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3 Simple Ways to Empower Your Customers to Sell For You :: Small.

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I was speaking at a small event when an audience member came up and told me they had followed me for years, read my books and were really excited to meet me. 1) Let me introduce you I discovered the power of this first tactic quite by accident. Now that’s a happy customer! All rights reserved.

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Forget The ‘Likes’ – How To Market Effectively Using Today’s Facebook

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by Jonathan Sellers, social media strategist at EMSI Public Relations. It seems nothing changes faster than the big social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Google+. That’s been especially true for Facebook, which had to find new ways to make money after going public two years ago.

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5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!)

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Finally, we work hard to create marketing value in the social media space and work to engender word-of-mouth and the viral effect. In April of 2004 Burger King and their agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky had an insight that led to what was, at the time, the most successful viral effort ever launched by a business: the Subservient Chicken.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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Regardless of the circumstances or the audience, communications should be engaging, effective and garner accolades. PR gets a bad rap for spinning stories, but I believe that telling great, authentic stories is the real heart and soul of communications and public relations. 15-I wanted an ocean-related name.

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5 Creative Ways to Use Text Messages in Marketing :: Small.

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TxtWire is another simple service that is very small business friendly Instant polling If you’ve ever attended a workshop or seminar that features polling hardware you know how cool it can be for a presenter to ask a question and then have the audience click their handheld controller to vote or make a choice. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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When Free Becomes Free For All ? 5 Reasons Free Is Hurting Us All.

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Of course, the flip side is true as well–audiences have become pleasantly surprised when they actually get value from time spent reading or viewing. I think this creates an atmosphere where content producers can simply slap something together with little value because, “What are they going to do, ask for a refund?” All rights reserved.

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I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 3 :: Small.

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Jason Falls Jason Falls is a social media strategist, thinker, speaker and educator. Social Media Explorer is also the name of Falls’s consulting company which focuses on strategic counsel for medium and large companies in the realm of social media marketing, digital marketing, online communications and public relations.

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