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January 18

Broadening Your Social Media Reach With Ping.fm

Between "Using Facebook For Your Small Business" and "Twitter for the Absolute Beginner" we've been talking a lot about the big players in the social media world lately, but there are a whole lot of other newcomers trying to break through with their own set of cool features that are attracting attentive eyeballs. You may be struggling to keep active on Facebook and Twitter as it is, so what benefit would you get from exploring other social networks? More importantly, is there an easy way to manage all of these services at the same time? Of course there is! Let's get into it.

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January 17

Using Facebook For Your Small Business – Part 6

In my last post, I went through the Ace Hardware Facebook case study. I understand that some of you small business owners might be thinking that their efforts aren't applicable to what you can do as a much smaller business. That is simply not true. None of what they did is beyond the budget of a small business, especially with the right technicians.

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January 17

Using Facebook For Your Small Business – Part 5

Let's pick up where we left off on my last post and talk a bit more about Facebook for your small business. As promised, I want to take a look at a case study in this post. With all of the posts (listed below) that I've done on Facebook, I realize that sometimes you need to see some real examples of how Facebook is being used to impact business. As a re-cap, here's a list of the posts I've written in this series. If you haven't already, I would recommend reading these as well:

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Weekly Round-Up (1/10/2011 – 1/14/2011)

Get caught up on our blog posts from the week below to make sure you didn't miss anything! Remember to like us on Facebook to find out about our Business After Hours event at Tortugas in Bradford this coming week. We're giving away 2 free Amazon Kindles!

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January 13

5 Reasons I Would Not Buy MySpace

Aside from the fact that I don't have ~$500 million, there are 5 main reasons I would not buy MySpace.

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January 13

Twitter for the Absolute Beginner - Part 3

Welcome to the 3rd and final part of my Twitter guide for the absolute beginner. In part 1 of the series I wrote about the fundamentals of Twitter and in part 2 I covered some more advanced topics like the importance of following, ideas for what to tweet and how to setup twitter searches so you can monitor your brand. In this section I'll explain how to tailor the look of your business's Twitter profile to match your company's brand and share some fun tools that'll make managing your Twitter presence a breeze. Let's get started!

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January 13

URL Rewriting for SEO

Confused already? I will do my best to make this post understandable my the least technologically advanced person at your business. Let's start with the absolute basics.

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January 10

Twitter for the Absolute Beginner - Part 2

This is part 2 of my beginner's guide to Twitter for small business owners and employees. If you missed part 1 be sure to get caught up here. Part 1 was more focused on the fundamentals of using Twitter, and in this post I'll give some guidelines for growing your follower count and monitoring your brand so that you can interact with current and prospect customers. All set? Here we go!

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Weekly Round-Up (1/2/2011 - 1/7/2011)

Here's our posts from the week in case you missed any!

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Social Media and the World

Today's post doesn't involve social media tips or blogging tips for your small business. Today I want to reflect on how social media impacts our world using one story, "The Man With The Golden Voice" as the main reference point. I know...I am late to the game. After all it has been 3 days. Before I make my point, you should probably understand the story. You have likely picked up bits and pieces of the Ted Williams story in water cooler discussion and maybe already have seen the videos. If not take a second to watch...go ahead, I'll wait.

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