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Social Networking: A prime location for advertising
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| So after looking at how social networking can benefit our business by having a presence, there is also the opportunity to advertise within the sites to consider.
Sites such as Facebook and Youtube account for more than 25% of UK online display ad impressions, according to comScore Ad Metrix. |
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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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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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The Rush to Source Candidates from Internet and Social Networking Sites: Let's Slow Down and Think About This for a Minute
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| No discussion on recruiting these days is complete without an analysis of how the Internet is used for sourcing candidates. From social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook, to blogs, Twittering, online videos, and business connection sites such LinkedIn or Plaxo, recruiters have become focused with laser-like intensity on how to make use of these sites. |
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Why Should You Learn Internet Marketing
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| Internet marketing, web marketing, online marketing call it what you will it is here to say. Whether you understand it or not does not matter. But those that do… are making the big bucks. |
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Social Media Management in the Workplace
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| Three easy cut-and-dry steps to get Web 2.0 under control in the workplace. |
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Technology Is Changing Traditional Brick & Mortar Business
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| Traditional advertising is changing and evolving. Has your business kept up? Hard-copy advertising is becoming obsolete. |
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The Road Ahead: Networking at the beginning of a new decade
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| In an article at the end of 2008 I talked about how we were on the verge of a new age of networking in the UK, with the move away from referral networks, a more considered approach to networking by businesses and in particular, the growth of choice for businesses using social networks. Little did I know the extent of the changes to come so quickly. |
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Are your employees spending too much time on Twitter and Facebook?
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| When the internet was introduced to offices over a decade ago, employers were worried that employees would spend more time surfing the internet than they did working. The expression “cyber slacking” was born. In 2009, social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook have taken the internet to a whole new level. No longer is the internet just used for reading content, now people can interact with their friends in real time whilst sitting at their desks. To further promote interaction, developers have come up with a vast array of applications where users can play games, send virtual gifts or compare themselves to a celebrity. Hey, you can even run your own virtual farm from the comfort of your office cubicle. Therefore, it is not surprising that employers are worried that no work will get done. |
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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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Social Networking: 10 Steps to Finding Your Target Market in Facebook
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| Marketing on social networking sites can help you increase the size of your email list and help you grow your business. The key to success with social network marketing is making sure that members of your target market are in your network. Whether you're an experienced social networker or just a newbie, here are 10 secrets to growing your target market network in Facebook: |
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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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Annoying Facebook Apps
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| Facebook has a place in our online social lives but the proliferation of those annoying apps is simply becoming too much to deal with. Is this the beginning of the end for Facebook?
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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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10 Tips to Getting Your Business Blog Started
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| Once you get people to your site, your blog can help mold people’s perceptions of you and your business. Branding as a concept means much more than your logo and colors… What you say on your blog will shape your visitors opinions about you in ways far greater than any logo of service mark. This is why it is important to use your blog consistently, relevantly and on message. And above all else: Give your visitors HUGE VALUE. |
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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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A Social Media Infatuation
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| 200 million people don’t just sign up for something—and then stick with it for years—because it’s fashionable or cool – Facebook in particular is downright addictive, the newest sensation of the masses |
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Learn to Give Value
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| Being able to give value to people you are networking with should not be difficult. Provide information that can be of use to people you would want on your team can only help you in building your business, branding you as a business person and make you more successful entrepreneur. The following are ways to give value to your networking group. |
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Pew Survey indicates that blogging has lost its lustre, but do you agree?
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| Earlier this week I received an e-mail from a fellow host on the Blog Talk Radio Network in which the link to a February 21st article in the Music Industry News Network titled "Social Media and Young Adults" was included.
The article made reference to “Two Pew Internet Project surveys,” that revealed a noticeable “decline in blogging among teens and young adults,” and a “modest rise among adults 30 and older.”
My associate thought that I would find this interesting in that besides posting between 2 to 4 articles on 4 (and soon to be 6) blogs each week, she was interested in getting my take on these findings as I have been a strong proponent of the important synergy between maintaining a blog in conjunction with one’s BTR show.
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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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How Do You Use Facebook for Business?
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| This article provides the answer to How Do You Use Facebook for Business? It is filled with suggestions to improve what you may already be doing with Facebook as well as get you started in using this social media in your business, if you have not done so already. It gives practical, simple guidelines to follow so do not think this material is too simplistic. It works as is. There is no need to adjust, re-invent or assume your system is better. Just follow the teaching in this article and watch your business increase. |
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WordPress Blogging Tip - Get Known in a Huge Way Using Social Networks
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| Do you know how to get your WordPress blog known in a huge way using social networks? You will after you read this article. Don't ignore the social networks. They can help you get yourself 'out there' in a very big way. |
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How to Use Twitter to Build Your Contact Lists
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| Twitter is a free social networking site which enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are messages of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's home page and delivered to the author's followers. Twitter's Alexa rank is #12, which makes it a very powerful platform for making contacts, but there are certain tricks to making it work for you.
It is used by different people for diverse purposes; it was initially set up in 2006, and used in a similar fashion to SMS messages. Nowadays it is not only a social network but an information network and is a major way of getting your name known to a global community. |
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The Psychology of Social Gaming
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| How the creators of Farmville and Mafia Wars plan for world domination. |
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Is it time you Facebooked your business?
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| If you thought Facebook was just for keeping contact with friends and family, think again. It can be a great way of building an online community, or simply reaching another audience online.
With a Facebook Page you create a public profile that helps you to share your business and products with Facebook users. You ask people to become a ‘fan' and you can engage with them by posting videos, photos, company news, promotions and discounts and by starting discussion groups.
Also, you can make your page viewable by everyone, whether they are members of Facebook or not. |
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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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How do I get Leads to my site without paying a fortune?
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| If you have your own home business and want to know how you can get your business out there on the internet with little or no cost, then this article gives you some insight where you can start. |
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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 and The Business of Green
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| Earth Day started as a grassroots movement, now environmental advocacy organizations are being sponsored by corporations and this is helping to change social behavior. Smart businesses are responding to consumers asserting their right to greener products and demanding more sustainable business practices.
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Top Tips to Promote Your Restaurant
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| Would you like more customers in your restaurant? Do some marketing that’ll catch their attention and let WOM (word of mouth), the best form of marketing, do the rest. Here are top tips for generating new business. |
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Be nice on Facebook or Go Play somewhere else
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| With so many users and so many applications and content that was provided I thought this was a topic to bring up.
Being nice on Facebook and being part of a great experience is all of our responsibilities so here are a few things I feel are being nice.
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Facebook Marketing 101: Understanding the Pros and Cons
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| If you're a regular Internet user, then chances are that you probably have a Facebook account. One of the first things that many people will ask you when the topic of the internet comes up is, 'Do you have a Facebook?' Facebook is now the most popular social networking site available, far out doing all of the similar competing sites. Being on Facebook has become a type of an identity these days. How can this help marketers like you? All it means is that Facebook is replete with potential targeted traffic, and you have to take advantage of that. |
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Why No Business Should Be Involved In Online Social Networking
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| Is your business ready to dive into the world of social networking? Think twice because most businesses fail miserably. But if you change your focus from what the rest of the world is doing, you can have a pretty good chance of succeeding. |
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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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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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What? You Mean You’re Not on Facebook?
