I see it over and over again. I’m guilty of it myself. You want your audience to know that you’re an authority – that you have a right to be dishing out advice – why you are the best fit for their needs. After all, it’s your
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Released in 1985, Back To The Future is a movie where Marty McFly travels through time. I was 8 years old when I watched this “rad” movie but if I recall correctly the gist was Marty, played by Michael J Fox, went back in time 30 years
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On October 18, 2015 Snapchat featured a fantastic story that made it clear to all Snapchatters that the fall season is indeed upon us…as is all things pumpkin related. The story was titled, “Pumpkin Spice Life” and began with an opening statement, “Hop on our hayride! From
Read more →On October 18th, 2015 Snapchat featured a fun and lively story set at the Sky Zone Trampoline Park in Las Vegas, Nevada where dodgeball teams came together to fight for the championship title. The story was titled, “Trampoline Dodgeball” and began with an opening line that stated,
Read more →On October 18, 2015 Snapchat featured a truly touching live story that focused on the ongoing breast cancer awareness that is taking part throughout the entire United States. Titled “Get Your Pink On”, the Snapchat story began with an opening line that stated, “BEAT CANCER: Get your
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Read more →Although October 11th, 2015 was mainly recognized on Snapchat as a popular football game day, another exciting event took place; The Chicago Marathon sponsored by Bank of America. The Snapchat story opened with a simple geofilter accompanied by the opening statement, “Join 45,000 runners as they wind
Read more →The New York Comic Con (NYCC) Snapchat story went live on October 10, where people from all over the world came to witness and be a part of the largest pop culture convention on the East Coast. The Snapchat story opened up featuring a fun geofilter and
Read more →On October 9th, 2015 the ever popular Texas State Fair took place in Dallas with throngs of both local Texans and out-of-state visitors making their way into the fair grounds. The Texas State Fair Snapchat story opened up with a lively geofilter and opening line that stated,
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Some celebrities and verified brand pages have had the verification checkmark / badge beside them for quite some tome now. Now, Facebook offers the checkmark for local businesses. While Facebook offers up instructions in their help center explaining how a local business page owner could get the
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Please feel free to comment at the bottom of this article with your thoughts before, during, or after the show. What is #Being13 or #BeingThirteen? CNN special report “#Being13: Inside the Secret World of Teens” airs October 5 at 9PM. See the press release here. The video
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I was posed an interesting question this week regarding Snapchat and using it for personal injury attorneys. I often tend to answer some questions in blog format. In repsonse, I put together this article: Can small businesses use Snapchat? In short, no, I do not see a
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Have you ever bumped into a business that was not listed on Google Maps? This happens to me at least once each month. To add the business, follow these simple steps. 1. Open Google Maps on your mobile device, and click the menu icon: 2. From
Read more →Snapchat is exploding in popularity and is used by the younger generation, aka, people with little to spend. And, advertisements on social media are often both hated by users and a massive failure for advertisers. So, how does Snapchat monetize? Today it was announced that Snapchat will
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On September 26, 2015 Snapchat had a story up called “The Pope is Here”. Pope Francis was the 4th Pope to visit the USA. He visited from September 22 – 27, 2015 and was in Washington, New York and Philadelphia. This particular Snapchat story featured the Geofilter
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Eric Andrews is a very successful real estate broker. Approximately 1 year ago he added a blog to his website and has been adding videos to his YouTube channel regularly. He has now reached a new milestone of having over 100 active listings. Telephone calls and emails
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Over the last couple of weeks I have added multiple stories on Snapchat to this blog, which typically encompasses SEO and web content and doing business on the web. A couple of people reached out and asked me if they should be marketing their business on Snapchat.
Read more →This week it was announced that the massively popular app Snapchat will be “blocked” at Wake County Public Schools. This isn’t unique to Raleigh; Snapchat has been banned from school’s WiFi all over the country. Can schools even block apps to begin with? I’d find it extremely
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In April 2015 I wrote Why Does Google Keep Calling My Business? I get these calls almost daily. There is no doubt in my mind that the scammers are making a fortune on promising business owners “top rankings” in local search for $150/mo or charging people for
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Yet again for September 2015 the local 3 pack search results remain tied to organic search results. Here are a few obsevations which have held true the last several months of 2015: Some people would argue about correlation and what not. These people are wrong. Now, some
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