Friends Or Fans? Making The Personal Into Business on Facebook

If you've been wondering how to jump start your Facebook business page this post tells you how.

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I’ve been asked this question two times in the past week: I’ve got a ton of friends on Facebook and not nearly as many fans on my page. What’s the deal and how do I get more fans on my business page? Or put another way, how do you jump start your brand new Facebook business page? Mix personal with professional. Read more at dempseymarketing.com

 

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The Great Sidebar Debate Turns In My Favor

Getting rid of the sidebar is looking like a great decision.

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Does removing the sidebar from a blog help or hurt use engagement? That’s what we’re here to find out. And let me tell you, thinks are looking very good. It’s been two weeks since I removed the sidebar from my blog and moved to a single column layout. After a week Arfan updated his stats in the post comments, and now with two weeks of data to compare I have some results for you. All blog success metrics are up. Read more at dempseymarketing.com

 

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Internet Marketing Is Dead, Social SEO Rules, Women Dominate

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Welcome to The New Social SEO Podcast. I’m your host Robert Dempsey, the CEO & Founder of Dempsey Marketing. If you’re not familiar this show it’s a weekly update on what’s new and working in the worlds of direct response marketing, social media and search engine optimization. And speaking of search engine optimization, before I get into the news I want to extend a free offer to you. If you want to know where you rank for your #1 keyword, the one most important to your business, and see your ranking in relation to your competition, head on over to YourFreeSEOReport.com and get your free SEO report. Read more at thenewsocialseo.com

 

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The Website Layout To Use To Generate Leads

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With so many website layouts available, which should you use to generate leads? What works best on today’s social, content-driven web? That’s what we’re talking about today. Read more at dempseymarketing.com

 

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Building A Community From Scratch

A big thanks to EntrepreneurDIY.com for hosting me tomorrow.



Join me live for a free call where I'll be telling you how to build a community from scratch using a website and social media. This will be all how-to rather than theory. Reserve your spot today.

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Building a community around your business is one of the best ways to ensure a steady flow of new leads and customers coming to your door. But with all the available social networks and other platforms available, how do you choose the right venue for your community to meet, and then how do you get people to come? And once they’re there, how do you form the community. And once you have the community formed, how do you grow it? And then… well, you get the point. Tomorrow at 10 AM EST I’ll have the answers to those questions and more in a free event hosted by EntrepreneurDIY.com - Building a Flourishing Business with a Strong Community, from Scratch, Using a Website & Social Media. Skip the details and register right now >> Read more at dempseymarketing.com

 

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Win Or Lose? The Difference Between Try And Do

The difference between those that win and those that lose is the same difference between trying and doing.



It all starts with an idea. When the inspiration hits it's time for action. Sure planning is nice, but sometimes you just have to go for it.



Talk of failure aside - it's pointless anyhow for entrepreneurs - what's holding you back from taking action? Today it could mean the difference between winning and losing.

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This past Friday morning at 4 AM I officially launched The New Social SEO Podcast. During the previous two-and-a-half hours later I had set up the website, created all the artwork, recorded, edited, and uploaded the first episode to Amazon S3, tested my RSS feeds and submitted the podcast to iTunes. A few hours later it was picked up by a few of my friends in the blogosphere and the promotion began. It all started with an idea, an idea I could have left alone, and almost did… Read more at dempseymarketing.com

 

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Is Social Proof Really Any Proof At All?

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By definition social proof numbers are shortcuts. Brand logos and other symbols are shortcuts. It isn’t “good” or “bad” that we use shortcuts, in fact we use shortcuts all the time. So here’s a question for you… How much social proof do you think your business needs in order to attract more leads and customers? And what exactly is social proof in the context of a website or blog? Let’s dig in. Read more at dempseymarketing.com

 

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The Future Of Marketing Is Shaping Up Nicely

Do you agree with me on what the future of marketing is? Let's find out!



In today's post (on the updated) Dempsey Marketing blog that's what we're talking about along with what we're doing to position ourselves and our clients for the new reality of marketing.



Come join us!

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What does the future of marketing look like in the attention/social economy? How can marketers effectively attract ideal customers when they are inundated with thousands of messages on a daily basis? That’s what we’re going to discuss today. Let’s get started! But actually before we get into the post today you might notice a little something different about the blog today. Here’s a hint – sidebars. We removed them! Is this revolutionary? If you look at most blogs you would think so. Read more at dempseymarketing.com

 

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The Only Hats An Entrepreneur Should Be Wearing

Let's see if you agree with me on this one.

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When you’re running a business you can’t do everything. In fact you shouldn’t. Even then there are never enough hours in the day, which is okay as long as you make progress each day. So with so many options of “what to do today” available to you what should you be focusing on? In short – those activities that revolve around one of two things: Bringing more money into the business Ensuring that too much money isn’t flowing out of the business Read more at dempseymarketing.com

 

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Free rel=”author” Plugin For Genesis Theme Users

And now it's working for all WordPress users. Grab a copy now.

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There were many comments on the recent post Google Proves Not Being On Social Media Will Kill Your SEO and on Twitter about how to implement the rel=”author” link tag on a blog. I followed the tutorial from Yoast which you can find here. But we’ve taken it a step further – we got our WordPress team at 9Seeds to create a little plugin for everyone. If you’re using the Genesis WordPress theme then you can download our free Author Box Rel plugin. What this plugin does is: Add a field to your WordPress user profile for your Google+ profile URL Turns your name in the author box into a link to your Google+ profile Adds the rel=”author” tag to the link Read more at dempseymarketing.com

 

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Google Proves Not Being On Social Media Will Kill Your SEO

With the release of Google+ social media and search engine optimization are tied together more tightly. And if you aren't working on both, you'll be dead in the water.

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Search engine optimization and social media are becoming ever more intertwined as the days and weeks go by (we move fast on the Internet folks). With the introduction of Google+ this is no longer theory it is fact. And if your business does not participate in social media it will kill your search engine optimization efforts. Read more at dempseymarketing.com

 

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