fewer loans than the SBA’s 7(a) loan program made in 2008.The program’s total dollar volume also dropped sharply. Lo

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Press Release: Samoan Islands 8.2-magnitude earthquake triggers …

www.celebritytwittergossip.com – 2009-09-30 19:09:50 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com – Top Stories World News News) Albuquerque, New Mexico (CaymanMama.com) — A massive 8.0-magnitude earthquake rumbled beneath the Samoan Islands early Tuesday, triggering giant tsunami waves on Wednesday which left over 100 people dead and devastated villages as they now lay flattened. A vast emergency effort is now underway to help the small cluster of Samoan islands in the South Pacific. Island o

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