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FACEBOOK IS WHERE THE INVESTORS LOOK
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| Facebook groups are a spectacular way to market your business online. However, you need to understand the fine points of Facebook so that you do not get your account banned. One of the least talked about uses for such an account is the aspect of selling your account. |
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Social Media Secrets for Home Stagers!
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| Everyone tells you that you need to jump into social media to market your business, but no one can agree on which application you should use, how often you should post, and what you should say. There's so much information out there (maybe too much!) that it's confusing. Don't give up on social media yet! Use these tips to use social media in your own way, for a dynamic online presence. |
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Video Marketing: A Combination of Social Media and Article Marketing
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| Video Marketing is one of the most powerful forms of inexpensive or free marketing online. Consider video marketing as a combination of Social Media and Article Marketing. You're building trust and relationships while providing valuable content.
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A New Marketing Communications Firm Launches in the Washington D.C. Area That Focuses on the Small Business and Non-Profit Sectors
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| Conversion Pipeline, a strategic marketing communications company was created to help small business and non-profits utilize modern sales, marketing and communication strategies such as pay-per-click advertising, search engine optimization, public relations, business consulting, social media and other strategies to raise brand awareness in their respective marketplace.
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An online presence is the answer to beating the recession
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| In times of recession, small businesses have had to find alternative ways of marketing their products or services.
With this in mind, many companies opted to explore the online platform as the most productive method of promoting their brand. |
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Can companies make productive use of Facebook?
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| Facebook is the most demanding social site online with more than 350 million users worldwide, however the majority of companies still struggle to make an impressive marketing impact. |
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Marketing In A Recession Benefits Small Business
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| When consumers turn on the TV or listen to the radio, they get bombarded with the words, recession, TARP, unemployment, foreclosures, and other less than positive descriptors. No wonder small businesses are fearful of their long-term viability. But there is one thing small businesses can do to take control of their future. They should increase their marketing efforts. Spend money on marketing because that is the one thing that will increase their chances of surviving the recession. |
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Social Media and SEO: The Wonder Twins
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| Social media marketing and SEO reinforce each other - Why? Because online reputation and search rank monitoring goes hand-in-hand with social media.
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Two Great Places I Found to Advertise My Home Business for Free
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| As many of us begin our adventures in network marketing with a limited budget, I’m sure we are thinking, “Where can I advertise my home business for free?” This was a major thought going through my mind when I started my home business, especially since I had such a limited marketing budget. |
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Facebook - Coolest Stock on the Block?
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| In case you hadn't heard, one of the most anticipated floats in recent history is likely to come to market this year. And no, it's not Mighty River Power. Facebook, already the stuff of Hollywood movies, is gearing up for an initial public offering (IPO) that will add a new chapter to the social network's story. |
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Social Media For Small Business
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| With 2010 finally here and staring us in the face, every small business needs to acknowledge the 100 pound elephant in the room, and his name is social media. |
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Twitter trending topics can create wide awareness among people .
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| Trending topics in Twitter give you the topics which are highly tweeted at a single click. On the left side of your Twitter account you can easily find the currently tweeted topics under this section. |
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Hierarchy of Reputation
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| A bad reputation does not provide the same opportunities as a good one. Being known expands market visibility, power, performance and more. But how do you move from where you are to a higher level?
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Serious Entrepreneurs Use Social Media To Get Leads Without Being Annoying
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| Every serious entrepreneur is aware of the power of Internet marketing. However, a majority of them still consider online marketing to be related to the company website, email and online ads. While these online mediums make a significant part of the internet market, there has been a revolution in the last five years in the online world that has given birth to another powerful medium - social media or social networking. |
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Social Media Strategy and your business website!
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| You never can think of a business without a proper strategy and a business website. Same is the case when you plan your marketing via Social networking. While considering Social sites for marketing you must have an exact Social Media Strategy that fits best as per the site you have for your business. |
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Social Media and the Age Old Question
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| The phenomenon of social media is taking the global internet world by storm. But who is exactly using social media, you may wonder. An increasing number of users of all ages are using social media for a number of reasons. With the rapid growth amongst older users, the majority of Facebook users in the United States are now over 25. Read on ... |
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Making Money with Social Media Marketing – A Multi-Pronged Approach
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| To succeed in making money with social media marketing, there are three important facets involved. A well crafted, marketing strategy that includes these various aspects will increase revenue and market position. One of the first goals of this type of marketing is to create a buzz. Use interesting, newsworthy information to attract attention to your organization. This could come in many forms. It could be the announcement of an event, such as a new product release or videos featuring tutorials. Tweets are a quick easy way to keep your network informed about specials or articles that are being published. |
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Does This Tweet Make My Brand Look Big?
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| Before you go head out into the social media jungle and begin tweeting, Facebooking and YouTubing with reckless abandon, I urge you to take a moment and formulate a plan. |
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Mark Harmon, Elmer Wheeler & Twitter
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| If you aren’t yet using the social media phenomenon that is Twitter - get off your keister and start. Right now. |
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No Junk Mail: Inbound Marketing
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| Everyone would agree that marketing to your target audience is an integral part of building your business. Sounds simple enough, but when it comes to online marketing, the avenues are endless. New web applications and concepts are constantly being developed, and with the Internet ever evolving, some can get a little muddled in their advertising efforts and go about their marketing the wrong way.
Firstly, there are two major types of marketing - inbound and outbound. These are most easily defined by inbound being ‘permission' and outbound being ‘interruption'.
Inbound marketing is the most effective way of attracting and maintaining the target markets your online strategy has identified. |
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Look out, there’s a (Google) wave coming
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| Google Wave is the newest online application that has got everyone talking. But just what is all the fuss about? From the creators of Google Maps, this new system allows the user to create a ‘wave’, a document slash conversation. In this wave, you can communicate through text, files, photos, and more in real time. This newest form of collaborative communication online is putting the person back behind the message. |
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Social Media Optimization: Paving the Way of Connecting with Customers
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| We’ve heard of SEO and SEM, but SMO is the newest acronym to hit the online marketing world as we know it. SMO stands for Social Media Optimization, which is what you are doing when you use social media outlets (Facebook, for example) either on your website or externally, to attract visitors to your site. SMO allows you to appeal to a wider audience, connect with your customers, and become a part of an online community. Think it’s not for you? Read on to learn how every online business or website can benefit from SMO. |
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The Worst Thing You Could Do in Your Work From Home Business!
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| 97% of people are doing the worst thing they could do in their work from home business and that is the reason why they are failing. Unfortunately a large majority of these people don't even know they are doing anything wrong and if they did, they would still have no clue what to do about it. Read this article by Omari Taylor and discover the worst thing you could do in your work from home business and how to get results. |
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Going Native: The Digital Immigrant Phenomenon
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| If you’re reading this, and are therefore using the Internet for information or research, then you are probably a ‘digital immigrant’. Sound strange? Well, we could assume that anyone that is aged over approximately 25 years and uses the Internet on a regular basis is a digital immigrant. After all, as a general definition, you are a digital immigrant if you were not born into the ‘digital age’ of computers, the Internet, email, mobile phones and the like, but have taken on these concepts as a natural part of your everyday life. Sounds like most of us out there, doesn’t it. |
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Integrating Social Media Into Your Marketing Plan
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| Social media provides a set of tools, which when used properly, can greatly leverage and enhance your other networking/word-of-mouth marketing and your other internet marketing efforts. It is cheaper, faster, and less geographically restrictive than our traditional networking activities. Like any other tool, social media can be very effective when used properly, or very dangerous when misused. Improper use can damage your brand, erode relationships and create threats to your personal safety and security. |
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Baby boomers - Learn Video Marketing to Promote brand You Inc
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| As a result of the economic turmoil and financial meltdown, many baby boomers are starting home-based Internet Marketing businesses, explains Mike Farrell with aspenIbiz. As a result of innovation on the Internet, they can combine new business models with Web 2.0 technologies, including video marketing as used by Tony Robbins and Paula Abdul, to create a trusted authority relationship with prospects and increase their sales results. |
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Five Web Analytics Lessons from the Obama Campaign Coakley Should Have Heeded
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| Martha Coakley’s failed Senate run has led many to review the key differences in strategy between her campaign and Scott Brown’s. It’s pretty clear that Brown took the web seriously and Coakley seemed to largely ignore many of the social media and web analytics strategies and tactics that swept Obama into office.
This post highlights web analytics lessons from the Obama campaign which are every bit as applicable today as they were over a year ago for any organization. |
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No DMs Please
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| I'm continuously shocked at the lack of just plain common sense (or common courtesy) from some Tweeps. |
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How to Properly Develop Relationships Using Social Media
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| How many times have you cringed after receiving a message from someone you just connected with immediately pitching his or her opportunity? We’ve all heard them tell you that they have the best compensation plan, they’re going to be the next billion-dollar company, and that their juice, lotion or potion is the cure for cancer. They even create a sense of urgency by telling you that if you don’t sign up by midnight, you’ll lose out on a once in a lifetime opportunity. Sound familiar?
