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Social Media And Your Company

Social Media And Your Company

People now more than ever are connected with each other: from the minute we wake up until the minute we shut our eyes for sleep, we have some way of interacting with other people. Be it Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, or even rising players like Google+, social networks are used by “one in every second Internet [...]

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5 Social Media Ideas For The New Year

5 Social Media Ideas For The New Year

You know what social media is, but do you know how to maximize its potential in your life? Any entrepreneur worth his or her salt should be actively leveraging social media in order to harvest new ideas, monetize old ones, and send your financial endeavor on an arc of meteoric growth. Whether you’re in the [...]

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Why The Secrecy Bill Is Such A Stupid Idea

Why The Secrecy Bill Is Such A Stupid Idea

The proposed Protection of Information Bill is an exercise in purest futility. The Information Express left the station years ago and simply cannot be stopped. Just ask the Chinese or the American intelligence community. In the past few days I’ve overheard, read and engaged in conversations about the new bill that’s currently before Parliament. Some [...]

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Social Medial: It’s impact on PR tactics

Social Medial: It’s impact on PR tactics

Social media platforms have forever disrupted traditional PR works in its processes, values, strategies and campaigns. These methods of communications have moved from being the social domain of individuals to a rapidly growing and vastly changing landscape which the PR industry ignores at its peril. Social media has the benefits of being a way to [...]

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How do I get more customers to walk into my restaurant using the web?

How do I get more customers to walk into my restaurant using the web?

I love eating out and if I could do it professionally then I would! There is nothing quite like a well prepared meal from a restaurant any day in my mind. However the challenge that a restaurant owner faces in this day is how to use the web to get more bums on seats. How [...]

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Twitter advice for Entrepreneurs

I would like to share some advice for entrepreneurs who started using twitter in 2010. I did an experiment and created a video to share my 5 points. Here are my 5 points to help entrepreneurs be better at Twitter in 2011. Tyron Bache is a proud co-founder of Smashing Web Development, a professional website development [...]

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How to Start Monitoring your R.O.I from Social Media

How to Start Monitoring your R.O.I from Social Media

How to measure return on investment from social media has got to be one of the most commonly asked questions regarding social media marketing. It is also one of the trickiest topics to define a single solution for, as it depends heavily on your influence within a community of people. Adam Mitchell is a Digital [...]

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Top 3 social networks to market yourself on in South AfricaTop 3 social networks to market yourself on in South Africa

Top 3 social networks to market yourself on in South AfricaTop 3 social networks to market yourself on in South Africa

Entrepreneurs are always being spread to thin having to do all the work in the business. So with this in mind I though your would like to know the top three social networks that should give you the best return on your marketing effort online. Facebook Only because everyone is on Facebook. This is a [...]

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3 Quick Social Media Marketing Tips for Entrepreneurs

3 Quick Social Media Marketing Tips for Entrepreneurs

Social media marketing can take up way too much time when you are trying to run a business. There’s a ton of benefit to using social media for business. I have learnt this myself as I launched my consulting career primarily off twitter and blogging. So I thought I would give you three quick tips [...]

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Using ‘word of mouth’ marketing in social media

Using ‘word of mouth’ marketing in social media

Word of Mouth Marketing I have had about 15 conversations with small businesses over the last week that still claim that word of mouth is still their number one lead generator. Word of mouth marketing works so well because people hold the reference of a friend or family member in very high regard. The experience [...]

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