Tag Archives: Facebook
What is the Difference Between Social and Personal?
Posted by Melissa Galt.
What is the difference between social and personal seems to be one of the biggest questions newbies (and even some pros) are asking today. I still get that eye roll from audiences and prospects when they say “I don’t care what anyone else ate for breakfast and am not going to share what I had!” [...]
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The Handicap of Hiring Others to Do Your Social Media
Posted by Melissa Galt.
While this sounds like a no-brainer idea to many small business owners and even big business owners, hiring someone else, like a marketing firm, to interact in social media for you isn’t necessarily a very good idea. The reality is that people do business with people. A brand is only as good as the people [...]
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3 Must Haves for Success with Social Marketing
Posted by Melissa Galt.
Yes, this is still a big question for far too many people and, more importantly, far too many business owners and professionals. The answer is far simpler than you imagined, and it doesn’t involve being cloned, hiring a team of social media experts to do your Tweeting, Facebooking, and more for you, or being on [...]
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How to Build Profitable Relationships and Powerful Friends: It’s All in the Invitation
Posted by Melissa Galt.
Wahhhh, I admit it, I haven’t been on LinkedIn much this year so far. In fact, I haven’t been doing nearly as much social “networking” as I did the last two years. Maybe it’s because I’m doing more real time networking, or perhaps social media is truly in that state of flux, but whatever the [...]
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5 Ways to Tell a True Friend on Facebook (vs. the Not-So-True Kind)
Posted by Melissa Galt.
Well if you read my recent post about dumping 50K followers on Twitter, it won’t surprise you that at the same time, I purged my Facebook Profile of over 2500 not-so-true friends. You see, originally, I’d been given the same advice about Facebook; friend everyone who invites you to. With my recent years of accumulated [...]
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Social Media Savvy: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Posted by Melissa Galt.
Having just purged my Facebook profile of over 2500 “friends,” and deactivated my Twitter profile at 50K followers and 2K lists, I’ve learned a lot about the definition of a friend. According to Webster’s (yes, I am old fashioned and use a real dictionary, get over it!), a friend is the following: One attached to [...]
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Facebook Profile Changes: 5 Reasons You Want to Do It!
Posted by Melissa Galt.
I admit it, I’m not as huge a fan of Facebook as many of my colleagues and goodness knows many around the globe. They are in continual change, never really out of beta testing, they just don’t call it that. The latest was kind of an “oh not this again moment,” for me when it [...]
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It’s All in the FACE!
Posted by Melissa Galt.
Okay, here goes, I’m going to rant a bit. If you don’t want read further, then don’t, but I’ve had enough. Why on earth would you climb aboard the social networks for either social fun or business contacts and be unwilling to share your face? Why would you share the face of your pet? Your [...]
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5 Essentials for Making Profitable Connections in Social Networking
Posted by Melissa Galt.
There are 5 simple criteria I use for determining whether or not I will accept a friend request on Facebook, an follower on Twitter, or a connection on LinkedIN. I am sharing them here because accepting everyone isn’t a good policy, being discriminating is. Remember that ultimately these are people of a quality that you [...]
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Social Network Knowhow: Keeping It Clean (on Facebook)
Posted by Melissa Galt.
Facebook always feels a bit challenging to me. Their rules are published nowhere you can find easily and most are pretty indecipherable. Often you won’t know you’ve broken one, until you get slapped. Yet, it is the largest social network globally and you certainly don’t want to ignore it. Now, if you are using it [...]
