Social Media Marketing

Facebook Fan Pages

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Do you have a Facebook Fan Page for you business?  If not – Why Not? Facebook is where your customers are (for many businesses) so why not get this FREE real estate.  Yes it is not real estate in the traditional sense, but it is valuable online real estate. It is not hard to grab your page and set it up – here are a few tips once you do: Tell your existing customers about your fan page and start interacting with them. Tell your friends about your page – great source of referrals. Once you have 25 friends – you can lock in […]

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Social Media and Blogs

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Why use Social Media? Marketing is changing CHEAP – Great ROI – Zero Cash Exponential Growth Self-Replicating Relationship Based Fun Inclusive So I should do more – I know it. And it starts with this Blog. When I think of blogs – I think of a conversation. As I read someone’s blog I picture them talking to me. So when you write – consider yourself talking to a person. Kind of like talking to a neighbor – like Wilson talking to Tim the Toolman. Here are some Business Blogging tips. First – Post Consistently. It does not have to be every day, but try

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Set up your Website

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If your a small business owner and you have not got around to setting up a website – now is the time.  It has never been easier to get your business online – and the returns are simply amazing. But . . . Your website can be a marketing paradise . .. or a marketing sinkhole!! So do things right.  Don’t spend time and money that you don’t have too. I fully recommend using WordPress to set up your website.  I just finished teaching a class on how to do it and in a couple hours they had up a professional and good looking

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Get involved in the online conversation through forums

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Online Forums – Get Involved – Get Active One of the greatest sourced of information are online forums. There are many on the net. Almost every guru on the net has his or her own forum. There are some big forums geared at web development, seo, and just about anything else to deal with running a business on the net. I am active in quite a few of these forums.  Alice Seba’s Internet Based Mom’s forum is one of the main ones that I check in regularly, as I am a moderator on that forum. I also regularly check in on the Warrior forum, TurboCommunity, Internet Buzz, Adsense and Rich Jerk among others.

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Communication Problems in Business

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The one problem area in communication that still gives me the heebie jeebies is email. I use it every day – tons!!! But . .. it is so easy to make a mistake, say the wrong thing, convey the wrong meaning. **  ** Catch this post in Video ** ** The problem is there is not tonality – you can’t hear inflection that defines so much meaning in what people say.  Sure we can add those little variations of smiley faces – but do they really do the job. I see it in my coworkers as well – some jump in with both feet,

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