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10 Ways to Blow Social Media Marketing…Okay, Only 9

by The Obvious Expert on October 7, 2009

Here’s a social media marketer’s spin on 10 tips for blowing that all important job interview, and remember, this is what NOT to do:

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Research circulated a few years back suggesting that each of us, in our workspace, is interrupted from our task approximately once every 11 minutes. Worst of all, it then takes us 25 minutes to deal with the interruption and return to our fullest level of concentration on the task we were addressing.

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Pick one area of your business marketing in which you don’t cut corners, don’t go the do-it-yourself route, and don’t scale back your approach

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5 Simple Ways Your Small Business Can Find Cash with an Unexpected Twist

September 13, 2009

Most importantly, turn your efforts into a marketing outreach and a branding opportunity. Tell everyone with whom you interact about your business. Give them your elevator speech (and your business card) and show your genuine enthusiasm for clearing out these items in your life because you are making room for bigger and better things in your business. Your genuine enthusiasm for the process will be both intriguing and engaging.

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Win Now. Apply the 9 Step Tiger Woods Approach to Your Business Plan

September 1, 2009

You may never be able to emulate it … at least not on the golf course. But try applying the Tiger Woods swing strategy to your business or consulting practice.

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The Changing Face of Twitter, Not What We Expected

August 7, 2009

Many supporters of Senator McCain in the 2008 Presidential campaign were disheartened that he didn’t take advantage of social media marketing opportunities in the way the Obama campaign was doing. Failure to interface with voters through new media interaction was making the ‘old guy’ seem even older and more out of touch.

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Easy Way to Get Cash into Your Business or Consulting Practice

July 24, 2009

But an often overlooked option is to get money from your clients and customers in advance of work, service, or goods you will be providing to them. Instead of going to a lender to borrow money against the income you anticipate in the future, why not skip that step and try to get your hands on that future income now?

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8 Reasons It Is a Good Time to be in Business

July 13, 2009

Anyone who has lost a job, lost a home, or is simply struggling in this economy, (which,to some degree, includes just about everyone), will be hard pressed to see good things going on in today’s business world. But with no disrespect intended to anyone who has been hurt, there are always two sides to every [...]

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Effective Social Media Marketing is More Cheese than Worms

July 10, 2009

Social media marketing tools such as Twitter, Facebook, blogs, LinkedIn, and YouTube, are not a replacement for using search engine optimization strategies to help you better reach your online market.

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Game Plan for Entrepreneurs and Businesses in a Troubled Economy

July 8, 2009

And even if you were an eighteen-year-old entrepreneurial prodigy in 1930, today you are a 97-year-old entrepreneurial legend who hasn’t been through an economic depression during a time when the business is built or broken by relational marketing on the internet.

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