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Does Social Media Work for Sales and Marketing?

Small Business Labs

Gallup has caused quite a stir with a survey showing that social media has little to no impact on the purchasing decisions of most consumers.   The key study chart study, which shows 62% of consumers responded social media has no impact on their purchasing decisions, is below. social media'

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9 Types of Journaling and How They Can Benefit Mental and Physical Health

Success

For instance, a 2013 study in Psychosomatic Medicine found that adults who engaged in expressive writing for three consecutive days before a biopsy healed more quickly in comparison to the group assigned to write about their daily activities. This type of journaling works best if social accountability keeps you motivated.

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How Guy Kawasaki Manages His Social Media Presence

Ian's Messy Desk

This is likely to pop-up all over the web. It is a good insight into how “one” person, Guy Kawasaki , manages a large social-media presence. How I Post—A Social-Media Core Dump. Many people ask me how I manage my social media accounts (and others make stuff up rather than figure out what I do).

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Chaya Milchtein Empowers Women by Educating Them About Cars

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I was aging out of foster care—it was 2013, and I was pretty desperate to find a job,” she explains. Even though she experienced success at her job and was promoted to service manager, she wasn’t interested in moving up the corporate ladder—since she would then no longer work with “real car owners.”

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What can assistants expect in 2013

Practically Perfect PA

Well 2012 is over and done with and we are now already two days into 2013. In honour of it now being 2013 I´ve got 13 things I think we can expect to see in the year ahead. With the assistant role now encompassing so many varied tasks we should expect to see a rise in training for assistants in 2013. Social Media.

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Stay on Track for Productivity

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workers have packed up their cubicles and headed home to do just that. More time-wasters: social media and web-surfing. Look up that new restaurant to make reservations for Friday night, get sidetracked reading the reviews and BOOM! Set up a Skype session to video chat with another home-based business owner.

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Pizza Redo: Domino’s Sizzling Secrets

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Domino’s chefs reimagined their pizza from the crust up, and executives retrained the employees in 5,000 stores, then listened as reviews came in. So the brand lives in social media. Second, recognize the power of social media and build a two-way conversation with your customers.