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6 Elements of Your Social Media Strategy INFOGRAPHIC

April 28, 2011 By Maria 1 Comment
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6 Elements of Your Social Media Strategy View more presentations from mariapeagler Small business owners:  here’s a slick way to keep your online marketing campaign on track:  watch this quick presentation on my 6 Elements of Your Social Media Strategy to keep you and your staff on track.  No matter where you are in your [...]

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5 Ways to Gain Fans by Customizing Your Facebook Business Page

March 18, 2011 By Maria Leave a Comment

Having a Facebook business page isn’t enough, even for a small business:  you need to give it a custom look to really get results.  Why?  First impressions mean everything, especially online, where people’s attention spans are easily diverted by cute YouTube videos, Farmville, or the latest quiz on your friends.  You need to grab people’s [...]

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6 Strategies for Marketing Your Business on a Blog

February 24, 2011 By Maria 1 Comment

Great – you’ve started a blog for your business!  Now what?  Think of your blog as the hub of your Social News Network, allowing you to reach customers worldwide.  What you want to tell them?  If you did a television commercial, what would it include?  What do you emphasize in your print ads?  If you [...]

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Starting a Small Business Blog

February 16, 2011 By Maria Leave a Comment

Starting a small business blog is the most cost-effective way achieving job #1 for entrepreneurs:  creating a demand for your product.  But it’s not magic.  Blogging takes time, creativity, and consistency to gain an audience and keep it.  The biggest complaint about social media is that it can be a time drain, so I’ll be [...]

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6 Blogging Best Practices for Small Business Owners . . . and Everyone Else

February 10, 2011 By Maria Leave a Comment

Small business owners need to understand blogging best practices to be effective.  If you want consumers to subscribe to your blog and keep them reading,  give them great content on a regular basis. Once you’re ready to get started, or even if you’ve been blogging for a while, here is my advice on having the [...]

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Top Ten Reasons Local Business Owners Should Start Blogging Today

February 2, 2011 By Maria 2 Comments

Deer-in-the-headlights stares are what I see when I suggest to many of my clients they need to start a blog. “Who, me?” they ask.  “I don’t have time for a blog.” Really?  You have time for your Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, and other networking events, but you aren’t making time to connect directly with your [...]

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Social Media Workshop: Feb. 23 in Pickens County

January 28, 2011 By Maria Leave a Comment

Small business owners:  if you’ve thought about getting into social media but were unsure where to start, here’s your chance.  I’m teaching a full-day Social Media Strategy for Your Small Business workshop on Wed., Feb. 23, at the Pickens County Chamber of Commerce.  What’s different about this workshop is I show you, step-by-step, how to [...]

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