Social media tips: how to lose friends and alienate people!

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Just another rant……..

I posted on the same theme before but I am getting to the point of being exceptionally hacked off with the number of people on the internet marketing band wagon who think they can just spam me! Who are these people’s mentors? I don’t even know these people and they slap all their nonsense either into my inbox or on my wall. I have befriended some of them as they requested to be ‘my friend’ and no sooner have I accepted and bang spam! (more…)

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Facebook- The Basics Revisited

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Facebook is fun for most of us however yesterday I had to cut down my ‘friends’ list because in reality they were just plain old spammers.

These individuals may be thinking that they were doing the right thing by throwing enough mud at the wall in the hope that some may stick, but how wrong they are!! Do they not realize that this wonderful social network could become an invaluable marketing tool IF they ‘play the game’ and do things the right way? So I thought enough was enough and today in our little group I would bring some of the basic ideas back into our focus, before we really get into some high caliber learning. So lets get back to basics folks and make Facebook work for us all – here is just a sample of some ideas on how we can do it: (more…)

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Traffic 3.0- To Hype or not to Hype

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This post is really just a little observation from a conversational thread within one of my friends facebook pages. You see the ‘Hype’ and subsequent debate was in reference to Traffic 3.0 product launch by Jonathon Budd and was also a veiled attempt at slating the marketing strategy that was used in getting the product launched to the masses. (more…)

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Why Social Media?

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You may not know this but social sites like twitter and facebook have become so big that there are now twitter directories that make it easier to sift through the millions of members and find those who may be interested in your products of services. Once you know who these people are, you start by building relationships with them and eventually getting their permission to tell them about your products or services. (more…)

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