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Why it is Important to be “Social” in Social Media
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| The force of social media is unquestionable and here to stay. It behoves all of us that choose to interact within these communities to understand the group’s dynamics and interact accordingly. It all starts with the fundamentals and that is how you present yourself. |
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Marketing and Twitter
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| Twitter was the one site that puzzled me. It’s not like any other site and I was baffled at how and why people had 15,000 people they were following. It felt daunting and overwhelming so I didn’t really jump into it full force. Since then, I have picked up a resource that has helped. Listed in the body of this article are a few things I learned. |
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Using Social Media for customer relations purposes
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| One of the biggest attractions of social media to companies is the ability to efficiently manage customer relations.
Social platforms not only provide the opportunity to liaise with current customers, but also others who may otherwise be impossible to reach offline. |
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How word of mouth online can trigger brand perception
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| We’ve all heard it – referrals are the best form of marketing, and you would probably be right to an extent.
Most people want to associate with a company they can trust and have confidence of meeting expectations. Give a customer great service, the chances are they may just tell their friends and influence them to try your services too. |
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Make Money from Online Business through Social Media
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| Do you consider social media a fad or do you think it is one of the biggest shifts in business since the Industrial Revolution? Are you aware of the power of social media and are you using it to make money from online business like hundreds of thousands of network marketers all around the world? Just have a look at some of the statistics causing this revolution and decide for yourself. |
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Consistent Branding for Social Media Marketing
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| Most companies and business owners strike out into the great unknown of the online frontier without a social media marketing branding plan. It might seem unnecessary to most business owners; however, the creation of an online branding strategy is one of the most vital steps to social media marketing success. |
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Warning: U R Contaminating Your Marketing Pool!
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| Warning: Using Social Media without understand your ROI is both wasting money and Contaminating Your Marketing Efforts! Learn how to save time and money while receiving the most benefit from your social media networking. |
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Four Worst Email Marketing Errors: Dont Let Social Media Ruin Your Email Marketing
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| Are your email subscriber leaving your list? If you are making these four email marketing mistakes, then you are wasting money and time trying to reach potential customers. Fix these email marketing errors now...before it is too late! |
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5 (FREE) Time Saving Social Media Tools
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| So many times, people embark on social media marketing with the idealist understanding that it is as easy as tweeting a thought in 140 characters or posting a few words to followers every few days. In reality, social media marketing involves more hand holding than direct marketing. Why, then, are literally millions of businesses joining the social media movement every year? Because, quite literally, companies can reach out to potential clients with less cost (provided they understand the time vs. money formula of social marketing) and gain market share through brand exposure.
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Something Old and Something New - Apply Both for Sales Success
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| The phrase "something old and something new," which is often heard while brides are getting married, can be applied to using social media tools successfully. Many companies jump on the new idea band wagon, often discarding old ideas and methodologies that still produce results. Let's take a look at two ways you should combine new social media with good 'ole fashioned sales principles. |
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How do I use Social Networks for Marketing?
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| Social networks are the soil for planting your idea seeds. Some ideas grow quickly and flourish, others wilt and fade away. This article explains the power of social networks and how to build your social media profiles for marketing success. |
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Google Placement – How to Dominate front page for free!
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| Google is a very powerful tool for anyone wanting to advertise their online business - in fact, it IS the only tool to use to get traction and launch your home based business. Does this next statement excite you? How to get front page google placement using completely free strategies?
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Google Placement – Front Page For Free!!
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| The Power of Google – in order to thrive in the world of internet marketing you must understand the power of Google. At some stage you will need to use it and before you embark on any paid campaigns, educating yourself is a must. Advertising on Google is a science and not to be taken lightly. When you set up a PPC marketing campaign on Google, you have to know what you are doing, if you don't, it's money down the drain.
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Marketing Focus For 2010: More Marketing Dollars Focused On Internet Marketing
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| Traditional advertising is yet again the victim in a down economy. More businesses today are focusing more of their marketing spend on internet-based marketing versus traditional marketing strategies. Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business conducted a CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) survey, published in August of 2009, on Fortune 1000 CMOs and how they are going to allocate their upcoming marketing budgets for 2010. The study found that CMOs are decreasing their traditional advertising (print, radio, TV) spend by 7.9% while increasing their overall Internet marketing (online advertising, social media, search engine optimization) spend by 9.5%. |
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Five Ways to Maximize Your Time When Social Networking
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| Social networking has been around in some shape or form since the late 1970s, when users could dial into Bulletin Board Systems to communicate with others sharing common interests. With the development of the World Wide Web in the 1990s, these systems have been supplanted by more sophisticated systems, leading up to today’s widely popular social networking sites.
A person could easily spend several hours per week (or even per day) checking out new sites, maintaining connections, and updating his or her profiles. Although effective social networking can and does lead to business opportunities, unfortunately, the activity itself will not generate any income, so it’s important to use your online time effectively. Here are five tips to help you do just that. |
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Future of Social Media
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| Social Media is here to stay!
So how can you best prepare for this coming evolution? Embrace the super-connected age and be willing to release control. Your customers are already defining your business for you through blogs, reviews and check-ins. Give them a story to tell about your brand. Reward them for the digital branding they are doing for you. This also means you should be aware of what your customers are doing, how and where they are communicating, in order to best support them. Hop on Twitter and search what people are saying about your city, your industry, your business. Find a way to connect with them.
Embrace and be willing to change. Because it’s coming. |
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Is Google’s Buzz Light Years Ahead of the Competition?
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| Google's new social media platform "Buzz" is the talk of the town. Let's see how the new kid on the block shapes up against the competition.
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Twitter Away Part 1: Getting on the bike
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| Twitter. Even if you're not a net junkie, you will still have most certainly come across a mention of this social media as it is popping up everyone online - in the news, on blogs and forums, in online marketing information, and increasingly on business websites. This nifty little concept has been around since 2006, but it appears that the last year has really let Twitter take the reins of the social media realm and gallop full speed ahead in the lives of Internet users around the globe. It's not just celebrities and their die-hard fans crowding Twitter walls anymore - it has slowly made its way out of the ‘good for a laugh' category and become a major player in the legitimate business of social media for corporate use |
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Twitter Away Part 2: Making your business the main attraction
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| Nope, Twitter is most definitely not just for letting people know what you had for dinner last night or who you thought was the best dressed at the Oscars. Businesses are rapidly incorporating social media into their marketing strategies, and Twitter - the micro blogging service with millions of users worldwide - is by no means being left out of the game. Whether you're a one-man shop or a big corporation, social media for business can be the way that you connect with your current or potential clients, and Twitter is a quick, easy and increasingly popular way to do this. |
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BusinessTM: My Home Based Business Portal
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| Some words of wisdom from SEO Guru, Ryan Nelson, brought to you through BusinessTM, my home based business portal. |
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Assumptions Anyone?
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| Social media gives power to our assumptions. If we're viewed as leaders in our fields - our assumptions are often taken as facts by our audiences. |
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Five Tips for Marketing Your Book on Facebook
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| Millions of people visit Facebook every day, making it one of the best viral marketing opportunities for authors online. It’s easy to set up and maintain pages specifically for your book, you can find lots of traffic for your blog or web site, and it’s free, at least for now. Consider these five tips to establish your book’s Facebook presence. |
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Online Television: The Best of Both Worlds
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| With so many different digital mediums available to us at the moment, it was only a matter of time before someone began to merge and combine two of them together. It already happened with mobile phones and online social media, as the popularity of iPhones demonstrates to us. Then there is the Internet and television - two different mediums; one you use for all of your communication and information needs, the other is maybe more for entertainment use - something to sit down in front of after a long hard day, allowing you to mentally ‘switch off'. Yet considering how much time in a day we tend to spend in front of a computer nowadays, it's no surprise that online gurus are taking advantage of the popularity of television and have created Internet websites that allow you to choose which TV show or program you want to watch - on demand. |
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How to Stay in the Game for the Long Haul by Working in Success Cycles
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| My mentor taught me that by working in success cycles, you will stay in the game for the long haul. Just like nature works in seasons, there are also success cycles. There is a time to learn, a time to produce, a time to harvest and reap the rewards, and a time to rest. Most people live busy lives and try to squeeze in as many activities in the day as possible. We start the day working on one project, and then we get side tracked to do something else. A few hours later, we jump back into the same project we started with, but somehow lose the momentum and rhythm to do it. We try to multitask as much as possible. I’m not saying that we should stop multi-tasking, but sometimes we need to step back and perhaps focus on one thing at a time. We should learn how to work in success cycles. |
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Social Media – Fact or Fiction
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| With the hype of Social Media venues as the next greatest tool, the important question to ask from a business perspective is what is the ROI? Clearly, one of the main advantages is networking. Today’s Social Media platforms provide opportunities to connect with anyone practically anywhere to share ideas about pretty much anything. In many respects, it is like the old fashioned neighborhood where you could quickly learn who to ask what when you had a particular question. However, unlike the neighborhood where exchanges were face-to-face, social media posts can be from anyone, anywhere publishing most anything. This distinction is important when it comes to business. |
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Twitter and the Pet Rock
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| very accurate and offbeat comparison of twitter vs the pet rock. |
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Examples of Social Media
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| Social media can take many different forms. Popular networking site including Myspace, Facebook and LinkedIn are social mediums most commonly used for socialization and connecting. Social media has also become a tool for effective marketing. |
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Four Common Errors on Social Media Strategy and How To Prevent Them
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| Social media marketing has attracted a lot of public attention in the past two years, largely made up of success stories from major brands, niche companies, and successful internet celebrities who have used it to their advantage. However, despite the success for some, there has been a great deal of major commercial failures in social media. |
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If it Looks like a Duck....
