Author: Patricia Maranga

Your customers get 99% of their information from search engines, social media referrals, online news sites and targeted content.

If your business is NOT there among the solutions when your customers are looking, you're lost.

And even if they do find you some other way, you will still lose if you don't have compelling content to keep them engaged with your brand.

And so you must publish, you must tell stories and you must become interesting to your customers so that they find, like and trust you.

In his book, Accelerate! Move Your

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The consumer revolution is in progress. Do you know what part you play in it?

Do you realize that "digital Darwinism" (when society and technology evolve faster than a company's ability to adapt) is a threat to each and every business (including yours)?

Whether you're a marketer, a business professional or an entrepreneur, it is your job to figure out why consumers connect and how their social conversations influence your brand.

In his book, The End of Business as Usual, Brian Solis cautions that businesses that embrace and adapt to

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How do you attract passionate customers?

What can you do to cut through the noise and get people to notice what you have to say?

The answer is CONTENT—interesting and compelling information that helps solve your customers' problems.
Why Content?
It's interesting content that drives people to push that Share button or say to themselves, "Wow! This is a great article! I think I'll subscribe."

Here's an analogy: If a big-time investor invited you to pitch your business idea to him, how much effort would you make to impress him?

I'm

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If you've ever asked the question, "Can I make money with social media?", you might have heard a variety of answers such as, "No!", "Maybe" or "It depends."

Rarely (if at all) have you heard the confident and unwavering response, "Yes, you can!"

In their book, How to Make Money with Social Media—An Insider's Guide on Using New and Emerging Media to Grow Your Business, Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah explain that there's a big difference between people who make money with social media and people who don't.

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