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Guest post by Chris Brown who writes over at Branding & Marketing

Branding & Marketing: What I Learned from 2008

2008 was a productive and fun year for Branding & Marketing. Some highlights include:

• Moved the blog from blogspot into it’s own domain using WordPress in January Transition Marketing — Making the Switch without Losing Customers!
• Focused on the power of branding in February Increasing the Brand Value of your Business
• Made time to take action in March Leap and the Net Will Appear
• Got into the habit of making marketing part of the routine in April Make Marketing Part of Your Business Routine
• Attended SOBCon08 (Successful & Outstanding Blogs) in May Thoughts from CopyBlogger Brian Clark at SOBCon ’08
• Participated in PodcastCamp in June PodCasting Basics: What I Learned from Participating in PodCampOhio
• Using various social media to market your business and expertise in July 8 Ways I use Social Media as a Branding & Marketing Tool
• Recognized the importance of updating and refreshing in August: Keep a “Fresh Face” on your Branding
• Focused on sustaining good marketing practices for a profitable business in September How to Market and Sustain Your Business When You’re Feeling Uncertain
• Co-authored the Art of Conversation with 236 other bloggers in October Age of Conversation 2 — Why Don’t They Get It?
• Got caught up in the marketing of the candidates strategy & execution in November A Lesson in Focused Marketing – County-by-County, Precinct-by-Precinct
• Because of the state of the economy in December offered more low cost ways to market Learn How To Introduce Your New Product to Market in Less Than One Hour

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Chris Brown publishes Branding & Marketing for business professionals who are interested is strategy, tactics and new ideas.  In her work life: she runs a small marketing firm in Northeast Ohio with 6 employees that helps companies with their branding and marketing efforts to increase sales results.

In her “real life” she’s married with two almost grown children and spends entirely too much time on the internet learning about social media, web2.0, blogs, SEO, wikis, twitters, utterz, podcasting and all the weird new words that have entered our dictionaries in the last few years… (Does blogapalooza count??) [Of course! - Ed.]

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[Further note from the Proprietor: Hey, if you're interested in having your own "best of 2008" posts highlighted right here at the Middle Zone, then by all means, click on this link: (BLOGAPALOOZA: What I Learned From 2008) and read all about it! BLOGAPALOOZA will be open for entries from now until Sunday, January 25.]

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