I was recently hired as a social media marketing consultant to promote their online stores. Their main store acheived 900% growth in 2007 and was listed as one of Inc Magazines fastest growing small companies. After reading a book about social media marketing, the owner wanted to experiment with some of the strategies and assigned me $500 and one month to use social media marketing to improve the SEO on his store's blogs.

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Within recent years, start pages such as my.Yahoo, NetVibes, PageFlakes, and YourMinis have become very popular among web users and have certainly made things more convenient. Instead of checking all of my favorite websites, email, news sources, and blogs, I can easily check my NetVibes homepage, which features all of my favorite feeds. This has certainly has increased efficiency, but it also seems to have increased my Internet browsing time. Even though I can now view more articles in less time, I find myself viewing more articles than I previously would have.

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