I coach my clients to spend their time doing what they do best and leave the items that they’ve contracted me for to me! Work on getting their trust and respect and you can’t go wrong.
There are so many things you can do to maximize your client relationships. Still there will be times when the relationship breaks down. So, what are 5 signs that you are working with the wrong client?
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With the explosion of Facebook profiles and business pages, what are you doing to make your page stand out? As a Social Media Specialist, I help my clients impress and stay top of mind in the Facebook and Social Media space. Here are 3 tips on things you can do to make your Facebook Business Page sing.
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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
Tweet 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 [...]
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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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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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Posted in Business, Marketing on Jan 12th, 2010
It’s important to take a look at where your traffic is coming from. If you have invested considerable time in your social media sites, you should find that profiles like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., are great sources of traffic to your blog and to your website. You might also find, if you are pushing your blog posts out to the social bookmark sites, that places like Digg, Delicious and Stumbleupon for example are also a source of traffic for you. You will be able to see pretty quickly which sites are the ones that are working best for you and it is here that you should devote a little more time and attention.
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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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