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Your social media presence is becoming an increasingly important component of your SEO strategy.

Small businesses need to #getmoving on social network campaigns to best compete in their sectors.

Small businesses need a playbook for social media strategy; here's a good start.

It seems like everyone is buzzing about location-based mobile social networking services like foursquare, Gowalla and Loopt, but there's one catch: Almost no one is actually using them.

The preferred social network strategies of marketing professionals.

What is a sales funnel you ask? A sales funnel acts as a sieve to direct qualified purchasers through the sales process, while filtering out less-qualified visitors along the way. At the top of a sales funnel is a mixture of qualified and unqualified prospective customers. Less-qualified purchasers drop away at each step of the sales process. The bottom of funnel, the smallest part of the funnel which contains the most qualified prospects and sales. The figure to the right is an example of a modern sales funnel that incorporates using content and social media to "fill the funnel." have outlined five imperatives that you should follow to create a successful sales funnel.

Many restaurants have notoriously misguided websites. Empower your restaurant's web presence with these tips.

A rousing round of "six degrees of social media" allows you to reach not just your target audience but also their audience.

More than 120 million people subscribe to the top two daily deal sites. Could the next daily deal be yours?

Evaluate your business site to improve your search engine optimization and increase its usability through quick and easy adjustments.

Take advantage of quick and easy modifications to your campaigns to bring in holiday shoppers to your business.

How partnering your brand with an authentic act pays in both the long-term and short-term.

A lot of people want to focus on how new or old a business is, or whether or not they are debt-free. Nothing wrong with looking at those things, but it is much simpler to boil it all down into one category: Leadership. Face it. A millionaire who has no clue what he's doing can start a debt-free company and go under in 6 months. Everybody wants to get in on a start up. That can be awesome when you catch the right one, but it is way more important to consider where this company will be in 10 years, than whether they started a few months ago or a few years ago.

Geo-location applications like Foursquare and Gowalla are really going places, becoming increasingly popular with savvy customers.

Connect with your customers by painting a clear picture of how they'll experience your product.

An exhaustive list of the most established authorities on Twitter discussing analytics, branding, legal issues, mobile, and more.

Find out three distinct reasons why so many businesses are eagerly embracing the power of the blog.