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Building an online empire to launch your next product launch, branding effort are simply to be heard is a bigger challenge than most people understand it to be. In his book, Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World (amazon affiliate link), Michael Hyatt provides you with a step-by-step guide that will take you into social [...]
Have you ever wondered if using social media was the right decision to make for our small business? Or maybe you work for a large corporation that has not thrown its hat into the social media arena. What reasons can you share with your bosses that will convince them that they should get started now? [...]
One of the most powerful reasons to use social media is that it is relatively easy to measure your results. This is incredibly important to do. Anytime you invest time or money toward marketing yourself or your business, you want to make sure you are getting the most from that investment. Let’s breaks this down. [...]
Are you just getting started with social media or have you been using it for a while? Have you thought about how social media tools like Twitter and Facebook can help attract new customers to your business? Are you looking for ways to help tie your website efforts to your social media efforts? These are [...]
Twitter. What do Microsoft and Facebook have in common? When I think about these two companies I have a hard time figuring out what that one thing is that they do better than anyone else. Microsoft got to where it is today largely from its efforts with leading the Windows OS revolution. This spilled over [...]
The other day, one of my very best friends in the world asked me what was better – Amazon’s Kindle (amazon affiliate link) or Apple’s iPad. It was a great question and we ended up having a great discussion about what she wanted to do with it; where she would be using the device; and [...]
There it sat, the same facebook fan page week after week. It almost never changed. The user photo had been the same for about a year. There was an occasional status update (about one a week). There was no video, no photos, no discussions. It was a local small business’ fan page. I can remember when [...]
I once worked with a gentleman that owned a small business and he really wanted to “get on Facebook.” We’d talk and he say stuff like, “That’s where everyone is” or “I could really get some nice additional sales out of being on Facebook.” I really appreciated his enthusiasm and eagerness to push his marketing [...]
I can’t wait until Halloween. It has always been my favorite holiday of the year. I’m not sure why thought. I typically don’t dress up or go to many parties. I think it has to do with the feeling in the air and the memories I have from my childhood. In honor of Halloween, I [...]
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