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This weeks ABC is N for Ning ~ Getting your own social networking platform is no longer a mad dash to the developers’ forum. Instead you can just log on to www.NING.com and create it within a few minutes. Ning.com is catching on fast with community builders and you can get a host of apps like blogs, share videos, forums and live chat and all this comes in DIY mode. NING.com is also a Web 2.0 phenomenon and is offering a free community tool creation option as of now.

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I wanted to remind you about a brand new complimentary call that Ali Brown is hosting that will help your small business get off to a spectacular start for the new year.  (I’m a big fan of Ali’s and strongly suggest that you consider following her as one of your “teachers” as well.)

It’s called, “Your 11 Best No-Cost to Low-Cost Marketing & Business Strategies for 2010!” and it happens Wednesday, January 6 at 8pm Eastern.

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This weeks ABC is K for Keywords ~ Keywords are one of the building blocks of online marketing and though there are new ways to promote online businesses, keywords remain in the center of all the action. Keyword marketing means that you advertise on search engines (mostly Google but also Yahoo and Bing) using certain keywords which relate to the business being promoted. Google Adwords is one of the leading tools for keyword marketing and is usually part of most online promotional activities. For more detailed information also take a look at www.wordtracker.com.

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This weeks ABC is J for Jumptags ~ Jumptags is an online bookmarking service allowing you to set up a free web based account, so you can manage it from anywhere.  Currently the types of information that can be bookmarked (or tagged) are notes, videos, html code, RSS feeds, & Skype calls.

You can set up features to allow public and private jumptags.  Many use the public feature to tag an article or blog post to gain more exposure.  The private settings are used by those in joint collaboration of a project.  Hop on over to see if your business can benefit from any of the features offered at www.jumptags.com

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This weeks ABC is H for Hostgator - All online marketers need a platform to make their websites accessible.  Some may be savvy enough or large enough to have their own servers to use.  But if you are new to Internet marketing or just want to focus on revenue generating actions and not maintaining the actual infrastructure, you will need a website hosting service.

There are many options available, and one of the top ten hosting services that has been gaining steady market share is Hostgator.  You can obtain and register your domain name through them, as well as set up websites, email accounts,merchant accounts, and more.  Or, if you’re strictly looking for someone to “host” your website account they do that too.  Check out their offerings and tutorials.

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