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| If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck - let it be a duck. |
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5 Strategies towards Smashing your Sales Targets in 2010
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| If you are still a salesperson in 2010, firstly congratulations - here are 5 recommended strategies you can employ towards getting on top of your target this year. |
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Social Media Involvement
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| More small businesses are asking what they can do to get more involved in social media. I commend them for realizing how important it is for their brand as well as for understanding what consumers are saying about them or their product/service. The first thing I tell a customer about social media is that “you get out what you put in”, meaning, the more time you spend engaging people the more benefit you will get out of social media on a Personal, Educational, and Business level. |
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Business Transparency & Social Media
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| Four shifts that businesses of all sizes make by focusing on Social Media Optimization (SMO) and their positive effects. |
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Tips for Driving Traffic from Sites like Facebook and Twitter
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| Social media has become the "Holy Grail" for those trying to drive traffic to their websites. With the ability to find prospects for their business opportunity for free, social media has become a huge funnel for business hype and claims of financial freedom. Unfortunately, not many network marketers know how to drive traffic successfully. An emotion of believing that they have the best business opportunity on the face of the earth forces them to want to bring everyone they come across into their opportunity. This emotion of excitement causes spamming on sites like Twitter and Facebook. Social media is a wonderful tool if used correctly and not used to become that one person that only talks about the same thing over and over. |
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Social Media Marketing – A Broad Reaching Social Technology
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| Social media marketing is really a rapidly growing technology that allows the ways and means for people to interact socially. Examples of social media marketing tools are Linkedln, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and You Tube. Defined, it means using such online tools such as blogs, marketing, customer service, advertising, and public relations. There are some fundamental concepts to this marketing venue that comprise its basic online activities like creating a buzz which is a way to attract attention. Buzz is perhaps what makes online social networking work. It relies on news worthy events, blogs, videos, and even tweeting. It is a very powerful marketing tool. |
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Growing Your Business Using LinkedIn – Interest and Participation
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| Many people use social networking sites for personal communication and interaction. What they may not realize is that these sites have great professional potential as well. Growing your business using LinkedIn may be something you haven’t considered but it can be very effective when used correctly. LinkedIn is for professionals and if you do not look the part online, you will not be taken seriously. |
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Using Social Media to Help Business – Enhanced Online Marketing
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| Interest in using social media to help business has skyrocketed. It seems that everyone wants to be popular and have the most fans and biggest following. It is assumed by many that more followers equal more value. This has resulted in some unorthodox schemes designed to grab the user’s attention. While it is true that this could mean that more people want to share the information you post, it has very little correlation with an increase in overall interest in what you have to say. The value of social media is in its connection with other uses. |
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Social Media, Marketing and the ROI Dilemma
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| Unlike Google, which serves as a basic search engine, Facbook, Twitter and other social media sites have markedly different formats and face very different marketing challenges. Originally developed for friends and acquaintances to interact, the posting and images on social media sites can often be confrontational, controversial and at times obscene. The very quality that makes social media sites so attractive, the free flow of content, is precisely what makes advertisers so very cautious. |
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The Secret to Successful Inbound Marketing
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| Unlike traditional marketing that uses an advertising outreach; inbound marketing has to do with creating content, building trust, relationships and credibility. According to studies customers are five times more likely to purchase a product they found via an organic search then they are from a banner advertisement. But there is one vital ingredient that most inbound marketing campaigns miss. |
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Create buzz with social media competitions
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| Last year we saw Twitter go mainstream and despite reports that it might not remain popular, it appears to be stronger than ever. People (and businesses) realised it was so much more than updating your followers with what you had for lunch.
Take your twitter and Facebook strategy one step further by including competitions to engage and reward your followers. CP Communications has been exploring and implementing social media competitions for clients and gaining remarkable results.
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Herding Cats and Social Media ROI
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| I was recently part of a social media panel at the first Internet Marketing Conference in Calgary. First of all, respect must be given where it’s due… it was an absolute pleasure to share the floor with some of the brightest minds around including Gillian Muessig, Alli Marshall, Patrick Schwerdtfeger and Doug Lacombe.
One of the topics we discussed was ROI of social media and throughout the conversation, there were a few common threads I will try to distill into a few key points below.
Who are you trying to reach?
This should be the first question to ask yourself. Before you even consider creating yet another DOA twitter account or a Facebook fan page, get to REALLY know your customers. Investing time and effort here early will save you many headaches and barrels of cash later. |
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Age of Convergence? Not for Designers.
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| For the last 10 years, internet visionaries, tech company CEOs and media moguls have told us we’re in an “Age of Convergence” that will change the way we live, learn and interact with each other. Indeed, things have changed. But if you’re involved in web design or any other type of interactive media, you probably haven’t noticed much of anything “converging.” In fact, design requirements are more diverse than ever. |
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Tasks You Can Outsource to a Virtual Assistant
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| As your business grows and expand, your "to do" list grows too. You find yourself with too many items on your plate to handle by yourself. Have you considered outsourcing those tasks to a Virtual Assistant (VA)? |
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Are You Making These Social Media Faux Pas?
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| It seems that everyone and their dog have jumped on the social media bandwagon. If it isn’t Facebook or MySpace you’re tweeting until your fingers are raw. And yet, I’ll bet you’re wondering what you’re doing it for.
Social Media, or Social Networking as it’s sometimes referred to is the fastest growing marketing application in the world right now. Statistics say that over 1 million new users join Facebook or Twitter every week. Amazing! Sadly however, few marketers or businesses are doing ‘it’ successfully, and all because of four mistakes.
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The Social Media Seismic Shift
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| Social media is changing how we relate with one another, what we learn about each other and what we are comfortable sharing. The upside of this is that more people are connecting, communicating and in touch than ever before. The downside is more strangers know more about our personal lives and information. Marketing-wise, social media is opening new worlds of possibilities. |
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5 Reasons Why a Small Business Should Hire a Photographer
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| Many small business owners don't realize the importance and value of having photography that best represents their company brand. Images, in the form of still shots or made into videos or slide shows, can be extremely effective in showcasing a company, particularly in these days of social media and online marketing. This is the first of two articles in this series so please check out the second article for continuing tips, whether you're a franchise owner, a manufacturer's dealer or a stand-alone small business. In the meantime, make your own list of reasons why your company should have an image bank. You'll be surprised at all the benefits and how having available photography that represents your brand can help your business gain visibility and grow substantially.
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Top 10 best ways to get social traction for your blog
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| Writing an effective blog post, especially when blogging for your business, takes time. But using a simple check list like this can help you build a great foundation so that you gain effectiveness -- yes, traction -- each time you write. Review these best tips, use them and then you'll quickly build effective blogging habits. |
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Your Twitter account: The 7 most important set up steps to be effective
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| Twitter was designed to be a simple micro blog. And setting up a Twitter account only takes a few steps. But HOW you set up your account can be a little tricky and paying attention to some details will make it more effective and can even optimize the content for search engines to pick it up. Below are what we've found to be the 7 most important steps to setting up your Twitter account. Writing you Twitter bio and details is just like creating any other content for the web with a few simple nuances. And once you set it up, don't forget to review it every month or two for editing purposes, as the content may have become outdated. Most importantly, be true to yourself -- your Twitter account should reflect who you are and your unique authenticity. |
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Monologue Has Given Way to Dialog
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| Like never before, communication and dissemination of information is in a state of change. The Internet has boomed, busted, and re-emerged with technologies and practices that are enabling new conversations that can start locally, and have a global impact. This fundamental shift has created a new landscape of influencers and an entirely new ecosystem for supporting the socialization of information. |
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Want to Excel in Social Media? BE SOCIAL!
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| I have been consistently referring to myself as, "The least social person in social media" for quite some time. Now don't get me wrong, I am not some anti-social hermit who stays locked up in their basement ranting and raving online ... but I am also not some socialite who jumps around to all the "hot spots" in town either.
