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Small Business 101: Twitter is Priceless

July 9, 2010

Seth Godin took the picture accompanying this post. These are some of the folks I attended the Linchpin Meetup(link to Seth’s post where the picture came from) with.

I knew one of them before Twitter. Now, in this picture of the Meet-MeMe autographed card set Cindi sent to Seth I am surrounded by people I [...]

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Small Business B2B Social Media Platform

June 23, 2010

The community that grows on your blog will be yours, not one of the social networks who can (and do) change the rules at a moments notice. … Just add a few friends and associates you trust who you can ask for feedback about your profile as you build it.

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Human Networking 2.0

May 26, 2010

In the social media community we talk about having an audience of one. I see Human Networking 2.0 as having an audience of “one at a time.”
Twitter is just talking and Scott Stratten reminded us of that recently, at the #unGeeked conference. I conduct myself the same way on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn as I [...]

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Planning the Social Media Way

May 22, 2010

Planning sales “events” with social media while similar to the traditional sales model is not the same. During the #unGeeked conference last week I got a glimpse of the HubSpot social media sales funnel.
Sales will always be about the funnel. What changes is how the funnel gets filled and in my case how the sales [...]

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A Twitter Tale of Two Scotts

May 14, 2010

Yesterday Scott Stratten made a comment during his #unGeeked presentation, he got on Twitter to meet other awesome business people.
Catch that? The guy with forty some thousand followers on Twitter did not get on to sell you something. He got on to network. I got on Twitter for a different reason but networking with other [...]

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Twitter Follow Friday
#UnGeekedelite edition

May 7, 2010

Late last night I worked out details that will allow me to attend the #unGeekedElite conference in Milwaukee next week. I’m focusing this post on the local luminaries who have provided significant support to me over the last six months.
The list has to start with @ThatWoman_Soho, without whom this conference would have never happened. Last [...]

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Info*Flex – Social Media Test

May 2, 2010

Tomorrow morning I board a plane for the Info*Flex trade show. Time for a social media test of the strategies I have utilized over the past six months.
My social media test parameters will be to keep track of the number of comments I get about blog posts, Facebook and Twitter activity. My intention is to [...]

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Twitter Follow Friday – Meet ‘em for Coffee

April 30, 2010

Twitter is new. Together we are all learning how to utilize Twitter as a tool to facilitate communication. Without any real plan or intention I have been moving towards turning Twitter “friendships” into face to face meetings.
Coffee Meetings: This week’s Twitter Follow Friday (the blog edition) will highlight three tweeps I have planned real life [...]

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The Help Others Manifesto

April 20, 2010

In my life, acts of kindness and giving back have always yielded unexpected rewards. Sometimes the rewards came years later.
From A Business Perspective
Until 2005 ColorMetrix hosted a meeting for our users in Las Vegas. The financial objective of the meeting was always the same, break-even. The real objective of the meeting was to share knowledge [...]

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Twitter Follow Friday (on Saturday)

April 10, 2010

Chris Brogan wrote a great post about turning Twitter follow Friday into blog traffic. You’re here aren’t you? So, he got that part right.
I now have more than 140 characters to share with you what is so fantastic about the people I recommend you follow. The other part of my sinister plan is to focus [...]

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