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An Open Letter to a New Social Media Consultant

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But before you can start selling yourself as a social media consultant. Join a community like you did with SM2day, comment on blogs and start to build up some new media credibility. Tags: social media Marketing marc meyer social media consultant. Don’t do that. Be transparent. Be authentic. and try some different things.

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Social Media Consultants & Companies-The truth can be found in their numbers

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Back then, comment spam and server farms did wonders for text based links and I was all over it. Let’s say I’m in a need of a social media company or consultant, and that business claims to be all things social. Tags: SEO/SEM social media marc meyer social media consulting social media consultants.

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The Social Media Pitfall of Assumptive Collaboration

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The first was instead of creating “a website&# we decided to create it in WordPress so that we would have the latitude to “turn on&# commenting for starters. During the development phase we ( the developer and I) decided to make the commenting more robust and so we decided to go down the path of Disqus. I was dictating.

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What drives participation in a social network?

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If you’re a social media consultant like Jay Baer , or a larger organization like Accenture for instance, one of the constant constants in social media is the amount of education required to get people all on the same page, before anything can really be accomplished. A high number of blog comments= validates the topic.

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Chances Are You’ve Met Less Than 5% of the People in Your Social Network

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It’s engaging in some Twitter banter, dropping a blog comment, and maybe having some extended conversations either via Twitter, IM or email. I got a huge consulting contract from someone who read my blog posts. But what does that connection consist of. A phone conversation? In the end, nothing necessitates that we meet though.

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Todays #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: The Social Media RFP: How to Get the Best Results

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The industry is growing by the day: Agencies (traditional, interactive, digital, public relations, etc), Consultants (individual or small teams), web-development (SEO, measurement, advertising, now with social elements), Software Vendors, Service Vendors and you could continue to sector this list ad nauseum.

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14 Quick Tactics to Encourage Corporate Social Media Adoption

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What we have here is the full circle of social media; crowdsourcing, participation, sharing and invaluable input from peers, consultants and practitioners of what works-all for the benefit of quick internal corporate adoption. 5) Teach your execs and colleagues how to follow conferences and events and comment via hashtags.