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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 Buying followers is like buying an outdated mailing list.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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Improvisational Marketing

an unfiltered, and (gasp) unedited look into my head when pondering the future of my own small biz. ******************************************* MacGyver – Burn Notice – Man vs Wild – Food 911What am I missing?What story do

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Practicing what We Preach

Been preaching it for years now … video, video, video. So we finally produced a video intro for our website. A humungous (sp?) thanks to Ed and Mariellen of Three Moon Bay for producing this clip.

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500 Employees or Less = Small Biz

Hmmmm …. so maybe we should change our name to Tiny Biz Triage.  According to the WSJ, the government considers a “small business” to be anything less than 500 employees!  I’ve always used 25 as

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Direct Action Solutions – Explosive Success

CLIENT:  Direct Action Solutions, a shop in San Diego OBJECTIVE: Drive more customers to the store.   STRATEGY:Local Search Engine Marketing Leverage Social MediaDevelop an truly easy-to-update / simple-to-purchase eCommerce platform   and the results BEFORE less

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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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