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How to Maximize Your Online Presence

Use Social Networking and Blogging to Build a Community

By: Alison Marek
Nov 5, 2010

If you're not online yet, you know you should be. If you are online, you're probably not getting as much out of it as you could be. In next month's TDmonthly Magazine, experts and retailers give you practical steps for making the most of your web site. Although the web changes by the minute, information is still king online. Think of information as online customer service: it's what brings people back to you time and again.

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Alison MarekWriter's Bio: ALISON MAREK is an award-winning writer, director and cartoonist whose work has been published by Fairchild Publications and DC Comics (Piranha Press), broadcast on Showtime and other cable networks, and viewed worldwide in film festivals. See her short films and print work on www.alisonmarek.com. Watch her nefarious villains in the web series www.MuggsMovers.com. Get inspired by her cartoons "Daily ARFFirmations to Unleash Your Inner Fido" at www.ARFFirmations.com. Phew! And then ...  Read more articles by this author


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