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Upgrading WordPress the Easy Way

Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing - Jul 23, 2008

One of the trade-offs involved with using blog software that resides on your server is that you may have to endure updates to add new features and fix potential security risks. Hosted services such as TypePad or …

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The Hierarchy of Social Marketing

Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing - Jun 10, 2008

I think one of the things that small business marketers struggle with around the entire topic of social marketing is trying to jump into the new new thing without enough analysis of what they should focus on. I happen …

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Multi-author blogging as a referral tool

Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing - Apr 7, 2008

Creating a blog and then recruiting a group of authors who have strong strategic referral partner potential is a killer local marketing idea. Every time I mention this tip in small business workshops the light bulb …

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Is your blog backed up?

Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing - Feb 25, 2008

I’m not referring to plumbing or digestion although that might make a more interesting post. I’m talking about good old practical, common sense, you know you should do it, but may not know how, backing up your blog …

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Testing SezWho commenting plug-in

Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing - Feb 23, 2008

If you make comments on this blog you might have noticed a new WordPress plug-in that I’m trying out called SezWho. SezWho is a distributed context, rating and reputation service for blogs, forums, wikis and other …

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Is it a blog or a web site?

Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing - Feb 13, 2008

Blog software has a lot going for it in terms of dynamic content creation, ease of use, ease of update, content syndication and built in SEO tools. So why not use it as your entire web site? Great question - and one …

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Posting relevant comments on blogs is networking

Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing - Oct 24, 2007

I happen to think that many small business folks would find networking on the web as valuable as networking at, say, the next Chamber event. There are many ways to do networking on the web but I happen to think one of …

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Creating custom feeds in WordPress

Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing - Oct 9, 2007

Most WordPress blogs throw off RSS feeds for posts and comments by default. But some of the fun with RSS comes from repackaging and republishing content from blogs that is custom or targeted in nature. Let’s say you …

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Finally a solution for blog comment spam

Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing - Sep 5, 2007

This is a blog spam comment that I received and had to share - finally, a true solution to blog comment spam. hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments ,I can help you with this problem …

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