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Customer Gripes: 4 Smart Ways to Respond Online

Do you delve into the fray when you get a bad review or a tweet bashing your service? You should--here are the best ways to do it.  Read more

Proof For Skeptics: Cyber Monday is Huge

Here's the backstory on Cyber Monday and what this year's statistics mean for retailers.  Read more

4 Business-Friendly Tools From Pinterest

From best practices to marketing buttons and widgets, here are some Pinterest resources to help you get more out of the platform.  Read more

Dude, What Happened to Your Marketing Emails?

Turns out, a significant portion of your emails might be going directly into a black hole. Here's what you're doing wrong.  Read more

3 Design Principles to Better Your Business

Design is now at the forefront of innovation. Does your company have the best design team it can? Check out how the landscape has changed.  Read more

8 Things Wrong with Your Google AdWords Campaign

You may think you're getting good value from your paid Google AdWords campaign, but chances are you could be doing better. Here's why.  Read more

The Perfectly Optimized Press Release

If you want your press release to pop on search engines, hence increasing brand exposure and referral traffic, use these five easy tips.  Read more

How Social Media Shapes the Conversation Around Israel & Hamas

The Israel Defense Forces sophisticated approach to social media positions Israel as a defensive actor in the conflict in Gaza--and shows the power of the me...  Read more

Don't Delete Negative Comments. Say 'I'm Sorry' 

Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likeable Media, explains how to best handle customer complaints made public on social media.  Watch video

Say Hello to the One-Size-Fits-All Website

You could drive yourself crazy trying to build different versions of your website to fit every screen. Or you could try this strategy.  Read more

Entertain Your Audience: 3 Essentials of Compelling Videos 

Kevin Daum, author of Video Marketing for Dummies, says a good story is just one aspect of a memorable video.  Watch video

The Difference Between Earned and Owned Media

Here's the basics on where your content appears online and how to position yourself as an industry thought leader.  Read more

Build Your Blog Traffic: 12 Rules

Learn what it takes to build up your blog readership from a master blogger with over a million hits each month.  Read more

6 Tips for a Perfectly Timed Facebook Post

To ensure your Facebook posts reach the most people, timing is everything. Here are some tips for getting it right.  Read more

When You Should Hit 'Send'

An e-mail marketing firm digs through more than 20 million messages to figure out when is the best time to send marketing e-mails.  Read more

5 Myths of Video Marketing (& How to Overcome Them)

Are you making the most of your online video program? Here are five big misconceptions you should avoid along with effective remedies.  Read more

Using Social Media to Reach a Niche Market

Instead of reaching the masses with your social media campaign, hone in on your target customers with the content they need. Here's how one sole proprietor d...  Read more

2 Tools That Turn Customers Into Cheerleaders

Incentivizing current customers to buy more and bring in new business is a huge opportunity you can't miss.  Read more

4 Ways to Take Advantage of Facebook Mobile Ads

You're a few clicks and a few dollars away from reaching customers on Facebook mobile. Here are four simple ways to do so.  Read more

Don't Let Your Blog Get You in Trouble

Think the First Amendment protects you and your business when you write about yourself? Not exactly. Here's what you need to know to cover your legal bases.  Read more

Secret to Video That Drives Traffic (& Business) 

Don't just produce a video about your company executives, says Alison Provost, founder of video company TouchStorm. Do something else entirely.  Watch video

The World's Dumbest Sales Mistake

A simple technique to make certain that people actually read your sales-oriented emails.  Read more

5 Steps to Social Media Strategy for Novices

Have you been avoiding social media because you don't know where to start? Here are five steps for a strategy in social.  Read more

8 Ways to Find the Best Long-Tail Keywords

Here are some simple and effective ways to identify the kind of keywords that keep the traffic coming.  Read more

How to Bring Real-World Experiences Into Your Social Media 

Jen Rubio talks about how Warby Parker, where she's head of social media, enlists customers to post pictures of themselves wearing Warby Parker glasses.  Watch video

3 Basics of Facebook Analytics

You've got a few months' worth of Facebook activity under your belt. Now's the time to dig into the data and see what's working.  Read more

Guarantee Your Company Turns Up a Lot in Search Results 

Developing online content? Aaron Aders, co-founder of Slingshot SEO, describes what you need to know about search engine optimization.  Watch video

5 Tips for Highly Effective Pinterest Boards

Pretty pictures help, but if you want to make the most of Pinterest, you need a more thoughtful strategy.  Read more

Social Media Is One Big Cocktail Party

Apply the same skills that you might use to work the room of a cocktail party to build the right relationship with your followers and fans.  Read more

Secrets of a Lucrative Social Media Campaign

How one unsexy company used social media to reach an entirely new, youthful customer base, and grew revenue 96%.  Read more

Do You Give Good 'Push'?

Here's how to use push notifications to engage your mobile customers and build brand loyalty.  Read more

8 Tips to Improve Your SEO Now

Stop languishing in a dark corner of the World Wide Web. Grab your developer and go through this checklist to start getting more traffic.  Read more

7 Worst Tweets of 2012

This year businesses fouled up when they posted these egregious, insulting tweets. Don't make these social media mistakes.  View slideshow

Secrets to a Perfectly Crafted Social Media Post

What you say is important. But so is how and when you say it.  Read more

LinkedIn Endorsements Changes Everything. Here's Why

LinkedIn endorsements is to small business owners what the Facebook 'Like' button was to consumer brands: influential exposure.  Read more