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Lee Stranahan will be hosting The Small Business Online Blueprint — a live free seminar in Albuqueque that reveals to New Mexico small business owners the secrets behind successful internet marketing.

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How to hire a social media consultant

Chris Street, SocialMediaToday.com writes “Chances are, if you’re a marketing agency director, PR agency account director, solo entrepreneur, or marketing director of a small to medium-sized business, you’ll have been dipping into social media platforms and hopefully getting engaged by now.” “One of the biggest issues I regularly come across for those involved with, or [...]

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Facebook email: How your email went social

Tom Eldridge, SocialMediaToday.com There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.  – Niccolo Machiavelli “Facebook’s announcement of its own email system, presents an interesting proposition for its users, challenges for [...]

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3 Reasons Why You Should Provide Customer Support on Social Media

Harish Kotadia, Ph.D., SocialMediaToday.com writes “Talk to any executive of a large or medium sized company contemplating having customer support on Social Media channels and one of the first question you are likely to hear is But how can we afford it? Well, the right question is Can you afford not having Customer Support on Social Media? [...]

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Engage or Die: The Future of Social Media?

Photo & Article, Michael Stelzner “In this video I interview Brian Solis author of the best selling book Engage! Brian shares how his Social Media Manifesto became a rallying cry and led to the ”Engage or Die” slogan he now uses on his website.” “You’ll also learn why social media can do more for businesses today and what businesses need to look for in geo-location tools. There [...]

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Study Reveals Why Consumers Fan Facebook Pages

Photo & Article, Amy Porterfield, SocialMediaExaminer.com “Have you ever wondered why people decide to become fans of Facebook pages?  Understanding the reasons people become fans can help your business or brand develop better strategies.” In this article, I take a look at two studies. “The first reveals why consumers fan businesses on Facebook. The second one [...]

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Myth: Social Media Makes People Less Social

Penn Olson, Penn-Olson.com writes: “Finally, I’m glad that to announce that new research fromExactTarget has burst the bubble of the notion that technology alienates people with their freshly-baked statistics.” “It is proven there is a co-relation between increased social media usage and increased offline interaction – as users increase their Facebook and Twitter usage, they also tend to increase [...]

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Twitter Prepping Ad Product for Small Businesses

“With Twitter’s ad-based business model now evolving on what seems like an almost daily basis, the company has revealed plans for a big new target: small businesses.”

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Viral Media: It’s Not Just For Young People Anymore

“The fifty or so business people trying to learn about social media recently were surprised to learn one very important lesson about social media: It’s not just for young people.”

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Twitter: Inane Chatter or Powerful Conversation Channel?

“The power of social conversation and social networks in creating fresh marketing approaches is illustrated by a Deeter Gallaher Group case study that follows a car dealership’s foray into the stream of social media.”

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Google Instant and Impact to Your Online Marketing

“You might have come across the recent launch of Google Instant last week – where the search results will come up as you type and which is being rolled out across the globe. Google Instant takes what you have typed already, predicts the most likely completion and streams results in real-time for those predictions – you can read more about it on the Google blog.”

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