How To Start A Business (or Launch A New Product) Without Breaking The Bank By Using Social Media

October 26, 2010

AT&T, Twitter and Domino’s all have something in common with Josh Wade. But before we get in to that, let’s talk about their differences first. AT&T has horrible customer service (you can check Consumer Reports, but I also have my own ‘inside sources’). Twitter still doesn’t really have a solid business plan; i.e. it doesn’t [...]

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“It’s What You Scatter …… On Facebook?

October 21, 2010

Note: Today I digress from the usual business or techie stuff that I blog about. A good friend of mine sent me this story from Idaho, and I decided to scatter it all over the social media sphere. My friend asked me to forward this, so here it is … I was at the corner [...]

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How To Find A Job (or Grow Your Business) Using LinkedIn?

October 11, 2010
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This is the 3rd edition of the Social Media Success Series. In this video, I interview my good friend, David McKenzie, who has just accepted a new job as the Business Development Manager for Manpower Spokane. The interesting thing about this job offer, is that it was entirely initiated via the social media networks, specifically [...]

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Social Media Success Series #2

September 29, 2010

Note: If you’ve been one of my email subscribers, you’ve been invited to post anonymous questions about social media marketing. The Social Media Success Series” is a question & answer forum that is spread across multiple mediums as actual examples (Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, blog, etc.) of how to effectively grow your business using social [...]

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Business Marketing Lessons From Spaghetti Sauce?

July 15, 2010

Executive Summary: 1. Do not make any assumptions about what your market wants 2. Market research is CRITICALLY important …

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