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| If you are interested in becoming an Internet marketer and you are not already on Facebook, I encourage you to do so immediately. In fact, once you have finished this article you need to go on Facebook and set up an account! |
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LinkedIn is a Tool for Success that is Often Overlooked
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| You’ve probably had some experience with social networking. The biggest of sites such as Facebook and Twitter tend to get the most attention. However, there are other sites that can be extremely valuable to would-be Internet marketers. |
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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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Texting: The Key to Controlling the Latest Distraction
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| Texting - Facebook - Twitter... How does all of this fit into the workday? Or should it? |
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Leveraging Social Media to Market a Non-profit
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| The wave of social online media is taking the world by storm. No organization can afford to ignore their growing importance any longer. Websites such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace have immense reach and power that can be leveraged by a non-profit at practically no cost. |
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Facebook - A Fresh Marketing Venue for Targeted Traffic
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| The most important and relevant aspects of Facebook as a marketing tool, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the biggest and most widely used social networking platform in the world. |
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Adwords And Your VAT Return: A Guide For UK Businesses
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| To find out whether you need to be VAT registered you need to calculate your VATable supplies. Under UK VAT rules you need to add Adwords expenditure onto your turnover in calculating whether you reach or exceed the threshold for registration. The current registration threshold is £70,000 for the preceeding 12 months (threshold changed 1 April 2010). |
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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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Ingenious Concept of The Unified Tribe
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| Online marketing mentor and copywriter, Nic Penrake, reviews Katie Freiling's The Unified Tribe and gives it 5 stars for concept. Excellent vehicle for multiplying web traffic. |
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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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Taking Advantage of Online Marketing Tools
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| With all online marketing tools at your disposal, you will likely find many that will fit your needs. By utilizing the most established and relevant resources, your business will profit from these low cost marketing strategies. |
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Leadership and Facebook
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| In times past, leaders did not really take the time to nurture our competence and sense of self worth. Sure there was positive praise but Good leaders provided us with security, guidance, vision and the opportunity to be a part of a group that gave us purpose. |
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Lesson #5: “I feel very comfortable out there, being out on the frontier where it’s rough and unclear”
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| “I always find myself out on the leading edge of these new media, and since I’ve done it now for so long, I feel very comfortable out there, being out on the frontier where it’s rough and unclear and a lot of things have to be sorted out,” says Hawkins. “I don’t mind making that longer-term investment and figuring things out and waiting for it all to come around. And there’s always a lot of confusion in the beginning and different ways of thinking about it as a business. And that’s what I’ve always loved doing is being out there on the front, figuring that out for the first time.” |
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How Many Founders Does A Startup Need?
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| I love my NewsGator and Technorati key word search feeds - they help me find the most interesting things. A NewsGator key word search on “Ryan McIntyre” picked up this post by Chan Chaiyochlarb titled If you are going to launch a startup, how many friends would you need? |
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My Daughters Are So Pissed
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| Here's how it all started. Hey girls, "I just signed up for a Facebook account." |
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How to Get a Free, Autographed Copy of The Art of the Start
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| Facebook reduced the number of people that a developer can invite to add an application. The limit went from infinity to ten; thus, it is much harder to achieve critical mass. However, if a developer can evangelize people to invite ten friends each, the outlook is brighter. The question is, “How do you get people to do this?” |
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The J-Squared Facebook Someday Millionaires
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| BusinessWeek has a fun article about my buddies Jesse and Joe from J-Squared Media titled Who wants to be a Facebook millionaire? Jesse and Joe were founders of one of the TechStars teams this summer – when they showed up their original idea was to create a sharing tools that would distribute links to your networks of friends (not in Facebook – on the web.) The Facebook Platform launched shortly after TechStars started and Jesse and Joe got all over it. |
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Undergraduate Viewpoints on Social Networks and Music
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| Following is a guest post by my partner Jason Mendelson. All of the thoughts and grammar errors are his. All of the formatting errors are mine. |
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More Thoughts on Consumer Internet Innovations Migrating to the Enterprise
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| I have very smart friends. They challenge me all the time. One of them sent me the following email in response to my recent posts about the enterprise such as Get Ready For Selling To The Enterprise To Be A Big Deal Again. |
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Ten Things You Didn't Know About Facebook
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| Jesse Stay is a social media guru. He is the co-author of I'm on Facebook--Now What???: How to Get Personal, Business, and Professional Value from Facebook with Jason Alba. This book helps individuals and business owners better manage their lives through Facebook The-New-Faces-at-Facebook . I asked him to provide ten Facebook power tips: |
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Help a Reporter Out (HARO)
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| The title of this post is the name of a great free service. Help a Reporter Out (HARO) is the brain-child of East Coast PR pro Peter Shankman. (I did a podcast with Peter that I will publish shortly, but I wanted you to know about this resource right away.) |
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The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue)
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| Patience.
Google was a very good search engine for two years before you started using it.
The iPod was a dud. |
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All Tweet and No Cattle
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| Today I’m going to take on a topic that may not be altogether popular in some social media circles, but it’s a message that small business owners need to wrestle with. |
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5 Tips For Getting More from Facebook
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| In continuing with my series of quick social media tips (check out 5 tips for LinkedIn) I’m covering some tips for business use of Facebook here. I’ve actually written about some of these tips in great detail before, but this can act as a quick primer for folks who like their info snack sized like this. |
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How Social is Your Email?
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| I’ve noticed a really interesting phenomenon lately that I think needs some addressing. |
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Say YES to Yourself with a Personal "Don't-Do" Policy
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| Our world is a highly competitive and over stimulating place, and more and more concentration is needed every day just to stay focused on completing your daily tasks and pursuing your long-term goals. |
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Follow-up Is the Momentum Building Power Tool
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| Woody Allen was attributed with the quote - "eighty percent of success is showing up" but I would add that in marketing it's all about following up. |
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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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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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3 Tips to Finding the Right Home Business
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| The following three tips were developed to assist those folks who know the basics of what to look for but not the extra details that really tell them "this is what I'm looking for!"
Anyone can run into a "home business" or "work at home" ad on the Internet a dozen times a day. It will usually run you in to some sort of marketing business. A marketing business can be fabulous. It can also be a nightmare. Some of these people know what to look for when it comes to the basics. However, they are not totally sure how to look for other "signs" that the home business they are looking for will "work for them" or be the right fit for their lifestyle.
