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Social Media in the Industry: Customization is the Key to Success

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

&# Without a clear methodology of measuring ROI, many businesses are still cautious to spend their marketing budget on social media and web 2.0. On top of that, let’s add all of the other social networks out there including Linkedin, Foursquare, Myspace, Friendster, Tumblr, YouTube and the list goes on. Foursquare!

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, TED & Creativity

Kikolani

Business / Finance. Marketing or advertising your business. Small business marketing trends for 2010. Blogging for business basics. Tips to start a small business blog. Showcase of city tourism websites. Hiring an accountant or Turbo Tax to file your taxes. Graphic / Web Design.

Mashup 101
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Social Media Complainers – your new BFF's

Akamai Marketing

Now, recent news gives us empirical evidence about the opportunities businesses have with complainers. My favorite tidbit of info: 68% of consumers who posted a complaint or negative review on a social networking or ratings/reviews site got a response. Of those, 18% turned into loyal customers and bought more. Holy SCHMOLY!

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How to Match 10 Key Success Metrics to Your Blogging Strategy.

Convince & Convert

Very thoughtful [link] School of Tourism Tourism/Hospitality bloggers take note, blog success is a 'slow march, not a mad dash': [link] [link] Kyle Bailey RT @Tourismstudents: Tourism/Hospitality bloggers take note, blog success is a 'slow march, not a mad dash': [link] [link] camberley Great advice!

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Walking the Social Talk

Waxing UnLyrical

I agree with you on the real world networking. Social is great, but I dont want to limit myself there when there may be a pool of small businesses right outside more door. looking for someone to help them get social, help them get it "right". so I am back to Robin. Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)"

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Getting Clients to Pay On Time | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

Years ago I contemplated putting up a web site called “theydontpay.com&# that would serve as a sort of small business Dun & Bradstreet service. Small business owners could post their experiences of companies with a bad record of not paying, so other small companies could check out a potential client in advance.

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Hawaii Business: How the Social Media Workshop Can Help You

Bare Feet Studios

It encompasses other buzzwords and concepts you may have heard, from social networks like FaceBook , LinkedIn , and MySpace , to conversational marketing, web 2.0, The Hawaii chapter will serve as a gathering place for those of us in business who want to be the social media leaders in our state.