News & Notes

• Make Something Old New Again (Insights Group)
• Is Branding Important To Small Business? (Entrepreneurs-Journey.com)
• Extending the Life of a Blog Post (Traffikd)
• 5 Factors to Consider When Selecting Enterprise Social Tools (Web Worker Daily)
• The Dawning Age of Social Navigation (GigaOM)
• How Important Is a Good Name? (Web Worker Daily)
• Whiteboard Friday – Path to Conversion (SEOmoz)
• Print Yellow Pages Ads Drive Traffic to Web, Phone (Marketing Charts)
• Data Visualizations: 5 Amazing iPhone Visualization Videos (Mashable)
• Warning: Do You Recognize These 21 Blogging Mistakes? (ProBlogger)
• Pricing, WOM, PR Efforts Get Recession Boost (Marketing Charts)
• Twitter to Move into Business Mainstream (Marketing Charts)
• Find web visitor’s location automatically with javascript and Google APIs (Brian Cray’s Blog)
• Top 18 Social Media Resources for Developers (Mashable)
• Image-Based Online Ad Impressions by Industry – April 2009 (Marketing Charts)
• So Much For Twitter’s Trending Topics To Indicate Breaking News (TechCrunch)
• 10 Sure-Fire Ways to Maximize Your Online Distribution Channel (Social Media Explorer)
• Adding Anchor Text Links to LinkedIn Profiles (Duct Tape Marketing)

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Great business ideas and practices aren’t always something new or innovative.  Sometimes they’re something old that just needs to be brought back.  In my weekly article over at Insights Group, I discuss this idea of making old things new again:

A long time ago, most humans lived in small villages and towns – where everyone knew everyone else and all required goods and services were provided, sold, bought and traded.  In the town’s general store, people would gather for the news and shopkeepers knew everything about their customers – anticipating future purchases and provided exceptional customer service (even though the customer was pretty much stuck with what they could offer).

Today, the Internet has once again made it easy for companies to communicate with their customers – and for customers to communicate with each other.  Exceptional customer service is once again important. – Make Something Old New Again – Sarah Worsham – Insights Group

I hope you’ll head over to Insights to read the whole article – it may help get the creative juices flowing…

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• Blogs & Premium Content: GigaOM Launches Subscription Service (ReadWriteWeb)
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• Be Naked (Chris Brogan)
• A Flood Of Android Phones Coming This Year (Mashable)

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