The Traffic Generation Blog

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My social media marketing clients know I’m big on WordPress as a Content Management Systam for their small business web sites. I love its flexibility and the easy back-end interface. You can add widgets and other experiential plugins that help your site maximize its reach with a minimized learning curve. Since we’re all busy actually doing our business cutting down on having to learn coding and html scripting keeps us free to do what we do best!

I subscribe to several blogs written by new media experts and experimenters so I can keep abreast of new developments as they come down the pike. Ana Hoffman has a blog I really like. It’s linked below. You may want to check her out – or you may want to let me continue filtering out the good stuff for you here. In any case – I’m considering adding the theme to this blog that she’s recommending below – and by pasting tat blurb into this post I have a chance to win it for free!

And you know what? That’s how a good bit of this online networking business gets done – by people sharing information and helping each other generate more targeted traffic to their posts and content. It’s a win win win situation and totally circumvents some of the ubiquitous spam tactics the lazier or less informed resort to.

There is a great giveaway going on at the Traffic Generation Cafe Blog where you can win your own copy of Thesis Theme, as well as a 30-minute consultation with Ana Hoffman. Participating is very easy! Visit Thesis Theme giveaway page for more information.

Professional Business Documents for a Song

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Small businesses are pretty much on equal footing with larger organizations these days thanks to the internet. From time to time I come across wonderful resources that help make it even easier for you to present your side professionally. Today I’m highlighting a web site called docstoc.

Docstoc offers documents and resources for small businesses at a nominal fee. They claim to have over 20 million business documents available. Some examples are:

  • LLC Operating Agreement for $19.95
  • Sample Proposal Letter for $14.95
  • Sponsorship Proposal Guide for $18.95

and package bundles:

  • 70 Essential Documents for Your Business for $149.00
  • Marketing Plan Toolkit for $65.00

And millions more!

Google+

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Have you bumped into Google+ yet? It’s a social marketing product being rolled out by the world’s largest search engine (Google) that seeks to create a better more all encompassing online interface for people (and businesses in the near future) that brings together aspects of the most successful social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogging, Youtube, LinkedIn, etc) into one place.

It’s just getting started – only 20 million users – all mostly ‘early adopters – vs the 750 million using Facebook right now – but so far the feedback is excellent and the upgrades are resonating well with these first tier users.

Some more info about Google+:
In the U.S., Google has already achieved 13 percent market penetration. An additional 16 million users are expected to register in the U.S. within the next 12 months. That would put Google+ at an estimated 22 percent market penetration, compared to a current penetration of 19 percent for LinkedIn, 18 percent for Twitter, and 14 percent for MySpace. Survey Predicts Google+ Will Pass Twitter, LinkedIn in 2012

 

 
Great article about Google+ and where it’s headed:

http://blog.icontact.com/blog/google-the-content-catalyst-to-be/

 

 

 

New Media

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In my personal wanderings using New Media I come across a whole lot of interesting and useful information. I also bump into a lot of dead ends. Here is where I’ll post recapitulations of these events to help you navigate these sometimes murky waters.