Posts about social media marketing including LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and other social media sites. I particularly speak about using social media for coaches, consultants, course creators and other heart centered entrepreneurs.
First thing every morning I open my email, then my web browser, then Word then TweetDeck. The same order every morning. Yes, it’s a tad anal but I don’t even have to look at the screen to switch between applications. This morning when I opened TweetDeck I found a flurry of retweets (people passing along […]
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In the previous two blog posts I wrote about Facebook’s unwritten rules which, if broken, can get you banned from Facebook. In today’s post I’m wrapping up this series with some additional thoughts on the subject. Getting Banned Isn’t the Only Issue If you follow ethical networking strategies on Facebook and focus on quality rather
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Yesterday I wrote about things you might do that could get you banned from Facebook. The main reasons people seem to be getting banned is not that they are doing specific actions, but they are doing them too much. So how much is too much? That’s the rub. There doesn’t appear to be a permanent
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Monday morning I saw a Tweet from internet marketer Kathleen Gage; she’d been banned from Facebook. I was surprised to say the least. I know there are spammers and unethical types on Facebook and elsewhere on the web, but Kathleen isn’t one of them. I’m connected to her in multiple social media sites and know
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I assume that anyone who is blogging wants to build traffic – increase readers. And if you’re blogging for business, not for pleasure, there’s nothing to assume. But not all blog posts are created equal. Some get tons of traffic and some are ignored. Some ignite a ton of comments and some leave you wondering
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Since I’m new to social bookmarking myself, I thought I’d ask my LinkedIn network for their thoughts. As always, I got some great ideas from them, including strategies I might not have thought up myself. On of the main uses of social bookmarking is sharing of links. Whether it’s for people using multiple computers (one
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Like all things social media, social bookmarking is something I have known about for a while but have hesitated using because I didn’t really understand it. However recently a few friends have convinced me of the benefits. I’ve spent some time using both Delicious (formerly Del.icio.us) and StumbleUpon, added plug-ins for both sites to my
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Thanks to Janet Barclay’s Tweet this morning, I’ve discovered an interesting new tool called Loaded Web. The folks at Loaded Web are “trying to be the first purely geo-based blog directory. This means we want to organize blogs primarily by geography – where the blogger is from.” They are doing the same for Twitter. Why
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Knowing how much to share of yourself is one of the biggest stumbling blocks people have about social media. In traditional marketing you are talking about the product or the results the product achieves, not yourself. But social media turns that on its head. People expect you to talk about yourself. And that’s not a
Personal vs Private on Social Media Read More »
I often hear from people who spent some time on Facebook or LinkedIn but eventually gave up because they just didn’t see results. Others keep going but are telling me they don’t know if it’s working. If you’re not seeing results – or you’re just not sure what they are – you need to take
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