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Creating an Internet Presence
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| Creating an internet presence requires more effort than building a website and hiring a geek to manage your Facebook page. And don't think you can learn about it in a two day seminar. That would be like thinking you could cap the BP spill with a toothpick. Just like you can not learn leadership skills at a 3 day retreat you will not create a true sustainable presence on the internet by delegating it to tech geeks and gurus. |
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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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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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5 Ways to Get Your Business Found on Facebook
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| Almost all the social networking sites are quite popular these days and Facebook is no exception. Advertising your business on Facebook is a very good idea as it would open up possibilities of getting the attention of a lot of would-be customers. |
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Utilizing Facebook for Ecommerce Sales
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| Facebook is a great tool for getting connected with people. In fact, it is statistically proven that Facebook has the greatest number of users. Apart from merely socializing, you can also use this connecting tool to build your customer base or fan club. You can use Facebook to reach a huge clientele, thereby boosting your e-commerce sales. There are a few methods that you can apply to make this process a smoother one. |
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Tips to increase your visibility on Facebook
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| Facebook now has 500 million users worldwide and is the largest of the Social Networking sites. It is a great avenue to keep in touch with your friends and family as well as networking with people worldwide. In this article I will cover off some simple steps to increasing your visibility on Facebook, particularly when networking. |
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The Behavioral Targeting Promise Land?
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| You can use every trick in the book to attract people to your website in order to sell them something but if once they get there the experience is lame or the content is confusing then you've wasted your money. It's always nice to attract more people to your site and no one would argue against spending money to do it, but if once people arrive they find it confusing, irritating, ugly, non-functional, or boring then you've lost them for ever. |
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How to get the world to respond to you – A Facebook Lesson
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| Let me be frank with you. I’ve never liked facebook as much as I’ve hoped to. Even though it’s seems so much fun, I never got to be comfortable with it. Honestly, I couldn’t figure out why it didn’t suit me. But that’s until recently. Today I know exactly why I couldn’t sync with facebook, and I am taking corrective actions to make things right. So what was it about facebook and me that didn’t gel? It was this - I felt I am posting valuable content, but I was not getting anybody to respond to it. Very few, if at all, used to comment or like my content, and these were from friends that I am already acquainted with. But when I used to see other people getting a ton of comments, I used to unconsciously feel envious and used to ask myself as to what’s got so many people participating in that topic? Yes, I did get the answer; and from... |
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Establishing Your Presence In Social Media
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| When you decide to start a home-based business on the internet and further decide that one of your main marketing tools will be by participating in the social media it becomes paramount that you establish yourself as an expert in your field. As you enter the world of Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, etc. and establish your own blog it becomes evident that building your reputation as an expert and one who is willing to give value is paramount.
How to do that? |
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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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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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New Way For Professional Services to Get Customers
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| Today’s technology has changed the landscape as to how commerce happens in all industries. People communicate differently and have access to more information. Employees telecommute, and it is easier to do business globally. Customers choose their products and services differently. |
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FaceBook Follies
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| From a purely business perspective, FaceBook makes no sense to me at all. Lemmings the world over are signed up by the millions because to exist in business, it seems mission-critical to be on FaceBook! Really? Apparently, the primary user base is still kids, students, families, budding entrepreneurs and befuddled geniuses... Those demographics should sound the "zero ROI" marketing alarm for any intelligently run business. Sophos's "Security Threat Report 2010" polled over 500 firms, 60% of whom responded that they believed that FaceBook was the social network that posed the biggest threat to security. That's aside from the billions of dollars of lost productivity! |
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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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How To Use Social Networking to Build Trust
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| The use of Social Networking sites can increase one's circle of friends and increate the level of trust with existing friends if it is used properly. This article highlights my personal experience with Social Networking thus far. |
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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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Your Consulting Business and Web 2.0
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| Using the internet to move your consulting business forward requires more than putting up a web site. Are you really leveraging the new social media aspects of the web for the future benefit of your business? Leslie Allan prods your thinking on how to use this new medium as he reviews a provocative white paper on this important business topic. |
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One Great Way to Increase Email Productivity and Social Networking Connectivity
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| Many people struggle with spending too much time in email and not enough time working on meaningful projects or income-producing work. Complicating the issue is the integration of social networking sites and increasingly making connections there that will eventually pay off for sales or other purposes. Many sales and marketing professionals and business owners are looking for ways to increase productivity without sacrificing time that could be better spent elsewhere. We've found that Microsoft Outlook and Blackberry users can increase productivity and save time by using an add-on tool called Xobni. The functionality of Xobni goes beyond saving time but actually helps to make connections and communicate with people in the way that they prefer, whether on Facebook, Skype, LinkedIn or Twitter. |
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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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Sweating the Wrong Stuff
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| Whatever it is - if we choose to focus on something that is known, comfortable and in our control, even as other things are crying for our attention - well, we're sweating the wrong stuff. And that's a great big Gravity No No. |
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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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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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The Facebook Future
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| Almost twenty years ago, the President of the company that I worked for made the statement, "If I catch any of my managers wasting time on a computer, I will fire them!" I can still recall the days of memorandums that copied others as the primary form of internal business communication. Wow, so much has changed so fast that it is almost impossible to absorb. |
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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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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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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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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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Eight Advanced Pointers on Facebook
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| This article provides key items to understand about Facebook that you will need to know to create a sophisticated business platform. |
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Make Your Website Stand Out at Social Networking Sites
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| It’s important to put yourself in front of your target audience as often as possible. With more and more people spending time on social networking sites, like Facebook and YouTube, adding these components to your marketing efforts can really make a difference. Now these sites have made it even easier to interface with their users and get your website noticed, recommended, and even track the number of visitors from a particular site. |
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Envisioning the future of Facebook Groups.
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In my opinion, Zuckerberg, Cox and others on Facebook's Product team should be given the inaugural Henry Ford award. Facebook delivers what it's customers actually want, despite their lack of knowledge that they want it. This is daily occurrence for fb: Closed Networks, NewsFeed, Profile Redesign, Open Graph, Platform, Pages, Internationalization, Chat, Privacy, Groups - and the list goes on. |
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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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Is Having Your Ad Agency Also Doing Your PR a Good Idea?
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| Some companies today are looking to save budget by combining advertising and PR at one agency, but while it can save money, it often doesn't work as effectively and might even backfire. |
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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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Facebook Deals: An Easy Way to Get Your Small Business Noticed
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| In this article, I’ll discuss five reasons why your small business should include a deal for those who check into your business on Facebook. It will boost your sales and increase awareness for your business! |
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New Tools Make it Easier to Book Sales Meetings
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| Tools are becoming a more important part of the sales infrastructure and there is no shortage of them. With so many sales tools available and such a big percentage of them being new, how do you know which ones to use and whether they are any good?
Today I'll share two tools with you. One is brand new - the launch is today - and the other is fairly new - I found it a month ago. Both tools will help you get into new opportunities more quickly, more easily and with more fun!
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Separating Personal and Business in Social Media
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| How do you keep business and personal separate in social media? A recent panel discussion on social media for SugarCRM observed that whether used for business or personal, as a salesperson or an employee, remember that it's there forever so be careful, professional and aware.
