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If you advertise online, and have any of your contact information out there, especially your email, you are open to all sorts of scams. Many of these are blatantly obvious, like the ones from someone with a name like “John Anderson”, who supposedly lives in your vicinity, and has the worst broken English ever. If you are familiar with how people of non English speaking countries speak English you can almost make out where the email originated from. Most of it is pretty hilarious. Now and then, one really stands out and really makes me take notice. This time it is an email I got...

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It Takes Crazy to Change the World

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. ~Apple Computer Inc. In my...

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8 Things You Should be Doing in Social Media

Does it seem like the face of social media marketing is changing at a blistering rate? Well, it is. What worked well in 2006, may not work now. Heck, what worked in 2010, just may be passé now. If you are planning on publishing an article in 6 months, using traditional methods, you just may miss out on some real, right-here-right-now opportunities. So, how do we keep up? How do we continue to stay in step with modern marketing in the world of web 2.0? Here are a few of the key ingredients to being successful in social media marketing. Entertain: If you are bland you are out. Humour, and...

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My Top 5 Go To Social Media Blogs

Are you a social media addict? Are you wanting to learn more about what’s going on in the world of social media marketing? That’s me. I started Anocial last February, not really knowing much about social media marketing, but not liking what I was seeing, and believed that I could do better. One of the first things I did was read. I read everything having to do with marketing in the social media world. Soon I realized, that there is simply too much being written to possibly keep up with. Time to trim the fat. I now read about 30 different blogs on social media marketing, and I...

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Why the Amount of Followers You Have Can be Meaningless

A friend of mine was telling me about his new Twitter account for his business, and bragged about how he had broken the 2000 follower ceiling in under 10 days. He was surprised, to say the least, when I was unimpressed. First off they have  good size off line following. That helps. Second, you defeat the business purpose of being able to effectively brand yourself, and find potential clients by using an auto follow tool, and any type of get-followers-quickly client. Quality over quantity should be the rule here. Mass amounts of followers is a meaningless metric, even more so when the...

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Does Your Business Really Need a Twitter Page?

Do you have a Twitter page for your business? I’m interested in what kind of a return you are seeing off of it. I am becoming ever more unconvinced that Twitter is the right place for localized small to medium sized businesses. The majority of the interaction I see on Twitter is spread globally, among people that will never see your store front. I believe, at least for localized business, that blogs and Facebook are the way to go. People are on Facebook more and more to connect with people that they used to know, they know but don’t see as much as they’d like, and as an...

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