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In Powerful Marketing Move, Schwab's New Retail Investor Website Enables Clients To Rate Schwab Services

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Charles Schwab's new retail website allows Schwab clients to rate different Schwab investment services. Will advisors follow suit? "Expanding on its efforts to provide people with a more transparent and simplified investing experience," says a press release, the new Schwab.com website give investors access to research tools traditionally “locked” behind client log-ins.

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An Interview With The 30-Year Old Founder Of Mint, The Most Popular Personal Finance Site On The Web

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Software giant Intuit bought Mint for $170 million in 2009. Now the Mint community is seven million-strong, with an average age of 31 and an average annual income of $85,000.

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SlideShare Redoes Presentation-sharing Site With HTML5 For Viewing On Apple Devices

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SlideShare, a site for posting, viewing, rating and commenting on business presentations, documents and videos, has re-engineered its site using HTML5, making it compatible with Apple iOS devices.   The change also promotes search engine visbility.   I've written before about SlideShare and remain a fan despite some bugs. (Below I've embedded the first SlideCast I created.)   For advisors looking to increase their social profile and search engine rankings, it's a great service as long as you have the patience to spend a couple of hours learning it and then an hour or two

Facebook's Facelift Advances Social Media And Clearly Establishes Facebook As The Web's Preeminent Property

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  Even as the general press was covering the “unlikes” of Facebook’s new look, the tech press was mostly agog at how the social media juggernaut has reinvented its already revolutionary ways to engage users.

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7 Tips For Boosting SEO Of Your Facebook Page

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Brands and businesses are moving away from traditional websites, and placing more and more emphasis on their Facebook pages. This is great from a customer service and interaction standpoint, but certainly muddies the waters from an SEO perspective.

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