12 days ago by Michael Lawson

When Diana and I started this blog it was pretty much for shits and giggles, well almost. After attending Podcamp in Boston this year we wanted to try publishing content centered on small and micro-businesses. Initially promoting the site just using the Social Media skills we had acquired in the pas ...

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17 days ago by Tim Tracey

Thursday, October 22, 2009 Trust Is The New Black Excerpted from OnlineSpin article by Dave Morgan Trust is the new black. I wish that I could claim credit for coining that phrase, but it was Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist. Earlier this week, Craig penned an opinion piece in The Huffington Pos ...

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18 days ago by Michael Lawson

Bet the title of this article got your attention didn’t it, well that’s the point. Sticking out in the crowd with all the information available to us today is hard. The real title of this post should be how to write a ransom note, but the serial killer title just sounded too good to pass [...]

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24 days ago by Michael Lawson

I went, I saw and well I didn’t Crawl, but I did gingerly step around things. This week’s TweetCrawl was held at Lisa Davenport’s Home Gallery in Glastonbury. The Home gallery was the first TweetCrawl I’ve been to that was not in a restaurant and I must say it was fun. My only problem was that I was ...

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24 days ago by Tim Tracey

For good or bad, word-of-mouth is unstoppable - and the most powerful form of advertising. You can benefit from the hard-learned lessons of CT business owners who have grown their businesses with WOM.

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31 days ago

Product Description This book will show you how you can harness the power of the web 2.0 microblogging site “Twitter” to promote yourself and any social, political and economic interests that you may have quickly and easily. Most importantly it will help you avoid trial and error as early adopters w ...

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35 days ago by Guest Blogger

Although it's been a really long time since it happened, I still remember (and sing the praises of) the Hertz people who drove me across town and waited for me at the DMV to make it possible for me to see my family when they could have just put me back on a flight and sent me home. I have really gre ...

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36 days ago by Ash Bhoopathy

If I don’t know you, I seriously doubt I care what you think about a product. Stop trying to make me buy it. If I do know you, and you’re trying to sell me something because there’s a monetary award attached to it, you’re either in some network marketing MLM scheme… and I’m probably not your friend, ...

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67 days ago by Tim Tracey

Excerpted from our favorite Word-of-Mouth, best selling author Andy Sernovitz 's site GasPedal Create word of mouth by giving your customers the tools for talking One of the best ways to get a customer talking about you is to send them off with something great that they can share. It’s all about put ...

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94 days ago by Jeff Cornwall

Any type of word of mouth promotion demands action -- it rarely just happens. The same holds true when using social media as a vehicle for word of mouth. The USA Today has a great example of how a night club is actively using Facebook to get the word out: Bartender Beau Dieda does more than mix and ...

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