Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 7, 2015

If you have a business account on Twitter and you tweet from your mobile phone, you can now capture, edit, and share videos right from the app in your phone. Think of any social network today and developers are working feverishly to improve it. Social Media is a Huge Driver of Engagement. Twitter is not the odd ball out.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 7, 2015

If you have a business account on Twitter and you tweet from your mobile phone, you can now capture, edit, and share videos right from the app in your phone. Think of any social network today and developers are working feverishly to improve it. Social Media is a Huge Driver of Engagement. Twitter is not the odd ball out.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 11, 2011

Foursquare – The local networking website. YouTube – The video sharing monolith owned by Google. In all, Klout is now measuring your influence across ten different social networks. It will soon add Google+, Facebook pages, Yelp, Posterous, WordPress.com, and Quora as networks that it tracks for its users.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 8, 2013

Whether you try to reach your intended audience through pay per click advertising, video marketing, or guest blogging , you’ll have to decide who your target audience consists of. Video marketing. Social networking. Does it include a particular demographic? If so, how do you reach that demographic? Facebook ads.

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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. Pin videos—YouTube videos can be used as a unique engagement piece to capture a user’s attention. Include fun and interesting pins that don’t promote your company or products.

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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. If you have videos, share to YouTube. If you have shared your web pages on the popular social networks, then your site should get crawled and indexed within a week. If you have images, share to Pinterest.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 24, 2012

There is plenty of help available including videos, which make it a lot easier to visually gain an insight into all the features. Monitor the most popular social networks from one screen, engage prospects, and build deeper relationships.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 21, 2011

Social bookmarking – Bookmark and share all of your content at two or three social bookmarking sites daily. Social networking – Pick two or three social networks and be active on those networks about an hour every day.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 3, 2015

That means writing attention-grabbing headlines and writing awesome content that inspires readers to share it on their social networks. Good content should be visual – Add an image or a video to your content every now and then. It can’t hurt.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 22, 2012

The influence of their social networks is also starting to have an effect on search results. I strongly recommend small business owners to look at what Google has to say about search engine optimization , spend a moment or two watching the video, then to think carefully about their content. Does it satisfy the needs of a user?

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 28, 2012

They’ve add an Events tab to the social network Google+. Again, that doesn’t sound like much, but this is a popular feature on Facebook and the fact that Google+ is adding the feature means that they are serious about competing in the social arena. The first one may not seem much, but it could be over the long term.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 3, 2012

Show a video of a representative from your company engaging in a charitable act that changes someone’s life. It could be a way to make social networking more humanly interesting. Explain how you use Facebook for prospecting and reaching out to new customers. Facebook Stories is a wonderful opportunity for testimonials.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 20, 2011

If you are a local business and you are interested in connecting with potential clients locally, you might find a social networking site or forum that services your local area. If your business does business globally, then any of the large networks are worth your attention.

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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. You can also search for information by specific vertical: Links, Tweets, Photos, Videos, Experts, and Trending. But that’s not the best part.

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 17, 2013

If so, it’s time to get your head out of the cloud and start thinking about how you are going to preserve years of social data that you’ve been sharing on your favorite social networks. And just in case you don’t believe me, you should read this article about a recent MySpace foible. It’s all gone.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 24, 2012

That’s true of static web page content, blog content, video content, or anything else you create. Promote It Socially – Once you’ve developed your content strategy and given it value through publication, share it and encourage others to share it. Your social networks are outposts for your content.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 26, 2015

Blogging took off like a rocket followed by social networking and video marketing. was one of the first, and was the first commercial success story. From there, search engines, forums, and pay-per-click advertising took over. Today, there are a ton of viable options for the serious marketer. How should you proceed?

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 26, 2011

The social network is now the most trafficked website online. But then Facebook became the popular social network and introduced its own PPC advertising model. As well it should. But there is another reason to fear Facebook too. It has a competing advertising model. The alternatives were Yahoo!,

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 17, 2011

It could be an industry social networking website, it could be an industry wiki or encyclopedia site, or it could be a simple blog. The key is not to tell you what you should be doing, but to give you license to use your imagination. The Internet is a huge place.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 11, 2011

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 wouldn’t expect a great deal of search engine traffic from About.Me.Me domain names don’t typically do well in the search engines.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 21, 2011

There are some instant messaging clients, IM clients, now that allow you to send and receive e-mail and manage your social networks. It’s been around almost as long as the Internet itself. And it’s gotten better over the years. Instant messaging is a great small business communications tool.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

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! Isn’t that what we’re all trying to do?

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