A blog is a great way for you to give your community fresh, valuable information on a regular basis. I did a post on top 10 tips on blogging back in the Fall. If you would like to read it, you’ll find it here. The questions is, does one go with .com or .org? I like the analogy that Matt uses here of owning a home vs renting. Personally, I would much rather own my own and be in control of my own destiny. Wouldn’t you? While the low maintenance aspect of the .com site may seem attractive, what does Matt mean here when he says in the .com version, you have ‘no yard’, and you ‘can’t knock down the walls’? Here are a few key differences you should be aware of.
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Posted in Brand Management, Business, Marketing, Outsourcing, Public Relations, Reputation Management, Social Media, Social Networking, VA, Virtual Assistant on Mar 12th, 2010
3 Ways to Reputation Management – Keeping An Ear to the Ground Yes, it’s true! People talk about their life experiences – good or bad every day. In the past, they would tell their friends, family and co-workers, but here’s what’s changed. Now anyone can go online and spread word of that experience… with the [...]
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I will share 5 tweets here and give you some ideas as to how these tweets might have been done differently. This individual is in the ec0-friendly industry and their profile implied that they were looking for business contacts. The following tweets are not business related. Here is how they might have gone about these tweets a little differently to showcase their expertise, and share value add information to their target audience. See how you can use these examples and adapt them to your own environment.
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With Twitter usage up dramatically lately, it would appear that many are beginning to realize its potential to really help drive their business forward. Check out this interview that Chris Brogan did recently with Restauranteur Joe Sorge who owns AJ Bombers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. See how Twitter has in his words, ‘built his business’.
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There is nothing like the Olympic Games to bring the world together. Over 80 countries have gathered to compete, demonstrate their skills and share their culture and friendship. I am a huge fan of the Olympic Games. This year as I watched some of my favorite sports, I was struck by how many similarities there are between the Games and Social Media. Here are my top 7 ways the Olympics mirror the Social Media landscape.
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As a Social Media Specialist Virtual Assistant, I have clients asking me to help them clarify between a Facebook Group and a Facebook Business Page. For many they appear to accomplish the same thing…but do they? Here are 3 major differences between Facebook Business Pages and Facebook Groups.
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As a Social Media Specialist, I coach my clients to use their blog site as their hub so it was time to put my money where my mouth is. It’s so much easier for me now to maintain my Wordpress site than my static website.
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No matter what Social Media sites you are using, you need to have your sites inter-linked. Personally I have almost doubled my Facebook Fan page by having a fan box on my blog site. Making it easy for people to find you and follow you is key. People don’t have time to search all over the place for you. Time is precious. Make it easy for your prospects and clients to find and connect with you wherever they ‘hang out’!
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Over the course of the next few days, you will notice something new on LinkedIn. You will be able to tie in your Twitter account to LinkedIn and when you post a status update, you will be able to send that update to Twitter and vice-versa.
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Posted in Social Media on Nov 5th, 2009
Needless to say, this kind of hacking makes me furious. I have spent a lot of time developing serious relationships with my followers. Most know that I wouldn’t send out that kind of message and certainly not in a DM- it’s definitely not my style but for others who are just getting to know me better, I wonder how this might have affected a blossoming relationship. How many out there got the message and didn’t tell me?
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