Archives for July 2010

Cross-Collaboration with Social Media

If you are using social media to collaborate, then I also hope you are using it to cross-collaborate. What is Cross-Collaboration? Every one of your customers benefits from your experience with the one that preceded them.  So then, why shouldn't they all benefit from every collaborative effort you have that follows?  In my mind, this […]

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Email Marketing Service MailChimp Likes Facebook

MailChimp continues to earn a place with small businesses as an email marketing service that is very user friendly and incredibly functionality.  In less than a week they are going to step things up even more when they allow you to add the Facebook Like button to your email campaigns. Why Facebook Like for Email […]

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Helping Small Businesses Embrace Social Media

The adoption rate of new media by small businesses is still, by any measure, much closer to zero than 50%.  There are some recent developments that suggest we may finally be moving closer to improving on those numbers.  So, lets put on our small business hats (we wear many of them!) and take a look […]

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Small Business Marketing Talk – #8

This issue of Small Business Marketing talk is an example of how social media can work to bring people together to accomplish practical business objectives.  In this example, it just so happens that one of the participants is me. Cultivating Relationships and Business Ventures Chris Heiler is a green industry professional that I met about […]

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Kids Want Social Content Too

Facebook is Dying Recently, my daughter matter-of-factly suggested Facebook was dying.  OMG, is she crazy, I thought? Given that she is an honors marketing student at Indiana University, and a member of The Facebook Generation, I tend to pay attention to what she has to say about this arena where I focus my business efforts. […]

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Personal Experience Drives Your Small Business

Yesterday I gave a presentation on social media networking and marketing to a group of real estate professionals at their regional conference here in Chicago.  As I try to do as much as possible when I am speaking, I stayed a while longer after my presentation to learn more about the association and these specific […]

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