Influence Marketing: How Working with Influential People Benefits Your Small Business

Influence marketing (sometimes called influencer marketing) is a little bit different than other marketing strategies. While most focus on reaching out to your audience directly, it employs a much more round about approach. It boils down to establishing relationships with individuals in your field or niche that already have a strong influence over your target audience. Influence marketing targets your marketing efforts around these key individuals because of their influence

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4 Key Steps To Growing Your Online Social Media Assets

Have you ever Googled your name or your companies brand and viewed what shows up on the first page of the search results? Do you like what you see? A friend of mine said that when she enters her name what she is finding is that what ranks highest in the Google search results is not positive or glowing but a critical comment that was posted by someone else on

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New York’s Garbage Cans Will Turn into Wi-Fi Hotspots

SOON EVERYTHING WILL HAVE INTERNET!   Garbage Wi-Fi Photo credits: Bigbelly These smart trash cans are solar powered, can detect how full and smelly they are, and will soon offer Wi-Fi. Garbage cans are the latest previously un-smart objects to become Wi-Fi-enabled. Waste management company Bigbelly equipped two of its smart bins with wireless internet in downtown Manhattan last winter, providing 50 to 75 megabits per second. That’s fast enough

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9 Tips for Becoming a Social Media Influencer

Do you want people to come to you for social media advice? Are you trying to become a social media influencer?View post Publishing on social media is a great way to share expert knowledge and develop your influencer status. In this article I’ll share nine tips that can help you become a social media influencer. #1: Find Your Focus To become an influencer, master a specific topic within your niche.

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It’s cheaper to buy a Pan Am ticket than pay for transit in some parts of GTA right now

  GO Transit and Toronton Transit Commission (TTC) signage are displayed outside of Union Station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011. Want to spend a day exploring Toronto during the Pan Am Games? Or do you want to go to Ajax but have no intention of seeing an event? Well, depending on how far you’re going, it’s cheaper to buy a ticket to the Pan Am Games

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Canada continues medal surge at Pan Am Games with 17 medals on Day 3

By Staff The Canadian Press WATCH ABOVE: Home advantage appears to be paying off for Canada at the Pan Am Games in Toronto. Mike Drolet reports. TORONTO – Before the start of the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games, Canadian chef de mission Curt Harnett estimated that the host nation would need around 200 medals to reach its goal of finishing in the top two of the overall standings. After just three

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Charging your phone will soon be a thing of the past

Imagine never again having that frantic feeling that your smartphone battery is about to die. Amazingly, charging your phone may soon be a thing of the past: Technology companies are developing a way for your gadgets to power up while they’re sitting in your pocket. By converting radio waves into battery-replenishing power, smartphones equipped with special receivers can literally pull energy right out of the air. It’s not far-off in

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Canada hauls in 16 medals on Day 2 of Pan Am Games

TORONTO – Canada came flying out of the gates at the 2015 Pan American Games with eight medals on opening day. It turned out that Day 2 was twice as good. Canadian athletes raked in 16 medals, including six gold, in Sunday’s Pan Am action. With 10 gold, eight silver and six bronze, Canada led all nations in both gold and overall medals. “It’s really just pushing each other,” Batty

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Too much technology late at night disturbs sleep schedule for children

(NaturalNews) Research presented at SLEEP 2010, the 24th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, has revealed that children who use technology late at night are more prone to develop cognitive problems than children who have regular sleeping patterns that do not involve staying up late on their computers and cell phones. “Any factor that deteriorates the quality or quantity of sleep will lead to difficulty with school performance

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20+ Effective Tips To Drive More Traffic From Search Engines

If you want to get ahead of your competition, you must always consider search engines. Search engines are those that give you organic traffic. It means that people search for a string of keywords, and with the help of directories and search engines, they drop to your site and find the answers. But.. there’s always a multitude of sites that contain answers to a single question. These other sites are

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