All Twitter followers are not created equal. The best Twitter follower for you would have the following characteristics. large network of their own followers regularly posts and retweets on your topic is seen as a trusted leader in your field A single Twitter follower like this will have more of an impact for you than [...]

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Two popular supernatural creatures – powerful and tough to kill.  But, given a choice, I’d rather be a vampire than a zombie.  Here’s why. Communication: Zombies only speak a few words, Vampires have a cool, cultured European accent. Speed: Vampires move faster than humans – Zombies shamble.  Important difference when you really need to make [...]

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The amount of videos on YouTube is amazing.  Entertainment, “how-to’s”,  music – it’s all there, available to watch anytime over your Internet connection. But at some point, you might want to save a YouTube video.  Here is how I save YouTube Videos on my computer and move them to mobile devices.

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Just registered for a Social Media Bootcamp workshop coming up in Victoria BC.  My readers often ask me if Internet marketing conferences are worth the money and time, so I thought I would share my thoughts on this. For those of you who haven’t attended an Internet marketing conference yet, they are usually multi-day conferences [...]

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It is a global economy… My customers, partners and freelancers are in Canada, US, UK, India, Philippines and many other countries. But we are not in the same time zones. So when I pick up the phone to call them, is it a good time to call or is it 4am where they are? 4am [...]

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Ok, we all know that blogs are cool.  But can a Blog do more?  Can a blog replace: Your standard page web site? Your lead capture page? Your sales page? Your membership web site? Can a blog be your ONLY web site?

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Was reading an article and I came across this absolutely brilliant poster about multitasking from the people at Motifake.com:

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At the dawn of the Internet – before Twitter, Facebook or even Google there was a way for people to gather online and share with each other.  They were called Internet forums. Originating from simple community bulletin board systems (yes, with paper fastened with cork and pushpins or thumbtacks), they eventually metamorphasized into dial up [...]

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I live in the lovely ocean-side community of Nanaimo, British Columbia with about 77,000 people.  While my business clients are worldwide, I also teach a local Nanaimo Mentorship program to help Nanaimo small business owners and individuals learn about Internet marketing. Teaching is a real joy of mine. One of the topics that quite often [...]

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I realized I had only been “dabbling” in social media marketing, so I decided to get serious.  But with all the different social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, I went looking for a way to pull them all together. So I spent 3 days doing nothing but signing up for free trials and working [...]

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