Hootsuite: Know Your Twitter Klout (Clout)

July 5, 2010

So, you log into your Hootsuite account one day (and if you don’t have Hootsuite I recommend it for what it’s worth) and you see this new interesting number glued to the profiles around you and you wonder to yourself, “what does this all mean?”
Or at least that is what I was wondering. So I [...]

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Twitter is Still Useful!

June 30, 2010

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Do me a favor and login to your twitter account and watch your stream for a few minutes.  What do you notice?  I’ll tell you what I see, I see a whole bunch of self promotion and even more links!  I feel a parody of the LOS LINKS! commercial [...]

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A New Way To Use Foursquare

June 24, 2010

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With every passing day the location based social media phenomenon known as Foursquare is teaming up with big brands, corporations and events.   The most recent addition to their partnership list, which includes MTV, New York Times and Bravo, is C-SPAN.  You can click on the links to see [...]

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Finding Current Customers and Potential Clients with Social Media

June 21, 2010

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I think when it comes down to it, the most challenging part of Social Media marketing—for most people—is actually getting your current and prospective clients to your Social sites.
I mean seriously. If you own a business you probably have decent communication skills. You’ve dealt with customer service, sales, [...]

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Getting the IN on LinkedIn

June 8, 2010

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If you look around at Social Media you will see a great deal of pollution. Quote pollution, tweet pollution, fan pollution, like pollution, and comment pollution. Each of which is growing stronger everyday.
However, there is one Social Media platform where you can still rely on involved professionals without the [...]

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Social Media Marathon

June 7, 2010

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Looking for a quick fix to your marketing woes, or an easy solution to your customer service problems? Or are you just looking for an easy, inexpensive way to get more customers through your doors? You’ll have to keep looking because its still undiscovered.
Even though social media [...]

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Know your mayor

May 21, 2010

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Have you heard of Foursquare?  I’m not talking about the game you used to play in elementary school where you could only hit the ball underhand, and had to worry about tea parties and bus stops; I’m talking about the location based social media site.
If you are on twitter [...]

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Facebook: the Next Next Next Next Generation

April 27, 2010

Ya I know. I am one in a million writing on this blog topic right now, but I don’t care. Mostly because I want to make a statement, partly because you may not have heard any of this yet.
If you didn’t know, Facebook is making changes. They always are, and, if they stand the [...]

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A Quick Fix, One More, or Business—the unBusiness

April 10, 2010

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]Once I used a quick fix, I was bleeding profusely from a deep cut in my wrist and neck. I just put some tape on it and then I was ok.
Haha. Ya right.
Let’s start again. I’m going to call this article, “One More.”
How many clients did you have [...]

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Social Media Frenzy

April 10, 2010

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]Twitter, Facebook , Foursquare, Gowalla, Flickr, Youtube, Wordpress, Blogger, Buzz, Bebo, imeme, Myspace, Plaxo, Xanga, and on and on and on. With a multitude of social media networks at your fingertips it begs the question, “What is it all about?”
I’ve asked myself this question a hundred times. We live [...]

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