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Consulting explained

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Consulting explained - tongue in cheek. Humor. Funny.

I often get asked what I do. The answer is really difficult, because I do whatever; depending on what is required. This is often not a satisfactory answer.

So I have two choices. I can go with "writer", which is great... for about twenty seconds. Everyone is super interested in writers. Until they find out that I write technical books on programming, development, marketing and business.

SEO explained

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SEO is easy to implement and growing less important with the rise of social medi

SEO (search engine optimization) is important for driving organic search traffic from Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines.

It's really not hard to get your site's SEO in top working order. Most leading SEO experts rarely practice what they preach anyway. Check out this comparison of performance related SEO for WSM4B and five other leading SEO sites.

A guide to what's important for startups

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Advice for entrepreneurs on how to drive startup success

Ever seen something funny and wondered what the business lesson was in it? I do all the time, so I thought I would throw together a collection of profound (and funnny) pictures that will help you succeed in your business, whatever it may be.

American Express Business Solutions

Included in this picture is invaluable advice like:

How to build social influence

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A list of some important characteristics of succesful social influencers

Ever wondered what characteristics make for a great social influencer? If you've been trying to build trust, authority and reach (collectively, influence) for your business then these pictures contain a lot of important lessons for you.

I guess I should point out that this list is not entirely comprehensive. Tenacity, intelligence, creativity and a whole lot of other things go into building a successful online presence.

Not getting your head stuck in a bucket is also important for anyone looking to become an influential person.

Customer engagement demonstrated with cats

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Customer engagement demonstrated with cats

Ever notice how customers almost never seem to react in the way you want them to. Regardless of whether you are announcing a cool new product, showing off a new startup that's going to change the world, or putting time and effort into a blog post.

Ultimately, people do what they like. I think this image demontrates this point nicely ;)

The average Internet user according to business, bloggers, social marketers & reality

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The average Internet user according to business, bloggers, social marketers & re

Ever wondered what the average Internet user looks like. Well, here are some popular misconceptions held by some of the leading InterWeb types such as bloggers, businesses and social marketers.

Reality probably shouldn't come as a shock to you. So long as you're aware of it, you can make money ;)