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The 5 LinkedIn Mistakes To Avoid

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LinkedIn is a must for your company’s social media marketing plan. LinkedIn is the social network for displaying your professional profile, displaying your company profile and connecting with colleagues, clients and friends in your business. Take a picture of you sitting at your desk or in action within your company.

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Branding Your Business Facebook Page

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There are multiple ways to show off your brand on your company’s pages. With Facebook for example, you can show your business’s specialty, history or maybe a new product or service. Keeping your pages up to date and appealing will continue to draw people to your social media and ultimately, your company.

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Facebook Message Ends with Sender Receiving Free Custom Phone

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This past May, a Facebook user named Shane sent a message to Samsung expressing his love of Samsung products and asking for a free Galaxy S3 phone. What Samsung did not think of was that Shane’s message, which he posted on Reddit , and the company’s response would go viral.

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What Business Owners Need to Know Now about Timeline for Facebook Pages

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During today’s Facebook Conference for Marketers , the company announced their plans for Timeline for Brands. They will adopt the over-sized graphic (known as the “Cover”) on the Wall with a small inset profile graphic intended for your company logo. What do business owners need to do now to prepare for this switch?

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The Basics of Intellectual Property

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With the recent advances in social media, many consumers now demand an interactive experience with their favorite brands and companies. In some circumstances, it might be wholly permissible to refer to a company or a product or service in a review, blog post, or status posting.

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Are Personas a Good Approach in Social Media?

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Personas have long been a popular method of helping to bring personality to a brand, product or service. That is, don’t just post impersonal messages, self-promotions or thoughtless tweets in the name of your company mascot. Are personas a good marketing tactic in the era of social media? Or the GEICO Gecko. Or the Aflac Duck.

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Relevance, Redefined by Social Media

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A recent article in AdAgeDigital stated, “ As it turns out, many people in social networks don’t want to talk about your product, they just want to talk. ”. That statement can and has been countered by business owners with the question: What’s the point of being on social media if not to promote my products/services or myself?