I am perfectly content with going to work in the morning, hanging out with the amazing people I work with at Mindscape at Hanon McKendry, and heading home to enjoy my family.
That is until recently.... |
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How Social Media Can Increase Your Web Traffic
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| Social media has become a necessary component in internet marketing. And it’s crucial to select the right social medium. |
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5 reasons why companies should encourage employees to blog
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| This article lists 5 basic advantages a company would gain if it encourages its employees to blog actively- either internally or externally. |
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Flickr - Social Media For Business With the Power of Images
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| They say a picture is worth is a thousand words. As a social media for business marketing strategy however, pictures could be worth a thousands of dollars. Are you using pictures effectively to promote your company or products effectively online? One of the most underutilized and least appreciated tactics is sharing a full suite of downloadable online photos. Sharing images of your key staff, company building, special events and the like can help people familiarize themselves with the company and build trust with your company |
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Optimizing Your Social Media Marketing Through Twitter Utilities
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| With Twitter sewing up the market for sharing bits of information with the public, smart entrepreneurs are hopping on the bandwagon and leveraging thee enormous success of Twitter with their own services.
Adding value to the twitter experienceBusinesses are now using Twitter related services to get feedback, announce new products, share information about forthcoming special offers, track the conversation that’s going on around their brand or broadcast details about their upcoming seminars, meetings and coaching programs.Twitter utilities are being used by leading companies such as Dell, JetBlue Airways, The New York Times and even the BBC |
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Social Media
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| With all of the recent buzz over Social Media, many people are left to wonder if this is just “another passing fad.” I seem to remember similar conversations just a short 15 years ago about that silly email thing. (“What the heck is a Yahoo?”) I recently saw a quick little YouTube video regarding Social Media and thought that I would share some of the staggering statistics it contained. I also thought I would throw in some running commentary for you as well (in parentheses). |
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Earth Day 2010: Life and Death Decisions for Business
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| On Thursday, April 22, 2010 Earth Day will celebrate its fortieth anniversary. With one billion members Earth Day is the largest secular civic event in the world. This year, Earth Day is a pivotal opportunity for businesses to push for green jobs, caps for carbon and a sustainable global economy. Businesses can either prepare for a sustainable future or wait for repercussions. |
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Earth Day and Social Media
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| Thanks to the revolutionary power of social media, Earth Day has grown from 20 million participants in 1970 to one billion participants in 2010. Without the help of digital technologies, the first Earth Day demonstrations helped convince Congress to pass major environmental regulations. Four decades later, Senators are about to introduce their version of the climate change bill that passed in the House last year. Earth Day is an opportunity to send a clear message to lawmakers demanding that they pass climate change legislation. See Earth Day social media links including, social networks, video, photos, apps, interactive event maps, and events by location. To continue reading go to THE GREEN MARKET.
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By going unplugged for 24 hours, college students teach marketers valuable lessons
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| Students admit to being addicted to social media. They also made it clear that socializing and the flow of information were inextricably intertwined. |
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Social Media Success Summit – Guy Kawasaki Keynote #SMSS10
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| Are you using Twitter to promote your business? Are you looking to create a large and raving fan base? If you answered 'yes,' you need to listen carefully to Guy Kawasaki. |
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Internet marketing – Way for the Occurrence of Small Businesses Online
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| Nowadays even a small business needs web presence. Not just for nothing but to give necessary data about the business. There are customers locally that are in need of information and it’s tiring to go on the location to ask for details. This time we are equipped with computers and liable to know its advantages. One way of considering customer satisfaction is that we are accessible to them. Internet is the fastest way of handling information and effective medium in storing data. |
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Utiziling Social Media is Smart Business
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| Learning how to utilize social media to promote a small business is smart. Understanding Web 2.0 is the first step in developing a cohesive marketing strategy. |
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Library of Congress to Archive Tweets
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| If you’re one to post practically anything that enters your head on Twitter, be it a rant about your two-timing ex-boyfriend, a juicy gossip about your neighbor, or an update about what you’re eating for dinner, you may want to rethink that now that all Twitter posts will be archived for posterity. |
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Social Media Drone Worldwide!
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| Getting so interested on keeping up the business buzzing all the way to success? Are you all in? Or you must be out?
Do you have friends all over the world? Are you exchanging messages with people worldwide? You must be in with all the social media and be out for the old school stuffs. Now we are hit with Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, Yammer, Linked In and a lot more!
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Bad Career Habits
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| An article of 492 words detailing three bad career habits that could be dragging you down |
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Adding a Dash of Critical Thinking to the Social Media Stew
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| I guess if there was one thing I could change about the status quo of my business world it would be the lemming-like attitude on the social web. |
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Link Building: Way to Heighten SEO
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| Naturally we must be aware in focusing on a one way link building to get a position in the search results. To have a successful website we should have plenty of links to them.Naturally we must be aware in focusing on a one way link building to get a position in the search results. To have a successful website we should have plenty of links to them. |
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A Case for Traditional Websites
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| Getting involved in social media is a great marketing tactic to add to the overall strategy, plus engage with clients and your community. However, it's not a good idea to completely replace a traditional website with all social media, all the time.
One, your public still needs a place to easily find basic information about your company and products or services. Think of your site as home base and integrate social media with it.
Two, this approach is confusing to the visitor and defies all the basics of usability and conversion. |
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Hard to Believe: Texting Not OK, per college students
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| Texting & social media in the work place... Should it be allowed? Here are some results from a local college. |
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A LEGAL LANDMINE: PRIVACY ISSUES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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| A brief overview of new legal policies surrounding social media. Between text messaging and cell phones, social media is playing host to all new legal issues for employers. This article will help break down some of the more common issues occurring and let employers know what they can and can't pursue within the legal limits. |
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Some Companies Feel That Having More Than One Profile is Distracting ...what do you think?
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| Some major companies feel that having too much social media can be distracting to your business. I feel like you need as much as you possibly can get your hands on. Read more... |
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5 Secrets To Social Media Marketing Success To Grow Business
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| Discover how to use a social media marketing plan to drive more targeted traffic to your websites and blogs. Also why building name awareness build your credibility in the marketplace. |
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Social Media vs "Real Networking"
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| Networking and Social Media Professional Discusses How Social Media Enhances Your Business Growth |
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Social Marketing Strategies For Internet Marketers
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| Social Networking is becoming quite the trend on the Internet. Following these simple social marketing strategies will make you a social marketing master. |
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Public Relations and Social Media
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| The time to get into social media is now. Social media has become an essential piece of a public relations campaign. Social media is a great opportunity to spread positive news about your company or organization. |
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So, You Think Marketing on-line is Expensive? Or is it?
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| OK, I am not the type of person that points out all the little obvious things about on-line marketing, but let's get to the truth...if you plan on getting in the market place, there are so many avenues and ways to go it could very well get expensive. So, expensive you price yourself right out of the market if you don't know what you are doing. |
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Google’s Visual Search- See, hear and Search in Real-Time.
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| Google Brought new Search Feature few months back, it helps user to search Visually and through voice. |
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The Unified Tribe-A Good Way to Jump Start Your Business
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| This group, called the Unified Tribe, was formally introduced in April of this year. For several years, Katie Freiling has been managing this group, and she realized the immense success in using the approach. How does it work? Well, each member of the tribe just has to help the others share their content among their own social media followers. It is that simple!
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6 Ways To Increase Blog Traffic
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| Being deeply involved with network marketing, a significant part of my professional time is spent answering questions related to blog traffic optimization. With more and more people jumping on the blogging bandwagon, the desire to increase blog traffic to enhance online presence is also increasing. So, I thought it would be worth sharing my strategies and experience here. |
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Before You Dismiss Twitter
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| Many people I have spoken to are either no longer interested in Twitter, or don't understand it's value. Here are 7 very quick reasons not to dismiss Twitter, and to try a new approach. |
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LinkedIn Facebook Twitter for Entrepreneurs
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| Whether you are a newcomer to Social Media, or have stuck your foot in the water; a
Social Media coach discusses the relationship between the giants: Facebook, LinkedIn
and Twitter, and how they can save the Entrepreneur time and money.
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Dangers in Social Media for Those with ADHD
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Social Media – The Big Four
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| The advantages of Twitter for commerce have not passed under businesses' radars of course. Even more so if we consider that the platform offers potentially uninterrupted updates on people's lives (which means businesses can now know what people like or not, something that cost millions of dollars to achieve before). As a result, many big and small companies as well as different service providers are already taking advantage of it by creating personalised accounts that people can follow. |
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Use Twitter To Grow Your Business
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| With over 500 million users and a constant feed of real time information, Twitter should be apart of every business plan. Cultivating and building relationships on Twitter requires more than just automated responses and tweets. Knowing that people like feeling connected, establishing a personal connection with as many people as possible is most important. Also, a willingness to provide quality relevant information will spearate you from the pack and help build lasting relationships.
