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2015 Recap: Doubled Subscriber Base and Plans for 2016

2015 Review - Small Business Ideas Blog2015 was an interesting year for me. After living in New Jersey for over a decade, I decided to sell my home and move to Florida.

Moving was somewhat disruptive to my work flow, but I felt that it was time for change and to experience something new.

The thing I probably struggled with most last year was productivity. It took a little time to get back into the flow and I’ve realized that running multiple businesses has been a distraction so I’ve decided to get more focused this year.

In this article, I recap 2015 and discuss some of the plans I have going forward.

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How to View Twitter Share Counts after Twitter’s API Shutdown

How to View Twitter Share Counts after Twitter’s API ShutdownMany of you may have noticed that on November 24, 2015, Twitter removed its share counts and tweet buttons have been replaced with buttons that do not show the number of tweets that a web page has received.

Twitter’s decision to close off its API has also affected many other apps that display Twitter share numbers, including SharedCount and Scrapebox which now are unable to display the number of Twitter shares.

I’ve found a few options to view Twitter share counts. Here they are:

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10 Popular Pinterest Marketing Myths that You Probably Believe

10 Pinterest Myths You Probably BelieveMost people know that visuals are becoming increasingly more important for online marketing.

Studies show that adding visuals can increase views of your content by up to 96%.

But despite all the research on visual content marketing, a lot of people still aren’t using visuals in their content or aren’t marketing their visual content optimally.

Through the years, I’ve studied visual content and the channels in which visual content is promoted.

And I’ve found that there are a lot of myths on how to do use visual content effectively.

Here are 10 Pinterest myths that many people still believe. Are you guilty of believing these popular visual marketing myths?

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5 Reasons Parrots are Better Marketers than You

5 Reasons Parrots are Better Marketers than YouI’ve been watching bird videos on YouTube recently, which I mostly do in the evenings on the weekends to relax.

One thing I’ve noticed is that some of these birds have much larger audiences than most people.

And a business blogger, I thought it would be fun to do an analysis and see what lessons we can learn from our fine feathered friends.

Although the bird owners that are publishing these videos are not marketing experts, some of them have built enviably large audiences of thousands of followers.

We can learn a few lessons from their success. Here are a few marketing insights that we can learn from popular birds.

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Small Business Ideas for Beginners: A Comparison of 10 Popular Business Models

I’ve written about online marketing a good bit because that type of content seems to be popular and it is one of my focuses as an online entrepreneur.

But a few people have asked about making money and getting started in business, so I figured I’d write this post comparing some popular business and money making ideas. This list is by no means intended to include every single business idea out there, but it might be a good read if you don’t know where to start.

These include some of the ideas that I’ve looked into and even played around with over the years. Or I might have known people that ran these types of businesses.

Hoping to start your own business? Then check out this list of popular business ideas.

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