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DECEMBER 3, 2010

Social Media Marketing ROI is like Santa Claus because… You have to believe in it and be patient or it won’t come. In order to get what you want you have to be good and play nice; sharing is good, too. If you’re a skeptic and expect instant gratification you’ll find yourself without.

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MAY 18, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials I Started A Social Media Marketing Program Two Months Ago, Where Are My Leads? Cultivating your Social Media Marketing Garden I received a question similar to this earlier today and I thought I’d share my response with everyone because I know this question is quite common surrounding the topic of social media marketing.

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JUNE 3, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials 12 Reasons Your Business Needs a Social Media Marketing Program YESTERDAY 1. Own your brand’s social presence: If you don’t create official channels online, it’s only a matter of time before your customers/clients do it for you and create their own profiles and communities around your brand.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Auto-Post Your Blog Posts to Digg The new Digg lets you set it up so that your blog posts will auto post to Digg! How cool, right?! All you have to do is log in to Digg then go to your Settings and click on the menu item to “Import Feeds&#. Enter the URL of your Blog’s Feed and then you will be given a verification code to add to one of your blog posts so that Digg can verify your blog.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

There’s a new kid on the block for finding great information about Social Media for Business. Social Media Informer is a topic hub that collects, organizes and finds the best posts and articles on the use of social media for business. It uses the Browse My Stuff technology to create this topic hub. Topic Hubs are sites that aggregate content from a variety of sources, organize that content around keywords in the topic domain, and support both manual and social curation of that content.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Posted by Nick O’Neill. Yesterday Facebook changed the game for businesses who maintain physical presences across the country with the release of Facebook Deals. Suddenly, Facebook users have a reason to check-in to places. For those business owners who aren’t clear on what opportunities Facebook Deals provides, here’s a comprehensive guide. How Facebook Deals Helps Your Business.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials A Comprehensive List of Social Media Tips, Guides, Plugins, Platforms, Analytics Tools, Apps and other great Social Media Resources Below you’ll find a comprehensive list of Social Media Tips, Guides, Plugins, Platforms, Analytics Tools, Apps and other great Social Media resources.

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MAY 7, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials A Step by Step Guide on Getting Started Using Facebook For Business View this document on Scribd Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit May 8, 2010 - Posted by akstout18 | Uncategorized | Facebook , facebook fan pages , facebook for business , facebook business pages , facebook like pages One blogger likes this post 18 Comments » [.

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MAY 6, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Are You Skipping the First Step of Your Daily Social Networking Maintenance? Daily Social Networking Tasks: It’s not all about content blasting. Sometimes we are overly anxious to jump online and start posting or sometimes we just don’t have a lot of time and a very important task of social networking maintenance falls by the wayside.

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JULY 12, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Musings on Joining New Social Media Sites, Site Recommendations and On-Going Participation A while back I set up accounts on Amplify and Clipmarks. I think I played around with them for a couple days and then didn’t give them much more thought. Today I received an email notification telling me that someone had added me as a Source on Amplify , so I decided to hop back on and refresh my memory a

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JUNE 22, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How Businesses like Sylvan Learning Center and Computer Explorers Can Use Foursquare Depending on where you live you may be seeing more and more businesses advertising that they participate in Foursquare. Foursquare awards points and badges when users check-in at locations (check-ins can be done via a mobile phone with internet access or a computer).

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APRIL 8, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How To Leverage Your Social Networking Sites When Visiting Influence Centers & Referral Sources While this post is specific to my friends at Senior Helpers , the underlying principle is applicable for all businesses – so read on! Are you using the Senior Helpers social networking sites to your benefit when you visit with Influence Centers (others may know these as Referral Sources)?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Is your business easy to find for local and mobile searchers? First an anecdote, then the facts. The other evening I was driving through Baltimore City and decided I’d like to try an Italian deli for dinner. I promptly pulled out my smart phone, went to Google and typed merely “Italian deli&# – not having to add a geographic modifier because the GPS on my phone was enabled and would

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MAY 1, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How to Get the Biggest Bang for Your Time Online: A Look at Efficient Ways to Effectively Social Network When You Have Limited Time I recently posed the following question to the members of the LinkedIn Group, Social Networking & Social Media Marketing for Franchisees , “If you are not currently implementing a social media marketing program for your business, why not?

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APRIL 21, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Connect with Your Friends on Your Favorite Websites: Learn About the Different Ways You’ll See Facebook Across The Web Like Anything, Anywhere Look for the Facebook Like button across the web to connect with the things you care about and share them with your friends.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Proceed with Caution When Being Active on Social Media Sites Being active on social media networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter is a great way to build business relationships. If you are using these mediums to cultivate your professional contacts, though, you need to be cautious of what you are saying.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Organic Marketing Vs. Pay Per Click (PPC) Where do you click?? 1. No matter how much paid advertising you have done or how much you have spent, it NEVER helps your organic search engine rankings. 2. No matter how much money you’ve spent on advertising in the past, there are never any future freebies.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials What AK Knows About Social Media Marketing I am by no means a self-proclaimed social media marketing expert, however I have learned a great deal by doing and analyzing, and would like to take this opportunity to share a little bit with you. This list is in no particular order because I think each point is as valuable as the next. 1.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Had a great time being a guest on Social Geek Radio on Blog Talk Radio last night. If you couldn’t catch it live, you can hear what you missed by listening to the recording below! Show description: How can a solid social media presence dramatically increase a website’s search engine ranking? Do you know how to use correct page titles, metadata, alt-tags for images, anchor text, etc?

