Small Business Mavericks

MAY 28, 2013

Frank Reed highlights the value that small business owners place on various social networks, including Google+, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Google+ comes out ahead of only Pinterest and Forums. I think many small business owners simply do not understand the connection between social signals and SEO. This is head-scratching.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Follow your competition on social media, look at their content strategies, and find out how they operate in key customer interaction areas. Market research - Market research is more about what is being said in social media circles by suppliers, competitors, customers, etc., Where are they falling short?

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They may find it by word of mouth, social media sharing, or they can find it by searching for specific concepts in one of the several search engines online. Social media marketing – The Web by nature is social. Then forums came into vogue. Make sure your website is optimized for search.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Forums, social media, other off-site platforms are usually controlled by someone else. That is much harder to do in social media. I’m not saying don’t use social media or off-site platforms. What makes blogging such a useful tool for branding? But your blog is yours.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 27, 2016

Social Media Promotion – Where do you plan to publish and promote your content. Social promotion includes other things like widgets, communities and forums, and any aspect of social media that involves hard and soft promotion. SEO is determined by development and content.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

His suggestions include: Getting a branded logo, Customizing your subscribe box, Linking your social media profiles, Adding an “About Us” page, and. This can be in blog comments, writing guest posts, being active on forums related to your niche, and the obvious social media realms such as Facebook and Twitter.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Social Media – This is an easy one. Everyone wants to join Facebook and LinkedIn to become a business professional with social influence. You can have a social media presence, but that doesn’t in and of itself translate into influence. That authority leads to great influence.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 10, 2012

Social media has taken over many of the functions of a blog, but social media generally only scratches the surface – it takes a blog to really delve deeper into topics. Social media is a good place to determine if your content is up-to-date and if you are creating content that is still relevant.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 17, 2011

A media company. We’ve talked about social media so much that I think you know how I feel about that. But what does it mean to be a media company? These include forums, blogs, community websites where industry news can be published, wikis, etc. In fact, that’s precisely what you should strive to be.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 9, 2013

These are the posts you set up in social media circles, other blogs, forums, and where ever your target audience can be found. But if you stop at the hub, then you’ll miss out on opportunities to connect with your audience and drive them back to your home base. That’s why you need the spokes.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 13, 2011

After all, when Facebook came out, Myspace was the preferred social media forum and, in the space of a few years, it took over. Google is capitalizing on Facebook’s hard times and is making changes to freshen the face of social media and improve on Facebook’s static approach.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

That’s why search engine optimization and social media marketing are so important to local businesses. That’s why things like product reviews, product demonstration videos, and customer service forums make great additions to local business websites. Then you interact with them again when they pick up their product.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Then forums morphed into social media. Then there were web rings and a few ways of advertising your website in hopes of driving traffic to it. Eventually, pay-per-click advertising came along. People started blogging. YouTube came along and provided a way for marketers to develop their YouTube video channels.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

For example, the “let me find that for you&# suggestion has been a mainstay in forums for years. Someone asks a question, you Google it, then post your answer in the forum. That is, they’ve been done countless times before in other venues. Maybe you even get a chance to link back to your website.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 29, 2011

Whether on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or your local forum, don’t delete the negative comments. You know, where things just don’t go right, you get hit from every direction, and you’ve finally had enough. Then … there it goes. You let that comment fly and it’s too late. What do you do?

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 22, 2012

That’s means that 70% traffic is flowing around the web from social media, bookmarks, advertising, links and because users directly type urls into browsers. Some marketing experts now lean heavily towards social media, especially Facebook, Twitter and now Google+. That may well be Facebook or Twitter.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 14, 2015

You can share your slideshow on social media, your blog, and in forums where your target audience hangs out. In essence, an infographic is a graphic version of an article that can be shared and reshared endlessly on social media, through e-mail and with other marketing channels.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 12, 2015

There was no podcasting, video marketing, social media, or PPC advertising. Purchase banner ads on another website. And there were only 3,000 websites, so you didn’t have a lot of options. Over time, however, all of that has changed.

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