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Have you made your Google+ page yet for your brand / company

Dezso — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:30:51 +0000

If not, then it’s high time?

Here’s the link to start it up: https://plus.google.com/u/0/pages/create

Do you consider NOT doing a G+ page for you business?

Make your stand and comment!

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10 most popular posts from the HubSpot blog

Dezso — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:22:07 +0000

I only had one fight in my chidlhood where I actually had to striked back and the other party was not one of my elderly brothers. That was back in Algeria in the still mid-80s.We had a great time throughout the two years we have spent there. Just before things started to go ugly. But on a hot Summer night, while playing soccer in the parking lot between route National Four and the block where we have lived this one boy came up to me and started it up. I can’t recall what the discussion was about. The only thing I clearly remember is that fact that I have gently and in an elegant way kick his jaws with the tip of my right foot. Then and there the energies aligned and there was no need for further discussion.

Not only that HubPost has coined the term ‘inbound marketing’. I am a great fan of the site and the ideas they present. Not to talk about the layout. (Tip: Just set that 60 minutes aside and do check what they do and how they do it allaround the site, it might well be your best webmarketing investment this week.)

Now, down to the list (year published):

12 Quick Tips to Search Google Like and Expert (2007) Although the article has come out quite sometime ago and I consider myself a semi-geek and Googler. I have found at least 3 new tips that I have not even heard of. TIP: Don’t forget to check the comments.
Free advertising on Google (2007).This will shock you. Although it will not help with your infomarketing business or ebusiness, but a must for all the rest still running an office. TAKE AWAY: Do it quickly if you are retailer and use that coupon tip from the article. TAKE TWO: go and rent a professional virtual office address whith real receptionist and a Virtual PBX to handle the rest and still use this cool trick.
How to create a Facebook business page in 5 simple steps (2011I) You would never figure but the post just delivers what the headline was shouting out. With a short video for the visually geared. N.B. This is not the most popular, but an updated post, since the original was from 2007. TIP: have no Facebook page for you business? Do it now it takes only a few minute to start. If you have every material at hand.
Did You Graduate From Link Building High School Yet? (2008) This is a valuable piece. If you are a newbie, start here your SEO orientation tour here TIP: Time for a reality check folks. If you believe your 10th or 11th grader. Re-read and think again.
The Importance of Google PageRank: A Guide For Small Business Executives (2006) You would say it’s sooo last year, but the content is still a great reference if you just start to dip your toes in SEO. TIP:
How to Use Twitter for Marketing & PR (2008) The article will give you a good overview if you are not sold on Twitter. Newbies, service businesses, retailers alike. My personal favorite TIPS: #4 Announce specials, deals or sales and #5 Live updates on events or conferences.
20 Examples of Great Facebook Fan Pages (2011) Mind boggling. Great inspiration from the top of the cream. TIP: You want your brand to stand out. Go and steal one of these ideas the artful way.
Steve Jobs & Guy Kawasaki — Powerpoint Best Practices (2007) This is timeless, even if you use Keynote and not Powerpoint. TAKE AWAY: do learn the lesson of less is more. Except for size
How to Create a Facebook Page Vanity URL (2010) I remember myself googling the web for this piece of information for at least a half an hour. TIP: if you have Facebook page for your business with no username then take it now, before it’s gone. No Facebook page then scroll back to 3 and 7.
How to Create a New Facebook Tab in 3 Easy Steps (2010) Truly outdated as Facebook FBML apps will be discountinued on Facebook from 1 July 2012 onward. TAKE AWAY: you don’t have too much option for easy besides hiring somebody or pay for app hosting.

Prescriptions:

If you are an absolute beginner in the world of internet marketing then digest the following articles in order: #5 > #4 > #7 > #3 > #6 … and don’t forget your home work!
If you are just new to social media then start at #4 instead of #5.

Final notes to take away. It seems that – at least from the Hubspot readers point of view – we can draw a few conclusions.

Facebook beats Google 4:3 (by counting the number of most popular articles) and
Social Media is EVEN with the rest of the topics 5:5, despite the recent hype.

Which ones are your favorite articles where you have found new and relevant information for your business?

Image credit (find more funny Google vs Facebook animations)

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12 creative sources to tribute Steve Jobs

Dezso — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:51:34 +0000

After getting the news I have spent a few hours browsing after relevant content about the passing of Steve Jobs. Then I have thought this would be a great post idea for people who has less time to get the most important aspects on who Steve Jobs really was.

