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With the rise of Social Media sites like Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and so many more, it has literally become a contest to see who can get the most friends or followers.  But is that really the goal you should be striving for? Social Media is different from mass media like television and radio, and should be treated as such. Using Social Media The Right Way Social media is for building relationships.  Meaningful, deeper relationships wi...

It's been said many times in passing remarks that Twitter is a better search tool than Google, and it seems like Twitter is taking those comments to heart. They've changed their homepage with the main focus on search. I think Twitter has big advantages over Google: The time it takes to index something of importance is just as fast as someone can type it. Google uses algorithms to index content.  Twitter uses real people that don't ca...

It seems like I've been running giveaways for blog conferences for a long time, but they've all finally come to an end, and I'm proud to announce the 2 winners of the Affiliate Summit East passes as well as the 1 winner of the Blogher Free Izeafest ticket giveaway. So without further ado, here are the winners: Winner of the Free IzeaFest Ticket Congratulations to Corine of Complicated Mama!  She is the winner of a free ticket to IzeaFest 20...

In getting ready to attend Blogher for the first time, and knowing that it is a woman's conference, I found myself getting really nervous.  Wondering how I would be judged.  Wondering if I would be tagged as that pervert that showed up to look at all the girl's boobs, or that guy that was so clueless he showed up to the wrong conference. I was hoping to get away with just letting them think I came to support my wife and help watch the baby.�...

There is a reason wordpress has been so successful as a blogging platform.  It's easy, and the wordpress creative team actually listen to and implement ideas for changes to the platform. The layout and functions of wordpress itself was created by bloggers just like you. But as powerful as Wordpress is as a blogging platform, what makes it even more powerful is its versatility. The Versatility of Wordpress With it's powerful plugin featur...

Social media is a key factor in building your business' success, whether that business is a more traditional one, or one of blogging.  There is no denying that if you use social media correctly and efficiently, you will have a more successful and profitable business. One of my good friends (Joselin Mane) created a social media kit and he sums up how to use social media correctly with these 5 different phases. 1. Research Determine where you...

With sub-$300 price tags and cute names like Wind and Eee, the cheapo laptops now known as netbooks are outselling every other kind of computer on the market.  Unfortunately, their cramped keyboards, low-res screens, and processors that can barely handle a 1993 version of Doom make most of them good for little more than basic email. That's why I dig Sony's new P series: It has the svelte size and weight of a netbook (9.6" x 4.7" x .78", 1.4 p...

In the world of blogging, we all know the higher your ranking in the search engines, the more traffic you tend to bring in.  We also know that one of the ways to increase your ranking is by creating content.  The more content you have, the more "pages" you have, the higher you will rank (of course backlinks also play a role - but I only want to focus on your content at this point). But creating content has always been a long and sometimes te...

A month or so ago Izea made a huge announcement that everyone going to IzeaFest would want to show up around mid-afternoon or a little before on the Thursday before IzeaFest because a major secret surprise was going to be happening for those that showed up. I am super-excited to be one of the very first to let the cat out of the bag and introduce you to what the super-secret event is going to be. And since you've been waiting so long for it al...

This post is a collaboration between Mashable's Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell's "10 Ways" series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. This content was originally written by Mashable's Josh Catone. Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation is an extremely powerful platform for spreading informatio...

I've been racking my brain in the last couple of weeks about how I can find a way to get to Affiliate Summit East in New York this year. And after all the time I've spent thinking, I've come up with an idea I call the One Dollar Experiment. What Is The One Dollar Experiment? Simply put, the One Dollar Experiment is nothing more than asking all my readers to donate $1 to help pay for my travel and hotel stay. But it doesn't stop at simply...

It’s already time for the next Elite Retreat, and this year it will be happening for the first time in New York City!  The retreat will be a 2 day event on October 1st and 2nd, 2009. About Elite Retreat Elite Retreat is different from most marketing conferences, in that you can actually learn some great info from some of the greatest internet marketers today. Most marketing conferences are, what elite retreat calls, “Pitchfests”...