Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 24, 2012

What’s the one problem that every small business owners faces when it come to social media marketing ? There are just not enough hours in the day to manage a business, often work in the business, manage traditional marketing problems, and then manage a wide range of social media interactions.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

.&# It’s a great article except that the five ways shared can apply to any social media – Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, you name it. Fail to hire social media experts. You might think that you can do social media yourself, but that could be a fatal mistake. Fail to use your imagination.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 28, 2013

The home page shows a search box that allows you to conduct a search for any topic using two social networks – Google+ and Twitter. That makes the Topsy social analytics tool very valuable for businesses. What makes Topsy such a great tool are two things: It’s simplicity, and it’s practical diversity.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 15, 2011

So you’ve discovered Twitter has some useful business applications. But now that you’ve discovered Twitter can be used for your business, how can you make the most of your opportunities to use it for maximum effect? Here are 5 practical tips to help you improve your Twitter experience. That’s good.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

» Is Social Media Spam Here To Stay? Spammers are going to do their best to weasel their way into your social network so that they can push their content higher up in your search results? Isn’t that what social media marketers have been preaching about five years now? emphasis his) Wait a minute!

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 7, 2012

Don’t sweat it if you have been marketing yourself online and not been using Twitter. There are good solid reasons to use Twitter for marketing and it’s never too late to get started. Here are 5 solid reasons to include Twitter in your online marketing efforts. Twitter now uses autocomplete. Get to know them.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 18, 2014

Some of your target audience may be active on Pinterest but none of the other networks. Some may be active on Google+ and Twitter. If you use one hashtag that is common among all of your social networks, you are more likely to find your audience and more likely to allow your audience to find you when they conduct a hashtag search.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 15, 2013

You could call that social authority, but I wouldn’t claim that you can put a number on it. In a nutshell, social authority is your measure of influence in social media and beyond. It’s how people view you on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Social authority is a measure of your online connectedness.

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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. Interestingly, more small business owners see value in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogging, and YouTube than in Google+. Folks, Google+ is more than a social network.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

One author says it is allowing the social network to catch up with Facebook, but is it? Depending on who your audience is, you can use one or both social networks to gain traction for your business and increase your reputation online. That’s also true of any social network – Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, et.

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

That is, you can manage your online reputation using social media websites like Facebook and Twitter. Rich Gorman at Marketing Pilgrim offers three suggestions to help small business owners more effectively use social media for reputation management. Here are his suggestions: Use the right social media platforms.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 9, 2013

As a way to organize social information on Twitter, hashtags became very popular on that social media platform and still are. What was not expected was other social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Google+ picking up on hashtags. That’s four social networks that use hashtags.

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Being one of the fastest growing social networks for the past year, a lot of people flocked to Pinterest to set up an account. If you don’t have a business presence at Pinterest currently and you are ready to add a visual branding element to your social networking, you can set up a business brand page.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Two of your most influential Twitter posts from the past 7 days will also be shown. I don’t know if this is evidence that Klout is getting better or that Bing is getting better, but I’d recommend that you claim your Klout profile immediately and link it to your social media accounts , especially your LinkedIn account.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Native advertising is social media content that looks like content but is really advertising. It looks and feels like the usual content you would find on social media, but when you click on the link and read or watch, then you discover that you are being advertised to. Twitter started the trend with its promoted tweets.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 15, 2012

You’ve likely heard of Facebook brand pages, but did you know there are 4 top social media websites that currently allow brands to build their very own brand page for marketing and lead generation purposes? Here are 4 popular social media websites where you can currently build brand pages. It’s true.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 11, 2012

You want to join everyone you know on Facebook, then on YouTube and Twitter. The next thing you know you’re spending half your day on social networking websites. Just about every social networking site you’d think about joining has its benefits. But you know you should have a social media presence.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 6, 2012

Over the past several months you have undoubtedly heard the hype of Pinterest, America’s newest hot social network. Many people didn’t think that Pinterest could drive web traffic, let alone sales, but it has done both to such precision it’s leaving other networks in the dust. You can follow Jayme on Twitter as well, @jpretz.

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 3, 2013

I mean, let them know where to find you on the social networks. Lead them to your Facebook page, Twitter account, and other social media outlets. E-mail Marketing for Small Business e-mail marketing social engagement Social Media' But don’t give up on e-mail.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Target users within the network you want them to share in (eg. Companies with longer buying cycles/repeat purchases tend to benefit from social network advertising because it is in context of a consistent relationship with the customer. If you want to reach tweeters, you put an ad on Twitter.

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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. Today, it’s social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

In fact, these 3 very powerful online-offline networking combinations make it easy to begin relationships through social networking online and make them stronger by taking them deeper offline. Tweetups – Tweetups are Meetups for Twitter users. Facebook-Foursquare – Everyone’s on Facebook, right?

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 22, 2011

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve written a few times about Google+, but what I haven’t done is told you why your local business should be using Google+ for social networking, marketing, and branding. With Google+’s Circle sharing feature, you can add hundreds of new people to your network with one click.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Whether you use e-mail, social media, or other channels for your online marketing, you can show customers that they are more than just a number. Retweet their tweets - It’s nice that you follow your followers back on Twitter, but do you retweet their tweets? Show that you respect them as individuals. You should.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 11, 2011

You can link to your Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and other social sites around the Web from your About.Me But you can drive traffic to your profile page from your active social networks, which makes it a worthwhile starting place if you are just getting involved in Internet marketing. I still am. profile page.

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APRIL 17, 2011

A media company. We’ve talked about social media so much that I think you know how I feel about that. It could be an industry social networking website, it could be an industry wiki or encyclopedia site, or it could be a simple blog. One Response to “Are You A Business Or A Media Company?&#

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Users can move elements around on the page, a feature that I wish other social networks (like Facebook, for instance) had because what’s important to you may not be important to me. This is the kind of the improvement that could move LinkedIn up in the social networking category. Here’s what I like about it.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 8, 2013

To add links to your website, start by sharing your first web pages to all the popular social networks. Share to LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook, and Twitter. If you have shared your web pages on the popular social networks, then your site should get crawled and indexed within a week. After that, start blogging.

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Integrate it with your other social media – Integrate Instagram into your current online marketing strategy by sharing those photos on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest. Take interesting photos of your business, employees, and customers, and tell the story behind them. People love stories.

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 28, 2013

LinkedIn has become the social networking haven for business-to-business enterprises. Social networking is not going to go away, and you can’t work every single network there is. Social networking is not going to go away, and you can’t work every single network there is.

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