Future of Engagement is a new series of video interviews produced by Murray Newlands of Influence People.

In this 6 minute video, Murray interviews Chief Revenue Officer Alex Rowland of Alphabird, recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2011 for their unique Editorial Video Syndication that distributes video content on a pay for performance instead of impressions model.

What Alphabird does for videos is very similar to the blog outreach methods I recommend for small businesses:  [click to continue…]

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There have been reports so far from two bloggers involving three blogs that after upgrading to WordPress 3.3.1 the checkbox for the GrowMap anti-spambot plugin (G.A.S.P.) goes missing.

Blogs affected so far are all using the FREE version –
not CommentLuv Premium.

Ileane @BasicBlogTips Recommendation of GASP

Ileane @BasicBlogTips Recommends GASP Click Image to Read

Bloggers using CommentLuv Premium who have upgraded to WordPress 3.3.1 including Donna Fontenot’s (@DonnaFontenot) ebusiness coaching blog and Ron Cripps’ (@AffiliateXFiles) MakeItYourRing do NOT have the problem.

Kristi Hines (@Kikolani) – a wonderful person who supports other bloggers and wrote the Ultimate Blog Post Promotion Guide, dropped everything and upgraded a blog using the free version to 3.3.1 to test for issues.

The GASP checkbox was still visible, so the good news is there
is not a major problem with upgrading to WordPress 3.3.1.

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What if you could share just your most important links with influencers you don’t even know yet and have them retweet them to their 1000s or tens of thousands of Twitter followers? You can.

Join us at JustRetweet.com where it is fast and easy to share what we would most like to have retweeted.

Using JustRetweet is the easiest how to get retweeted method.

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Why Use JustRetweet?

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Murray Newlands

Murray Newlands

Murray Newlands of Influence People is producing a new series of high quality interviews on the Future of Engagement.

In this 8 minute video, Murray interviews Chase McMichael, founder and CEO of Infinigraph, for answers to these questions:

  • How do brands identify influencers?
  • If something starts to trend, how can brands capitalize on that?

Infinigraph Helps Brands Understand:

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Don't plan to be viral. Plan to be awesome.

Image Credit @AskJamesHolmes Click image to read Gary Vaynerchuk and Guy Kawasaki on Brand Engagement

Why do influential,
social media savvy bloggers
share what they share?

Do they share YOUR blog posts about your business? Will they share your business Web site – and if not = why not?

What have I learned in 34 years in computers and 17 years online working with small businesses?

One fortunate small business is about to find out exactly what applied experience means to them – provided they are willing to let me share all their questions and what I recommended to them as a testimonial here on GrowMap.

Here’s your chance to share with my 22,956 Twitter followers plus the followers of all the influential bloggers – many who have 40,000+ followers – who will tweet what I write about your business.

When is the last time there were 99 tweets -
many by influential users – about just ONE
of
many posts that feature YOUR business?

Has that EVER happened for you?

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Feedback Wanted: thumbs up or thumbs down?

Image from Fotolia Courtesy of Dazzlin Donna Fontenot - A Blogger You REALLY Need to Know! Click image to visit her blog.

Asking for feedback from talented Web designers, writers, bloggers, and especially your target audience can lead to greatly improved content.

As you refine and make it clearer you increase conversion because more people can grasp what you have to offer.

Justin Lee has an interesting business that all small business owners, bloggers, and anyone interested in acquiring skills they can use to generate an income needs to know about: Intern Profits. [click to continue…]

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UPDATE: Affiliate Summit West Silver Pass Sold on eBay
Dec 27, 2011 for SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS!

Affiliate Summit Sold Out eBay 600 Dollars

Screen Capture of Silver Pass that SOLD on eBay for SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS!

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Affiliate Summit Last Minute Tickets

Nineteen times in a row Affiliate Summit has sold out – but there IS hope if you really want to go.

As they process cancellations they open up additional spots – and IF you know about them fast enough you can be the lucky buyer.

<< As of the minute I’m publishing this you CAN get a ticket -
IF you hurry!

Click the big yellow Register Now on the image above <<

Your best bet is to do it now because there will probably be
fewer cancellations later and how they handle this is rather confusing.

During the last event I checked regularly and was able to help many of my readers or Twitter followers get last minute tickets to Affiliate Summit.

Let me know that YOU want to be notified and the best way to reach you and I’ll contact you directly whenever registrations are open.

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Click image to read Why 97% of Prospects Have the WRONG GOALS

Click image to read Why 97% of Prospects Have the WRONG GOALS

Are YOUR small business goals
ineffective or downright useless?

I hope not – but I see this over and over again. Business owners are sold all the wrong goals by people who make a living doing what is easy instead of what actually works.

Probably the majority of agencies and consultants offering services that provide little benefit – if any – to your business really don’t know any better. Others are simply more concerned with making a living than they are with your results.

Examples of Bad Business Goals: [click to continue…]

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The 10 Unbreakable Laws of Social Media

RECOMMENDED: Click image to read The 10 Unbreakable Laws of Social Media

Have you ever heard this advice:

You should never be so busy working IN your business that you don’t have time to work ON your business?

Most people have fallen for disinformation that they must constantly churn out quantity and build zillions of backlinks.

That disinformation is intended to keep you so busy running in circles that you will never succeed.

You need to start listening to wiser people who have your best interests at heart – like the content marketing experts at Hubspot who recently wrote: [click to continue…]

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This is the second in a series of three guest posts by Ron Cripps @AffiliateXFiles explaining his SEO optimization and social media marketing strategies.

Diamond engagement ringsWhat we are going to give to you in this post is a complete breakdown of how we created our site “MakeItYourRing Diamond Engagement Rings” to all the strategies we have used to build long term traffic and hopefully win the ShireeOdiz SEO Idol Competition.

Selecting The MakeItYourRing Diamond Engagement Rings Domain Name

Most of you probably already know how to select a domain name, but this was the first step in launching the site. [click to continue…]

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