Small Businesses Lack Time for Social Media Marketing

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Amongst the products that are no longer being manufactured in the United States are more hours in the day or, more days in the week, for that matter. And that is seen a barrier to small business owners fully exploiting the internet marketing advantages of social media. Excluding pure internet marketing companies (which are presumably [...]

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Social Media Profile Leveraging

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Social Media sites can offer great opportunities for you to get high quality inbound links to your site.

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The Calculus of Social Media Theory

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Will there be a time when we can define social media influence?

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It’s Not What You Know…

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We can’t all be brilliant, so I chose to use my best skill – my boyish charm.

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Why I’m Joining Media Two Interactive

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I accepted a position as the Director of User Experience at Media Two Interactive in downtown Raleigh.

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Real Estate BarCamp, the Raleigh, NC edition

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I was excited when I started talking with Meredith Morgan about speaking at this years RDU Real Estate BarCamp. I’ve long felt that there are a few industries that have had to figure out the Internet fast, or perish. One is the newspaper industry which I recently left, but another is real estate. I remember [...]

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Twiffiency, Twitter Spam and the Making of Twitter-Awesomeness

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When I noticed the super silly Twiffiency phenomenon blow up on Tuesday I was struck by how much people love getting graded. Everyone saw the auto-tweets that Twiffiency sent out on your behalf and quickly tested their own.. ummm, something. See, the thing is, even now, no one has any idea what that score means! [...]

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Why You Hate Your Profile Picture

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Do you always hate how you look in pictures? What causes that? Is it your own overly-critical brain?

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What Happens When You Let Others Define You

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If you decide to let others define your online reputation, don’t be surprised if you don’t agree with their opinion.

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Why I Shop at Kerr Drug

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When I moved down from Massachusetts in 2003, I had to adjust to living in a new environment where many things were different. Things that were familiar were easy for me to stick with. The few Dunkin’ Donuts and CVS were the two most familiar stores that were here. Now it’s seven years later and I love [...]

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Why you need to build your business one customer at a time

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There’s only one way to build a business, and it’s one customer at a time. It happens to also be the most sustainable way.

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