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How To Make Money With Facebook

If you use social media you might be under the misunderstanding that you can’t really do much “business” on Facebook. That just means you haven’t been exposed to the now famous fan page. You are correct in thinking that Facebook has rules about not selling on your main profile page,…


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Avoid the Twitter Trap!

Don’t get this headline wrong. I think Twitter is great, and use it myself (hence the icon link above). Often described as a “mini-blog,” Twitter is a social networking tool that uses the SMS text protocol (short messaging service) designed for mobile phones (which explains the 140-character limit). Twitter was…


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Curation – the Savior of SMB Content Marketers

We know content marketing is effective, yet for SMBs it often doesn’t deliver the results that it should. Why not? EXECUTION! Everybody who works in SMB B2B marketing is well aware of this. The agencies, the consultants, the gurus… even the clients know it. Smaller businesses just don’t have the…


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Introducing Bob Leonard

I met Bob Leonard several months ago. He impressed me with his understanding of marketing and business strategies. After talking with Bob, I asked him to write several guest blogs talking about the emerging marketing trend of content curation for SMB organizations. For many of us involved in creating content…


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Newsletter Marketing – Frequency Trumps Everything

If you’ve been reading my blog (http://www.thenewsletterguru.com) for a while, you’ve heard me say that how often you send a customer newsletter is the most important thing. It is more important than its style, color, size, name, or anything else you can think to ask me about. Some companies will…


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Are You Giving Them Too Many Choices?

This is an article the ladies will relate to and the guys might learn a little about a subject they didn’t necessarily think they needed to know about. Stick with it though. There is a business and marketing lesson in all this. Make-up isn’t something I consider myself an expert…


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Are You Part of the Landscape?

Author Keith F. Luscher How many of you remember the first Superman movie from 1978 with Christopher Reeve and Gene Hackman? It is still one of my favorites. One of the interesting details I remember so vividly from the film occurs just after young Clark Kent, upon discovering a glowing…


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Thanks for the Great Year

I’d like to take a few moments to thank all of you that have taken the time to come to my blog, read what I have to say, and share it with your friends and followers. I think for most of us, it’s been a long and challenging year. But…


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Making Your Goals Count

Making Your Goals Count by Jim Rohn (Excerpted from Week 7 of the Jim Rohn One-Year Success Plan – S.M.A.R.T. Goals by Jim Rohn) As we enter into this New Year we all tend to have a heightened sense of the opportunities and possibilities that 2007 can bring. The need…


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Turbo-Charged Testimonials

We’re in Washington DC this week but have had several interesting conversations with clients about how they can use testimonials to build trust with clients faster. My friend Keith shared his thoughts last month on how we might use the power of video to turbocharge testimonials. I thought I would…