Tweet Lately we have been receiving a lot of requests for in-house social media marketing trainings. Clients are requesting that we come on site to assist them in developing a social media marketing campaign strategy. The downturn in the economy has really hit small businesses and they are looking for new ways to find and [...]

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admin on August 25th, 2008

Tweet I was Googling my name as I usually do on a Monday morning as part of my personal reputation management. I noticed a social network profile I signed up for a few months back called Naymz has grown significantly in PageRank as well as made it to the first page on my Google Results. [...]

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admin on August 16th, 2008

Tweet I was just reading a Techcrunch blog post on the the local services market Workstir.com. I went and signed up to be notified for the private beta. Then after I signed up it gave me the following option on the thank you page: In the meantime, if you could help us out by tweeting [...]

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admin on August 14th, 2008

Tweet Was just reading an article on the latest comScore report showing that Facebook has beaten out MySpace as the number one social networking site. Facebook grew 153% last year and has 132 Million unique visitors. MySpace better clean up its act!

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admin on August 13th, 2008

Tweet As part of every social media marketing strategy that we build we conduct a conversational marketing assessment that evaluates the target arena we are considering entering as part of the social media marketing campaign. We are noticing that pretty much every one of our clients has a very fragmented presence on the Internet and [...]

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admin on August 13th, 2008

Tweet Was just contemplating the power the Internet gives you in having a voice in this world. Within minutes you can have your own domain and site or blog up and being broadcasting to the world. That is really powerful stuff.

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Tweet So was just having a random thoughts while designing a couple of social applications. I was thinking out you can build social applications that run on different platforms and work with a web service that allows various information to drive the application. So why can’t you start evolving advertising to be widget based and [...]

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admin on August 12th, 2008

Tweet Here is a new presentation from Ahren over at Social Media Squad on Social Media Marketing. Social Media Marketing By The Numbers View SlideShare presentation (tags: social marketing marketing media social)

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admin on August 11th, 2008

Tweet There are so many opportunities on the Internet for marketing your business using social media, it is easy to get distracted and dilute your efforts. Having a strategy before you embark on social media marketing is extremely important, and revisiting this strategy regularly is critical to evolving and changing your approach so that you [...]

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Tweet Social Networks are a phenomenon amongst the younger generation of Internet uses, and has continue to grow in popularity amongst old users as well. The next growth in social network sites and usage will be among business users with networks such as LinkedIn. The business usage of social networks is still in its infancy [...]

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admin on August 11th, 2008

Tweet Telling the world about your businesses products and service has been around since the beginning of time, how you do this has evolved with each generation of business. The latest evolution of this consists of streaming the activities of your company, its staff, and your marketing efforts online in the social media space. There [...]

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Tweet Social media content is at the heart of the web these days. Blogs, Video, Images, Audio, and other social media is what you use to listen in on the conversation and build an awareness of the audience and conversation that is taking place. To participate in the conversation you need to communicate through the [...]

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admin on August 11th, 2008

Tweet Knowledge and wisdom is the most important piece you can extract from any social media campaign. Not matter what type of strategy you implement, learning from the conversation is where you should focus and the rest will come with it. Any amount of information can be obtained from many different conversational sources throughout your [...]

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admin on August 11th, 2008

Tweet On the Internet there is a conversation going on. Everyone is participating in this conversation, using Social media. Pick a topic, the environment, politics, Britney Spears or your product and people are talking about it. They talk about it using Blogs, on video using Youtube, with images using Flickr, and they share and interact [...]

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admin on August 11th, 2008

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admin on August 11th, 2008

Tweet I was just test driving a new bookmarking and comment tracking tool called co.mments.com. I test drive these types of web services to see if there is a fit for use on social media marketing campaigns. It is a pretty simple straightforward approach…which I like. I prefer applications to do one thing and do [...]

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admin on August 5th, 2008

Tweet I was doing some research tonight for a new social media marketing campaign tonight….I perform due diligence on a topic by running through the Google Search Toolbar…web,images, video and blogs. Then I jump over to use BoardTracker and BoardReader to search through forums on different topics. I think Google should go ahead and purchase [...]

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