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Keys to Keywords with PPC Advertising

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

In August, we here at Tornado Marketing are planning to do some co-marketing training sessions with Steve Wiideman of ElaborateSEM. So this week I sat in on one of his pay-per-click training sessions to see how we could build on each other’s expertise. With Steve’s permission, we thought we’d share one of the most important take-aways of the day - focus on the keywords.

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Directory of Web 2.0 Sites

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Wow!  This directory is packed with over 250 pages of Web 2.0 and Social Media sites that small businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals can use to connect and share information. 
 

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Orange County Blogging Presentation

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Thank you to MCAI for hosting the Blogging event. We enjoyed presenting and meeting everyone at the event. Also, a big thank you to Kyra Reed for presenting with us, you definitely know your stuff!
For those of you who attended last night, a copy of the PowerPoint is available by emailing us at Tornado@TornadoMktg.com. Also, [...]

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Recently, I received an email from John Jantsch, author of Duct Tape Marketing. He let us know that one of his strategic partners, InfusionSoft, has asked him to conduct a webinar June 18th at 3pm CDT called “Infusionsoft & Duct Tape Marketing Reveal The Must-Know Secrets of Small Business Growth”
He asked us to pass on the [...]

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What that means to me is that people aren’t just prospects and sellers, they are PEOPLE.   And no matter how much web 2.0 linking and online socializing you do, you have to get the relationship out of the “virtual world” and back into real life.   Meetup.com is one great way to do that.  You can [...]

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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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Guaranteed to help define your ideal target market and create a unique marketing strategy.
 
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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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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