Think about it, WOM or Word Of Mouth advertising has been around forever. And what better medium and channel than to Social Media to harness WOM. It’s the ham and eggs of advertising. It doesn’t make any difference if your technical orientated, nitch specific, a shopping B2C or a Manufacturing B2B. You should be collecting the kind of followers that need and want and understand what you do and sell. You can be almost sure that in your collection of friends and followers there is at least 1…

Why are you involved in Social Media & Social Media Marketing? To pass the time away or to promote and make money for your business? I’m here for the money. If I pick up a friend or two, wonderful but show me the money.

Social Media Marketing can produce spectacular results in more way than 1 but it needs to be carefully crafted and planned out sooner or later or it becomes a black hole of time and possibly money.

If you can develop a disciplined approach to your…

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BUT, I thought perhaps we could do something like "Feature Friday"

This concept is somewhat comparable to Twitter's popular #FriendFriday...

The difference here is that we'd do most of our member featuring on Fridays...

Social Media has come. We know what Facebook is doing number wise, Likewise twitter, LinkedIn, MerchantCircle and others. Social Media is now established enough that it is considered an actual channel in marketing programs be it so all over the place so that is hard to get a real handle on it.

To establish your Social Media marketing and presence requires an execution of some tired and true practices to get you credibility and trust. This is your investment not so much…

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First thing is first, What are you trying to accomplish? Who are you trying get noticed by?



Once you have determined that, figure out what message you should send to accomplish this and what your personnel brand should be.



The definition of a brand is: recognizable type of something: a distinctive type of something.



This means, you need to decides what is your brand. Are you a PM, are you a developer. What are you?…

If you are an entrepreneur, by choice or by necessity, I have a short list of important characteristics for you to look at, measure yourself and strive to become. Anyone can be a successful entrepreneur. I really believe that, if I can, you can. It might take hard work, determination and unwavering persistence in the face of real and perceived hardship but you can become a success as an independent. Here are the essential entrepreneurial qualities that anyone who is interested in great…

Within a very short period of time in human history, many Billion Dollar businesses have been built:



Amazon

eBay

Facebook

Google

Linkedin

Microsoft

Oprah

Twitter (probably soon)

Yahoo

YouTube



The people who created these companies have seen an idea in their mind's eye, felt it in their soul, sketched it out in writing, dreamed about it in their sleep, and followed it through the processes of birthing, nurturing, and…

Twitter, what good is it. 140 letters or do you say characters? At any rate that is not a lot of ability to get your point across, is it?

Say you need a very special kind to dooger for a piece of equipment and don’t know where to get it. Tweet it out there and let the power of micro social media do its work. From your friends and followers you will get places to buy it, order it or another approach you might not have even though of and find you don’t even need it. And this…

Do you have a Facebook fan page? No? Why not? Stop right where you are and go make one. I am of course assuming that you are on Facebook.

How do you actually get people to like your page? I started with my friends (yes I have friends) who were or had a business related connection with me. Then I started posing my fan page in various places like social media sites and as a link of my email signature line, again all business oriented of course. If you are selling in the B2C…

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As in the past not much has really changed. You never know where you will meet your next customer. It could be anywhere from the barber shop to standing in line to get a cup of coffee somewhere. How you choose to begin that relationship with this new contact and future customer does have an impact on how well you well and can stay connected with them. The world of social media opens up an ever increasing way for you to meet people. Rather than at the barber or the coffee shop it can now be…

Social Media is fun. Going out there doing all this marketing stuff. Getting your name out there. Collecting all sorts of friends and fans. Oh how we get all excited when we pick up someone new on our followers. So how many paying customers do you have or have gotten though your SM efforts?

Larson Social Media Score Card

Merchants Circle (1066 followers) – 3 customers gained

Linked-in (516 connections) – 2 customers…