Category Archives: Growing your business

If Fortune 500 Can So Can You – #Infographic

If Fortune 500 Can So Can You Infographic from a new report from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center which has been conducting research on Social Media since 2008. It is evident that Social Media is becoming a bigger and bigger … Continue reading

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Why Content Marketing Kicks $SS – #Infographic

Why Content Marketing Kicks $SS Traditional publicity aka interruption marketing have long been the way that most marketeers have attempted to attract potential buyers. Source: Attach Media However, this type of marketing continues to become more and more ineffective. Not … Continue reading

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Ignore Mobile at Your Own Peril – #Infographic

Ignore Mobile at Your Own Peril Business owners have ignored mobile for too long. Not only is the growth in mobile usage unprecedented but the implication for any company of this growth is serious. In the majority of the countries … Continue reading

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Tweet Smarter not Harder – Part Two

Introduction If you read Part One of this series, you recall I discussed targeting and third-party applications to save you time and help you market you business and product or service more effectively. Goals For This Post (Part Two) The … Continue reading

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Tweet Smarter not Harder – Part One

Introduction I adore Twitter. I discovered Twitter in 2009 and found it to be much more efficacious when it came to interacting socially with my blog followers than Facebook. I’d started my humor blog in ’08 and kept reading about … Continue reading

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Social Media Marketing without the Spam

Introduction I have been working on the Internet for more than a decade both under my own byline and as a corporate writer/copywriter. I help small and large businesses achieve their goals via writing, editing and advertising services. I have … Continue reading

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How to get Your First Speaking Engagement in Just 3 Weeks

Introduction This is how I got my first speaking engagement in just 3 weeks. I am a very small fish in a very big pond. Today I was invited to give my first speech at a large networking group. I … Continue reading

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How to avoid being 1 Click Away from Losing your Biggest Sale

Introduction Today many companies have a social media marketing strategy. They have a fan page, LinkedIn company page and a twitter account. They grow their fans and followers and it all seems great. But they do not think about who … Continue reading

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One sure way to increase your readership – guaranteed. It’s so easy!!

Introduction Do you want as many people as possible to read your post? If you do then you need to spend more time on writing your headline. Just a few words can make the difference between a successful post and … Continue reading

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You have no Social Marketing Strategy – then what is the point of having a business?

Introduction Social networks are the cornerstone of any Social Media Marketing Strategy. Today 1.2 billion people worldwide access social networks and it is redefining the web. Social Networks “were” superficial but are now serious business and is today the world’s … Continue reading

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