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Which social media site can’t your live without? At lunch today, someone asked the question. Everyone answered almost immediately and the results were surprising. Take my poll – see if you agree with the lunch bunch. I’ll post our results when the poll closes.

3 Steps To Creating Your Own Online Store On Facebook

Tweet There is something happening on Facebook that you might not have noticed. What you might have overlooked is the fact that a new term “F-Commerce” which is the social business of having your own online store on Facebook is now emerging and becoming a reality and is being embraced by brands both big and [...]

Facebook Ads – Guide to Facebook Advertising

Facebook Ads can help your business grow. While there’s no doubt that Yahoo and google is even now a force to be reckoned with when it comes to on the internet promoting, you will find a number of compelling causes why Facebook ads is an avenue wellworth exploring. The truth is Facebook ads may possibly [...]

3 Reasons to Attend an Unconference

As a small business owner (or small not-for-profit), networking is productive use of your time. An unconference doesn’t have a set agenda or speakers. The first order of business is for the attendees to choose the agenda. Either “experts” volunteer to lead a workshop on their area of expertise, or attendees  lead a session to [...]

Whom Do You Trust?

Business is being done on the strength of a tweet. So who do you trust? I became aware of the question of trust when @JaniceTomich posted a tweet about @hrbartender’s blog post Trust is not Blind Faith.

Building Your Social Media Profile on 30 Minutes a Day

One of the objections to using Social Media tools is that it takes too much time. This means two things; they don’t see the value in building an effective social media profile (they see it as a waste of time) and they don’t have a plan. How often have you thought you’d check twitter or linkedin or facebook for a couple of minutes and found 30 minutes or longer had passed and you don’t feel you’ve accomplished anything.

This method is used to build up your Social Media profile. Adding valuable contacts to your communities requires more than a utility that searches out “business coach” in the bio. Checking each contact builds a community consisting of your ideal client, leaders in your field, joint venture partners and your competition.

If You're My Facebook Friend, Why Are You Spamming Me?

Almost everyone has a Facebook account. The schemes we use to build up our Facebook friends are as varied as our personalities. Early on numbers mattered. It wasn’t unusual for folks to reach the 5000 upper limit. Is it any wonder we have friends who abuse that relationship? You know who they are. They send [...]

What I learned from Canada's Most Influential Women in Social Media

At Perfectio you can vote for Canada’s Most Influential Women in Social Media . I know there are a lot of women in social media in Canada. I follow some of them on Twitter and have met others at networking events, but a lot of the list were unknown to me. I followed the links for all 21. Here’s what the successful blogs had in common:

What I learned from the 50 Influencial Women in Social Media

Ron Hudson’s Immediate Influence Blog post today listed the 50 Most Influential Women in Social Media. He compiled the list from nominations from people on Twitter, then used their Alexa ranking to place them on the list. (Alexa is used to rank web site traffic) I recognized at least half of the nominees, and wondered [...]