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It Takes A Village… To Blog

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I spend alot of time consulting businesses, both small and large, in their use of social media and Internet marketing to promote their business and connect with their customers. And one of the pieces of advice I give to just about everyone is to start blogging on their website. Blogging has so many benefits, chief […]

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5 Steps To Create Your Social Media Plan

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I recently wrote a post about the importance of planning. I have always been a ‘planner’ and so I see the value in creating a plan that can guide you and keep you focused. So now I want to give you the 5 steps you can follow to create your own social media plan that […]

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10 Ideas For Using Video To Promote Your Business

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My last blog of 2011 was about the #1 thing that you need to do for 2012. You can read it here, but I wrote that you need to be doing video. And lots of it. And of course you took my blog to heart and you’ve been doing lots of video, right? Oh, ok. […]

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It’s Time For Ice Cream, So Where Do We Go?

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So you are sitting in the restaurant wrapping up a great meal with your friends and you are talking about where to go next. Maybe some ice cream would be nice. Or maybe a coffee shop. Or maybe some live music in a bar that is close-by. But you don’t know where to go or […]

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What 80s Music Taught Me About Business

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I had the distinct privilege of going on a trip recently in a vehicle that had SiriusXM radio. I have never ponied up the monthly fee to have it myself, so this was a treat for me. And of course, the first station I went to was 80s on 8, where it stayed the entire […]

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Pinterest: Game Changer or Just Another Scrapbook?

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What is Pinterest? Ask the nearest woman and she can probably tell you. Here’s a shocking stat for you: If you look at Facebook and Twitter’s growth rates at the some point in their history as where Pinterest is right now, Pinterest’s user base is growing faster than both of them. What does that mean? […]

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The P-Word

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Just about everybody hates it. The P-word. No, I am not talking about THAT P-word. This isn’t THAT kind of post! I am talking about ‘planning’. Yeah, I know you like to fly by the seat of your pants and ‘go with the flow’, right? Well, if I have any readers left after the first […]

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When They Venture Into Your World

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Last week I shared about what you need to do when you venture into your customers’ world. This week I reverse it and share with you what you need to do when they visit you. You know stores that you really love to go to. And you also know stores that you hate going to. […]

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Venturing Into Their World

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Several weeks ago we had a get-together over at my house for many of our friends. It was a great night of visiting with friends, laughing, eating, and socializing. I think we need that every once in awhile because it seems the more technology we have that ‘connects’ us, the more we disconnect from opportunities […]

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My 7 Favorite Twitter Tools

In the spirit of full disclosure, I have a new book about Twitter coming out soon which is available for pre-sale in my online store, so forgive me if I trip over myself mentioning it to you. While piecing together the final chapters over the last couple of months, I have had the opportunity to […]

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18 Inches

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My head told me one thing, and my heart told me another. It was that pivotal moment when you have to decide who will win… your head or your heart. We have all been there, and you can probably chime in with examples from both your personal life and your business. And I’ve made the […]

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SoLoMo: your new best friend

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So when was the last time you used your phone to look up a good place to eat? How about the last time you used your phone to check prices on a product while you were standing in a store aisle? Or perhaps you checked on movie showtimes on your phone while sitting in the […]

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Millions of Years Away

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The bright light of the stars that you see in the night sky are deceiving, because what you are looking at might not even be there anymore. Sounds strange, I know, but it’s true. You see, light travels through space at the speed of… well… light. Which is really fast. But some of those stars […]

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The Google Gameplan: Getting Found On the Internet

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Warning. This post is going to talk about a product that I have for sale, so you might see my comments as self-serving. I get so many questions about this topic that I decided to write a book about it. The question is how to get found by Google on the Internet. And the answer […]

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Email In Not Dead

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I love social media. I make lots of money from social media, so of course I would love it. And I can show you lots of ways to use social media to connect with your customers and build deeper relationships. But I still love one of the tried and true ways of marketing… email. I […]

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Automating the Internet: IfTTT

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I love sharing cool things when I find them. In fact, I have been accused of over-sharing from time to time because I am finding cool stuff more and more these days. And because of all this cool stuff that has come to fill my life the past couple of years, I am always on […]

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Making a Difference

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I just returned from a speaking engagement in Nashville, Tennessee, where I spoke to a group of leaders in the Rotary International organization. I am a Rotarian myself and was excited to be a part of the event, and if you don’t know what Rotary is then I can tell you that it is a […]

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Facebook Timeline for Pages: The Silver Lining

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When the Timeline for Pages rolled out last week in Facebook, my initial reaction was joy, followed very quickly by a feeling of depression after I started to discover numerous things that were missing or changed from the previous layout. After living with the new layout for a week, I am starting to soften a […]

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Shhh…..My Secret List

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“Steve, how do you know all the stuff that you know?? It’s amazing!” I hear this all the time, and of course I am flattered when I hear that. Well, I have a little secret…. shhhh… don’t tell anyone. I’m not that smart. I just know where to go to learn from people alot smarter […]

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