A more advanced way to keep them separate is to go in with a plan and share it with all company participants. Give them the tools and guidance needed to be successful in this new arena. |
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Use Facebook Pages to Market Your Online Income Opportunities
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| At the last count Facebook had something like 500 Million users worldwide the majority of whom live in the USA. This social site is rapidly becoming Google’s biggest rival with Facebook advertising getting ready to take a lot of business away from Google Adwords. Because of this Facebook has become too big for any serious online business marketer to ignore. |
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Staying in Touch
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| We are "entranced" by all of the social media noise and how it's going to be the marketing tool of today and tomorrow. Funny we just thought it was about people talking to people. We like the headlines, 20 percent this, 30 percent that. Reminds us of a note from an Aussie friend -- 20% of the auto accidents there are caused by drunk drivers. That means 80% are caused by sober folks. So he wanted them to get off the roads so drinkers could get home safely.
Rather like our business communications. Not real concerned about people following our Twits (growing up we called it stalking). Wanna tag our social site wall? Have at it! We want to communicate with you and would like you to respond...not the ROW! But that's us |
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The Electronic Workplace
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| BlackBerries, Iphones, laptop computers, Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter. These are just a handful of the everyday technology advances impacting most every avenue of life, including the workplace. Along with technological advances in hardware systems, the social networking boom is changing the productivity of the workplace. In today's issue, Astronology reviews some of the many advantages and disadvantages of a more electronic workplace. |
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Online Networking and the Workplace
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| In today’s world of fast technology, organizations face the task of how to handle the online social networking craze headlined by popular sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. In this edition of Astronology, we take a look into the online social networking phenomena and its impact on the workplace. |
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Sales 2.0 - Answer to Our Prayers or Costly Distraction?
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| Every day I read, hear and get asked about the various modern methods for salespeople to meet, engage and get in front of prospects. Every day, the emphasis moves a little further toward the Sales 2.0 approach to getting found - LinkedIn, Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, E-blasts, and Youtube. |
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Lesson #5: “We’re holding on to the ship with our fingernails”
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| “I remember Ev going home one weekend and coming back with this genius plan for Odeo, and he asked me to read it,” recalls Stone. “It was this whole plan for how we could make it a successful business. I thought wow this is genius, but then again so is podcasting. Then slept on it. Do we want to be kings of podcasting? We were constantly gut checking.” |
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The Company You Keep . . .
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| As the release date for my new book in which I examine "The Unsociable Business of Social Networks" through the vantage point of the So Act Network quickly approaches, I thought that I would provide you with a brief excerpt from Chapter 5 titled "The Company You Keep . . ." |
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Why Social Media Marketing? Two Starting Key Steps to Succeed.
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| If you are reading this article you have the same question that I had when I started to look into this exploding market. Should I focus my attention on it or not? What can I get out of this?
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How To Find The Highest Paying Internet Based Business Opportunities
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| One thing I quickly learned online is there are many extremely high paying internet based business opportunities available. The trick is to not waste your time on low paying opportunities when you can make just as much on high paying ones. |
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The Truth About Lead Generation
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| Ever wonder how some people are able to generate hundreds of leads a day while you struggle to come up with one or two leads a day? Keep reading to get the truth about Lead Generation |
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SOCIAL MEDIA: THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF COMMUNICATING!
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| Is social media the new golden age of communicating or the end of the golden rules of etiquette? |
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PR for the Promotional DIY'ers!
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| Promotional DIY'ers Need Help Too! |
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The Painless, Simple, And Correct Way To Generate Free Quality MLM Leads On Facebook
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| This is a free guide on how to generate high quality leads on Facebook for your MLM business. By following these simple strategies you will be viewed as an expert in your industry.
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Public Enemy Number One To Your Home Based Internet Business
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| Public enemy number one in home based internet business is something all of us have encountered to varying degrees. The secret is to devise a strategy to overcome this particularly damaging villain. You have to be aware of it before you can counter attack. The payoff is immense so go to it...now! |
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Site Speed
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| As inventive as ever, Google is now launching a new version of its crawling and indexing engine. They’ve even given it a name: Google Caffeine.
To the person searching for something, Google Caffeine will seem like plain old Google – the search page looks the same, the results look the same – so what’s so different and why should anyone care? |
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Four Recommended Social Media Sites and Social Media Strategy For Internet Marketers
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| What are the top four recommended social media sites and what is the best strategy for using web 2.0 for Internet marketers? |
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Social media builds business, creates a trusted community
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| Social media networks can help build your business, but they also provide you with a trusted community of people with whom you can share the details of your life. They are the "community newspapers" of our time. |
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Six Ways to Increase Your Social Media Marketing Traffic Starting Yesterday
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| Every article you will find about using social media making to promote your product, business or opportunity successfully will always include the importance of traffic generation. This means getting lots of people to your door. Lots and lots of people, yesterday, today and tomorrow. |
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Social Networking Marketing Tools, Tips and Techniques to Keep You Alive in the Social Sphere
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| What is the most important social networking marketing tool? That is a tough question to answer because in this new day and age of social networking, many aspects are important. The basics of a computer, internet access and the capacity to communicate are understood, but to be able to market a product or service requires creativity, good use of words and imagination, but are any of these actually considered a social networking marketing tool? |
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How to Make the Most Out of Your Social Networking Marketing Video Vault
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| If you're a fan of YouTube, then you are certainly part of the social networking marketing video viewing community. Long description for someone who watches videos on the computer, yes, but it points to the combination of social networking marketing and the fact that video is a very vibrant part of the social networking marketing scene. |
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Social Networking Tips to Blow Your Competitors Outdated Marketing Techniques Out of the Water!
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| The new world of communicating via social networking offers many innovative marketing techniques that should be implemented in any business's integrated marketing campaign. It may take a bit of time to implement any new techniques, but as you become more familiar and proficient in conducting this way of business, you will see its impact. |
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Do Social Networking Sites Wet Your Social Marketing Appetite Or Leave a Bad Taste in Your Mouth
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| Going places is a lot easier now. Not only can you visit new places and see old and new friends, you may have conversations with them and see their face from the comfort of your office chair, your couch or your bed. We're talking about social networking here, and the opportunities to do this abound on many types of sites on the internet. |
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Top Tips to Make Your Social Networking Marketing Video Tutorials Red Hot
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| Isn't it great that social networking marketing video tutorials can generally convey information to viewers that just words could not do alone? Social networking websites promote and are so involved in marketing so many types and topics of information that one can basically learn how to do anything with video tutorials. |
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A Few Good Tips To Assist You In Marketing On The Internet
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| In this article we’ll cover a few tips that can possibly assist you in marketing on the internet. |
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Online Home Based Businesses And Social Marketing
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| If you have a home based business online you need new customers if you expect to survive. Before you can get customers you need website visitors. A popular way to drive traffic to a website is incorporating various forms of social marketing into your advertising mix. |
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Social Networking and Work
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| There are some dangers to social networking among colleagues. It's a good idea to have a clear policy in place regarding use of these sites between staff members. |
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Getting in Social Media Marketing
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| So many people talk about it and write about it. Social media is everywhere in our life today. You can twit things, flicker pictures, invite somebody to enter your facebook network, bookmark a page and so on. All those little gadgets have become so popular that we could even say that we have entered the social media era. People are getting fired because they say stupid things on their profile or do not get a job because of what is being displayed on their profile. |
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How to effectively use the “F” word and double your business!
