Social Media Marketing
10 Top Tips to Boost Your Visibility on LinkedIn
With over 300 million registered users, and 33% of the professional workforce on LinkedIn, it is the network of choice for B2B success. The average age of a LinkedIn user is over 35, and there are more graduate degrees and six figure earners on LinkedIn than any other network. It is the place where business…
Small Business Marketing: What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
One of the things I’ve noticed is that when I’m in conversation with a female business owner, the questions and challenges that come up are often the same. “Melissa, I know I need to do video, but I don’t know how to use youtube.” “Melissa, I’ve got a VA doing my Facebook and Twitter because…
Blogging Checklist: What to Do Before You Write Content, Before You Post Content
Speaking with a client the other day, I was caught off guard when he proudly stated that he’d completed a dozen blog posts to launch his blog, and had sent them off to his VA for posting late night. Waaaiiiitt!! There is so much more to this than just writing and posting. Where is the…
Networking Tips: 3 Wickedly Simple Ways to Red Carpet Ready Your Conversations
One of the toughest things about networking is knowing what to say. And I don’t mean the usual “blah, blah, blah” about your business. I mean being both interested and interesting so that you’ll be remembered beyond your tagline. (You do have a tagline, don’t you?) This is about being a good conversationalist. It means…
Facebook Marketing Strategy: 5 Fast and Effective Ways to Engage Your Fans on Facebook
Facebook may be fun for personal interaction but it requires strategy, tools, and shortcuts to be effective for your business. Engagement with your fans on a consistent and persistent basis is vital and it definitely is about being social, not just businesslike. People do business with people they KNOW, LIKE, and TRUST and that means…
3 Fast and Easy Ways to Fail at Email Marketing
At a recent networking function I met an experienced business consultant who was actively seeking new business. Following meeting live, he invited me to connect on LinkedIn and I connected. His next action surprised and dismayed me. He put me on his email list as a subscriber WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. This is not okay. Yes,…
Facebook Netiquette: Are You Hanging Up on Your Customers?
I’ve always struggled with the idea that you have to camp on Facebook. The statistics all show that over 50% of users climb on once a day at least for twenty plus minutes. In a world where 30 seconds is our average attention span that feels like an eternity to me. But then I got…
The Power of One: How to Make Social Easy on Facebook
When you are getting started on Facebook for your business,(yes, there are still many folks who aren’t on board) one of the most challenging tendencies to overcome is acting as if you are speaking to a group or population. Using words like “everyone” “you all” “anyone” is very impersonal and ineffective. You will get more…
5 Fast & Fun Ways to Stay Top Of Mind with Your Customers
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?…