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http://virtualphotographystudio.com/2012/01/how-to-boost-your-photography-business-with-pinterest/ It was bound to happen sooner or later. Facebook and Twitter have been the social phenomena for many months now, so eventually some other site had to come along and see what they could do to gain traction. It may be with a site called Pinterest . Pinterest is a social site that calls themselves a virtual pinboard. It allows you to organize and share all of the beautiful things you find on the web.

How To Boost Your Photography Business With Pinterest

These days, you can’t go online without bumping into someone styling himself as a social media guru, a Facebook expert, or a power user of Twitter.

The Twitter Spot in Your Brain

http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/twitter-spot-brain.htm

8 Creative Ways To Grow Your Photography Business With A Facebook Page

Have you built your Facebook Page, and are still wondering why more people haven’t liked your Page? Fans don’t automatically appear, ready to like you, follow you, and do business with you. People must be lured to your Page in hopes to attract enough people that will ultimately turn into a regular stream of business. However, the greatest myth out there is that if you build a Page, advertise it to your entire list of friends and acquaintances, and you’ll quickly build up a respectable following. Unfortunately this strategy may actually backfire. http://virtualphotographystudio.com/2011/09/8-creative-ways-to-grow-your-photography-business-with-a-facebook-page/

Pinterest and Blogging :: The Good, The Bad and The Huh?

http://www.thenester.com/2011/12/pinterest-and-blogging-the-good-the-bad-and-the-huh.html#comment-178910 As I mentioned yesterday, Pinterest was the second largest referral for Nesting Place this year {only Stumble Upon surpassed it}.
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http://instructionaldesignfusions.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/social-curation-with-pinterest/ It’s tool time, so today’s post is about Pinterest , a social curation tool.

Social curation with Pinterest

Edit January 4, 2012: I’ve invited everyone who has asked for a Pinterest invite, so feel free to keep asking for one. Just leave a comment below. If you really want an invite, I’d love it if you’d like The Backlight on Facebook or tweet about us or something like that.

Why and How All Bloggers Should Be Using Pinterest (Pinterest Invites)

http://blog.osmosio.com/how-to-use-pinterest-for-bloggers/
http://buzz.blogger.com/2011/09/dynamic-views-seven-new-ways-to-share.html

Dynamic Views: seven new ways to share your blog with the world

As we said a few weeks ago when we launched a completely rebuilt, streamlined authoring and editing experience, we’re in the process of bringing you a much improved and modernized Blogger. The next phase of these updates starts today with seven new ways to display your blog, called Dynamic Views.
Sometimes when I hear companies talking about creating a "machine" for their lead-generation efforts, I think about Dr. http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/220244

10 Ways to Turn Your Blog into a Lead-Generation Machine

http://www.waspbarcode.com/buzz/top-wordpress-plugins-small-business-blog/ WordPress may be one of the best tools for your corporate blog, not because of its simplicity, but because of the thousands of plugins available at your disposal.

Top WordPress Plugins for Your Small Business Blog

Steps For Securing Your Wordpress Blog | Levoltz

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How To Create A Powerful And Engaging Facebook Page

Following is a guest post by Rajeev Edmonds from New Delhi, who publishes a blog called Mintblogger (I highly recommend subscribing if you haven’t already). Facebook is undoubtedly one of the most popular social media services used by individuals, businesses and non-profits to connect with people.

10 More Creative Uses of the New Facebook Profile [PICS]

We had so much fun pulling together the gallery of new Facebook profile photo hacks (not to mention a great reader response), we decided to follow up the original collection with 10 more creations.
Thousands of people may be visiting your site every day, but if you don’t convince them that they should be using your product, subscribing to your service, or registering in some way, then your web app’s homepage is simply not doing its job. Successful web apps use similar formats when it comes to user interaction on their homepage. For instance, most feature an explanatory strapline that tells you what the service does, many show you screenshots of their service, and they all entice you to sign up or register with a prominently placed button. But is it really that simple? If you design a site with this simple checklist of ‘must-haves’ in hand, is the resulting site guaranteed to turn your visitors into users?

Turning Visitors into Users