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Are you doing the best you can to get the most out of your Facebook marketing efforts? With more than half of Facebook’s 800+ million users logging on every day, it should be easy to get a slice of the pie, right? Many say it could be easier…
There are several steps you should be taking to ... Views: 1433
Most mornings I check discussions on a few of my favorite groups on LinkedIn and Facebook. Today the discussion of blogging was posted on one of my writer’ groups.
“Do you blog? On what?” were two questions posted on a Facebook Group. The woman who posted wasn’t sure what to write about. ... Views: 1433
Leave it to the medium of music to deliver the global outpouring of endorsement and admiration for the wonderful voice of an amateur singer from a tiny Scottish village named Susan Boyle.
Her April 11, 2009 appearance on “Britain’s Got Talent” has stirred nothing short of a global phenomena and ... Views: 1431
You now have the ultimate tool to leverage those long-forgotten social connections via old jobs, multiple career changes, or decades-old friendships to fuel a new marketing channel within your company. LinkedIn marketing is one of the most effective ways to use social media marketing. LinkedIn ... Views: 1429
I get to work with a lot of great personal development and business growth experts who are making the world a better place. In their industries, like in most, there seems to be a trend when it comes to audio for one of two things: speed or quality.
In the speed category, they're working to ... Views: 1427
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The success of a website depends largely on how easily it can be accessed by the users. Enabling your users to find your website is one thing and helping them in exploring the various sections of the site is another. While you can enhance the visibility of your site through intense SEO ... Views: 1426
Book endorsements sell books.
Some of the best ways to get endorsements are:
• At the beginning and end of your book.
• When you do a launch and people opt into your list for a bonus gift, you can add a request or two to the series of AR's (auto-responder messages).
• After the fact ... Views: 1425
Social media is the big buzz. We’ve been swept up in the currents of Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter.
We can allow the currents to carry us to new connections, new business , and massive reach and visibility. Or we can get caught in the riptides that pull our reputation under.
The biggest ... Views: 1425
Joining the Conversation on Social Media
Keynote Motivational Speakers
When you want to start making your mark in the social media arena, it is best to start out by listening to conversations that are going on about similar companies to your own or about the market you want to enter. This ... Views: 1424
What is the attraction most popular blogs have that compels visitors to return time and again? What we're discussing here is not necessarily what it takes to generate traffic but rather how to get visitors to return! Of course the main component of any successful blog would have to be the ... Views: 1422
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Blogdex was originally conceived as an online resource for monitoring topics for discussion that were in vogue at that time, throughout the blogosphere (which consists solely of blogs and their interactions with each-other. The term identifies the fact that blogs can ... Views: 1422
How can you use the social media and still maintain your privacy? This is a question we hear over and over from our clients. They tell us they do not want others to know what they like to do in their off time. They do not want others to know about their personal lives. At the same time, ... Views: 1414
Do you know how to write an interesting blog? Fascinating and interesting blog posts trigger satisfying feelings for a reader. The content either inspires or motivates the reader to act in a way that benefits him or her. When your fans love your content, they see you as a trustworthy business ... Views: 1410
The Council for Healing (CfH)
The CfH is a non-profit North American organization including representatives from diverse healing modalities. The Council is a hub for sharing healing experiences, training and wisdom that crosses the boundaries of professional training. Too often, caregivers are ... Views: 1409
Do you want to make a profit from your social media marketing? If you want to get the most out of this new technology, you need to create a social media strategy that works for you and your business. Abandon all you thought you knew about social media and let me show you the 5 fundamental ways ... Views: 1406
Social media training for sales is a must for any online business. The last few years have shown that providing more value, connecting and building relationships without PITCHING sales have helped sales people become more successful online than ever before.
Are you ready to learn some social ... Views: 1406
It's important to put yourself in front of your target audience as often as possible. With more and more people spending time on social networking sites, like Facebook and YouTube, adding these components to your marketing efforts can really make a difference. Now these sites have made it even ... Views: 1406
“Sometimes I feel like I'm on an island by myself trying to figure all this social media stuff out and I don't know where to start. It's easy to get overwhelmed and not do anything.”
These are statements that so many people make. They search and search for the answer to where to start in ... Views: 1403
I’d like to point out a few features that allow you to position yourself in virtual locations within LinkedIn® itself.
LinkedIn Groups
Within the LinkedIn® platform, you are able to join “groups” of people with common interests or backgrounds.
To find groups, log in to your LinkedIn® account, ... Views: 1399
Organizations and individuals have opened their lives daily in the media because we want to be able to connect with others and feel part of something bigger than themselves. With this newfound transparency, however, comes responsibility.
Companies have to be careful what you choose to ... Views: 1394
Have you wondered about what LinkedIn can do for you as a powerful lead generator? One of the most important things you need to do is create a profile that will entice people to your services or products. A boring, resume-looking profile will not do the trick. Furthermore, your profile must ... Views: 1393
I know, I know. Many of you are wondering what this title even means, while some of you know bits and pieces and are still trying to figure out how these two possibly tie into one another. Well, the answer is not a one-liner, but rather a bit more complex with multiple parts. First we're going ... Views: 1393
The Doctor-Healer Network - North America (DHN-NA), scattered geographically across the US and Canada, meets for monthly two-hour telephone conference calls. In the DHN-UK, participants are a mix of doctors who are healers and doctors who work together with healers. In the DHN-NA all ... Views: 1391
I started researching business networking & social networking websites to find out how many there are and what they offer. Most of us have heard of Facebook and MySpace when it comes to the social side and to a lesser extent, Twitter of course, and LinkedIn is starting to emerge as the benchmark ... Views: 1391
There is a regular rise in the number of people creating their own commercial website or online business because of good expected return from online customers. These have also brought about new and a myriad of different services that help businesses achieve their desire. It is a young industry ... Views: 1388
Creating and maintaining a money making blog can be both exciting and frustration all at the same time. When creating a blog your excitement level and enthusiasm is high but as time goes on you quickly learn how involved blog building can actually be. There is much to do insofar as optimizing, ... Views: 1387
Welcome to my article page for SelfGrowth.com From millions of articles on the web, I want to be savvy, innovative and stand apart from the beginning. My aim is to provide you with short and strategic value adding articles, you can implement straight away in your business to get results. ... Views: 1384
How Mobile Phone Texting Changed My Life!
