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Archive for June, 2008

The Fine Art of Shilling, Or How NOT to Do Social Media Marketing

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Comment spamming is bad, shilling is worse. Why? Because automated filters detect 99% of comment spam. The spam filter here on The Virtual Handshake Blog has caught over 750,000 spam comments in the past couple of years.
But shilling… shilling is hard to detect and often goes unnoticed the first or second time. Someone leaves a [...]

Escape 9 to 5 - Free Teleseminar Series Starts June 5

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Entrepreneurs — looking to grow your business?
Starting this Thursday, June 5, you can learn some of the most current techniques for growing your business in the Escape 9 to 5 Teleseminar Series.
I love what the organizer, Melissa Gerdes, has to say about the series on the registration page:
Why are we doing this? It’’s simple. [...]