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Social Media Predictions 2009

Community and collaboration are wonderful things!!!! Fourteen great minds on social media have shared thoughts on what 2009 may have in store for us.

Here's some of what they're thinking! Continue

Added by Daniel Prins on December 30, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Social Media for Business - Who's Doing it Well & How

Charlene Li, co-author of Groundswell, and former Forrester analyst, has recently launched her own company, the Altimeter Group. She gave a keynote at the Social Media Marketing Summit 2008, San Francisco. Read More......

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Added by Daniel Prins on October 5, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Microblogging Goes to Work

Many companies have begun using Twitter, the microblogging service, to send people brief messages and communicate with customers about new products or how to improve their services. Read on...... Continue

Added by Daniel Prins on September 14, 2008 at 7:35pm — No Comments

Dow Jones Launches Next Generation of its g2 Business and Relationship Intelligence Offering

Dow Jones & Company today announced the latest version of its g2 offering, an on-demand business intelligence application. The latest version provides even greater business value by broadening user’s reach through linking with B2B social networking tools. Dow Jones’s g2 allows organizations to proactively identify, qualify, and connect to desired companies and executive contacts through patented technology that crawls the web and maintains databases in real-time, unveiling valuable intellig… Continue

Added by Daniel Prins on August 4, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

Please join me for an Account Intelligence Webinar

REGISTER ONLINE AT: http://tinyurl.com/5pgeog Easy Account Intelligence: Biz Web Secrets - Get the Inside Info On Companies, Industries, and People Presented by Sam Richter What you will learn: Information is key to almost any business relationship. The more account intelligence you have on your client and their needs, the better chance you have to ensure your solutions are relevant. Easy Account Intelligence gives you the inside secrets of the "… Continue

Added by Sam Richter on June 26, 2008 at 1:16am — No Comments

Renewable Energy Careers Gaining Power

Minnesota has put renewable energy on the fast track. The Federal government is providing millions of dollars of funding for “Green Collar” careers. Now is the time to start learning and training for careers in wind energy and photovoltaic and solar thermal power. To Read More, Click Here! Continue

Added by Daniel Prins on June 22, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Minnesota: An Internet backwater soon?

Is the end of the Internet at hand? Minnesotans expect the following to be nearly infinite: the universe around us, the amount of spam crowding our e-mail inboxes, Starbucks locations -- and the growth of the Internet. But the release of a November study by the Nemertes Research Group predicting "the end of the Internet" has generated countless articles and blog chatter. To read on, click h… Continue

Added by Daniel Prins on June 16, 2008 at 4:14pm — No Comments

Social Bookmarking - A Tool For Blogging Success!

For a lot who are still unfamiliar of the term social bookmarking, it is a method available online that allows users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of particular web pages. Social bookmarking is perhaps the favorite way of many search engine optimizers in increasing the page rank for their websites along with attracting a greater number of traffic hits. A social bookmarking site lets its members save specific links of interest and they get to share these links with other users o… Continue

Added by Daniel Prins on May 14, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

YouTube videos? iPower to the people

A group of five Belgian filmmakers/pranksters/activists has figured out how to dominate YouTube. By David Sarno, Los Angeles Times If you're an aspiring YouTuber (or any other kind of media creator, really), how do you compete with literally untold numbers of other videomakers worldwide, all of whom have equal access -- more or less -- to low-cost equipment and zero-cost distribution? The answer is the same as it's always been online: You have to get noticed. A few years ago, that was… Continue

Added by Daniel Prins on May 13, 2008 at 7:14pm — No Comments

Show And Tell!

Digital Life: How-to online videos riding wave of profitability Kip Kedersha produces how-to videos from his garage in St. Petersburg, Fla. His videos – which include one describing ways to repurpose recyclable plastic bottles, such as using them to reduce water use in toilets, build a camera’s tripod or create a self-watering planter – brought him more than $100,000 in a little more than a year. How-to online videos are riding a wave of profitability, and entrepreneurs and handymen and… Continue

Added by Daniel Prins on May 1, 2008 at 7:26am — No Comments

Update On Sylvia's Children!!

Just to keep you updated on our overall progress with Sylvia's Children! 1. The Grandmother of the Year fundraiser was wonderful from an attendance and PR standpoint; however, I believe the economy has impacted people's abilities to spend money so our revenue was down. 2. Ken Bear, of Passport Health, has undertaken the project of raising money for the clinic and is making some headway. He has… Continue

Added by Daniel Prins on April 13, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

Sneak Preview Video Marketing Kit

If you’re a video marketer or even thinking about marketing with video then you need the resources in this report. Stop wasting your time scrambling around the Internet trying to find all the resources each time you need something done for your videos. This is a sneak preview, limited time only opportunity for Members of the Internet Practitioners Forum Only. Normally this information is not free. To review the program, c… Continue

Added by Daniel Prins on March 24, 2008 at 7:45am — No Comments

Make It A Green World!

With the rising global interest in environmental issues, ecological products are quickly gaining attention. Consumers and companies are increasingly aware of environmental responsibility and enthusiastic about earth-friendly Green products. The market for green products is expanding rapidly, and promotional products are an integral part of this. Going Green fo… Continue

Added by Daniel Prins on February 21, 2008 at 8:43am — No Comments

The Web's Most, Biggest, Best, and Worst of 2007

By Jason Lee Miller - Fri, 12/28/2007 - 12:59pm.

Yes, another year-end retrospective

2007 was a frenzied year for all things digital, and could be

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Added by Bart Prins on December 28, 2007 at 4:48pm — 1 Comment

2007 In Review From Mashable.com

2007 In Review: Best of the Best

December 24, 2007 — 12:49 AM PST — by Mashable Team —… Continue

Added by Bart Prins on December 28, 2007 at 9:03am — No Comments

Facebook, a Marketer's Friend

By RIVA RICHMOND

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Added by Bart Prins on November 28, 2007 at 8:26am — No Comments

Product Sourcing the Drop Ship Way With Limitless Mall

Many retail merchants looking for products to sell without the high costs of inventory and the hassles of packing and shipping products have discovered the perfect solution—drop shipping. With drop shipping, you list and sell a product at whatever retail price you set, collect your money, and then order the product from a drop-ship wholesale supplier. The supplier packs and ships the product directly to your customer.

Dropshipping is the ideal low

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Added by Daniel Prins on November 14, 2007 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Consumers as affiliate marketers

Here's a review of the affiliate marketing program we mentioned in yesterday's meeting:

www.lemonade.com

For many of us, setting up a neighborhood lemonade stand was our introduction to entrepreneurship. It taught us life lessons in responsibility, self-reliance and hard work. In a similar way, lemonade inc. enables people to combine commerce and community in the digital neighborhood of their personal online space. Cost-free and easy to use, this is the next generation of the o… Continue

Added by Bart Prins on October 12, 2007 at 9:00am — No Comments

Easy Online Commercials

Here's an overview of the online video creation, and distribution, service we mentioned in yesterday's meeting:

www.SlipStreamVideo.com

SlipStream Video is your turnkey solution for online video production and streaming. We give you the ability to sell more product through the power of video.

You have a website but are you optimizing it to its fullest potential? When adding video you can connect to your customers on a much more personal level to maximize your advertising

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Added by Bart Prins on October 12, 2007 at 8:59am — No Comments