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Dunbar's Number V/S Satyam's Number
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| Dunbar's number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person. Proponents assert that numbers larger than this generally require more restricted rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. No precise value has been proposed for Dunbar's number, but a commonly cited approximation is 150. Lets see what "Satyam's Number" is!!! |
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Web 2.0 and Marketers
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| By now you've heard the term "Web 2.0"... but what does it mean and why is it important for all marketers? Here's a quick explanation and my thoughts on the importance of the Web 2.0 movement.
"Web 2.0" is a weird phrase. It began as the name of a conference, but the people organizing the conference didn't really know what they meant by it. Mostly they thought it sounded catchy. However, "Web 2.0" has since taken on a meaning. There are some interesting new trends on the Web, and it's the nature of a phrase like that to adhere to them. |
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Social Media Marketing Plan for Busy Entrepeneurs
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| Entrepreneurs, small buseiness owners, Internet Marketers, even Bloggers and Writers should have a Marketing Plan of thier own. Marketing Plans are not just the domain of investment companies, or to submit to renew your lease! Social Media Marketing Plans explore the areas that Social Media can benefit the business, and what gains are to be had BEFORE going into Social Media. |
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Should Social Media Replace Cold-Calling?
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| Has social media led to the abandonment of time-tested elements such as cold-calling & meeting face-to-face with customers or they can co-exist & be profitable.
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Intro to Social Networking
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| Social networking can be described as a gathering or ‘networking’ of individuals into to specific groups, like a community or a neighborhood, usually based on existing relationships (family and friends) or common interests. Social networking can take place in person, especially in schools, in the workplace, or at social events, but with the advent of the internet and the ability to reach millions of people at once, social networking is most popular online. |
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Writers Not Allowed to Use "Tweet" Word
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| The New York Times has banned its writers from using the word “Tweet” when referring to Twitter posts. |
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Using social medial to market your business
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| You may have heard this phrase being bandied about, but aren't quite sure what it means or how it can be of use to your business. Let's demystify the online world of social media. |
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Five Components of a Great Marketing Video
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| If you are not using video in your Internet marketing efforts, you are missing out. This article will help you understand what goes into a great marketing video. Blended media (video and text; audio and video) will help your listing rise quickly and organically in search engine results. This article will give you some quick and easy tips about the components of a great marketing video. If your video is intended to sell (sales video), then it better walk your Internet shopper through a sales process driven by benefits. If your video is intended to demonstrate (demo video) it better demonstrate your talent, skill and ability. If your video is intended to market (marketing video), your video better show marketing process that engages your prospect.
Creativity, video production quality, audio quality, graphics quality and sustainability |
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Is Marketing = Interruption?
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| The underlying premise of Prodigy was that advertisers would play a key role in the business success. On a typical prodigy page the lower one third of the page was devoted to advertisements. These adds more or less, un-targetted by today's standards - were nonetheless a significant advancement in potential of a marketer to reach masses and convey the message. This continues even today!
Look out how consumers revolted against various marketing campaigns and are we learning any lessons? |
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Business Author Websites: But Wait, There's More!
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| First, the site does serve as a sales tool, but only if it is a dynamic tool where reviews and endorsements are added on the fly. Your site serves as a “landing page” for all other social media and web activity. It's where you give readers something more than the material in your book. If you have published several books, your site integrates and relates the arc of your writing to your larger vision. It's where your readers expect now to interact with you directly. |
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7 Best Practices for Facebook Pages for Franchise or Small Business Owners
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| Whether you're a small business owner or you've bought in to a franchise, setting up a Facebook Page for your business can seem easy yet daunting. Many business owners just don't know how best to get started, how to navigate their Page, how to set up a vanity URL and how to market it. In this article, Sally Witzky offers 7 best practices for your Facebook Page to help the small business owner avoid some pitfalls that others have made as well as to ensure awareness of Facebook insights and analytics, which are available to the Page Administrator. With these tips, the small business owner is sure to get on the right road in getting started in creating and promoting their Facebook Page. |
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Twitter Domination Key Points - How to Leverage Your Time on Twitter
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| I thought this info would be helpful to you since Twitter has become an amazing cutting edge social media site with over 1 million users including famous people like Oprah and President Obama who enjoy using it for free exposure. All of us can benefit from the use of this very fun exciting social media site to help explode and to get much exposure for our businesses. |
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Is Your Personal Brand What You Believe It Is?
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| With blogs, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to name a few your every action can become a permanent record on the Internet. Why is it important to be careful what you say or do on the web? |
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Tips on Taking Advantage of The YouTube Juggernaut
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| This article provides insights and tips for using video to enhance your company's reputation and communications efforts by using online video. |
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Good Lessons on Leveraging Events for PR
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| Ideas for getting more impact from your events |
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Integrating Social Media into Website Strategy - Part I
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| At what time should a company develop their website strategy? When participating in social media or does an updated/new site lead to social media participation?
In this article I outline still important, ‘back to basic marketing’ questions; website strategy for web 3.0; tips on how to integrate social media into your site; and ideas on how to include social media in the overall marketing plan. |
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Integrating Social Media into Website Strategy - Part II
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| Should website strategy be driven by social media? In Integrating Social Media Part I, the answer was no. Read Part II to find out why the answer has changed. |
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Keep Your Blog Interesting
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| Creating an interesting blog post that others want to read and share can be challenging. However, by including key elements in your posts you will have a better chance of creating a loyal following. |
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Three Simple Techniques to Increase Sales
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| When it comes to sales, how you interact with your customers is everything. Salespeople need to be engaged, always communicating and always present. |
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7 Most Effective Tasks to Authentically Outsource in Your Social Media Marketing
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| Social networking can take up more time than you realize. You're online checking your Facebook status updates, and suddenly an hour has passed before you know it... |
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How Social Media Challenges Your Business Ethics and Values
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| Being connected with the desire to increase sales can cause specific challenges respective to business ethics and values. Possibly you may be sacrificing your own ethics because to go with the flow is easier when times are tough and sales are hard to come by,. |
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Selling from the Page Is the New Social Media Marketing Behavior
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| Most people do not like to be sold from the stage. Yet social media has redefined selling from the stage to selling from the page. |
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The Convergence of Personal Branding and Corporate Image – or Not?
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| In today's new world of technology and Internet marketing, do companies have a right to censor their employee's use of social media in promoting their own personal brand? |
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Three Looks at Traffic for Lead Generation
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| Use direct traffic, organic traffic and social media traffic to increase lead generation and see your sales progress. These are typically overlooked by inside sales people, but they can be used to find prospects that are interested in your product or service. |
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How Much Are Your Social Media Contacts Worth?
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| Many people are starting to wonder just how much their social media contacts are worth. People may have more than 1,000 Twitter followers, but hardly any of them are converting into solid leads. Here's what you need to do to get more value from your social media contacts. |
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How to Use Social Media to Market a Local Business
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| Social media has the ability to touch people around the world, but a small business’s best customers often may be right around the corner. Not all social sites reach a local audience, but here are six ways you can tap into the local side of social media. |
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Social Media-Great Place to Make Money as Well As Staying in Touch!
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| In today’s world, social media’s impact on our daily lifestyles is extremely dramatic. More often than not, celebrations, or the achievement of any of life’s milestones is posted in the internet so that friends, colleagues and others you need to connect with, may share your experience.
Personal issues aside, it is also possible to gain significant income from social media by utilizing the following strategies....
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Americans would rather play games on Facebook than reply to emails
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| Social networking currently ranks number one as Americans’ favourite online pastime. A recent study by Nielsen reveals that U.S. Internet users spend more time on social networks and less on email, Web surfing or instant messaging. |
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How to Install the Facebook Like Button On Every Page of Your Site
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| Facebook is the most rapidly growing social networking platform, with over 400 million active users. With so many users and with people's preoccupation with Facebook, it makes sense to use the "Like" button to help virally spread the word about what you do to others who are interested in you. Here's how you can install the "Like" button on your site:
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Mindset Is The Key To Your Business Success
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| Your mindset is the most important key to achieving success in your business and if it's not in the right place then no amount of marketing is going to help you or your business. Having the correct mindset comes from deep within and it is your thoughts, your feelings, your self image, your beliefs and your emotions combined. If they are not all in alignment with each other then you will not take action and you will not find true fulfillment and success in your life and business. Let me help you... |
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Developing a Social Media Presence on Facebook - Is It for Your Nonprofit Organization?