Oddly enough I have just learned along the reading that Steve Jobs was the driving force behind Pixar and have made more personal wealth through Pixar then Apple.

I thought, I will not comment too much. I will rather leave it up to you my dear reader.

1. IMAGE: Steve Jobs portrait made of Tweets

(spotted at http://www.quora.com/Mark-Hughes-1/An-Amazing-Final-Image-Honoring-Steve-Jobs)

2. FAN ARTICLE: by James Altucher – http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/02/10-unusual-things-i-didnt-know-about-steve-jobs/

3. VIDEO: #inspiration The Stanford Commencment address of 2005, delivered by Steve Jobs

4. CROSSWORD: Kevin Der – Crosswords in NY Times – http://www.quora.com/Kevin-Der/Tribute-in-Fridays-New-York-Times-crossword-puzzle – N.B. go for a hard copy or request Kevin if you are on Quora. Not on Quora put up a good comment and if you are good enough I have a few invitations left!

5. VIDEOS: a few good ones carefully selected by Adam Boettiger in his post - http://digitalminimalism.com/2011/rip-steve-jobs-the-world-lost-a-very-bright-light-today/ a great video selection

6. VIDEO: The Iphone presentation Jobs was quoted to ‘prepare’ for 2,5 years The Iphone presentation Steve Jobs was quoted to wait for 2,5 years

7. FOLKLORE: A bunch of stories from from the early Macintosh/Apple era www.folklore.org

8. NEWS: http://bridgeurl.com/steve-wozniak-mourning-steve-jobs links gathered from http://woz.org/

9. IMAGE: Jonathan Mak-Long’s altered Apple logo

(original here: http://jmak.tumblr.com/post/9377189056 – covered here: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/apple-tribute-logo-hit-202848951.html)

10. VIDEO INTERVIEW: A great video interview with Steve Jobs Good artist copy, Great artist Steal!

11. VIDEO: Guy Kawasaki’s piece of speech just when the news hit the wire

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-steve-jobs-changed-the-world-this-week-in-social-media/

12. MEMORIAL: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/apple-ceo-steve-jobs-1955-2011/

May he rest in peace and some of us takes the torch!

UPDATE: Saved the, arguably, best to the end:

13. MEMORIAL: Stephen Fry http://www.stephenfry.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs/

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Budapest Climbing Scene map

Dezso — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:15:25 +0000

Just been putting together a quickie from different public Google Maps I have done earlier. Plus I have added indoor options.

N.B. this is a work in process so feel free to comment or ask and I’ll add places or further notes to sites. Also, if you have picture not listed from the climbing sites just upload it somewhere public (i.e. Panoramio) so I can link it up with the description page for each sites.

Climb on,

Dez

See > The Budapest Climbing Scene Orientation Map v1.01

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Planning the early Autumn Holidays to Southern Poland

Dezso — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:02:20 +0000

There is a bit of discussion within the family, thus I want to bring in some crowd-meme here.
We’re going with a baby, thus the location has to be baby friendly. We are on a budget, thus money talks as well.

Please cast your vote:
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Thanks,

Dez

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Are you migrating from Ning to another free community software provider?

Dezso — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:37:49 +0000

As I have started two – quite different – social networks on Ning. One for a NICU parent group where me and my beloved @zsoa was belonging to due to our Nimrod boy arriving early. The other for an unofficial alumni formation for the Business School franchise (of Open University in Hungary) where we have been graduated.

While searching for alternatives – mostly for the second and for future projects – I have had this idea of asking my twellowhood on this and ask them a favor to retweet so I get some background on where to go now…

By the way after or before posting your poll answers (and the always welcome comments obviously), you might want to read this article from Steve Hargadon on the pros and cons of the new plans Ning will have compared to the old free plan. Also, reading this aggregated news flow about the Ning changes on Techcrunch will not hurt you neither.

Thanks for participating,

Dez

The poll:
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Are there anybody left selling EUR?

Dezso — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:01:08 +0000

Have just checked how EUR is doing on a weekly chart based on an almost aptly timed question from @SimpleEnglish.

First, I don’t know what the (fundamental) reason is behind EUR gaining strength, since Europe is just as rotten financially as the US or Japan. Second, I would not advise you to take my analysis as a basis for your investment/trading decisions.

