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Archive for May, 2008

Last week, I wrote a post asking whether or not you would attend a Saturday mixer/networking event. I also posted the question up to Linkedin. It has been closed, but I wanted to talk a little about the results. First, I was blown away by the number of responders, so THANK YOU to all who [...]

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A 1 hour webinar with Adrianne Machina, Orange County’s Duct Tape Marketing Coach
Walked through all 7 steps with in depth explanations [...]

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Google Analytics without the Google

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Recently, I have done a plugin overhaul on our blog, adding in spam blockers, sitemap builders and SEO tool kits. One of the plugins that I added is a report generator - similar to google analytics - but, it is built into your blog, so you don’t have to go to a different site to [...]

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ORANGE COUNTY – Tornado Marketing, Inc. has combined their marketing knowledge with the best-selling Duct Tape Marketing System to create a web workshop that teaches small business owners how to grow their business through systematic, [...]

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I need some help from my friends and readers:
We are putting together a meetup for a business networking group, and one of the possible days and times is a Saturday evening event. We are trying to determine whether it is realistic to believe that people would attend.
Would you attend?
If we did a wine-tasting in addition at [...]

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Overwhelmed and excited

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Last night I spent almost 3 hours at a social media meetup in Orange County. It was an amazing event. There were about 60 attendees, most of whom are involved in the media industry. The presenters were Aaron Post (www.fortymedia.com) and Todd O’neill (http://www.toddoneill.com/). Both of the gentlemen did a great job relating the uses [...]

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We have posted quite a few posts about social media. We’ve talked about blogs, twitter, linkedin and asked our readers what types of social media they use and like. John Jantsch was recently interviewed by Direct2Dell about Social Media and why they have become as powerful as they are - and how to use them more efficiently! [...]

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Here’s a great video by Google’s Matt Cutts on how to deter web-spammers, and avoid inadvertantly becoming one yourself! 

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Duct Tape Interview with Tim Berry

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Book of the day: Tim Berry’s On Target
John Jantsch, Author of Duct Tape Marketing, is getting ready for his next in the Coaching Excellence Series. Next week he will be interviewing Tim Berry. The seminars are free and give you a great opportunity to hear more about the success of some of the top people [...]

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Business and a book

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

One of the most important pieces of advice anyone ever gave me for business was to never stop learning. To this day, I can’t remember who told me, but I have taken it to heart. I continually strive to learn more about business, marketing and myself. It is because of my desire to learn more [...]

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