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How to Make Your Facebook Group Work

Facebook Groups can be either a blessing or a curse. It all depends on how they are used. Most Facebook users do not like that they can be added to any group without their permission and that it is up to them to leave the group if they do not like it. Facebook Groups have the potential to be one of the best tools available to people with the right skill set, especially given the…

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Five Ways to WordPress Your Marketing

Five Ways to WordPress Your Marketing

Just this week on my Facebook Page I asked a question. I asked you to rate your marketing efforts on a scale of 1-10.  Each person who responded rated themselves at 5 or below. If you feel this way, I can understand your frustration and I know it is NOT fun. I have been there too. I have spent huge amounts of money marketing my business in ways that did not work. I know the…

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When is Free Not Too Expensive?

When is Free Not Too Expensive?

Last week, I ran my most popular blog post on “Why Free is Too Expensive” and I was inundated with comments, emails, facebook messages and tweets about how much my message resonated with you. While I stick to my guns on that post, I want to double back now and talk about when offering something in your business for free makes sense.  Because, there are times when it’s the right thing to do. Free should…

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Joyce O’Brien – The Social Business Academy Success Interview

Joyce O’Brien – The Social Business Academy Success Interview

Within a 5-year period, Joyce O’Brien’s husband, Kevin, was paralyzed after a brain hemorrhage and both Joyce and Kevin were diagnosed with late stage cancers. Faced with their devastating diagnoses, and fearing leaving their baby girl an orphan, Joyce, an Executive Vice President on Wall Street, left a successful 18 year career to begin her healing journey. Ten years ago, Joyce and Kevin were blessed with healing stage 3b and stage 4 cancers, chronic fatigue,…

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The Fire Starter Sessions

The Fire Starter Sessions

This is what I am buying this week on my iPad.  If you are an out of the box kind of thinker and love to read, you might want to check this out! The Fire Starter Sessions is an apathy-kicking, integrity-infusing guide to defining success on your own terms. As the creator of DanielleLaPorte.com–deemed “the best place online for kick-ass spirituality,” Danielle LaPorte’s straight-talk life-and-livelihood sermons have been read by over one million people. Bold…

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Are You Missing What your Customers Are Tweeting About You?

Are You Missing What your Customers Are Tweeting About You?

Are you listening to the right things on Twitter?  Just this week one of my clients had a break through when it came to Twitter. It was awesome. We were talking about Twitter and I asked her about using Search.  Through our discussion, I found that she didn’t really use search the way I thought she could be using it to build her business.  She wasn’t using it to find people who were talking about…

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