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Listen to the audio from "Using Facebook to Grow Your Business"

Original broadcast: January 28th, 2010

With over 300 million active users across the world, Facebook has evolved far beyond the college student hangout it began as. A rapidly growing number of businesses are learning how to use Facebook to create real business value by supporting existing customers, finding new customers and creating online communities of around their products and services.

Our panelists:

Clara Shih is the author of the newly released bestseller, The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff.

Jonathan Smart is the president of the Jimmy Smart Allstate Insurance Agency in Columbus, Georgia, helping clients with insurance for homes, autos, renters, landlords, boats

Steve King is the blogger in residence at MyVenturePad and a partner at Emergent Research and a Senior Fellow at the Society for New Communications Research.

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Globalizing Your Small Business

Originally aired Wednesday, May 28, 2008

For any small or medium enterprise, going global can lead to a world of issues. Technology is essential, but it's just the price of admission to global markets.

  • What advice does Hans-Peter Klaey, President of Global SME for SAP, have for small and medium enterprises looking to go global?
  • What kind of SMEs are best suited for global partnerships, according to John M. Jordan, head of the Center for Digital Transformation at Penn State?
  • As an SME, what is your experience of working closely with a much larger multinational firm (as a vendor/partner)? How do you work through the various issues of globalization, including things like multiple tax jurisdictions, language barriers, and the difficulty of overseeing operations from a distance. Ask Ed Pisula Jr., Director of Corporate IT at Respironics, an SAP customer that uses SAP products in multiple countries.

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Growing Pains: Is Your Business Software Dragging You Down?

Originally presented Monday, May 5, 2008 2PM EDT

Barbara Weltman Leading Author and Publisher of Big Ideas for Small Business

Manju Bansal  Director, Solution Marketing, SAP Labs

Dennis Howlett   Prominent blogger and accounting software expert, AccMan

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Recession-Proof Your Business

Originally presented Friday, February 22, 2008

Barbara Weltman, the nation's leading authority on small business, and Chad Moutray, chief economist and director of economic research, U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, share their insight about the most productive ways to protect your small business from a recession.

Moderated by Robin Fray Carey from Social Media Today, this event  offers actionable advice on how to keep your business not only afloat during difficult economic times, but how to keep it thriving.

Featuring

Barbara Weltman
Leading Author and Publisher of Big Ideas for Small Business

Chad Moutray
Chief Economist and Director of Economic Research
U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy

Robin Fray Carey (moderator)
CEO and Co-Founder
Social Media Today

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