Tweeting For Dollars: A Look at How To Use Twitter For Your Business

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Guest Blogger: Matt Brennan – www.matthewlbrennan.com The last three blogs talked about Twitter for business.  Matt Brennan offered to expand on those with his experience on how Twitter has helped build his business.  He is a friend, client and vendor and is an awesome writer for both the Aurora Beacon News and numerous websites and blogs.…

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Twitter Explained

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Twitter has over 500 million users…  Are you one of them? Even though there are 500 million accounts, less than half of those are active accounts and use Twitter regularly.  Also probably 1/10th of them live in the US.  That means that your potential audience is 25 million Americans.  That is still a pretty substantial…

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Three Twitter Users and Why You Need to Know Them!

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In the last post, I used Tiger Woods as an example of how people use Twitter.  He won the Memorial Golf Tournament and tied Jack Nicholas for 2nd place in all time golf tournament wins today.  He did so almost 10 years younger than Jack when he hit that mark.  That’s NEWS! How many more…

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Tune into Twitter… but Don’t be a Twit!

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Truth…  People communicate the way they like to be communicated to! We all do it.  If you like email, you tend to use more email.  If you like Facebook, you spend more time on there then Twitter or LinkedIn.  It’s like living in a bubble of our comfort zone. The cornerstone of effective communications is…

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Godzilla vs Hedorah – How Your 3 Headed Monster Wins?

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Being a child of the 60’s… I loved Godzilla movies. He (she) was the coolest monster ever. He was not all “Barney”…  I Love You, You Love Me –  he was angry, and took bullets and missiles like they were Nurf toys.  He belched fire and his tail wiped out anything in it’s path.  He…

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What’s Your Number???

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OK…  Based on my expericence (and Facebook Insights), I am guessing that you are not 20 years old! Remember back in the 70’s or 80’s or 90’s when the best pickup line was “What’s your Sign?” or What’s your number?”.  Well that’s made a comeback in 2012…  especially if you run your own business and…

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Does Your Website “Measure Up”?

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Thank you Coke & Dunking Donuts for liking this blog (at least a dewd can hope : ),  but this one is not for you…  It’s for the Solopreneur, small business and local business person who is trying to get a toe into the market!  If you are part of a franchise, you may have…

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And I Still… Haven’t Found… What I’m Looking For!

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I wanna be #1… How many times have you got this email…  ” We can make you #1 on Google!”, “Offering a Free Evaluation of your website!”, “Rank #1 in the Top 10 Search Engines!”. I have a dare for you…  Search Google, Yahoo, Bing, (and the other 7 companies they are promising – whatever…

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Content is the Court… & Your Audience is King

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A picture is worth a 1,000 words. To prove it, I posted this picture in Facebook and started a caption contest (no prize) with these rules… “Caption Contest – 2 Rules – NOTHING Religious/Political, or Sexually Gross : )”.  OK, I only got 764 words in reply but they are still coming in. I had…

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