Social Media For Business SUCKS!

Pin ItThis was recorded LIVE in Las Vegas at the eCommerce Summit 2010 Every day, thousands of small businesses and entrepreneurs miss out on millions of dollars in revenue simply because they don’t know how to utilize the Internet for marketing and selling. This is NOT your same old ABC stuff, these are actual eCommerce practices for Social Media that will yield bottom line results and amp up your business.     You comments from the #ICENotes hash tag. You can use Twitter to add comments here by simply including the #ICENotes hash tag. Enter your comments, I would really like to...

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Press Release: Addoway – A New Platform to Engage While You Buy and Sell

Pin ItPhoenix-based Addoway, a free social marketplace that launched its beta site 3 months ago, is announcing today the launch of its new platform that helps users buy and sell with friends in their social circles. Online shoppers can use Addoway to find new and used products sold by thousands of independent online merchants and individuals. When a shopper searches for products to buy on the site, Addoway displays search results from people in the shopper’s social networks, including their friends on Facebook and friends-of-friends on Facebook. If shoppers are interested in an item they...

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Bubbles: Networking for the Now Generation

Pin ItRemember the relics of the past, your grandfather’s generation of how they used to network? Picture in your mind those bound business card books – remember these? They were small, leather bound with clear sleeves to hold business cards. Some of them were tabbed or alphabetical. That relic was replaced by saving business contacts in Act! Contact software and finally made accessible to all of us via Microsoft Office Outlook. How about the rotary phone? A Rolodex? Actually traveling physically just to network? All things of the past, almost nostalgic in the “Now Generation”...

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We Started Social Marketing :: I Am eBay

Pin ItThis all started from a couple of crazy late-night Tweets after being fed up with the "hype" And it ended up a Social Marketing Video LinkedTube Please Rate My Video with 5-Stars DSR’s Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend...

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Why Social Media Matters Most :: Google vs. Twitter Search (Atlanta Flood Pictures)

Pin ItBack in the day I saw a video by my boy Gary Vaynerchuk (author of Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion). I love to listen and watch him, he was one of the first to usher me into the power of social marketing. Back in the day, Gary made a video about the power of http://Seach.Twitter.com and why it is MORE relevant for information that even Google.com So here is an illustration of that principle in a very IN YOUR FACE kind of demonstration. Look guys, if you don’t "GET IT, you had better GET IT!" LinkedTube Please Rate My Video with 5-Stars...

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Thinking Win-Win Is Such a 1992 Philosophy

Pin ItIn today’s world there is a "hyper-network" taking place. We are all hyper networking thanks to social services, both on personal and business levels. By network I mean people who know you, like you and trust you. The new issue with this hyper networking is that suddenly people are always trying to "keep track" of all of their networkers, for lack of a better term. What I mean is that suddenly people are now seeing if you re-tweet everything they say. Or did you post a back link to their blog post. How many times did you recognize them on a "Twitter follow...

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The Theory of “Thinships” (Social Networking Relationships)

Pin ItThe theory created by the author (John of ColderICE.com) that we have a new term of “Thinship” to describe social relationships. A more defining term for the existence of these types of relationships in social networks. My thought on a new term of “thinships” Technorati Tags: social,networking,friendship,thinship,theory,making friends,twitter,facebook,linkedin Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend...

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15 Links About Twitter That Can Grow Your Business

Pin ItIt is no secret that I am a Twitter nut! I love it for many reasons and it just works for me, literally! I am unashamedly a “bottom line’ person by design and I don’t like to spend time on fruitless ventures, even casually. So I got a saying that “if it don’t make dollars, it don’t make sense”. So how can Twitter help you with your bottom line? Here are a few good links to help you out with that. Let me share with you 15 links about Twitter that can help you grow your own business… Guide to Twitter for Business: By Shara Karasic,...

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Barack Obama’s Social Media Lessons For Small Business

Pin ItHere is a neat concept. These guys are going to follow Barack Obama’s social network strategy and show you how it can help small business. A few weeks back David Bullock and Brent Leary  had a conversation/webinar highlighting some of the reasons they felt small business people would benefit from taking a closer look at the Obama campaign’s approach to social media.  They recorded it for your on-demand viewing: “In many ways, the challenges Barack Obama’s presidential campaign faces are representative of the obstacles we run into every day as small...

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