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| No matter what you sell, YOU are the product, so give them the experience of their lives by making the “F” words top priority on your list. It will make it easier on yourself to identify their needs, create products and services to fulfill those needs to solve their problems, and you will “feel” on top of the world. Watch your Bank accounts grow when you effectively use those two little “F” words” “Feel” and “Feeling” –
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Generating free leads with social media - 4 ways to set up and use facebook to market your business
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| Do you want to use social media do market your opportunity or product? Social media and facebook in particular is growing by the minute. If you want to get traffic and leads for your business or opportunity you want to be where people are. What's really interesting and what benefits you is that the average age of the facebook user also is increasing. It's not just for kids and teens. If you know how to use facebook and how to avoid the devastating mistakes that so many people make, it can produce a endless stream of free high quality leads for your product or business opportunity. |
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Twitter FAIL – What a great tool for marketing…..not for some!
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| How some of the biggest fashion brands succeed and fail on Twitter..... |
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How To Choose The Best Network Marketing Company: 3 More Crucial Choices, Part 2
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| Again, experience speaks volumes and here are 3 more critical question to ask of any network marketing opportunity you are researching and the answers you are looking for. Save yourself a tremendous amount of money, time and anguish.
Question #1: Does the company have a product or products that are more than "the best" in flooded niche market?
Answer #1: You are looking for a company with a very unique product or products....
Question #2: Does the company have an in-depth training system?
Answer #2: You are looking for a company rich in.....
Question #3: Does the company have a strong policy of team leadership and mentorship?
Answer #3: You are looking for a personal, hands-on.... |
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Measuring Your Social Media ROI
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| If you’ve added social media to your marketing mix, you’re probably asking yourself, “Is it worth all the time and effort involved?” That might seem like a difficult question to answer at first, but there are definite steps you can take to measure the return on your social media investments. |
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...and by gosh, this Web 2.0 & Social Media stuff is fabulous for selling knowledge!
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| When you blow all the smoke away, knowledge is the only thing any of us has to sell any more. That's always been the case for a consulting-type business, but today, profitably selling even the most commoditized of commodities requires lots and lots of knowledge. It's all about finding and/or purchasing and/or packaging and/or shipping and/or installing and/or applying and/or maintaining and/or disposing of and/or... It's all about the intellectual content. It's the knowledge, stupid! |
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Make Money from Home with Photography
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| Photography is one of the best ways to make money from home. If you are an enthusiast, the benefits can be double: you are earning money and enjoying your interests. However, if you are interested in photography but are not confident with your skills, you can learn anytime. |
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THE TOP 5 HIDDEN DANGERS FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING
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| Whether you or your business is into social networking or not, you cannot afford to ignore new media channels such as Twitter, Facebook, You Tube or LinkedIn because to ignore them could be costing your business a lot of money in lost profit. Here are my top reasons why you need to take careful note. |
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The absent admin
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| Creating a Facebook fan page is an excellent way to market your company or organization; leaving it unattended is asking for trouble. Too many companies are creating fan pages and then leaving them unattended, thus ignoring potential conversation. Although there is not a specific notification option for Facebook fan pages, there is a way to receive notification of comments on your posts, pictures, videos and notes. |
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Ooooh! Another Bright Shiny Object!
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| If you are someone who has a business, you can be, rather you ARE, inundated with mail, email, Facebook and Twitter announcements, etc. about the “best,” the “newest,” and the “be-all-end-all” programs that will answer all your business needs. There always is a new bright shiny object dangling in front of you. |
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It's Not the Size that Counts
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| Little things matter - big time. |
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Promote Your Home Business On Facebook To Get Tons Of Free Traffic
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| It was started as a social networking site but Facebook has quickly become much more and offers a home based business a powerful tool to attract potential customers. Facebook currently has 300 million active users and at least half of them log on to the site every single day. |
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Affiliate Marketing Any Good? Yes and No
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| Looking for an online opportunity? Wonder which one to dedicate your time and money to? If affiliate marketing was something you considered you may want to read the following article on online affiliate marketing programs. |
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Internet Marketing Training - Have You Considered This?
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| If you are new to marketing online hopefully you will enjoy this article on Internet marketing training. |
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How To Make Money From Home Using Forum Marketing
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| What is the best way to reach potential customers? That is the million dollar question for most home businesses. Generating leads is often the toughest part of any enterprise and without leads there is no way to ensure future growth. |
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15 Ways to Create High Visibility with FaceBook
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| Facebook can generate a lot of traffic to your site and it should be taken seriously if you intend to be active on the Social Media realm. This article enumerates 15 rapid ways to be visible on search engines by using FaceBook.
It is estimated that the network will have more than 500 million by the end of next year. Shouldn't you or your business take a front row seat on this ride? |
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Secrets of the New Network Marketing Wizards- Gregg Davison
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| Secrets of the New Network Marketing Wizards- Gregg Davison |
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Top 10 tips for social networking
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| Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have become a driving force behind increasing brand awareness online. With the best strategy planned out, your company can take advantage of these free services and further promote your organisation on the web.
Social sites have expanded from being your standard platform to communicate. They have developed their services focused on benefiting companies and help create an arena for business interaction.
So take a look at my top ten tips for social success and see what opportunities avail |
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Sustainable income through eProduct development and marketing
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| If you’re one of those who believe “build it and they will come” now is the time to rethink this. Yes, you have to build it, but “they will come” is not necessarily true unless of course, they know about it. |
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6 Internet Marketing Truths For the New Internet Entrepreneur
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| In 2009, it would be foolish to deny that using the internet for promotion is a major part of almost every successful entrepreneurial effort. For example, each and every day there are thousands upon thousands of new users on Google searching for products and services. These and other internet marketing truths are reviewed in this article. |
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Staying Hooked In With Your Internet Based Business
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| As someone with a home based internet business, you know the siren lure of staying for an extra hour or two at the computer - just one more job, one more email. That next ping might be the big deal that boosts your business, big time. It's very easy to get wrapped around the spindle of your work and let your home life suffer. |
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Earn Extra Income Online Writing Blog Articles
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| These are ideas on how to earn extra income online as a blog writer. It's something that is in high demand and can be very lucrative for you.
