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The MindFire Chats

Episode 2: Storytelling, Marketing & Modern Media RSVP for the live broadcast of the second edition of The MindFire Chats. Thu, Jan 31, 8:00 PM EST – 9:00 PM EST “marketing is a story” – Seth

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Should I Buy Twitter Followers?

Seems like a good deal, right?  1,000 Twitter Followers for $9.95 is indeed a bargain. Short answer – don’t do it. Buying followers is like buying an outdated mailing list.  Small biz owners are in

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When a Good App Dies: RIP FollowFridayHelper

So I dove into FollowFridayHelper about 20 minutes ago and was met with this: They have “FollowFridayHelper has been Shut Down for Good” – <sniffle><sniffle>. This was a dreadfully simple, and ridiculously effective bit of

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Putting on Our Big Boy Pants

Last night I “incorporated” Small Biz Triage with the Washington Office of the Secretary of State. Now we (meaning me and community management extraordinaire Seth Rasmussen) will be one of these effective January 1st, 2013:

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Selling, Guilt-Free

Know yourself If you’re confident with who you are and know that your intentions are in the right place (that being….for your customers, not just

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The 6th Small Biz Commandment

We use these as a compass to make sure we are taking our clients (and our company) in the right direction. Inevitably we slip up and break a commandment and pay the price in sanity,

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Twitter, Donuts and Partnerships

When I first moved to Chico, I was still reeling from the anti-social passive aggressive brainwashing, also known as *living in Seattle for six years*. So in true I don’t like humans, so I’ll hide

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Greetings from Texas

In which the team rocks a convention booth, wears a cowboy hat in (debatable) style, and talks to a ridiculous amount of awesome people. This past week has been a lot like camping:  Intense.  Running

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Selling, Guilt-Free

Know yourself If you’re confident with who you are and know that your intentions are in the right place (that being….for your customers, not just

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