I admit it. At first, I didn't understand why in the world people became so excited about mobile phone texting. I mean, why not just make a normal voice call? It just seemed to be so much easier. But I decided to give texting a try and spent a month ... Views: 1384
Blog spam is an unfortunate by-product that comes with the encouraged interactivity on blogging sites. When viewers visit your site it is always good to have them post comments In fact many people judge how popular blogs are based upon the amount of comments they see.
Of course most site ... Views: 1380
Wow! You have a great idea for an internet business! You already have started to create a website, awesome! You've selected a registered domain name for your site. You've spent hours just tweaking it into a professional looking, well received website or blog. You're confident the product or ... Views: 1380
Outsourcing is all the buzz in business circles as entrepreneurs look to maximize both productivity and time away from work. But does outsourcing work for or against entrepreneurs in the high touch world of social networking?
Because of the intense overwhelm in entrepreneurs lives, we’re all ... Views: 1377
Twitter has quickly become one of the most effective ways of sharing with the world what you believe is important.
If you live with a chronic illness or have an interest in a specific health condition, you will find that Twitter can be one of the most exciting ways to let others know about ... Views: 1375
Now while I do want you to keep your comments and language online clean, that isn't what I mean here! I'm talking about keeping your followers, friends and connects on the various online networks clear of spammers, pornsters, and dead weight. So here are some quick tips in Twitter this week to ... Views: 1373
I'll be the first to admit it: I don't particularly like social media. Even after setting up dozens of Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, Google+ Local and Business pages, Pinterest accounts, and various other social profiles, I don't do much tweeting or sharing myself. With how popular social media ... Views: 1372
No one seems to have enough time to get things done. Goals, programs, products, services, customers, relationship farming, tending the herd, goals and family. Every minute of every day brings new demands on what little time we have to pay attention to them.
As you begin to set your ... Views: 1371
Today, there is quite a bit of buzz about social media, what it is, and whether or not you should develop a social media presence. And, you have probably heard about a variety of social media sites, such as MySpace, Linked In, Twitter, and Facebook. Because the number of social media sites can ... Views: 1371
Off-page optimization
As the name implies, off page factors as the ranking factors which are not present on the page. During the earlier phase of Search engine evolution, SEs used to rank a website merely by looking at on page factors. Website that had better on page factors ranked well. As ... Views: 1368
Traditional business practice was based on the principle of developing a great product or service and then finding customers to buy it. Then came the marketing and promotion so as many people knew about your product or service through advertising, promotion, stores, etc.
The same kind of ... Views: 1366
Very few argue with the power of networking and its potential impact on your career. Most professionals, especially MBAs, have access to groups and associations, both professional and social. To understand how we should go about selecting these groups and associations for membership, we’ve ... Views: 1365
When it comes to marketing your business, nothing is sweeter than free publicity. Whether it’s getting invited to comment in a magazine, participate in an event, or being bragged about by others, free publicity generates more business for you and increases your visibility.
Once you start ... Views: 1364
Did you ever stop to think how maintaining a blog can actually help you achieve your goals? Probably not but our discussion here today is about how your blogging helps you stay motivated thus enabling you to reach goals you're pursuing!
Here's a look at 3 key ways your blogging makes it much ... Views: 1364
Leveraging Social Media to Your Advantage
There are a few amazing stories about people that have gone from rags to riches using the internet and or social media to pave their road to great wealth. So yes it is possible to dramatically accelerate your success if you leverage these amazing new ... Views: 1364
Facebook has become one of the most prominent social networking sites on the Internet. Some surveys and rankings place it second only to MySpace in terms of number of users and popularity. The flexibility offered by Facebook has opened up many opportunities for Internet businesses to capitalize ... Views: 1362
For the last 2 years Facebook blocked and permanently disabled hundrends of thousands accounts of the users from Russia. Of course some users from other countries including the USA also experience similar problems. But the number of Russian disabled accounts goes far beyond any reasonable ... Views: 1360
I’ve had a YouTube channel for years. Until recently, I didn’t have a focused theme. I was all over the place uploading videos that addressed many topics.
Whatever struck my fancy, I would turn on my camera or iPhone and presto! a video was created.
Although some of my videos received ... Views: 1357
INFORMATION OVERLOAD
Do you have a penchant or an additiction for modern communications? If you are like me you will be hooked on a number of social networking sites. I have limited myself to active participation on three social networks. Facebook to keep in contact with friends and family. ... Views: 1357
There are those small business owners who are die-hard social media fans and swear by its effectiveness. There are others who wouldn't touch Facebook with a 10-foot pole. Most of us fall in between these two extremes.
The truth of the matter is that most (notice I didn't say all) ... Views: 1356
LinkedIn has positioned itself as a compelling force to be reckoned with in the social business domain. As the #1 social network for business, a great LinkedIn profile should be a part of every business owner’s marketing arsenal. With many companies no longer accepting resumes, a sure sign of ... Views: 1350
Raising awareness is critical for a non-profit. If people don’t know your non-profit exists, they are unlikely to donate funds, which means you will struggle to do your work effectively. Many small non-profits are deeply committed to their cause, but they don’t have the budget that ... Views: 1350