Thinking About Paying For Fake Yelp Reviews? Beware! – The Government Is Cracking Down!

Getting positive business reviews posted on social review sites like Yelp.com, CitySearch.com and Google Local has become big money these days and businesses big and small, in a desperate attempt to enhance their reputation and online visibility, are hiring unethical SEO companies to fake their reviews and have them published on social review sites. But this unethical practice can have some serious legal and financial consequences now that the government is heightening their enforcement actions against businesses that solicit fake reviews and those businesses who offer to publish fake reviews as a service.

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Infographic - Marketing Automation for Sales and Marketing Teams

There comes a time when an organization needs to leverage the power of automation to help improve the efficiency of critical departments such as marketing and sales. That time is usually characterized by your front-line workers doing repetitive daily tasks (most of which they don't enjoy doing, btw). Marketing automation is a way of removing the manual grunt-work out of mundane tasks associated with marketing and sales and frees up your human resources to do the things that they are good at doing - namely acquiring leads and closing deals.

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Carving Your Own Piece Out Of Another Company's Major Publicity Campaign

Yesterday, I read a news article about a woman, Cecilia Abadie, who was given a traffic citation for wearing Google Glass while driving her vehicle on the freeway. She made a post to her Google + account and it generated some viral buzz from news agencies from all over.

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How to Market Yourself Like Lady Gaga

Jesse Desjardins offers 10 marketing/PR tips that professionals can learn from Lady Gaga - Even if you don't like her music.

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90 Battle-Tested Guerrilla Marketing Tactics

This presentation offers more than a plate-full of ideas with a whopping 90 battle-tested guerrilla marketing tactics that actually work! I guarantee that you're definitely going to get some practical marketing ideas that you can implement in your business from this slideshow.

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20 Pearls of Inbound Marketing Wisdom

Some of the leading marketing experts in the industry share their pearls of inbound marketing wisdom in this short Slideshare.

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150 Stats About Online Marketing That You Never Knew

This is a beefy collection of 150 stats about online marketing, presented in a simple-to-understand visual format.

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How to Write Awesome Headlines That Get Results

Assistant Online Editor of The Times, Tom Whitwell, offers up a 28 slide presentation on how to write exceptional headlines that really grab and engage readers. PR writers, copywriters and internet marketers can all benefit from these lessons forged from the news industry.

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Where and How to Submit SEO Press Releases

Thanks to Christine OKelly for sharing this informative presentation on using press releases to increase your SEO.

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Learn the Essentials of Copywriting

Mark Shaw, founder of Jupiter Design and best-selling author, offers up his insights into copywriting for design, advertising and marketing.

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