Tag Archives: Social Media
5 Fast & Fun Ways to Stay Top Of Mind with Your Customers
Posted by Melissa Galt.
In this day and age of multimedia channels, social networks, email inundation and smart phones, it can be darned near impossible to stay in front of your customer. They are as overwhelmed as you are. So how can you ensure that you stay top of mind and claim the “mindshare” that will make a difference? [...]
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Stop Stroking Your Ego, Start Growing Your Bottom Line
Posted by Melissa Galt.
This is slick. Maybe you’ve seen it before, but I hadn’t. Now we are being sent awards of complete irrelevance. I’m a professional speaker on social media, relationship marketing, and strategic business growth. I also speak on life design and success architecture. While I do coach and consult with business owners on marketing, customer service, [...]
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The Irrelevance of Social Media: Chasing Nothing
Posted by Melissa Galt.
A couple of week’s ago I got a long awaited invitation to pinterest. (Oh and if you’ve no clue what that is, it is a social media network devoted solely to sharing images, sans text.) I say long awaited because when I first discovered the site through creative colleagues, it informed me I needed an [...]
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Marketing Strategies: How to Win in Business (and Life) Without Really Trying
Posted by Melissa Galt.
In just about any kind of business, you start first by telling your friends about it, asking them to spread the word. You reach out to fellow business owners and share the news of your launch. This is all called word-of-mouth. What you might not realize is that this is exactly what social marketing is [...]
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Marketing Strategies: Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Posted by Melissa Galt.
What is the sweetest sound you can hear? Your name. That’s right, it’s personal and real and in today’s age of communication overload, used far too little. Think about it, you don’t often use someone’s name in a text message, almost never in a Tweet, only if you are tagging them in a Facebook update, [...]
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5 Rules of Marketing You Must Know Now
Posted by Melissa Galt.
Recently I visited a series of Designer Showhouses. The point of these showhouses is threefold: To sell the house. To sell the designer. To sell the furnishings, accents, accessories, lamps and more. In this case, the marketing company that put this together did their level best NOT to sell anything! It was truly one of [...]
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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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Why People Are Like Cookies and How to Find the Most Delicious Ones!
Posted by Melissa Galt.
The best way to eat an oreo cookie is always by going for the middle first and saving the chocolate cookies for last. The middle is the sweet stuff, the yummy filling and that’s a lot like people. No, I’m not talking about cannibals! What I mean is that the best part of a person [...]
