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Guidelines for marketing with social media aren't all that new. In 2006 five members of the digital marketing community collaborated on 16 rules for "social media optimization". Fast forward to nearly 2010 and social media has begun to take a more significant role in the marketing mix.

Chris Andersons book "Free" - some inspirational thoughts on business strategies.

Anderson's book gives you some inspirational thoughts on successful business strategies. In my case I preferred to listen to the audio book. Here it is available for free as ebook and audio book versions.

Do you wonder why your affiliate marketing business has not taken off? The answer is really simple. The days of selling are over and days of teaching are here.

If you think video isn't for you, please explore your options. 20 hours every minute! Holy Hard Disks Batman!

Exact Target also reported that email subscription via text messaging is the fastest growing list-building tactic among marketers. The company predicts that mobile capture - enabling consumers to subscribe to emails via their mobile phones - will increase 500%, more than any other growth tactic in 2009.Marketers also expect the practice of enabling subscribers to share email content with their social networks is expected to increase more than 348% in 2009.

To help protect users against malware threats, Google has built automated scanners that detect malware on websites we've indexed. Pages that are identified as dangerous by these scanners are accompanied by warnings in Google search results, and browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari also use our data to show similar warnings to people attempting to visit suspicious sites.

What a great resource! These folks have done simple training videos on many of the most popular and functional solutions around for Twitter, Wordpress, etc. This is a GREAT starting point to build a base of knowledge.

These are some great basic vids to give you an immediate boost of knowledge to start using some of these tools.

great link!

How do you use Twitter for business? This question has been answered manifold times. What tools do you use for business though? There aren't that many business tools for Twitter it seems. You rather should ask: Which tools enable professionals best to use Twitter for business? This way you may find more useful tools and apps. Nonetheless there are some valuable specialized Twitter tools for business you should try. I compiled a list of both, Twitter tools for business and professional Twitter tools. Most of them are free but some advanced ones, especially in the CRM arena are not.

How do you use Twitter for business? This question has been answered manifold times. What tools do you use for business though? There aren't that many business tools for Twitter it seems. You rather should ask: Which tools enable professionals best to use Twitter for business? This way you may find more useful tools and apps. Nonetheless there are some valuable specialized Twitter tools for business you should try. I compiled a list of both, Twitter tools for business and professional Twitter tools. Most of them are free but some advanced ones, especially in the CRM arena are not.

Awesome way to check your "personal brand" username availability!

Still Another Blog Search tool for information and inspiration!

Another Blog Search tool for information and inspiration!

Just a reminder for those searching for niche-related content and inspiration for such content - Google has very deep tools available to help. Google Alerts and Blog Search are fantastic, as are the Books searches, just as examples to get you fired up!

What does this say about SMB's and social media? This piece says, that SMB's are: "Still feeling their way into social media..." Interesting. What's your take?

This is probably a good reason why everyone displaced from a marketing or PR job is now a social media expert :) because they're trying to help SMB's learn how to make this work for themselves. We're seeing great results with businesses we work with but those all take a "long term approach" and realize that seeing results takes a "cultural shift" not a new set of tools.

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