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Want to stay in-the-know about the latest online marketing, SEO, content strategy and inbound marketing tips, tricks, best practices and recommendations? Or get the chance to win free prizes and receive discount codes for our marketing services?

Join us for our monthly Twitter parties at the #MarketingParty hashtag.

RSVP with your Twitter handle, then follow and tweet with the hashtag #MarketingParty this Monday, December 15th from 4:00 to 5:00 CST. The topic of this month's party is The Top Ten Tips for Effective Business Blogging. 

Getting ready to redesign your website in 2015?

Make sure you're doing the right things to drive traffic to your site as soon as possible after it launches by reading our new ebook.

We've partnered with Hubspot to create "10 SEO Mistakes to Avoid During Your Next Website Redesign", a free ebook that will help you better understand where you should focus and what SEO tasks aren't worth your time, budget and effort.

Best wishes to you and yours on this Thanksgiving day and every day from everyone here at Flair!

We hope that you can take some time away from your business and marketing tasks to focus on family, friends and gratefulness on this day. 

We'd also like to offer a special note of gratitude to all of our clients (current or former) today and every day. Your support and marketing success motivate us to work harder, think more creatively and strive for excellence each and every day. We love solving your online marketing challenges every single day. 

Do you want to get the latest tips, tricks, best practices and recommendations about online marketing, SEO, content strategy, inbound marketing and more? And be entered into drawings for free prizes and discount codes?

Join us for our monthly Twitter parties at the #MarketingParty hashtag.

RSVP with your Twitter handle, then follow and tweet with the hashtag #MarketingParty this Thursday, November 20th from 12:30 to 1:30 CST. The topic of this month's party is How to Develop a Solid Marketing Strategy that Gets Results.

You only need to RSVP once in order to participate in this party or future parties. We'll let you know when each month's party will be held.

You can participate using your Twitter handle and your favorite software for tweeting—but remember you can only be eligible to win prizes if you register in advance!

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Some food for thought from Albert Einstein. How much fun are you having today?

Have you ever wondered how other companies are leveraging social media to generate leads? Or have you searched for a quick and concise guide that will teach you the basics of social media prospecting? Our free social prospecting workbook can help.

This handy workbook will teach you the fundamentals of leveraging popular social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and more, to get REAL results in no time. It includes step-by-step instructions and exercises that will help you make progress without hiring an outside agency or freelancer.

I get dozens of phone calls, emails and requests each week from people who are absolutely overwhelmed with the thought of writing content for their social media channels and other marketing campaigns. Most modern-day marketers know that social media is important and they know that they should be posting content regularly, but the thought of cranking out content on a consistent basis is terrifying.

Looking for ways to ramp up your web site traffic quickly and easily? I often hear from folks who think that they need to do full-scale web site redesign to get more traffic—but more often than not, that's just not the case!

There are a lot of ways that you can significantly increase your monthly visits without spending thousands of dollars on a redesign. Check out my top five suggestions for driving more visits below.

1. Blog frequently

This is the #1 step that I recommend to almost all of my clients who want to increase traffic. Blogging is hands-down the best way to attract new visitors to your site. It's quick, it's easy and it attracts better than any other inbound marketing tactic.

Have you heard a lot about Hubspot's content optimization system (COS) and you're wondering how it stacks up against other CMS tools?

Website Magazine asked me and nine other marketing experts to talk about what CMS tools we use and how those tools have helped us get better results from our online marketing efforts or our clients' online marketing efforts.

After the other marketers talk about how they're getting...well...predictable results from well-known tools such as Wordpress and Joomla, I close out the article with information about how Hubspot absolutely crushes these other tools.

Check out this nifty infographic that we created about inbound marketing: