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The business world is changing rapidly. The largest advertising budget or best public relations team are no longer the key to maintaining your competitive edge.  Success in the business world is now determined by which brand or individual has the connection with the customer.  And it's a connection that evolves socially.

Connecting People With Success helps companies and individuals understand how to make the transition to social selling and relationship building, shifting from broadcast marketing to conversational marketing.  Let us help you develop conversations with your customers.  Join us.

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Where Are You In The Social Media Food Chain?

by Brad Hanks on 08/28/2010 08:53 0 comments , 22 views
Tags: social media, evolution, predator, prey, food chain
his recent post from Social Media Today caught my eye, and I think it's spot on.  There are predators and prey in the world of social media, but unlike the real world, social media enables us to break away from our genetic predisposition and become whatever we want.  The question is, what do you want to be?

Social Media Is a Jungle: Are You Predator or Prey?

It can be scary out there sometimes. So many millions of ...

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A Great Question: Are Luxury and Social Media Incompatible?

by Brad Hanks on 07/30/2010 16:48 0 comments , 24 views
Tags: social media, marketing, luxury
This is a post that caught my eye, only because I'm currently coaching an individual that deals with lifestyle products for high net-worth clientele.  I think the author has some good points, and she's mirrored some of my own thoughts on whether social media can be a useful tool for those of us dealing in the luxury markets.   What do you think?

Are Luxury and Social Media Incompatible?

As an industry that is known for ...

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Facebook Lists: Start Now Before You Get Too Many Friends

by Brad Hanks on 07/18/2010 12:59 0 comments , 97 views
Categories: Facebook
Tags: social media, facebook, social networking, friends, list, categorize, organize, organization
Lists Can Simplify Your Facebook Experience

In the past year, Facebook has added the ability to categorize your friends in lists, enabling you to filter the status and news updates as well as see which groups of friends are online.  But many people aren't aware of this capability, and are oftentimes surprised when I show them in the sessions I present.  So here's a quick blurb on how to do it.

While you're logged onto your Facebook ...

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For a bit of recent history: Author Explores The Evolution Of Facebook

by ron alpert on 06/09/2010 23:51 1 comment , 81 views
Categories: Google Buzz, Google Wave, Posterous, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook
Tags: facebook, privacy, security, online, zuckerberg

Most people know the story by now of how 19-year-old Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in his college dorm room.

Read or Listen to the Story from NPR

 

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Make $$ With Social Media

by Brad Hanks on 06/04/2010 13:08 1 comment , 95 views
Categories: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook
Social media is no longer just social.  Find out how more and more real estate professionals are using their social networks, blogging and photo/video sharing sites to generate business – closing business as a direct result of using social media.

In this rapid fire webinar, Brad Hanks identifies 10 Steps to Dominance With Social Media, showing you how to:

 - Connect with influencers that will refer business your way
 - ...
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Google to let you customize search home page

by ron alpert on 06/03/2010 05:03 0 comments , 56 views
Categories: Google Buzz, Posterous, Facebook
Google is ready to start letting users customize its famously spartan home page with photos of their own. http://bit.ly/9hkXzt

 

 

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Facebook Privacy to be Simplified

by ron alpert on 05/25/2010 00:01 0 comments , 52 views
Categories: Facebook
Tags: facebook, privacy, security, online, zuckerberg
We can all breathe easy again! The crew at Facebook has realized the err of their ways, at least for the moment, and will make Privacy simple someday soon.

Thanks Mark!


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Nice to See Mainstream Media 'TIME' Covering Facebook

by ron alpert on 05/23/2010 03:08 0 comments , 51 views
Categories: Google Buzz, Posterous, Delicious, LinkedIn, Facebook
Tags: social media, facebook, social networking, twitter, bubble, marketing

 

Sometime in the next few weeks, Facebook will officially log its 500 millionth active citizen. If the website were granted terra firma, it would be the world's third largest country by population, two-thirds bigger than the U.S. More than 1 in 4 people who browse the Internet not only have a Facebook account but have returned to the site within the past 30 days.

Just six years after Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg helped ...

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Facebook Pages: Creating, Tweaking & Growing

by Brad Hanks on 05/20/2010 12:49 0 comments , 207 views
Categories: Facebook
Tags: facebook fanpage officialpage
Here is the recording of the free webinar conducted on May 19, 2010. ...
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Are your feet in concrete? Can't you see the future is now with Social Media?

by ron alpert on 05/19/2010 03:20 1 comment , 58 views
Categories: Google Buzz, Posterous, LinkedIn, Facebook
Tags: social media, facebook, social networking, twitter, bubble, marketing, roi
Great new video from the producers of Socialomics. ** Pretty strong stuff. This video was produced by XPLANE , a Portland-, St. Louis- and Madrid-based firm that bills itself as "The Visual Thinking Company" – in conjunction with the release of a new book called "Socialnomics." I've seen some of XPLANE's work and its ability to create films which display facts and figures in a dynamic way - makes Powerpoint animations look positively ...
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