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To be successful in Social Marketing, your goal should be never to have the most followers, it should be to have the most highly targeted followers. In two days it will be the New Year. As we all know, along with the New Year comes last year’s lists. I usually look forward to these lists. [...]

One of the biggest time sucker-uppers on Facebook is the myriad of apps that people send. You’ll get little green plants, good karma, invitations to fight strippers, snowballs and midgets thrown at you all disguised as gifts that you have to accept. It’s nice when your friends think about you but for a busy professional [...]

Mari Smith, Relationship and Buzz Marketing Specialist, asked on her Facebook discussion board, “What’s your Twitter username? Share here and we’ll all follow!” She received 7 pages of replies. Yet, they were all so different. How cool! The reason I am mentioning this is because I believe that there’s a lesson in that post. Mari gave [...]

Cool feature for those of you who market locally. Twitter Grader twitter.grader.com has a feature where you can see everyone who’s in your local area who’s on Twitter. After you type in your Twitter ID, you will see that beside your Location, there is a link that says Twitter Elite. If you click on it [...]

Have you heard of the 30-day challenge yet? I had, twice. Both times I meant to check it out but I got busy doing other things. Well today I signed up for it. I wasn’t quite sure what it was about, but I knew it was something that I should check out. Here’s one of [...]

Do you sometimes feel like you are talking to yourself when you blog? If you’ve been promoting your blog on the internet yet you have few comments – or most of your comments come from your friends, you can end up feeling like blogging is a waste of time. I am going to show you [...]

I read something that really put social networking into perspective. In her newsletter Coach Cristina Favreau said, “You’ve heard me work my magic in a group. Imagine what we can achieve, just the two of us…”. That’s really what social networking is all about. Working your magic for the room and enticing people to want [...]