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		<title>More Tips for Tweeting on Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you signed up for Twitter and just love sharing things that you have learned that are making your business bigger and better you probably have some of the basics of tweeting down. Maybe you read our post “Tweet, Retweet, Hashtags: The New Language of Social Media” that showed you a few of the basics. If you are finding that Twitter has been an amazing tool for your business and are in need of more, this article will take your tweets to the next level. While tweeting can be a great way to share information you shouldn’t forget that Twitter is a two-way-street and may teach you a few things, too. A great tool, that isn’t the easiest to find, is Twitter’s advanced search. The advanced search feature can help you find posts about a term, a person, a topic, a location or even a certain date. The tool can be found by scrolling to the bottom of any page on Twitter and look for the “Search” link. There is also another link there that lists all the Twitter search operators like “from:” which allows you to find tweets from a specific person or shows you that putting words in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Facebook to Grow Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Started as a way for its founder Mark Zucherburg to connect with friends at Harvard, Facebook has exploded to over 200 million users and growing each day. Facebook is a great way to stay in touch with friends and family and even reconnect with old friends from years past, but it also can be a great tool for your business. Facebook makes it easy to share information with tons of people, all at once, all you need to do is update your Facebook page and bam, everyone you know now knows the latest news about you, your family and your business. Just remember, if you are going to be using your Facebook page for professional purposes it is important to keep things professional. While, the more contacts you have the more exposure you may get for your business, you want to make sure that the exposure you are getting is positive. If you just go and add every person you may have rubbed shoulders with to your account you may be risking your page to some unprofessional exposure. So, it is important to be selective when you are inviting people into your professional network. That being said, social media marketing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attracting Customers with Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>writer-nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s world of fast food, fast cars and fast communication, people have come to rely on the internet for basically everything. This has given small businesses tremendous opportunities. Since most people are logged on to the world-wide-web every day, companies have the chance to expose thousands of potential new customers to their products and services. If you want to start an internet marketing campaign, then read on for some helpful tips on how to attract customers with social media. Internet marketing is a new advertising technique where businesses draw in new clients with the internet. One of the main tools of internet marketing is social media. Social media are websites, including Facebook and Twitter, that allow you to communicate with a ton of people at the same time. These sites are free to use and highly effective. Facebook is a great way to attract customers because it allows you to interact directly with them. This creates a feeling of interconnection between the customer and your business, which makes them want to use your services. In order to use Facebook properly, you need to have a dynamic page that you update at least once a day. Try including posts with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Social Media and the Internet to get Your Business Noticed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>writer-nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back before the days of the Internet, small business owners advertised in the newspaper, on the radio and also on local television stations to help get their company exposure. All of those archaic advertising methods were expensive and inefficient. Now-a-days, small business proprietors can get the word out about their products and services to thousands of people every day. This is because the world-wide-web has revolutionized the way people advertise. If you are a small business owner and want to get your company the exposure it needs in order to thrive, you should hop on board with Internet marketing. Internet marketing is a type of marketing approach that allows you to create an online brand for your company and reach the potential customers you need in order to thrive. Internet marketing not only used social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter and blogging sites to help you interact with your customers. It also used search engine optimization, also known as SEO, to help people discover your business’s website quickly and easily. If you are thinking about creating an online brand for your small company but do not know where to start, you need to consider a couple of things. First, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Impact of Social Media on Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>writer-nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media sites have been shown to have an exponential grow since they were first launched. From the very beginning of the social media networks like MySpace, the main objective of these amazing tools was the same, to share information with people and friends. Today, some of the social networks have disappeared but some others that were able to innovate and reach places that the initial ones could not are starting a new era of the internet. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter can be used to share your activity, pictures and thoughts with friends, but the main benefit of social media is that they are not limited to people but to businesses as well. However, if you are a business owner and you have set up your Facebook or Twitter account, that does not mean you will start automatically having more traffic or, better than that, clients. With the quick growth of social media, Google started evaluating the quality and interaction business owners have when using their social media accounts. People who like to share information using their social media account also want to read valuable information. And more than that, they want to interact with the people behind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Marketing – How to be Effective</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SRN Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the internet has evolved it has created fresh and innovative ways to reach new customers. Many people have heard of the term “social media marketing”, but many find it a difficult concept to grasp. Those of us that are used to the traditional forms of marketing such as TV, radio, newspapers, mailers and so on, may find ourselves a bit confused when it comes to this new form of marketing. Social media marketing has created a shift in how people can discover, read and share information and news. It has transformed consumers from mere content readers into content publishers. This hasengaged the consumer in an aspect of business that used to be owned by the marketing experts alone. Since social media marketing has opened up the Pandora’s Box of marketing to anyone with a computer, there is more information available to consumers than ever before. People can create and comment on the millions of internet forums, blogs, social blogs, podcast sites and video sites on the internet with a few clicks of a mouse. They can have a video up on YouTube in minutes, post a comment on Google Groups and provide information to Wikipedia. They can comment on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key Points to Consider when Building a Facebook Company Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>writer-nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the new marketplace, just about every aspect of building your business is done online.  Clearly, Facebook has become the major platform for business owners to make use of; and for good reason.  When you look at the sheer numbers of visitors to Facebook, it’s easy to see it offers an amazing opportunity for you to accomplish several business goals.  Before you login and start building your very own Facebook company page, give some thought to your overall strategy.  Like anything else you do in your business, planning is an essential place to start a new campaign. There are several things you can do through a Facebook page.  You may promote and build your brand through a well-crafted page.  You can seek customer feedback.  Think like Starbucks master-minds, who allow members of their community to come up with the flavor of their next coffee.  This, by the way, is a genius way to involve customers and make them feel personally connected to your brand.  A Facebook company page can be your way to generate leads and increase online sales, or it could simply start out as a method of reputation management &#8211; something every company really does need.  The real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Use Social Media to Retain Customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>writer-nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media is a great tool, but the relationships you make online can be used offline too. You should involve yourself in events and meet ups such as tradeshows. This will help you to build stronger business relationships and make connections with people who you met online. Online marketing and offline marketing will all help you to make your brand stronger. Social networking websites provide you with access to forums and discussion boards, from exactly where you can speak about your services and goods, also to interact with prospective customers regarding these items and services. It gives them an opportunity to get to know your firm far better, and supplies a much better method to appropriately recognize their requirements as customers. It provides them opportunities to send you questions as well as feedback about new or existing services, and gives them an opportunity to know your enterprise on a far more individual level. This might be an excellent advantage for your organization. It can also cut a huge amount of expenses. By keeping continuous communication with your clients and buyers you might be helping your company to grow in techniques you never believed possible. Not simply are you saving cash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Your Social Media Strategy Professional</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SRN Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of us that have Twitter and Facebook accounts it can be a difficult task to determine how to keep things professional if your main focus is to build a strong business network. Even if you start with the intention of keeping things professional, all it takes is one tweet or one photo to transform a professional site into something that some may find a bit unprofessional. We love social media sites because things are so instantaneous, but we forget that a single tweet can generate a rush of replies in mere seconds. So, policing your own accounts can become a full-time job. It is very important to make the purpose of your account clear from the first moment it is activated. One of the things that can cause an issue on Facebook is the fact that people can tag you in on pictures they post without your approval. Therefore, your profile can be open to risk of unprofessional exposure. It is very important to monitor your Facebook on a daily basis for photos that may not align you as a business professional. All it can take to turn a potential business contact away is an unprofessional photo that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Easy Steps to Facebook Page Success!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SRN Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you start placing your first Facebook ads, there are some important things that you should do to make sure that your Facebook page is ready for visitors!  Just having a Facebook Fan page is not enough.  Remember the adage: No piece of marketing material should ever leave your desk without a call to action.  Your Facebook Fan page is just that: another piece of marketing material.  Let’s look at some examples of companies that “get” it.  1. Your Facebook Page Profile Photo.   If you are your brand, then be sure to post your photo on your Facebook page profile.  People want to see who they are doing business with.  Nancy does a pretty good job here.  She has links to her other social media profiles and her blog, asks a question where the answer is always “yes”, and has an easy to understand statement of what she offers.  In this case she says she will help you “go from connections to conversions”.  Now who would not want that?!  The call to action on this graphic is a little weak.. it is “Let’s connect”.  Better to have some time of free offer to get people to opt-in to collect their [...]]]></description>
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