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Local Businesses Thinks Social Media Is A Waste Of Time

May 25, 2010
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People have varying opinions about social media. Some think it’s a stroke of genius, while some say it’s a waste of time. What do you think? To each his own, I always say. As much as I’d like to get into a debate at how beneficial using social media is to various businesses, the fact [...]

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4 Tips On How Brands Should Behave In The Social Web

April 27, 2010
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You’ve probably noticed how brands have become more present in social media now more than ever. That’s mostly because social media is the new ‘in’ thing for marketing. Can you really blame companies for wanting in on a convenient and less expensive way to promote their brand and products? I certainly don’t.

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Preparing To Do A Guest Blog Post

April 22, 2010
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Many successful freelancers have established their authority and thought leadership by publishing guest posts in a lot of different blogs. More than that, doing a guest post can actually help you get your career take off. It opens up opportunities to network with other people and be more visible in the social web. This will [...]

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How To Build Online Presence For Small-Scale Businesses

April 3, 2010
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How many times have you tried looking for some sort of buzz about your company online and found nothing? None. Zilch. Nada. It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Such is the problem of many small-scale businesses that choose to venture online. There’s just not much online buzz about them to start with.

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3 Things Your Social Media Marketer Always Forget

April 2, 2010
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Social media marketing is a great deal of work. You have lots to think of and even more things to keep track of. But sometimes, the work becomes too mechanical that some important things slip the mind and get forgotten. What am I talking about? Here are some things that sometimes slip the minds of [...]

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Stepping Up From the Bottom Pile

March 18, 2010
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A start-up blog may be difficult to get out in public. Unless you’ve got influential friends promoting your blog on their sites, you’re bound to land at the bottom pile. Bottom pilers don’t really get much traffic. They get an occasional spike on pageviews, but not really a lot of readers. It’s a sad fate, [...]

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Aim For Strong Relationships In Twitter

March 17, 2010
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With so many people joining Twitter every day, it’s tempting for corporate Twitter users to just mass follow people and pray that they somehow end up as patrons of the business. But the thing is it should be like this. In social media, you don’t just aim for casual acquaintances. What you should thrive for [...]

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Defining The Limit Line In Social Media

March 1, 2010
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Social media is pretty much like real life – it offers you an opportunity to meet a lot of people. But when you’re dealing with a diverse crowd, you’re going to want to lay down some ground rules to avoid clashing. But what type of rules should they be? This question is kind of subjective, [...]

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3 Commenter Etiquettes Your Mom Did Not Teach You

February 26, 2010
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In social media, people are encouraged to share and interact with each other. It can be in the form of a blog, a tweet, a link share, or sometimes, a comment. Yes, a comment counts as sharing and interacting. It’s pretty much like replying to someone who’s talking to you. But before you start saying [...]

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Promoting Better Corporate Citizenship

February 24, 2010
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With brands engaging in social media, everything they do is under scrutiny of the masses that use social media sites. They do well to others, social media users sing praises, and those praises may end up becoming potential business. They don’t do anything to help out, social media users flame them, and eventually the criticisms [...]

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Online Realizations of Brand Interaction

February 17, 2010
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You know what they say about satisfied customers, they have a tendency to endorse you to a couple of people they know. However, on the flipside, if you have an unhappy customer, they’ll tell at least 10 people about how crappy your product/service is. So which would you rather have? I don’t think you’d want [...]

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Control Is A Major Fear In Social Media

February 16, 2010
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If there’s one thing business owners’ fear about joining the social media bandwagon, it’s the fact that things might spiral out of control. The keyword in their concerns: control. That’s actually a valid concern. Is there really a way to control people from talking about the brand in social media? If you think about it, [...]

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Online Etiquette Tips from the Playground

February 15, 2010
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As a child, I was always brought down to the public playground. This is most probably because my mom wanted me to learn how to interact with other kids my age. You can pretty much say that my first few lessons in proper behavior in public, I got from being brought down to the public [...]

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5 Splendid Tips To Promote Your Work

February 1, 2010
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To get your business off the ground, you’re going to have to master the art of promoting. You’re going to need to get the word out there, and the best way you’re going to do that is to effectively advertise your product. You’re got many options to choose from. There’s traditional media to help you [...]

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Preparing Your Blogs For 2010

December 26, 2009
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You can smell it right? A few more days and this year will be over. As the holiday craze starts, let’s give some thoughts on how to prepare our blogs for the New Year. This year was indeed a challenge and the recession changed the business landscape a lot. We can’t predict what will be [...]

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