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Using Twitter to grow your business-Webinar

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Using Twitter to Grow Your Business. Twitter describes itself as “a real-time information network powered by people all around the world that lets you share and discover what’s happening now.” This free, one-hour session will cover how to: Establish and build your Twitter presence. Live Webcast June 23, 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT.

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Seriously, What’s “A Like” Worth on Facebook?

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i.e. We’re going to use social to drive sales, for lead gen , for referrals, for bookings, for awareness through brand mentions etc. Look at a Starbucks , who became early on, the darlings of social media and engagement because of the fact they grew to a million Twitter followers rather quickly. It was just a number.

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Conversation Gained-How to Determine Influence in B2B Social Media

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particularly Twitter. By the way, that’s the description of an actual person on Twitter that brands and sells themselves as an influencer. Here’s how I measure influence in social media. I look for those that are authentic voices and experts within their space. Authentic Voice being the operative term.

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10 social sites you might have missed

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Pay attention to this post by Coree Silvera titled 36 Twitter Resources: Advanced Twitter Search for Business, It’s loaded with advanced Twitter search tips you probably don’t know about. Choose your availability, who you share your page with and when meetings get booked. 5) Check out the funky named Goomzee.

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From Interruptions to Interactions-The Irony

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Greg Verdino of Powered, wrote a book called microMarketing. If you swim in the waters of social media, you will know or be familiar with the numerous stories that Greg tells in his book. If you swim in the waters of social media, you will know or be familiar with the numerous stories that Greg tells in his book. Now chapter 5.

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How are Those 2022 Predictions Working Out?

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It’s not just Twitter and Facebook anymore either. At the end of the day, social media is still a transactional, arrangement between strangers but to bolster and validate Seth Godin’s 2008 book, Tribes, everyone has a tribe and, thus the strength and growth of communities will continue to deliver on that notion.

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On Dependence of 3rd Party Platforms and Leaving the Grid

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We use Twitter to let people know what we’re doing right now. What happens if Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Youtube, Pandora, Verison, Spotify, Evernote, Amazon, Google and Microsoft were to go away? They wrote a book, they V-logged, they tweeted over 15,000 times, they created an active Facebook page, and then all of a sudden.

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