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Cooking up a Killer Referral Strategy Using Social Media

by Ivana Taylor September 8, 2011
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This post is part of a “Blog Carnival” that’s being hosted by Tea Silvestre from The Word Chef Blog.  The theme of the carnival is “Building Business Relationships” it’s part of a series of posts on the subject from a variety of small business experts. Building referrals is just as important now as if was [...]

How to Use Involver to Drive Web Traffic to Your Facebook Page

by Martina Iring August 1, 2011
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Involver is an easy to use Facebook Tab Tool that integrates social media channels into your Facebook page I visit a lot of Facebook business pages. I’m always poking around, checking out different small businesses, liking and commenting. That’s part of what being an internet marketer is all about. In many cases, the Facebook page [...]

An Open Review of Viadeo

by Ivana Taylor June 1, 2011
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As if you didn’t have enough social media channels to manage, our guest author today, Jey Raul, introduces us to Viadeo, which is gaining traction in Europe.  It’s a social bookmarking site you’ll want to explore and see in how it compares to all the others. Viadeo is a social network created by Thierry Lunati [...]

Create a Facebook Fan Page Tab in 30 Minutes!

by Ivana Taylor April 17, 2011
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Are you getting the most from your Facebook Fan Page?  If you’re an industrial business, you may not even think you NEED a Facebook Fan Page.  I’ll simply say that you do.  Now that the population of Facebook users is over 650 million.  If it were a country, it would be the third-most populated country [...]

Pretty Link Offers WordPress Bloggers An Extra Tool to Build An Audience

by Ivana Taylor July 8, 2010

If you’ve got a WordPress.org powered blog (meaning that you are hosting it yourself) and you’ve not heard of “the Pretty Link” plugin — then you are really missing out on a wonderful self-promotion and audience building tool. Pretty Link is a FREE plugin that you can get from WordPress that turns any link that [...]

How to Use Facebook to Recruit Online Survey Respondents

by Ivana Taylor June 24, 2010

I have to admit something to you — I’ve been avoiding blind brand surveys because it often requires a huge expense in finding a good list.  But no more! You already know that Facebook is now the biggest repository of demographic and psycho graphic information on the web.  And right now, marketers are having more fun than [...]

Twitter Marketing for Dummies is a Smart Read

by Ivana Taylor April 17, 2010

I wouldn’t consider myself a “dummy” when it comes to Twitter.  But I will tell you that Kyle Lacy certainly taught me a thing or three about marketing via Twitter that I didn’t know.

Tweet Chat: Referrals, Networking and New Business

by Ivana Taylor July 20, 2009

I’ve been having so many “social media” conversations over the last year.  It seems that a lot of small business owners are looking for ways to make this a part of their strategy, but they’re just not sure how. In this particular conversation, we were talking about working a structured referral strategy.  What I mean [...]

How to Use Social Media to Complement Your Referral Strategy

by Ivana Taylor March 11, 2009

If you’ve been building your business by referral, then you’ve probably been wondering how to fit in all these wonderful social media and connection tools into your system.  If you haven’t quite figured it out – don’t fret.  You’re not the only one.  There are probably hundreds of social and networking tools out there and [...]

How to Develop a Policy for How You Will Interact with Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and other Social Media Tools

by Ivana Taylor February 11, 2009

My @DIYMarketers Twitter account has been acting up.  And in my troubleshooting journey I discovered something BRILLIANT: A Twitter Policy. My Twitter account hasn’t been sending me e-mails about the people who are following me.  In the process, I decided to go and search out some new people to follow and see if I get [...]