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3 Home Business Ideas Using Your Computer And Internet
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| When it comes to making money at home I understand you can do many things. However in this article we want to look at 3 home business ideas using your computer and Internet access. |
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Free To Post Business Opportunities: How to Market Your Business Like the Big Dogs Absolutely Free
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| Using these methods makes it free to post business opportunities allowing you to spread your word even further, to a wider audience, all for free. This list is far from exhaustive, but it will definitely give you a solid start in giving your free to post business opportunities, regardless of which ones you're with, an even better and brighter spotlight (a higher listing on Google) than people who pay for the positioning that you'll be getting for free. |
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How to succeed in business on Facebook
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| Facebook is fast growing as a social media site and it is a tremendous platform for conducting business. This article gives an overview of what facebook represents to me as an entrepreneur and how I would advise people to use it for the benefit of their business. |
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How to Blog Your Way to a Successful Home Business
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| Andrea Scott, a home business expert, explains how to effectively use a blog to build a successful home business. She provides valuable blog promotion tips that lead to a profitable online business. |
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Online Business Opportunities in 2010 and Years to Come
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| Been seeing the ads on Facebook, on Google, Yahoo, Bing and actually everywhere you look; screaming the many different online business opportunities? They are everywhere, you can’t seem to get away from them, they are coming in the form of videos, radio ads, flashy banners, and mp3’s and even as text messages now. Are you wondering why? |
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Predictions for Digital Advertising in 2011
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| As consumer use of social media spiked in 2010, enter the Big 3 with retooled advertising features, suggests Mike Farrell with aspenIbiz. Read this short post to learn the key Digital Advertising predictions for 2011 as Web 2.0 is providing more consumer touch points to improve the targeting and relevance of online advertising for your Main Street business. |
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Strengthen Business Sales in a Tough Market
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| When times get challenging, its time to evaluate other methods of getting the job done. |
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Social Media for Recruitment
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| Social media and blogs are now the 4th most popular online activity ahead of personal e-mail and are growing at a rapid pace. These results should make it clear that incorporating social networking into your recruitment strategy for 2010 and years to come is the way to go… something I would definitely encourage you to do. |
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Maximizing the Impact of Email Advertisements
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| Tips on maximizing the impact of email advertisements. |
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Are Sales Tools the Solution?
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| When your salespeople focus and play with the tools instead of using the tools to support their selling efforts, the tools become part of the problem. Am I suggesting a 15-hour work day? No. You need balance, you should spend time with your family. But salespeople must do the work that doesn't involve interacting with their prospects, at times when they can't reach their prospects. |
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Should Social Networking Support the Sales Effort?
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| Deborah Penta, my guest on this week's episode of Meet the Sales Experts, shed some light on how the relationship between sales and marketing should work. One of the things she said that I really liked was that executives "have an obligation" to market their companies and generate quality leads for their salespeople. An obligation! It doesn't get any better than that. |
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Useful Internet Marketing Tools On The Cheap: AddThis
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| Advertising is one sure way to draw visitors to your web site - but you do have to pay for those clicks, don't you? Word of mouth is free, but how do you generate that online? Here's a free tool that helps entrepreneurs do that and more. |
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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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Blogging Your Way to a Successful Home Business
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| Andrea Scott, a home business expert, explains how to effectively use a blog to build a successful home business. She provides valuable blog promotion tips that lead to a profitable online business. |
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Social Networking and Your Business; What's the Harm?
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| Lately, social networking is being touted as the greatest way to gain exposure for your home business. But is the use of social networking causing business owners to shoot themselves in the foot? |
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Increase Your Traffic and Gain Brand Exposure with Su.pr
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| Su.pr, an innovative URL shortener by StumbleUpon, will increase your traffic and gain brand exposure while saving you time and money.
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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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Lead Generation with Social Media Marketing – How to Measure the Results
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| By now you've probably heard all the buzz about social media and how it can drive leads for your business. But when it comes to small business marketing, I'm going to assume that your budget is not unlimited. You need to know that every dollar you spend will bring at least $1.01 to your bottom line. So you might have been a little hesitant to dive into social media for lead generation because you weren't sure how to track or measure the results. |
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Social Sites Can Be Good Places To Find A Legitimate Online Business Opportunity
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| If a friend comes up to you and offers an online business opportunity would you look at it? Chances are you probably would because you trust them that they are not trying to scam you. Social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook are good places to find legitimate online business opportunities after you have made friends. |
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What does a typical day look like for an internet marketer ?
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| People tend to think that making money on the internet does not require any work at all......If that was the case then the whole world
would have been internet marketers!
I hate to burst the bubble but there are hard work and long hours involved in order to setup a successful internet business.Doing business on the
internet is the same as doing business off the internet in the sense that you must still put some 'elbow grease' towards the success of your online business. |
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Using Twitter to Launch Products or Web Sites
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| The power of Twitter as an outreach tool. |
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The Anatomy of Buzz (Revisited)
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| Everyone is looking for buzz – people talking about their offering. We all know that word of mouth marketing is the strongest form of marketing: it’s free, it spreads, and it’s personal. But how can you get your message to be spread virall |
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Hyperconnectivity Stress
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| Are you on Twitter? Facebook? MySpace? LinkedIn? Other social networks? Posting regularly? Checking your email every 15 minutes (and immediately responding)? Check your RSS reader daily? Is it helping your business? Cellphone on all the time? Is it helping your quality of life? |
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Marketing Your Business on a Budget
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| If you are on a limited budget, there are many options available to you to drive traffic to your business or personal website. However, as with any business, you will need to be consistent on a daily basis with your marketing efforts to build momentum. |
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Using Social Networking To Your Company's Advantage
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| You probably will not attract paying customers overnight by signing up for a Facebook account, but ignoring the social networking venue would be a mistake. Social networking is not the place for a hard sell; think of the greater social networking marketplace as an enormous yet relaxed coffee shop atmosphere. We all have a story to tell, but "shouting" it repeatedly turns most off.
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Internet Based Businesses - Have Fun And Make Money
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| If you have to work every day you might as well have fun doing it. There are numerous internet based business opportunities available today that can be very profitable and allow you to have fun at the same time. |
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A Picture Says 1,000 Words–Especially on The Internet
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| Remember that our public image and our reputation are not just in our hands to control. Being a key player in your brand and your business means that you must use caution with your online presence. Make sure you know what is out there about you - pictures, reviews, and everything else. |
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Facebook and iTunes Applications – How You Can Use Them to Grow Your Business
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| The following tips will show you how to use Facebook and iTunes applications to promote and grow your business.
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Why Only 3% of Internet Marketers Who Use Twitter, Myspace and Facebook get Results! -100% Profit
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| Are you an Internet Marketer who uses twitter, myspace or facebook to produce traffic to your website and sales? Are you getting the results you want? Well 97% of people who use these social media websites aren't seeing results. they aren't getting traffic or leads which equals no money. There are a few simple rules you should be following, but if you're not you will most likely fall into that percentage of people who are just wasting their time. Find out in Omari's short article why only 3% of Internet Marketers who use twitter, myspace and facebook get results. |
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IT'S THE MESSAGE, STUPID
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| Content is king. We're getting all caught up in the exploding forms of conveyance, but the effectiveness of the message is and has always been a factor of its content. |
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Real Examples of Business Success Using Social Media
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| Three examples of businesses using social media to increase their online presence. |
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Four Websites to Incorporate into Your Business Today
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| A quick overview of four popular websites that can help your business grow its online presence. |
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How to get business from social networking
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| Social networking a.k.a. the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Ecademy, LinkedIn and so on have become the new marketing buzzwords. Everyone is interested in finding out about them and knowing how to use them to get business in through the door. |
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5 Great Ways to Add Social Networking to Your Marketing Mix
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| Do you think that sites like Twitter and Facebook are a waste of time? Well think again. You can actually use social networking to build your business. Here's how. |
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Relationships & Stress
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| Here David Oliver shows how relationships can both cause and heal stress and defines the difference between load and burden. READ ON |
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Where's Buster?
