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How to Grow Your B2B Facebook Community

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Despite its uncertainty in the stock market, Facebook continues to be an excellent way to connect with your client base and potential customers. But like any other marketing strategy, growing your B2B Facebook community simply requires an investment of time and genuine engagement. Reach Out the “Old Fashioned” Way.

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Four Points to Remember When Adopting a New Social Network

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I manage a community for an online MBA program ; potential MBA candidates aren’t really on Pinterest yet, so there really isn’t much reason to put stock into a strategy at this point and time. However, a fashion or retail company has to be on there because their audience is active and present on the network.

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Monday Roundup: Spring Cleaning Your Strategy

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Spring has sprung, and if you’re like most people, you’re getting the urge to break out your rubber gloves and indulge in some good old fashioned spring cleaning. Founder and publisher of Waxing UnLyrical, Shonali Burke helps smart businesses make bank by taking their communications from corporate codswallop to community cool™.

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So Your Spokesperson Flew the Coop…

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Tarnishing your brand doesn’t have to happen in such a dramatic fashion. One of my biggest peeves is seeing a company start a Twitter account or Facebook Page after a crisis happens, or seeing an uptick in activity after the bottom falls out. • It opens up room for competitor(s) to take the lead. • You lose credibility.

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How to Use Social Media And Stay Couth

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And that’s fine, except you’re not going to get much out of it in terms of community building, thought leadership, etc. But the whole point of being a grown-up is that you engage thoughtfully and in a measured fashion. Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn How to Use Social Media And Stay Couth. ” This is true.

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In Public Relations, The Customer Is Your Media

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Finally I went on Twitter when I’d had enough of the “senior fashion writer&# giving me what I thought was fluff. They’re doing such a good job of it, that they’re getting their customers and community to tell their stories for them. Their orders got backed up because of the demand generated via Groupon.

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How to Fail in Business Without Really Trying

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It’s people like this – business development managers, and so on, who find our names on some list, or maybe see them on Twitter and, in their urgency to check off as many boxes as possible on their prospect list, do so in the most ham-handed fashion ever. Focus on building community. Because, shock and awe, they are.

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