First thing first,

we need to see what our beloved charts are showing us:

There are two things that must struck your eyes dear reader. First – the small red circle – showing how large traders are turning north from full out selling. Thus the COT (aka Commitment of Traders) chart for the EUR futures contracts shows lack of commitment to push things (EUR) further (down). The second is the psychological 1,2 mark (support marked with thicker red line) where the EUR turned tails to the void and came back a bit. However the third thing to notice is that EUR has found a quick resistance at the 1,25 mark (thiner red line) after just 2 up ticks.

All in all I believe the EUR will still have a hard time to get in shape.

Enjoy your weekend folks,
Dez

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7 steps to grow your Twitter followers base without getting suspended

Dezso — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:53:54 +0000

A good twitter friend of mine Pokerstudent asked me really good questions about getting more followers on Twitter, as:

“whats the best way for me to get more followers buddy, do i just follow as many as i can or do i pay for one of those mass. Follower programs? i dont want to get my account suspended though.”

Here come my real life answers:

Personally, I was never for black hat type of marketing at all. I can share some steps I have done myself with my @sugardayfox account. Please note though that it is a personal account that I do not use for any focused marketing effort. of course I post affiliate links here and there but I am definitely using it as a personal account. I believe this is important when you look at the numbers and quality of my followers.

Here’s how I proceeded more or less to gather more and followers:

First, I followed people based on searches. Simple, but time and click consuming.

Second, I used a list of users who was told to follow back. It’s no longer online thus I don’t give you their link. It was really easy to follow them, but I’d stress how irrelevant they might be for a targeted effort.

Third, I used http://www.Flashtweet.com to mass follow people. But ONLY those following people I had ‘close’ relationship with or get to better know. Quite fast but not focused at all.

Fourth, I started to use http://mrtweet.net that gives a daily recommendation list for users to follow. They use an algorithm to recommend you people based on the followers you already have. I find it a great tool, only it take effort and clicks.

Fifth, I started to use Tweetdeck as a key element in viewing tweets and tweeting. Quite like the search function, the Lists function in Twitter make it a bit less outstanding but still fine, especially if you would have more than one Twitter accounts.

Sixth, I staterted to use Tweetlater (now Socialoomph) that helps you with automating follow backs and is a great tool for vetting followers, beside the obvious timed tweet dispatch function that is also cool.

Seventh, I am starting to use http://www.buzzom.com that is also a great management tool integrating some parts of the prior listed services.

I believe the rest should take care of itself with following the right people, retweeting occasionally, starting up conversations, putting up posts that gets easily retweeted. Note: I have yet to produce a blog post myself that gets retweeted. This means you can find any piece of information that might be important for your target audience, then make a tweet about it and there you go.

There was a great article that came into my mind and you might find it interesting from Chris Brogan. If I have forgot anything it is only because I am way too tired to think in a consistent manner.

Go tweet and conquer

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Csókolom – How do you greet a neighbor in Hungary?

Dezso — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:42:57 +0000

First, of all probably you do not greet your neighbor anymore. Sounds pessimistic but sadly true as well. At least in most urban areas and more and more villages.

Second, if you take Living Abroad’s – http://tinyurl.com/ye5uf8t – quiz and give the answer they suggest, you’ll be wrong…

(Answer: you can greet both elderly women and men by ‘Csókolom’. Ok, it’s not proper, but that’s how it is used)

Also, it worth to note that the idiom ‘Csókolom’ is a shortened and less polite version of ‘Kezét csókolom’. That is in fact, a note for note translation of the German/Austrian ‘Kiss die Hand’. Untill the 2nd WW this expression was widely used in it’s original german version, but written in Hungarian ‘Kisztihánd’.

I kiss your hand dear reader,

Cheers,

Dez

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Feel like making resolutions for 2010?

Dezso — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:20:13 +0000

To be fair, I never really made resolutions. This time is a bit special for me though. First, I became father thus I have quite a few things to change in my life to adjust to the new situation. Second, I practically spent the last year with trying things – lightly. And flirting with true entrepreneurship but not making a home run at all.
Thus, if I should make resolutions I’d take these 3:
1. I will use every day to become a better father.
2. I will take all chances to become a true, free, bold – not bald – entrepreneur.

3. I will take a grab on my ADHD (not diagnosed but strongly suspected) through regular sport activities and a better sleep cycle management.

Cheerio,

Dez

P.S. What’s your resolution for 2010?
P.P.S. Did you make a resolution at all?
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