Janet Fouts

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Social Media is Not a Direct Sales Channel

Janet Fouts

Do they just walk up to someone at random on the street and say “Hi, my name is Jill and you’ve GOT to buy this product!” In these days of social media they Google and search social networks to find out more about a prospect before they even call them. No, they never do that.

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IS Your Website GDPR Compliant?

Janet Fouts

Now, not many companies harvest as much data as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and others, but we should still take these new rules as good practice. So does Google, Facebook, Twitter and so many others. Buying a list or adding people randomly because you found their email address is NOT compliant. See what others are doing.

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Tapping into the mind of the crowd

Janet Fouts

If you need to know about how long an open bottle of wine will last , a trick to make your web site load faster, which video camera to buy or how working remotely differs from in an office, there’s somebody out there who knows and is happy to help. Unfortunately as soon as Aardvark was acquired by Google it pretty much went to.

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14 step bare-bones guide to influencer outreach

Janet Fouts

Gather links for their Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Linkedin profiles at a minimum. If the influencer is blogging, look up the page rank of their blog on Google to get an idea of how popular the site is. Now take your refined list and do searches on your favorite social media networks.

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Facebook- FBML or iFrames?

Janet Fouts

This buys you some time to decide if you want to use FBML or you’re ready to jump into iframes. So what’s a girl to do? Go follow this tutorial to add FBML tabs to your Facebook Page now, in case you need them. Nobody will know, you remove the tabs from the navigation like this. Now for the exciting part! Check it out.

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Who will win the video app wars?

Janet Fouts

If Meerkat can get acquired by Facebook or Google, it’s game on. While I’m a regular guest on Google+ Hangouts On Air, I do not, generally, create video of my own, so I’ve been slow to adopt any of the video creation/sharing apps. Problem with the latter is people on Twitter just troll through streams.

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Who will win the video app wars?

Janet Fouts

If Meerkat can get acquired by Facebook or Google, it’s game on. While I’m a regular guest on Google+ Hangouts On Air, I do not, generally, create video of my own, so I’ve been slow to adopt any of the video creation/sharing apps. Problem with the latter is people on Twitter just troll through streams.

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