How and When to Use Animated GIFs

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Animated GIFs are basically short little video segments (3-7 seconds) that are created from graphics, photos, and short video streams.  Animations are often found on websites, blogs, and on various sites and locations around the web.  Sometimes you’ll find sites that use them in abundance, even overkill if you will, and then they can become

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Pinterest – Social Cataloging Community

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Pinterest is basically a social catalog.  It’s a community to share collections of things you love.  It’s similar to a “like” on Facebook, or “+1” on Google Plus, it’s even like “Digg” “Delicious” “StumbleUpon” and “ReTweeting” but the difference at Pinterest is that it’s all about “Pin” or pinning content. According to TechCrunch, Pinterest hit

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Squeeze & Landing Page Checklist

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There are a few key elements needed required when creating a powerful and effective squeeze or landing page.  Squeeze and landing pages that will inspire and motivate your viewers to provide the necessary content and information you’re seeking to convert them to a life long client.  This is so important for Internet marketers and advertisers

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iPiccy Is Picnik’s Closest Replacement

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In a hurried scramble last week to find a replacement for the Picnik.com closure in April, I had written an article featuring 7 FREE photo and graphic editing sites.  Some readers were hoping to actually find a replacement editor that was similar or at least closer to the look and feel of Picnik’s site. Well

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Email Marketing That Doesn’t Suck

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News flash folks – Email is the BEST Social Media of All. Did you know that 100% of people who have an email address (that’s everybody) delete at least 30% of their unopened email?  And they do it everyday!  This is called click-through and open rate.  If your email is spammy, the subject line stinks,

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101 Famous Internet Marketing Quotes

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Can any one single “Quote” really do anything for your business and marketing efforts? Maybe… maybe not, but having 100 plus quotes might be a different story.  These 100 plus famous Internet marketing quotes will change the way you think and approach marketing your business and products on the Internet. Be sure to read and

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Free Photo & Graphic Editing Sites

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There is so much concern and “Buzz” about Google shutting down the Picnik.com site, so I decided to provide you with some alternative tools for editing and customizing your graphics, photos, and images.   While Picnik.com will be shutting down in April 2012, here are some other options you have available immediately and for FREE. Ribbet.com

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Google is Closing Down Picnik

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It’s true.  Google.com, owners of Picnik.com will be shutting down the site on April 19th, 2012.  I’m totally bummed.  I’m one of those thousands of people that used Picnik’s photo editing tools on a regular basis.  I’m really going to miss this site and all of its easy image and graphic editing features. Some of

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RECloudCamp for Real Estate

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RECloudCamp for Real Estate is the Real Deal! Many real estate Industry professionals have been to REBarCamp events all across the US.  REBarCamps started in San Francisco a few years back and became one of the more popular One-Day Real Estate events to attend if you’re in the business.  They were coined as the unconference.  

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3 Top Keyword Tools for Bloggers

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Search engines like Google focus on returning the best quality and “Best Available” SERP’s (Search Engine Results Pages)  It’s all based on what “Keywords” or phrases are being typed into the Search box.  Search engines simply want to return the best available matching content based on both short-tail and long-tail keyword searches. Keywords are closely

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