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MARCH 29, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Saying It Social is Now Accepting Client Sign-Ups for April! Calling all franchise owners, small business owners, medium sized business owners & big business owners (heck, we don’t discriminate!) Saying It Social, LLC is now accepting new clients for April!!

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MARCH 11, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Free Tools for Social SEO Plenty of bloggers are talking about the inevitable intersection of social media marketing and search engine optimization. Keyword optimized social content and channels of promotion provide abundant signals to search engines for improved visibility on standard, social and real-time search.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Are You Seeing ALL of Your Facebook Friends’, Groups’ and Pages’ Statuses on Your Updated Facebook Home Page? Are You Sure? If you’ve recently received the new Facebook home page update you may not be seeing the status update of ALL of your friends, groups and pages… I clicked off of my Facebook home page to go to another site and when I went back to Facebook my News Fee

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Back by popular demand: The Basics of Social Media R.O.I. (via The BrandBuilder Blog) Hope everyone who is currently running a social media marketing program or has someone doing it on their behalf watches this video! Though the presentation has morphed a bit since this version made its debut at the first Social Fresh conference a scant 11 months ago, this original version still manages to pretty cle

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JULY 22, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How Social Media ROI is like Santa Claus I entered this contest where I had to post “sweet&# advice about social marketing. The advice that gets the most votes by 5pm ET on July 23rd wins an iPad and more importantly to me, some pretty nice recognition in the social media community.

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JULY 30, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How to Subscribe to Facebook Business/Fan Page Posts in Your Favorite Feed Reader Hint: You can also use these tactics to get the RSS Feed URL of your page if you wish to import your Facebook Page’s feed on your blog or other sites! View this document on Scribd Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit July 30, 2010 - Posted by akstout18 | Facebook | Facebook , facebook page rss feed url , facebook busines

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JULY 22, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How to Create a Customer Loyalty Program via Social Media (via PR Workbench) I’m a huge proponent of retail locations using Foursquare to enhance customer experience. This post is a nice reminder that you can really use Foursquare in different ways than just giving Mayor specials and also gives great suggestions on how you can get people excited about Foursquare specials on your other social me

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JUNE 16, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Saying It Social Adds Two New and Exciting Services! New Service #1: ‘How to Use LinkedIn: Setting up a Profile and Beyond’ Webinar At Saying It Social we acknowledge that LinkedIn is one of the most important social networking sites for business.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Google To Introduce Opt Out Browser Plug In For Analytics Up until just a few minutes ago when I started reading some reports about what I’m about to tell you, I’ve been a huge Google “junkie&#. I start off my morning standing at Starbucks waiting for my latte while reading my latest Google Reader feed on my Android powered PDA.

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JUNE 3, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How to Set Your Facebook Privacy Settings If You Don’t Want Your Personal Profile Searchable Why would you want to do this? Because you have to create a personal profile in order to create a page, thus forcing people to create profiles that have no intention or desire in managing them.

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AUGUST 27, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Track the Online Metrics that Matter and Sales Isn’t One of Them Unless you have all the clients you could possibly want right now you’ve probably heard you should be online marketing. That’s all well and good but how do you know if you’re doing the right thing or if what you are doing is actually benefiting your business in some way?

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JULY 13, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How To Promote You Facebook Page URL on Your Personal Profile Facebook doesn’t make this easy. You would think that one of the first features Facebook would have added when the hype around creating Facebook Pages for business sprung up would have been a one (or two) click maneuver to easily post a link or a badge to your Facebook Page on your personal profile.

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APRIL 23, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Why Social Media Marketing For Small Business Is Important “Social Media Marketing” – this is a HUGE buzzword in our industry right now. but why is social media for small busines s so important to YOU (the small business)? Chris Mechanic of WebMechanix explains from a Search Engine Optimization standpoint: From: [link] Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit April 23, 2010 - Posted by akstout18 | Uncat

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JUNE 16, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials I Attended a Networking Event…Now What? You already understand the importance of networking for growing your business. So, you’ve attended a handful of networking events, met some interesting people, and acquired a handful of business cards. Now what? Follow up!

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MAY 26, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Happy National Small Business Week Why National Small Business Week? Every year since 1963, the President of the United States has proclaimed National Small Business Week to recognize the contributions of small businesses to the economic well-being of America.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials It’s Time to Think about Integrating Search & Social Media Google and Microsoft’s Bing recently struck deals to incorporate social media into their real-time search results. Google signed a deal with Twitter that will add tweets to search results.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

We’ve updated the “ Our Services &# section (top right) to more clearly explain exactly how we can help your business via social media. You will also find our contact information at the bottom of that page for any inquiries/questions you may have. Check it out!

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AUGUST 27, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Location-based Marketing a Must for Local Businesses Its official – the Location Based Marketing train is full steam ahead and if you’re not on it you’re missing a huge opportunity. Up until this past week the only big game contenders in the Location Based Services arena were Foursquare and Gowalla.

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