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| Today, there is quite a bit of buzz about social media, what it is, and whether or not you should develop a social media presence. And, you have probably heard about a variety of social media sites, such as MySpace, Linked In, Twitter, and Facebook. Because the number of social media sites can be overwhelming, this article's focus is on using Facebook, as a tool in your social media campaign. |
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Social media case study: The Jimmy Choo Trainer Hunt
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| Social media agency FreshNetworks helped luxury shoe and accessory brand Jimmy Choo use social media to launch their new trainer collection, helping to increase sales by 33%. |
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Social media case study: Jimmy Choo and Project PEP
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| Social media agency FreshNetworks helped Jimmy Choo raise awareness and drive sales from their charitable collection Project PEP. |
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Social media case study: TM Lewin
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| UK Business dress outfitters TM Lewin asked social media agency FreshNetworks to help them use social media to engage customers online more effectively. |
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Social media case study: Vets Now
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| Social media agency FreshNetworks helped out-of-hours vets service Vets Now use social media to engage their stakeholders. |
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Social media case study: LV= (Liverpool Victoria)
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| Social media agency FreshNetworks helped LV= use social media to learn more about their customers. |
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Social media case study: Vitabiotics
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| Social media agency FreshNetworks has helped Vitabiotics drive innovation through social media. |
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Blogging - An Effective Way To Make Money Online
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| As you research the many ways to make money online you will find a number of articles with differing opinions on the best method to use. As you can imagine you will find that while there are a number of contenders for the title, not the least of which is the buying and selling tangible or software products. However, there are a significant number of people out there who consider that blogging is by far the best way to go... |
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The Truth About Social Media
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| Social Media -- what is it and what role does it play in the marketing mix? Is it the future of marketing or a fad? How is it used and why is everyone talking about it? |
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Social media case study: Devitt (Royal Bank of Scotland)
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| Social media agency FreshNetworks has helped Royal Bank of Scotland use social media to gain customer data. |
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Video is more than entertainment
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| It has been proven that video is a very useful teaching tool. This article helps the reader understand how video helps everyone learn more. Sales training, instructional video, Internet marketing related as well as special education all benefit from using video. |
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How Do You Define Internet Marketing?
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| Internet marketing means different things to different people. What does Internet marketing mean to you? |
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The 5 W's and an H of Social Media
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| Your sales progress can be linked to your connection to customers. Find out how social media can help you expand your reach. These tips and tools will help sales people connect with more prospects and will help you reach your bottom line. |
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WHEN ECONOMY GETS TOUGH, PR GETS GOING
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| Getting a message out through PR is a lot more cost effective brand building than advertising, but sometimes it takes a recession to prove it. Today PR firms are out maneuvering, out-gunning ad agencies by doing more for less. |
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Social Media - One Man's Definition!
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| The definition of social media is that these are the foremost internet based tools to disseminate and exchange information among people. It is the term used to describe social interaction activities using computer, web and telecommunications technology. It differentiates itself from industrial media by virtue of the fact that the cost of the tools necessary to participate is fairly low and allows all who want to access information or disseminate it, to do so relatively cheaply. On the other hand, examples of industrial media are printing presses, radio and television. Industrial media can be considered funnels that facilitate access to, and movement of huge quantities of information, whereas a website is the information container. Narrowly focused websites can be seen as exits from the vast space of industrial media channels. Further.... |
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Doing Social Media On The Go
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| Cellphones have become an irreplaceable tool that is needed to manage my life. I find that I’m not the only one who feels this way. What do you use your cellphone for now? |
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Social media : why should my business use this resource?
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| A lot of people are trying their hand at online businesses. This is the new trend and it can be a successful one if you use the right tools to help you market your site and get traffic flowing. So when you ask the question “Why should my business use social media?” you should actually be asking why would I not? |
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Why Are You Using Social Media?
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| If you don't know what social media is or why you are using it you are losing out big time! |
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The Best Business Marketing Tool
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| I have people that will ask me time from time about Facebook. Let me tell you. Facebook is becoming very popular. It’s even more popular than Myspace. |
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Using Social Media to Enhance Email Marketing Campaigns
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| Social media is continuously expanding its capabilities and adaptability to current sales and marketing tools. Companies are increasingly planning integrated social media and email marketing campaigns that are inexpensive and yield positive results. |
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Social Media for Business Authors Test
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| Find out if you should commit your precious time to building your social media presence—or if it is more likely to be a frustrating waste of time: take this Business Author’s Cut-and-Run from Social Media Test. |
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Facebook Marketing : How to Use Facebook to Generate More Web Traffic
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| Having just passed its' 500 millionth user worldwide Facebook is one of the most important platforms you can use to generate additional web traffic to your website or page. If you target marketing and social media networking via Facebook - and it's free - you can get a significant amount of highly targeted traffic. |
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How to develop a European Social Media Strategy
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| The best way to develop a successful Pan European Social Media Strategy is to think about aims, not tactics. |
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43% of news sharing online is through social media
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| Research by CNN proves that 43% of news sharing online is through social media. |
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The danger of over-responding on Twitter
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| What are the dangers for brands who over respond on Twitter? |
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Social media/networking tools and small business: what does it mean to you and how do you get started?
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| A plain English introduction to figuring out what social media tools and strategies will work for your business. |
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Effective Utilization of Content for a Small Business and Social Media
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| Developing articles and content for social media is an effective way to promote a small business. Learn how to utilize content across multiple marketing platforms. |
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Don't Forget To Monetize
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| Monetizing your internet marketing is essential to your business and financial success as an entrepreneur. If you don't know how to monetize...learn from the myriad free resources out there! |
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The art of targeting your audience
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| SEO, some experts say, is all about addressing your target audience head on. Meeting them on their terms, in their time, using language they understand and gift wrapping exceptional products and services that they truly value and appreciate. Simple really. It's hard to know what all the SEO fuss is about. |
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What Is A Network Marketing System?
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| Many people have asked me what exactly is network marketing and why would I want to be apart of it. First of all a network marketing system is a model that lets people make money from sales of product or services. You can also make money by recruiting other people into your team |
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Internet Marketing Has Transformed Business
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| Making sure your online business is being found by your target consumer is one of the biggest challenges internet marketers have today. Outgoing marketing via print, TV/radio, direct mail, etc. is truly 'outgoing' and is being replaced by incoming/Internet marketing frequently initiated by the consumer. Read on to find out how to get your products or services to be found online... |
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Deciding To Market Your Business Online
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| When you decide to market your business online, finding the perfect person to help you along the way is very essential. This is a decision that needs to be carefully considered. There are many marketing businesses that struggle and eventually fail.
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The Dos and Don'ts of Social Networking
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| Use these tips to maximize your time and get the most out of your online efforts.
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Job Search and Unemployment Update – Tax Tips
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| Here are some quick tips, tools and reminders for your job search. If you don't need them please pass on to those that do. |
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The Latest HR Issues
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| Workers Comp - Dress Codes - Social Media - Misunderstandings... oh, the pleasures of HR. Here are Betsey's suggestions on handling these issues. |
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Help your Website Help You!
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| In discussions with clients and in workshops, we discuss ways to market your business online and market your website OFFLINE. Think of how your marketing and promotion campaigns work. Your phone book ad is there to help get people to your company. Your website does the same thing. But how can people find your phone book ad? They have to look in the phone book, right?
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Promote Your Website
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| There are so many ways you can promote your website on your own. We do our best to get you listed in search engines but without continuous search engine optimization (SEO), eventually, someone else will take your place. |
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Four simple ways to use social media to help your job-hunt
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| Here are four simple ways in which you can use social media to develop advocacy. |
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Four examples of luxury brands leading the way in social media
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| Four examples of luxury brands who are leading the way in social media. |
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Resourcing B2B social media
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| Tips and advice about how to resource social media in a B2B business. |
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Social media, financial services and customer driven markets
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| Find out how social media is giving rise to customer driven markets. |
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Financial services: Transparency through social media
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| Is social media forcing Financial Services to become more transparent? |
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The New Influencers: Bloggers and Social Media Producers
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| Bloggers have influence and major players are reaching out to influence them. Consider these events at BlogWorld 2010: |
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Advertising On The Internet Can Be Inexpensive
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| In general using the Internet for advertising can be inexpensive. Marketing your products or services to an audience that is totally global is very smart. Not only on the Internet but also by e-mails and social media. |
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Planning Your Christmas Marketing
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| I understand that you are probably not ready for talk of Christmas. But in reality it’s the best time to start planning your internet marketing. You will find that some businesses will be using internet marketing for the first time this holiday season. So are you ready for the busiest time of the year? |
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Good Communication Starts With Communicating What You Want
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| Marketing terms such as public relations, publicity, communications, advertising, marketing, social media are often used interchangeably. While there are similarities, they are different, and it is critical the differences are understood. |
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Brands 50% more popular than celebrities in social media
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| Internet users in the UK are more likely to follow brands in social media than they are to follow celebrities. |
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Social media: Risk and regulation in the financial service industry
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| What does is the current situation for financial services brands when it comes to risk and regulation and what will be the situation in the future? |
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Privacy Issues over Facebook Group
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| If Facebook had a last name it would definitely be Controversy. Its revamped Groups feature, released a few weeks ago, has spawned a new wave of outcry from users and privacy advocates alike. |
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Social Media Small Business Crash Course: Part 1
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| The trouble is that although most business owners and entrepreneurs know that blogging and social media are essential marketing tools, that’s often where things stop. In this and upcoming articles, I’ll be doing a quick overview of points to consider when implementing a social media campaign. The first thing to keep in mind is that any social media campaign is greatly enhanced with the addition of a strategic, well targeted public relations effort. Appearing in the media gives you, your business, and/or your product and validation and credibility of being featured in the news, and gives you interesting topics to post, Tweet and share. Each site is different and has a unique focus and audience. For now let’s look at Twitter.