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| A village without a "Buster" is a pretty boring town. A "Buster" can bring enrichment and hope. A "Buster" can bring a healing experience that erases emotional pain to replace it with confidence, strength and joy. Your customers need a "Buster." Be the "Buster" in your commercial village.
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Credibility And How It Impacts Your Online Visual Presence
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| So we know, your online credibility is an important element of your internet marketing business. Without credibility nobody will buy from you. It’s that simple a fact. However, as mentioned, building credibility is not a single process. It consists of many aspects. |
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Using Facebook for Small Business Marketing
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| Facebook is an excellent tool to add to your small business marketing plan.
A big mistake that many entrepreneurs make when it comes to social media sites like Facebook is the belief that these sites are only useful for large companies that have big brands. |
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5 Fun Ways to Market Your Business on Facebook
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| If you are using Facebook personally or are still one of those rare people who aren’t part of what compares in size as being the 3rd largest country in the world, you might want to consider “playing” with some fun techniques here to market your business.
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Recruiting Through Social Networking Sites
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| Social networking sites such as Facebook have really changed the way people interact with each other over the last few years. Many employers are now seeking to utilise these kinds of websites as a recruitment opportunity. Here’s how to do it right. |
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Developing your Traffic Streams
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| Now there are two ways you can go about spending your time increasing the level of traffic that your site currently receives, and both have their merits. I will outline both and you can choose the one that works best for you, or perhaps try both and flip back and forth between the two as it suits you, or for as long as you are seeing progress with them. |
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Taking the first step – “Connecting business with Social Media”
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| Here is a brief update as to what I have been up to over the last few weeks.
I have just received formal approval to proceed with a Social Media program for one of our products. The program is centered around developing a presence on Facebook through the creation of a product page and an application. Twitter will also be used to stream updates between Facebook news feeds and Twitter. |
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From Facebook to Phonebook - How Wingmen Stay Connected
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| If you want to be a trusted partner to your network, don't forget to reference your Phonebook in addition to Facebook, to build trust and develop relationships...
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Teens and Sleep Problems: Quantity Sleep Doesn’t Always Mean Quality Rest.
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| With the added stress of school, social pressures and significant increases in newly arriving hormones, middle school kids up to college freshman are suffering from a lack of both quantity and quality of restful sleep. A recent study looked at the direct relationship between grades and sleep. Researchers found that students who received not only more sleep---but also a better quality of sleep, got more A’s and B’s, while the teens who got less sleep received more C’s and D’s. |
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Digital Bytes – The Challenge of Balancing Real, Virtual Worlds
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| People jog off cliffs, they walk into manholes, they walk into the middle of the street without looking, they go through meals never looking away from their screen -- regardless of which one it is -- updating their social media, viewing/responding to emails...moving around the virtual world missing some of the really neat stuff going on in the real world. Hey we're guilty too!!
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Do You Have a Social Media Strategy?
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| While Social Media is the newfangled thing for everyone to talk about, monitor and watch these days amongst marketers, I see a day in the future when social media will be yet another tool in a marketer's tool belt just as "cable" is now just another line item in a marketer's advertising budget. We will get to a day when marketers can't imagine developing a campaign without at least considering how their brand, or new product or service offering might be expressed digitally across a range of social media options. |
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Social Media Add Power to Recruiting
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| Although an increasing number of companies is creating a presence on social media Web sites as a way to attract new talent, if you want to recruit Millennials, a social media presence is mandatory. Today's high school graduates have been exposed to the Internet since early childhood. Their plugged-in world is creating a level of connection and interactivity that is changing how we communicate-and do business.
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Article #1- 3 Simple Strategies That Can Double Your Customers in The Next Six Months
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| There are more than 3 simple strategies that can double your customers in the next six months, but i'm only going to talk about the 3 major ones and those are Facebook, Twitter and Blogging.
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Out of Work, Business Slow? Don't Despair Promote Yourself!
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| This article deals with promoting yourself or your business during tough times using the tools PR firms use. |
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Will the Elderly Dominate the Internet Someday?
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| New information on senior users on the internet. How they use the internet and what they expect to see on websites. |
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Social Media Helps You Find Out What Your Customers Want
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| Have you been wondering why you should bother using Twitter or Facebook as part of your marketing plan?
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How to Build Your Social Networking Empire: 3 Tips to Get More Friends
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| One of the first questions people ask me about social networking is how to find more friends. After all, a big part of social networking (when you're doing it for business that is) is to find more prospects. And if you don't get some friends and followers, you're not going to accomplish that. So how do you find friends and followers? Below are 3 general tips that will work on all social networking platforms. |
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BUILDING VIRTUAL RELATIONSHIPS
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| A new survey of over 3000 workers, commissioned by BT Business, reveals that poorly managed communication may put customer and client relationships at risk. Better use of technology coupled with a clearer understanding of people’s varying personality types may be the key to winning customers and ensuring clear, effective communications within an organisation. |
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Getting Creative with the New Facebook Page Image Ribbon
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| Since last week’s sweeping changes to Facebook Pages people have been scrambling to unearth all the little tricks that the new format affords. |
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Social Networking
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| Seven reasons you should embrace social networking: 1. Your competition has embraced it. 2. Your customers are using it. 3. You want to be social.... 4. Pay Per Click costs are increasing. 5. SEO isn't easy anymore. 6. You want to drive new prospects to your website. 7. You will get a return on your investment. |
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How to Successfully Use Your Digital Footprint - Essential in a social media world
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| Remember when you walked on the beach? You could see a trail left by those who had been there before you. In today’s online marketing world you need a digital footprint and it is very important. |
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Ways to Promote Your Business on Facebook
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| Facebook is becoming more and more popular, but how can you take advantage of this to get more visitors to your website? |
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Seven easy ways to promote a new product or service
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| Inexpensive ways for companies to promote their products and services. |
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The Magic of Social Media and Why Your Organization Can’t Ignore it
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| The Internet has evolved from a curiosity, to a two-way communication platform dominated by academia, and then to a commerce platform that has threatened to make conventional shopping and “business as usual” obsolete.
But with that transformation came an example of the law of unintended consequences: consumers became jaded.
