Social Media is a Game

Social media is game – it’s nothing more than a platform that allows anyone to say pretty much what they want to say. Like it or not, what you say and how you say it, as well as what you don’t say on the social networks communicate a great deal about you and your small business.

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How Blogging Converts Relevancy into New Business

Prospects understand that that every company is different, which is why they are searching for something they can relate to – and that is usually something that is relevant and personal to you.

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Enchantment – A Conversation with Guy Kawasaki

Skills can be learned, and enchantment is one of them. In the book Enchantment, author Guy Kawasaki gives you practical ideas for enchanting your customers, your employees, and even your boss. What is enchantment? Guy defines it as the process of delighting people with a product, service, organization or idea – with the outcome being a mutually beneficial relationship.

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Culture is King at Zappos

Social media has been a powerful tool in the growth of Zappos, and their culture is what ensures that what is shared supports the well-being of the company and everyone associated with it. No attorneys are needed to craft complex privacy policies, just a simple commitment to ten core values.

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Ditto is Future-Based Networking

What do you want to do? Ditto is a geo-location app that will be change the check-in and recommendation game to make it more practical and useful for regular small business folks like you and me.

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5 Social Media Turn-Offs to Avoid

Building mutually beneficial relationships is an essential business practice. How that is accomplished via the social networks requires a number of skills, including an appropriate application of effort. Trying too hard is forcing a connection, and that is a turn-off. Conversely, not trying hard enough shows a lack of interest that also fails to propel the conversation forward.

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Business Relationships are Personal

Smart business leaders are interested in what their customers want. While this is prudent on a business level, it ignores the fact that your customers are people first. Think of this social media influenced business environment as a new game in which you need to be personal to achieve the desired by-product – new business relationships.

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How You Can Grow Your Business with QR Codes

Quick Response (QR) codes and other two-dimensional (2D) codes are expected to achieve widespread use this year – and for good reason. Consumers want immediate access to what’s relevant and QR codes are being used to make that possible.

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Make a Copy of Your Hard Work – Start a Blog

A recent New York Time article suggest that blogs are waning as young social media users are migrating to Facebook and Twitter. Surprised? I’m not. The truth is that blogging takes work. If you are going to share, and we all are, why not just take a few additional steps to ensure you have a copy that you own. Your blog is that copy.

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Dust Off Your Google Profile

Your Google Profile is essentially your base camp – your home in regards to assembling your social graph for Google search – especially the real-time and social search that Google is now intensely focused on.

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