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Developing A Successful Social Media Approach
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| Facebook hit the 500 million mark in July, 2010. If Facebook were a country, it would rank third, behind the People’s Republic of China and India and around 190 million ahead of the United States. Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube are growing at a steady pace. So, whereas it’s clear that social media is a major force in the world of marketing and communications, it still can be a daunting task to figure out exactly how to effectively utilize these various sites. It’s often the case that a company spends more time working on a social media campaign than benefitting from it.
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The REAL, Right Now Power of Social Media
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| Everyone, I mean everyone is swirling around in this frenzy we in the industry call "Social." It is the current catch phrase of the moment and the buzz word of the year (my prediction). While we are all caught up in the excitement of the moment there are still a great many out there who do not fully understand the potential of this phenomenon. |
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Social Media Outsourcing Guide - How to Choose the Right Social Media Consultant for Your Business
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| 5 Questions You Must Ask to avoid the mistake of hiring the wrong social media consultant or company...
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IS SOCIAL MEDIA RIGHT FOR YOU ?
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| Social Media has become the buzz word in internet marketing in a way most people are not prepared. This media can produce great results at a very low cost for most business operation. If you need to know more contact me or go to my site and I can help. |
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Startups....Make Your Online Business Real!
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| Online marketers sometimes get overzealous in their marketing efforts and beyond 'edgy'. It's good to remember that what you 'put out there' stays 'out there' for a long, long, time. Be cautious, responsible and appropriate with your content.” |
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Startups...Use Twitter As a Business Strategy Tool!
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| Successfully starting an internet marketing business today requires more than desire, it requires using some social media tools as a part of your overall strategy. The hardest part for most online entrepreneurs is choosing which of the social media tools is right for them and then implementing the tool within their online strategy. Using Twitter as a business strategy tool is definitely something to consider. |
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Startups...Be Practical and Tactical, Part 2
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| As discussed in part one of this series, Google Reader is the linchpin to efficiently manage incoming information for your work flow. What follows here expands your ‘tool belt’ without expanding the demands on your time. As an online entrepreneur, time management is critical to maintaining a sane, practical, effective, work flow. |
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My Internet Marketing Tips For The Day
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| In this field of Internet Marketing it is always evolving. So when I get new tips, I like to share it with my friends. I hope it will help them in their own business or at their company.
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Shopping For That Special Someone At Christmas Time
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| So I got back from my Thanksgiving Tahoe trip to find December here. You know what that means? That’s right Christmas. I sat down and tried to figure out what to get people on my Christmas list. I have a lot of people that I have no clue what to get them. And it came to me. Why not teach people the thing that I do best… Internet Marketing. I know a lot of people that get frustrated with the Internet. Yet do marketing? They could use a great teacher. The perfect Christmas gift…Me. Oh yea the Internet marketing class too. |
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Making Your Goals Happen In The New Year
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| As 2010 is coming to a fast end, I’m sitting in my office wondering where did the time go? I look around and reflect on all my uncompleted goals. From my cluttered desk to my over stuffed cabinets. My unorganized office is just a reminder of things that need to be done. It’s the little goals that never get done. Let alone the big ones that I haven’t even brought up. |
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The World Wide Web doesn’t shut down for a Christmas break so should you?
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| Everybody who celebrates Christmas likes to have a rest and many companies shut down for a few days, giving staff a well earned break. Certain industries, such as retail, have never been able to afford that luxury and with the advent of the digital age, online PR, social media engagement and search engine optimisation, a leading UK agency suggests no business should cease all communication for days on end, even if it is a holiday. If staff are able to spare just fifteen minutes per day during their time off it could make a big difference to your business - here are some scheduling tips to follow. |
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Social Media Means Business
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| If you've heard the term, but are still not clear on the implications of social media, you should learn fast. |
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Create Inbound Links to Your Site to be No 1 on Google
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| By creating inbound links to your website, you can generate No 1 Page Rankings on Google for your business, suggests Mike Farrell with aspenIbiz. Read this short article to learn the 3 steps needed to create a Social Rank and be rewarded with social media buzz.
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Tobri What Is All The Buzz About?
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| Tobri is a graphical search engine networking system at your finger tips. Best selling author Ken McArthur, is the founding visionary who started Tobri with the idea that business is a relationship building business, with social media as the spokes of the wheel! |
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Is Your Brand Strategy Helping Your Brand Image? 6 Ways to Tell
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| There's nothing wrong in being optimistic about your company's health, but skepticism can be a good thing as well. When it comes to the wellbeing of your business image, maintaining a realistic and workable brand strategy should be first and foremost on your list of things to do. If it's not, then you may be in trouble, and it may be time to examine whether your marketing efforts are reinforcing your brand's strengths. |
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Ten 2011 Workforce Predictions
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| We can all take a collective sigh of relief as 2010 comes to an end. We finally finish a difficult year and frankly a trying decade. As we enter the New Year, there is reason for optimism. The economy is rebounding and businesses and employees can expect good things to follow. My workforce predictions for 2011:
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Effective Using Social Media of LinkedIn the 5 Top Dos and Do Nots
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| If you use the social media site of LinkedIn as a marketing strategy, you may find these top 5 do and do nots of interest. Social media can grow your business, but can also hurt it if you are not careful. |
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Social Media and Customer Service How The Disconnect Continues
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| Social media and customer service for many businesses have become integrated partners. Yet there is still a disconnect for many small businesses to even those crazy busy sales people. |
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How Referral Marketing Appears to Be Quid Pro Quo
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| Social media through its interactive structure allows for referral marketing by leaving glowing comments about businesses. Unfortunately, there are business who are taking advantage of this opportunity as reported by The Consumerist in their report on how to spot fake online reviews and it appears this is happening a lot. |
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How Social Proof Can Make or Break Your Business
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| Although storytelling and transparency are huge components of copywriting trends, it's not enough to simply tell your story. You must have buy-in. Consumers must believe your story, resonate with you, and believe that others believe in you too before they decide to do business with you. That's why social media and social proof are at the forefront of many successful marketing campaigns. |
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25 Tips For Getting More Traffic to a Site
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| This article contains 25 tips that will help you drive more traffic to your website. |
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How to Use Social Network Marketing Strategies
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| Social network marketing is becoming the hot trend amongst internet marketers looking to promote their business opportunities online. Social networking sites like Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook have made it simple for network marketers to connect and network with people around the world. |
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How The Misuse of Social Media May Potentially Damage Your Business Ethics and Reputation
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| Social media is becoming a primary communication vehicle. Yet, for some, this medium may be damaging their business ethics and reputation. |
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7 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Starting A Social Media Campaign
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| You’re ready to start your social media campaign! You know HOW to do it, but do you know WHY? |
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Use Social Media for Your Career
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| Today’s career environment is different, suggests Mike Farrell with aspenIbiz. Read this short post as it reveals that today there are more ways to influence getting a job than in the post. |
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What Motivates Facebook Users To ‘Like’ A Brand’s Page?
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| The primary target for companies who have a presence on Facebook is to continually acquire new fans. It is hoped that through engagement with these followers, their friends may also be tempted to like the brand and all of the hard work will result in uplift in sales of the business' product or service. However, why do people choose to ‘like' a particular brand and how do you encourage Facebook users to follow your page? One of the UK's leading social media agencies, Punch Comms, has looked at some recent research and compiled the following advice to assist companies to develop a strategy for fan acquisition. |
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Birnbach Communications' Top Predictions for 2011, Part I
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| Birnbach Communications has been issuing annual predictions covering media and technology, going back a decade. |
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How To Get Your Business Tweeting – The Basics of Setting Up a Twitter Profile
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| You've looked at Twitter and you understand how it works but now that you've made the decision to open an account for your business, you've realised that you're not sure how best to set up a profile. Changes can be made but it's best to get it right from the beginning because it can mean the difference between a user wanting to follow you or not. Any business can follow these easy tips to create a profile and start tweeting. |
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Are you anxious about using social media in your business?
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| Should you be afraid of social media and the changes and consequences it may bring to your business? It opens your business to the scrutiny of the masses, making you instantly accessible and requires a consistent watch. It depends who you are and what business you are in, but in some cases social media can be a little unsettling. Does that mean we should avoid it? Cross our fingers that it blows over as a passing trend? Well, here are some of the more memorable comments I have heard from financial advisors over just the past several weeks about this topic... |
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How Automated Social Media Actions May Be Costing You Sales and Referrals
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| Crazy busy sales people need all the help they can get to increase sales. Automated social media tools are designed to help these folks. Read how this technology may be costing you sales and referrals. |
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How Integrated Should Your Online Presence Be?