Barraged by email, banner ads, pop-ups, pop-unders and multi-media online infomercials, the consumer felt more like a commodity than ever. And they started fighting back. Internet users banded together on primitive discussion boards where they found a voice. They were able to communicate with each other, make recommendations, air complaints, and generally provide instant feedback on the quality of goods and service being provided across the ‘Net as well as by traditional land-based (brick and mortar) vendors. |
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Facebook Connect vs OpenID — Which will win?
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| It’s been a few days since my last post and I must say that I have calmed down considerably since my meeting on Monday. Several things that I got to do over the last few days made the week completely worth it.
Firstly, I was able to give a Social Media 101 crash course to my colleagues. I always enjoy doing presentations and when I can help someone, it makes it that much more rewarding. Just to let you readers know, my door is always open if you have any questions. |
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Facebook skeptics…
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| Just wanted to post something short and sweet today. I’m still a little perturbed about my meeting at work on Tuesday, so I decided to post some opportunities the new Facebook layout proposes for businesses. My theory is that if I can potentially present sound principles that shift traditional thinking it may become easier to sway the skeptics. |
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A Social Media journey begins…
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| Today was my first day back at work after a long over due vacation and as usual it didn’t disappoint. My inbox had over 450 emails that required responses and I was booked for three back-to-back meetings. But the one thing that fired my up today was determining the future roadmap for our corporate Intranet. During one of my three meetings I met with the Infrastructure team and determined how we are going to implement our very own instance of Facebook onto our Intranet. |
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It's not a recession
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| It’s a transition from the industrial economy to the networked economy. This transition started 10 years ago with the dotcom boom. Over the last 10 years we have seen many industries collapse under scrutiny of the digital spotlight. |
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Harnessing the Power of Social Media Tools
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| A few hour investment in social media like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook can help grow your business |
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Networking Tip - 5 Social Networking Ways That Benefit Introverts
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| The interest and activity in online social network grows everyday. Is it the perfect introvert networking venue? It could be that both introverts and extroverts alike will find it boosts their strengths. Whether you are looking for connections or resources, how does it benefit an introvert? |
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Public Relations: Building a Network with Today's Technology
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| Public relations and the building of your network is facilitated through the use of today's technology and is most imperative in developing strong relations. |
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5 Ways Social Media Could Have Improved My Life
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| Social media has taken us a long way from where we were even ten years ago. Here's a fun list of ways social media and technology could have helped me in the past. |
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12 Simple Ways to Sell More Books
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| 10 very easy to implement "stand out" ideas so your book will stand out from the millions of others out there. |
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Its not fair!
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| As a leader or manager do you aspire to be fair?
If you do, stop!
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You didn’t say I’d be fired!
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| Do you get frustrated when something you say which is obvious gets misinterpreted? |
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Always isn’t every time
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| As a manager, do you and your employees have miscommunications? |
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Just the facts
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| Do any of your direct reports (or for that matter, anyone at all!) continually challenge you in an unproductive way? |
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My Door is Always Open
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| Do you ever commit to things which you possibly can’t achieve? |
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My employee seems to be sick on Fridays and Mondays
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| Do you have an employee who takes advantage of the system? |
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That person has a difficult personality
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| Does it irritate you when one of your employees, peers, or boss is very difficult? |
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Gen X, Gen Y, Gen whatever
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| Do you have opinions on someone based on their age? |
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The Facebook Revolution
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| Do you wonder what your employees are doing on their computer? |
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Not listening can be catastrophic
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| Do you feel your reports are not listening to you?! |
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Dealing with Morons
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| Do you ever think you’re working with people who don’t know what they’re doing?! |
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The $64,000 Question
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| Do your questions lead to solutions or more problems? |
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Dirt on the car
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| DO YOU STRUGGLE TO EFFECTIVELY MOTIVATE ANY DIRECT REPORTS? |
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Questions, Jeopardy Style
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| Do you find yourself stuck no matter what questions you ask yourself? |
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The questions which lead to nowhere
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| DO YOU FIND YOURSELF STUCK NO MATTER WHAT QUESTIONS YOU ASK YOURSELF? |
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Web2.0 Marketing - The A-Z List of the Best Business Social Networking Sites
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| Do You Want to Promote Your Business on Business Networking Sites? This Is the Definitive List of the Best Business Networking Sites.
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Finding Joint Venture Partners Just Got Easy
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| Joint ventures produce 40 trillion dollars per year in revenue, shouldn't your business be benefiting from it? Finding joint venture partners to benefit your business was a difficult task until now. Learn how you can have access to entrepreneurs around the world who want to do joint ventures with you. Learn how to explode your sales and get thousands of new customers and have fun doing it. |
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How do I Innovate My Business to Grow My Business Without Increasing Costs
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| If you are like most entrepreneurs, right now you are watching expenses and wondering how to increase sales, get more customers and grow your business in the most cost effective manner you can. Learn what other entrepreneurs are doing to create effective low cost alliances that are exploding sales and business growth. |
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Facebook is not just for kids anymore
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| Have you heard of Facebook?
Of course you have. It’s that website that your kids are obsessed with. They’re posting pictures and videos, letting each other know about where the next party is at, messaging each other incessantly and participating in other time wasting activities like virtually poking one another. How childish!
Facebook is just for kids…or is it? Take a look at some key growth trends:
• Facebook has over 175 Million users and is growing by more than 700K users a day
• More than half of Facebook users are outside of college
• The fastest growing demographic is those 30 years and older |
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5 Steps to Organizing Your Business
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| Women entrepreneurs and solo-preneurs have a tough time focusing on business opportunities when their time and energy is taken up by too much to do! Here are five ways to get more time and energy so you can focus on business profitability. |
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Article #42 How To Do {Social Media Marketing}
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| Social Media Marketing has become the best way to connect with your customers and show them the real you. When you connect with people on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., they then can make the decision if they want to buy from you or not. |
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Article # 43 How To Do Mobile Marketing
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| Many people are on the go these days and are not at home in front of their computer for twelve hours a day. And most of these people have mobile phones with applications such as Twitter and Facebook to keep in touch with their family, friends and most importantly clients. It is certainly nothing these days to ‘tweet’ a quick, “Hey there is a sale going on at Macy's! Come quick!” But before you go marketing you product or service on your mobile phone you must stay within the guidelines.
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No Way to Treat “Friends” Facebook Nation gets its Magna Carta
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| The granting of Facebook nation’s Magna Carta by King Zuckerberg, is the result of a popular revolt that nearly instantaneously spread globally among its 175 million netizens with significant impact on public relations professionals |
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Does your dog have better social networking etiquette than you?
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| Seems like everyone and their dog is now posting, poking, tweeting, liking, status-updating, and more. The problem is that dogs might actually demonstrate better social networking etiquette than many business people. Here are 9 common faux "paws". |
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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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20 pitfalls to avoid when using facebook for branding
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| Everyone wants to leverage on Facebook for Marketing but very few know how to do it tastefully so as not to hurt their brand. Andrew Chow, the professional speaker and trainer on social media in Singapore will share to you 20 pitfalls to avoid while using Facebook for marketing. |
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