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E Mail Blog Tips and Marketing in the Twitter, Facebook Age

BLOG TIPS - Marketing your blog, business or business service through email is a great method to communicate with your costumers (and gain new ones).  With so much effort devoted to marketing using social media like Twitter and Facebook, don't forget the proven email method!  And just like any other marketing campaign, email marketing needs to be used appropriately for the maximum impact.  Be ready to adjust your campaigns and review the data to make the most of your marketing effort.  Email campaigns can give you many benefits to help grow your your business.  How?, well...

Cost Effective- Email marketing is so much cheaper than typical mass media print advertising, and is also cost-effective due to the lower cost of acquiring new costumers /  blog readers.  Email also allows you to retain your existing customers while getting new ones.  There is a cost to obtaining the email marketing software or an email marketing service provider if you make the decision not to manage mailings on your own yourself.

Blog Posts Tags and Categories, Great SEO Help!

BLOG TIPS - SEO for your blog is very important to make sure that your blog posts show up in Google and rank well.  A simple but important blog SEO tool is to include both blog post tags and categories with each of your blog posts.  Nearly all blog platforms allow you the option to add categories and tags to each of your blog posts, take advantage of this option.  Simple to do?  Yes!  But I'm amazed at the number of blog posts I read that fail to include tags and categories, or fail to use the most effective and appropriate tags and categories.

SOCIAL NETWORKING Scams See Increase

No such thing as a new scam, right?  Scammers just keep updating age old bogus tricks and most of the scams have always involved giving money to people you don't know, nowadays online of course..

The interest and activity in social media has given us many innovations, and this includes innovation by clever scam artists and crooks. One of the most basic is burglars keeping an eye on social network users to figure out when homeowners will be away from home. Our great social networks are especially suited for con men and identity thieves, who use humanities inherent sense of trust and affection between friends to scam unsuspecting users.  From a new report from the New Jersey Attorney General Paula T. Dow and the state's Acting Consumer Affairs Director Thomas R. Calcagni, who say they have seen an increase in the number of social media scams on Facebook , Twitter or other sites, often using hijacked accounts.

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