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| A professional online presence is a powerful tool. What should you include in your personal professional brand? |
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Understanding “Social Co-Creation” and its Role in Business Development
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| Exploiting social technologies for marketing has now become commonplace with a bevy of businesses piloting through the immensely crowded SM platforms to catch their prospects. Even the most stereotypical and traditional marketers have started acknowledging the power of social media in spreading the word. |
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Ten Ways to Market Yourself in 2011
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| Whether you want more/bigger clients or a better career opportunity, make a commitment to market yourself ... here are 10 items to consider...
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New zodiac sign confusion continues
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| Floods are ravaging Australia. The U.S. job market continues to struggle. The Tunisian president has been ousted and the army is clashing with his bodyguards and armed gangs. World fuel prices are going up. If the reactions of Facebook and Twitter users were any indication, however, what’s more heartbreaking is the fact that they’re no longer the zodiac sign they used to be and that they’ve been reading the wrong horoscope for years. |
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Legal Marketing: Good Social Media Content Can Affect Your Google Ranking
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| Originally Google ranked sites by using information such as, how many traditional links you have, the authority of the pages that link to you, the kind of anchor text you used and your keywords and related copy. And each of these are still very important. But according to a December 2010 announcement, Google has decided that social media activity will play a part in their search engine optimization (SEO) strategy and page rankings too. |
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Legal Marketing: Best practices for connecting on LinkedIn
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| You can only make your LinkedIn network so big with people that you know. So if you want to grow your network, you will have to start adding connections in the legal marketing field that you may not know. When inviting people to connect on LinkedIn, there are limited options to show your relationship. |
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You Must Market Your Business in Order To Succeed!
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| The interesting piece in this ‘equation’ is that I have my ‘outside/winter friends’ and my ‘outside/summer friends’ – the same holds true in business – I spend time with different people for different reasons. In business, when you examine your marketing pie, you are probably spending time with different people for different reasons. (You do have a marketing pie, don’t you?)
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Legal Marketing: Social media and protected speech
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| A recent ruling on a social media lawsuit makes it more important than ever to create and educate your staff on your firm’s social media policy. |
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Legal Marketing: Protect yourself with a social media policy
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| By establishing a social media policy for your law firm now, you can avoid confusion and potential negative repercussions down the road. Many law firms have been reluctant to start using social media, and for good reason. While it can be a powerful medium, it also comes with a lot of legitimate concerns. But if you establish a comprehensive policy up front, you too can be reaping the rewards of jumping on the social media train. |
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Legal Marketing: Why use Twitter?
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| Twitter is a widely-used and important social media tool for law firms. As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Twitter is an incredibly popular social media tool. Most businesses have jumped on the bandwagon, though some are still holding out. And while the skeptics think Twitter is just for celebrities and teenagers, the reality is that your clients are already using it, so you should be too. |
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Legal Marketing: Using direct marketing strategies in social media campaigns
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| Direct marketing isn’t always considered a very effective marketing tactic by law firms and their clients; but applying the same strategies used for direct marketing campaigns to your social media efforts will definitely help you see more value and ROI. |
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Legal Marketing: Consider archiving your Tweets
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| Archiving your Tweets from Twitter is important because it allows you to reference old articles that you have Tweeted as well as other Tweets you found interesting. So you’ve been on Twitter for a while and want to go back and see what you said six months ago about a particular topic. Guess what? You can’t. When Twitter first started, this was possible. But now that it’s become so widely used and the number of tweets is surpassing 90 million a day (gasp!), they simply can’t keep them for long. Therefore, it’s a good idea for you to consider archiving your tweets, so you can easily go back in time and review what you’ve done, repost a particularly interesting article or just get an idea of your communication history via Twitter. |
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Legal Marketing: 5 steps to improve your law firm's blog
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| If your firm’s blog is a repository of helpful content, it can effectively attract a large number of prospective clients. Each new blog post is n opportunity for you to be found online by your best prospects. Here are 5 simple steps and suggestions to improve your legal blog. |
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Legal Marketing: Is the phone call an outmoded communication tool?
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| A growing number of people consider phone calls to be interrupting and annoying. The phone call is rapidly fading as e-mailing, followed by an explosion in texting and social media, has pushed the telephone conversation into serious decline. The debate is raging. Is the phone call dead for law firms and their clients? Most attorneys keep in touch with their clients through phone calls, but is that out of date now? Should they be combining phone call with new technology? Read more and figure out where you fall in this debate. |
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Legal Marketing: 5 ways to find clients on Twitter
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| Using the right search functions can help you connect with the right people on social media. Finding your firm’s best prospective client online is not yet an exact science. But while you may not be seated right next to them, you can be in the right ballpark. The same is true regarding Twitter. There are plenty of search applications out there, and all have their limitations. |
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Social Media Investigations May Be Essential to Hiring and Can Be Conducted Lawfully
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| Some attorneys will advise employers to avoid using social media as a recruitment and screening tool. The caution is wise; however, avoidance may be impractical, and the proper use of social media can most definitely pay off. In many cases, we consider it actually necessary. While risks of unlawful use exist and need be avoided, bona fide occupational qualifications can be investigated through proper methodology. The following article advises on how to lawfully gain the maximum benefits. |
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How Good is Your Guru?
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| The meteoric rise of the guru, thanks to social media, is an interesting and sometimes scary phenomenon for us. Why? Because among our supposed gurus are, well, a number of just plain empty suits. What did I just say? Heresy! |
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Legal Marketing: Track social media for your law firm
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| Want to know what law topic is being tweeted about? Want to know if your law firm’s tweets are creating any buzz? Curious what others are saying about your law firm and attorneys? It’s easy to find out by tracking your activity and response rates. |
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What are Your True Colors?
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| Digital connectedness is the chance to show our true colors. When we take advantage of this opportunity to use it for false propaganda, we're cheating more than our audiences. |
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Preempting Perception
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| Most marketing folks believe that perception is the Holy Grail when it comes to marketing our brands or products. We strive to create the perception of a winner - that product or services that buyers can't live without - or so they believe. But what happens when perception trumps reality? |
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Legal Marketing: First steps for a law firm adopting social media
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| If your law firm is getting immersed in social media, some simple, initial steps will accelerate your learning curve and make your efforts more productive. |
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Is ‘Google Friend Connect’ a Better Way to get Connected ?
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| In today's modern world, social media is touching sky, whether it's about business or personal life, people are linked through it and use it as a way to stay connected with their friends as well as to promote their businesses, firms or companies. |
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Legal Marketing: Location is important
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| Social Media is not going away. In the past year alone, the number of companies using social media – your clients – has increased to 65 percent. Over 550 million people are using Facebook. There are over 100 million company pages on Facebook now and over a million company profiles on LinkedIn. Could one of those companies be your next client? LinkedIn has 85+ million users. A new member joins every second. Are they your next client? |
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Legal Marketing: Social Media and Law Firms
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| Despite what the skeptics say, social media can be a powerful marketing and business development tool for law firms. Many law firms have been reluctant to embrace social media, in part because of lack of understanding and the perceived time commitment required with questionable return on investment. Even now, when many companies and firms are seeing a positive impact from social media, there’s still a lot of confusion and reluctance to embrace this new medium. |
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The New Tweepi
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| Adding 1,000 Followers a Week Using a Free Twitter Tool Application Recently Upgraded "New Tweepi" |
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Holidays + Shows + The Internet + Publicists = Lethal Mixture
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| Every trade show, conference, convention we get the feeling that we're still about as low as ambulance chasing lawyers -- about. Don't believe us?
Hey we've been doing CES (consumer electronics show) for 20 years and the quality of the pitches, hustles has deteriorated because kids don't know enough to be creative!!!!! |
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Controlling Your Media Image: Why Many Celebrities Fail
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| Generally those who have the most trouble trying to utilize the media are those that have no real idea how it works. Simply because someone is a celebrity or head of state and has been continually highlighted in the media doesn’t mean he or she truly understands the inner workings of the press. Interacting with the media isn’t something that should be taken lightly. There are inherent dangers in carelessly playing the media game, and being a celebrity or a “star” does not immune you. In fact, the bull’s-eye on your back is all the bigger. |
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Top Tips On Approaching A Journalist With A Story
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| Over the years it has become increasingly difficult to catch the eye of national journalists and those reporters working on busy consumer and trade magazines, mainly due to the pressures placed upon their time and the growing amount of press releases they are sent. If you do manage to contact them on the phone, you have just a few moments to grab their attention with your story and even then they will often tell you to email them the details. Here are a few top tips from leading UK PR company, Punch Communications, for the next time you want to sell your business to the media. |
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