Your Guide to the Marketing Jungle
Ice cream has always been social. But Cold Stone Creamery has found a way to make it even more so—with Facebook.
The American ice cream retailer, known for pounding and slapping customized creations on a “cold stone,” has long been a favorite of ice cream lovers – enthusiasm that has helped churn out 1,459 locations in the U.S. and 16 countries.
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Many small businesses and solo entrepreneurs dive into social media marketing strategies without visualizing a bigger plan. What ensues is usually far from what they had hoped. Instead of attracting more leads and sales, they end up wasting time, money and passion.
It doesn't have to be this way.
This problem can be easily remedied by taking time to learn from those who are already experiencing success with social media marketing and by implementing a clear, specific, actionable and measurable web marketing plan.
In this article, I'll
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Are you wondering how to leverage your presence on LinkedIn to build social influence?
Regularly updating your status, joining and participating in groups and answering questions is just the start.
There are also a number of ways to build deeper relationships with your connections on LinkedIn. I'm going to ask you to shift your thinking and consider the following:
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You're likely on Twitter. But are you connecting with the right people? Do you want to build a quality Twitter following? If so, keep reading.
In this post we will explore sometimes obvious, yet seldom implemented, techniques of building a following on Twitter as well as few methodologies you may have not considered but should find quite useful.
The inspiration for this post came from the book Twitter Power by Joel Comm.
Let's get started.
#1: Look for people you already know
This one is a no-brainer but it often goes unexecuted.
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Very few people ignore you in real life, face-to-face networking situations. So why do they do it to you online? The simple answer is because they probably don't even realize that they are!
Be honest. Do you follow up on every LinkedIn connection request you get? No, probably not. I'll bet you click "accept" and that's as far as you go.
When someone requests to connect with you and you simply click "accept" and make no effort to carry on the conversation, you're both simply saying hello to each other and it stops dead there. The only
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