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Social Media

Top 3 Strategies for Managing Large Twitter Networks

December 4, 2009
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Opinions differ on whether having a small network on social sites (some “experts” say it’s impossible to follow more than 149 people) is the only way to properly utilize the tools, or whether you should be completely open and follow everybody (or follow back everybody).
I believe that large networks open you up to meeting and [...]

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Social Media – Whether or Not You “Do It”, Do You Know Why?

November 10, 2009
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If I was to ask you why you’re tweeting on Twitter, friending on Facebook, or getting LinkedIn, most business people would answer in one of three ways:

“I’m marketing.”
“I’m making friends/followers/connections.”
“What’s a tweet?”

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Plan Your Online Image Carefully

October 28, 2009
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Remember than once you let things loose online, they stick around forever. Seriously… want a good laugh and a powerful reminder? Go check out one of my perennial favorites, the Wayback Machine. You can see the internet, as it was from yesterday to 1996… bad hair, bad websites, bad business ideas and all!
The screenshot here [...]

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Socialization 101 for Real Estate Investors

October 12, 2009
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I‘m going to write plenty about specific tactics for using social media in the future, but today I wanted to take it up to the 10,000 ft level and talk about how to communicate in social media. Or, as I read recently, How Not to Be “That Guy” – a problem that seems to have [...]

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