Is A Dumb Question The Right One?

The social web is an ideal proving ground for your new product and service ideas. You will not always be pleased with the feedback your receive, but you will learn a great deal if you are able to set emotions aside. What you consider to be dumb ideas may prove to be your biggest breakthroughs.

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Google vs. Facebook and Your Small Business Marketing

The current tussle between Google and Facebook is not surprisingly about Facebook’s unwillingness to share the massive amount of personal data on all of us that they control, and that is highly valued by advertisers. While the two work out their differences, it’s essential for you to understand what this is about in order to build a plan for maintaining a viable Web marketing presence, regardless of who becomes the master of this digital universe.

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Enhance Your Productivity by Working Like You Have an Audience

You can dramatically enhance your business productivity by taking advantage of this behavioral change that you have been honing since childhood. One of the things that makes social media work so well is you don’t know who is watching. Put another way, you can also assume that everybody is watching. This is one reason why social networking and marketing tend to bring out the best in all of us.

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Blog Categories are Lanes

Your blog categories are much more than a means of organizing your blog content. They suggest to your audience that you have not only taken to the time to organize your content, but that you clearly understand your expertise and how to use it to help them in ways that are most useful to them.

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How Did You Get Into Social Media?

The question that I am frequently asked when I’m out speaking to small business audiences is how I got into a career involving social media. It’s a good question that I’d like to take a shot at.

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GroupMe for Small Business and Family

GroupMe is a free service that allows you to simultaneously text-message or conference call a group of mobile devices. It works with any type of mobile device, and anyone in the group use the unique number to text the group or initiate a conference call.

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Tall Tweets for Tweeting Longer than 140

Tall Tweets is a new Twitter service that allows you to tweet more than 140 character messages by automatically slicing your message into multiple and successive tweets.

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Authenticity Guidelines

Authenticity is a behavioral quality that enhances your effectiveness with social networking and marketing. It seems easy enough until you are in the spotlight. The reason is that whenever we are on a stage of any kind, where we know we are being observed – our behavior changes.

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5 Ways to Make Your Blog Posts Outstanding

A great blog post respects the needs of three distinct entities. It educates and informs your audience (your subscribers and visitors), optimizes for the search engines and sufficiently energizes you so that you do a good job creating it. To accomplish this, it should address five component, including having an engaging title, content that is easy to consume, a mix of content types, being optimized for search engines, and lots of interaction.

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Using Social Media to Enhance Your Sales Process

Using technology to collaborate with your prospects and customers respects their valuable time – while also making the most of yours. Now you can use social networking and marketing to share the information that is necessary for prospects to learn what they most need to know about you and your business, and to encourage more qualified inquiries.

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