Tag Archives: Social networking
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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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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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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We Are Not So Different: A Behind the Scenes Peak at My Blurry Blueprint
Posted by Melissa Galt.
I did a survey to my community this week and have to say that I was blown away by the responses. And I want to let you know that I have faced (and still do on some days) the very same challenges that you laid out to me. One of the biggest that you mentioned [...]
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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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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 [...]
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#1 Secret to Building Relationships for Results with Everyone
Posted by Melissa Galt.
There are lots of parallels between dating and business networking. In fact if you treated your prospects like you would a new romance with full on courtship, you’d probably get a lot farther and a lot faster. Whether you are a woman in business or a man in business doesn’t matter, what matters is that [...]
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