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5 Social Media Foundations for the Busy Entrepreneur

April 2, 2012 by Erin Tillotson
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Save hours of time by using your social media channels wisely. [read more]

Are You the Agent of Your Own Change?

March 11, 2012 by Gavin Heaton
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Have you ever made a deep change in your life? Did you look at the status quo and decide you didn’t like the shape, smell or grind that defined your life? If so – did you have the courage to change? Did you make that u-turn? At the recent fastBREAK event – Vibewire’s co-production with the Powerhouse Museum, five speakers explored this... [read more]

Why Twitter Unfollows Your Friends and What You Can Do About It

March 9, 2012 by Tac Anderson
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If you’ve spent any amount of time on Twitter then you’ve experienced the confusion and frustration of when your friends get randomly unfollowed from your account. How did this happen? [read more]

Building Your Social Media Connections

March 6, 2012 by Michael Cohn
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Social media websites are a phenomenon today. Websites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Orkut, YouTube and Blogger are some of the most accessed websites on the Internet. It, therefore, becomes important to leverage the widespread popularity of these websites and develop top social media strategies to expand your business. [read more]

Twitter’s Enhanced Profile Pages

March 6, 2012 by Bill Brelsford
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Not to be outdone by Facebook, Twitter profile pages will soon be sporting a new look with their Enhanced Profile Pages. [read more]

How Tweet Chats Work

February 23, 2012 by Drew McLellan
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Have you wanted to attend a Tweet Chat but weren’t sure how it worked? You are not alone, my friend. Let me see if I can boil it down. [read more]

What the New Twitter Brand Pages Mean to Marketers

December 9, 2011 by Steve Olenski
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Late to the party or not, Twitter has followed in Facebook's and Google+'s footsteps with the launch of their new brand pages and brand marketers would be wise to sit up and take notice of the new features coming to a Twitter account near them. Clearly the brand battle lines are being drawn. [read more]

Praising Twitter as it Deserves

December 6, 2011 by Michael Cohn
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If you're not on Twitter yet, here are 7 reasons to get tweeting. [read more]

Are You Missing Business Opportunities on LinkedIn? How to Build a Network

September 13, 2011 by Des Walsh
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Speaking to groups in my part of the world over recent months I have found there are a lot of business professionals who know about LinkedIn and may even have a profile of sorts there but are not convinced that LinkedIn represents any real business opportunity for them. Some are quite skeptical, even dismissive about the idea. [read more]

How to (Finally) Measure ROI from Social Media

September 6, 2011 by Matt Heinz
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Social media is not a direct-response channel. I think we can all agree on that. But it absolutely is part of the sales funnel for your business. It's where you can build and foster relationships with unlimited prospects, partners and influencers at very little cost, adding value on a daily basis until a percentage of those individuals and organizations are ready to move forward - either into a conversation or an active buying cycle. [read more]

My Venture Pad on Twitter

August 24, 2011 by Carissa Wodehouse
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Join us on Twitter for upcoming chats, starting out tips, and group conversations such as women entrepreneurs. [read more]

Social Media Marketing Notes from Peter Shankman

August 16, 2011 by Becky McCray
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4 rules learned from HARO and other notes from Peter Shankman's presentation at Social: IRL. [read more]

3 Things Small Businesses Can Learn from India

August 15, 2011 by Rajeev Malik
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Last month, I was away on vacation to India. It was great. I spent time with family and traveled a bit. One thing I did notice is that in India, the presence of Social Media is not as apparent as it is here. Here, there are Twitter and Facebook icons plastered all over the place. There…well I didn’t see any. [read more]

The Dark Side Of Social Media

August 15, 2011 by Steve Olenski
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For all the benefits social media provides its users every single day, there is also a dark side, a much darker side as we have been reminded by recent events around the world. [read more]

7 Tips to Maximize Your Circles. I Google+ Circled, Followed, Liked, Linked, Bookmarked You, Now What?

July 22, 2011 by Pam Moore
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How to prioritize and maximize your time online. Keep a weekly double click list of people you want to engage with and a list of people you want to thank. [read more]

The Six Biggest Websites Compared [Infographic]

July 18, 2011 by John Lawson
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Wikipedia, Amazon.com, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and eBay traffic compared. [read more]

On my 3rd Twitter birthday: 7 reasons Twitter is central to my life

June 20, 2011 by Ross Dawson
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Earlier today I noticed it’s three years since my life on Twitter began. At the time I wrote about my belated entry to Twitterland. It now seems strange to me that I was such a late starter compared to many other connected folk, given that Twitter is now so central to my life. The primary reason I held off getting started on Twitter was... [read more]

InboxQ's Excellent Twitter Q&A User Survey

June 17, 2011 by Steve King
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Twitter users like to ask questions, and when they ask companies questions they like to get answers. This pretty clearly illustrates the power of Twitter as a customer support channel. [read more]

Defending Twitter

April 29, 2011 by Steve King
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There is a growing backlash against Twitter these days.  This tends to happen in the tech field when something has been as hyped as Twitter.  Fortune's recent cover story - Trouble@Twitter - is an example.  It spends most of its time on management discord at the company. But the article also points out that Twitter... [read more]

Twitter is a Broadcast Medium

April 4, 2011 by Steve King
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Interesting academic study on Twitter from Yahoo Research.  The bottom line of the study is Twitter is dominated by a small number of users and much more of broadcast medium than a social network. Key quote from the study: “We find a striking concentration of attention on Twitter—roughly 50% of tweets consumed are generated by just... [read more]

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