Small Business Mavericks

MAY 5, 2014

You may have seen Twitter’s recent study called “Discovering the Value of Earned Audiences — How Twitter Expressions Activate Consumers.” There should be that mix of controlled content and open-ended feedback in order to get the mix Twitter has found effective in their study.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

This can be in blog comments, writing guest posts, being active on forums related to your niche, and the obvious social media realms such as Facebook and Twitter. This is where linking social media profiles, for example, stands out as in important point. Including a personal photo.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 22, 2015

In order to become relevant and stay relevant, you have to be active rather than passive. We have talked about ways to tune up your SEO using your car engine as an example because most people understand that cars are to drive. the process of maintaining your search engine ranking goals. Pay attention to algorithm changes.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Cynthia’s example was for an ebook, however, even at a paltry $2 a copy, if you have 100 customers use the tweet options, that’s $200 out of your business’s till. Cynthia’s post goes a step further and ponders the affect that FTC advertising disclosures have on these types of activities.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 21, 2012

For a small business, your on page strategies are equally if not more important than your off page activities. For example, [link]. Search engine optimization is not all about gaining inbound links. These six areas are not difficult to work on, even in blog posts. A page’s slug is its url.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 7, 2015

The automatic tweet when the weather triggers it can happen for too-hot-to-go-outside activity, too. Many times there will be great examples in another business niche that can be adapted to your own marketing strategies. Are you going to do it? Neither is that seeker. The followup email is a nudge, but it isn’t demanding.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 2, 2014

If you don’t have a social media policy in place, I strongly encourage you to figure it out and get it going because your employees are active in social media already and some of them might handle your email and postings. policies on personal posts regarding work — show the fallout from viral disasters as examples.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 27, 2012

It’s interesting to look at the online marketing industry as an example. International online marketing events draw crowds from around the world, all looking to network face to face, all looking to ‘humanize’ their online networking activities. In fact, more traditional methods often have a much more lasting effect.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 15, 2012

The example used was for the release of a new mobile phone. In many cases, your SEO activities start pre-product release and end before a product peaks. There is an interesting post on Search Engine Watch related to the timing of your SEO efforts and season peaks.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 27, 2012

When playing, consider including these activities, and once you are comfortable, using them to promote your business. When someone responds, reply to them appropriately – don’t forget to use their Twitter name with the @symbol – for example, @janedoe.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 11, 2012

Forgetting the media part of social media – if you work with other online users, for example, bloggers who regularly write about your products or websites, don’t ignore them. A profile that was set up a year or two ago and never seen any activity may send a ‘lazy’ signal to potential customers.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 31, 2012

Starting a small business blog is easier – if you access to your domains web tools, for example, through Cpanel, then it only takes five minutes to install a blog. If you are active on social media sites, then you can publish links to your content encouraging readers to visit. So what is so good about a small business blog?

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 19, 2012

What is interesting is that different social media react on different days – for example, Saturday and Sunday are more fruitful for Facebook whilst Friday is the best day for re-tweets. When it comes to social interaction, knowing when you receive the most attention can help you fine tune your own activities.

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