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Facebook For Business

As many of you probably know, in addition to presenting at conferences as a social media speaker, that I also do a good amount of social media consulting with individuals and small businesses.  As we begin discussing how to use Facebook for business, the ins and outs of Twitter, how YouTube can grow their business, [...]

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Over the past few days I’ve noticed more an more issues on Facebook with those I am connected to.  For the longest of time things seemed to be going well.  Then all of a sudden there seemed to be another mental lapse on how to use Facebook for business properly.  I wrote yesterday [...]

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3 Ways to Tick Off Your Facebook Fans

by Jeremy Blanton on July 11, 2011

One of the top questions I always receive when I am presenting as a social media speaker, is how to get more “likes” to your Facebook page.  In fact, over the past few weeks I have seen many blog posts with ideas on how you can do this.
As I was reading through more and more [...]

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Have you ever received a popup message like the one to the right?  Yeah, if you keep your chat box open I am sure you have.  Yesterday I received 5 of them all within a 3 minute time period.  I had turned away from my screen to watch some of a baseball game and when [...]

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Making Facebook Connections Personal

by Jeremy Blanton on February 14, 2011

We all heard the big fuss this week about Facebook changing the layout on Business Pages.  I saw at least 10 different people write about it.  As usual, my first stop was over at my buddy Mike Mueller’s blog as he is my Facebook Guru whenever I want to know the real details.  However, this [...]

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A Qwiki History of Facebook

by Jeremy Blanton on January 28, 2011

Many of us have probably already seen The Social Network and are somewhat familiar with the history of Facebook.  But, today I was trying out a new site Qwiki to see how it works.  I decided to put in History of Facebook as a search and here is what came back:

So far I am not [...]

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Is Facebook Affecting the Economy?

by Jason Crouch on January 16, 2011

Recently on this blog, I talked about how people sometimes misunderstand the nature of certain websites in this post.  Facebook and Google are sort of like apples and oranges: there is no way to directly compare them.  Now, it seems some people are even willing to blame Facebook for the downturn in [...]

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Sorry for the dramatic headline, but I figured it might not hurt to use the same tactic that I’ve seen others employ with regard to my email inbox.
I guess I’m just a little bit tired of hearing self-proclaimed gurus and experts say things like, “SEO is dead” or “Facebook KO’d Google” or anything similar. [...]

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Is This a Preview of The New Facebook Email?

by Jeremy Blanton on January 10, 2011

So Facebook recently told the world about their latest and greatest feature, new Facebook email. I will be honest, I wasn’t really excited about this new feature.  My initial thought is, another email address to keep track of and set up.  My second gripe was that this meant another place for [...]

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The Best of 2010- Year in Review

by Jeremy Blanton on December 24, 2010

As this year comes to an end I always try to reflect back and see what successes and what struggles we faced as a company and reflect as we make our preparations for the upcoming year.  One of the places where I start this is by looking at my Google Analytics to see what pages, [...]

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