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One of the best ways for small businesses to build their networks and increase their influence is by participating in Twitter Chats. Twitter chats are Twitter-based conversations that anyone can participate in and are kept on track through the use of a #hashtag, or topic with a hash symbol (“#”) at the start to identify [...]

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Everyone Has Klout

(Note: reposted with permission from Part-Time Perfectionist.) A year ago I had my first day at Klout. There were five of us, we were sharing a space with four other companies, and we were just about to launch Klout 2.0. Today, there are about 35 of us, we have our own gigantic space, and we [...]

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My team and I make it a practice to look at the profile page of every single person who follows me on Twitter.

We do this for several reasons:

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When it comes to social media, many business people are overworked, overloaded and just plain over it.

I get that and I feel their pain.

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With so much buzz about social media marketing these days I can’t help but wonder how many people think manufacturing fake word of mouth is a good marketing technique. I’m referring to people who get onto sites like Quora, a collection of good questions and answers, and recommend their own stuff without saying it’s their [...]

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I don’t know how far I would go with this, but it certainly got my attention, and the site it came from looks very good, too. This Infographic compares Facebook to Twitter in terms of use, demographics, and activities. You can click the picture for a larger view. And let me clearly thank Dave Larson [...]

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Business Idea: A Twitter Add-On

by Tim Berry on December 14, 2010

The problem with this idea is that I’m not sure how you’d make money doing it, but it’s a web app I wish existed, so maybe this suggestion is useful to you. It’s related to twitter. And it would use both the Twitter and the klout.com APIs (application programming interfaces). I want to be able [...]

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I keep running into people who insist that every business, every business owner, every manager, every job seeker and everybody else should be developing his or her web presence. You should have a blog. You have to be on Facebook. You have to be on Twitter. You know what I mean. Yes, I agree that [...]

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The other day somebody asked me how to get started on Twitter. I decided to write my answer down and post it here, because I thought it might be useful to others. If you’re already a Twitter user, then this post is probably not for you. Sorry. If you aren’t a Twitter user and don’t [...]

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Fashionable. Trendy. New. Different. Important for entrepreneurs. Of course you don’t need to always be new and exciting, or different or trendy, to make a successful new business. Just do something well, offer value, do something people want and will pay for; that’s a really good start. Think of the restaurant business. Just because there [...]

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