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Tuesday Timesaving Tips: HootSuite

Does it feel sometimes that all you do is tweet? Are you having difficulty spending enough time on facebook? Contrary to what you may have heard, in order for social media platforms to be effective you DO need to put a lot of work into them. Social Media can take over your day if you [...]

31Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Tips to Help Manage Your Twitter Account

Once you begin to accumulate a larger number of connections on twitter, you may want to manage your follower accounts. Why? People judge based on looks. If you’ve been around the twitter block a few times you will have come across the Love ‘em and Leave ‘em user. The one you graciously returned a follow, [...]

12Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Tuesday Time Saving Tips: Use Twitter Advanced Search

Looking for new leads? Looking for people in your industry to connect with? Try using Twitter’s advanced search service to help you get pointed in the right direction. Below is a quick and simple example to get your creative juices flowing. The search term is “house hunting” and I added a location search parameter. Results [...]

5Jul2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Contest Follow Up and Special #FollowFriday Thank YOU

Recently I competed in a contest to win hotel and entry fees for a workshop in Las Vegas. I participated for a couple of reasons, it would be nice to be able to attend with minimal fees I wanted to know what it was like to be involved in an online contest. I expected to [...]

1Jul2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Social Media & the Dog with Two Heads

With so many social media experts spouting theories on the best way for your business to use this latest marketing channel, it’s difficult for a newcomer understand which path is best. There are social media naturalists who believe only a hands on approach will work and, on the other end of the spectrum, you’ll find [...]

24May2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Facebook for Realtors

Earlier this week I was invited to NOCBOR (Board of Realtors) to introduce ways in which Real Estate Agents could use Facebook as business tool. The following presentation was used as an overview for beginners and an impetus for further conversation and questions. Facebook for Realtors Share this:

12May2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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The Devil and Paper.li

Five months ago I wrote 5 Reasons Paper.li is the BEST New Social Media Tool. In this short time span (long time span in tech years), I’ve been hearing rumblings from people who consider it less than heavenly. Today I read a post on Spin Sucks that suggests using paper.li is the lazy bloggers way [...]

4May2011 | | 2 comments | Continued
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Tuesday Time Saving Tips: “Build It And They Will Come”

This very famous Field of Dreams (mis)quote references how beliefs can become reality if we just set them in motion. What movie goers seem to forget is that the farmer nearly went bankrupt waiting for “them” to come. The same is true online. Once you’ve set up your blog and signed up for your social [...]

3May2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Tuesday Time Saving Tips: Finding Twitter Retweets

Not feeling the twitter love? Are you showing your support by retweeting and not getting any response in return? Not even a thank you? Or perhaps you’re putting out some great content and it’s being ignored? It may be because you and your followers are using the Twitter Retweet button. This also applies to certain [...]

1Mar2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Evaluate Social Media Impact Before You Act

I’ve been watching responses to The Lones Group v. Rothamel: A case study in destroying your on-line reputation with great interest. Jay Thompson hit it on the nose when he called it a “case study”.

27Feb2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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