Monthly Archives: July 2009

Twitter and Small Business Marketing

Posted on July 31, 2009 by admin

Now that you have a Twitter account and have made a Tweet, let’s start to reshape your Twitter presence to make it an effective marketing tool for you and your business.  In the next several posts, I will look at … Continue reading →

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Hard Selling on Social Media: Just Say No!

Posted on July 29, 2009 by admin

Being successful with social media marketing is more than just being on social media sites.  It takes a new approcah to marketing. Nancy Marmolejo provides some insights into the new style of marketing that is required on social media site. … Continue reading →

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How to Get On Twitter

Posted on July 29, 2009 by admin

I‘m not going to detail the basics of creating your Twitter account. Go to www.twitter.com and follow the simple instructions. This takes about five minutes of time. We will come back to many of these elements to show how you … Continue reading →

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Small Business Ways to Use Twitter

Posted on July 27, 2009 by admin

Over the past several blog entries, I shared with you some reasons other expert suggest for using Twitter.  In this post, I share with some of the ways Twitter has been helpful to my business. Build expertise.  People buy from … Continue reading →

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Social Media Participation Software

Posted on July 26, 2009 by admin

Social media sites are interactive conversations with inputs from others and outputs from you.  In the last post, I focused on software you can use to monitor what others are saying on social media sites.   In this post, I … Continue reading →

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Small Business Uses of Twitter

Posted on July 25, 2009 by admin

In this post, I will share the thoughts of two other small business marketing expets on ways to use Twitter. Both John Jantsch of Ducttape Marketing and Al Ferretti are helpful authors when it comes to small business operations.   Ferretti … Continue reading →

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Twitter for Small Businesses

Posted on July 23, 2009 by admin

The question many small business owners are asking, “Can Twitter be helpful for my business or are these short updates just a huge time waster that I cannot afford to do?”  This is a great question.  It can be answered … Continue reading →

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Use Software to Save Time on Social Media Sites

Posted on July 22, 2009 by admin

You want to use social media marketing.  But, you don’t want to waste time engaging in useless conversations.  Neither do I!  I use free software that helps me pay attention to social media conversations that helps my business and ignores … Continue reading →

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Twitter for Small Businesses

Posted on July 21, 2009 by admin

As I mentioned in a previous post, I will begin dissecting Twitter to uncover how it can be used for small business marketing. I will focus my posts around five major topics and provide step by step processes for using … Continue reading →

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With Social Media Key Words Are Your Key

Posted on July 20, 2009 by admin

There is an old saying, “Money makes the world go around.”  In social media marketing, it’s ”Key words make the money go around!”  In this post,  I will show you how a smart use of key words can give you … Continue reading →

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