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MARCH 4, 2010

You have social media friends, people you’ve met on blogs, your chat buddies or people you see regularly on forums. You can even send an email just to say hi. How might a relatively recent college graduate, who has not yet had significant work inside their field of training or interest, get started as a freelancer?

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JUNE 30, 2010

Sure, it’s great to hit the snooze button and give yourself an extra hour of R&R once in awhile, but before you know it, you’re getting up at noon and puttering around before you answer your customer emails. Tell me, would you consider social media with its rich conversations to be getting out and being around others?

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 10, 2010

Every business owner should put all his energy into social media and making sure people like him. He buys courses in how to use social media because he thinks clients must like him. The expert says nothing is more important than being liked. Sales will follow if people like you. But that’s not what’s happening.

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JULY 11, 2010

I think we’ve taught people to expect blog posts often and continually, we’ve trained them to want it for free. I started a thread on LinkedIn last week asking, What is the best answer to the question How do you measure ROI from social media? There’s still posts here that I haven’t read.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Email the owners and offer to guest post or to do an interview. The Metrics of Social Media Reply Pat OBrian November 20, 2009 at 6:19 am The idea of creating a diverse experience is good. Octopus Obedience Training—Better Than Ricky Gervais Reply Deneen Wilson ( @typingbug ) November 20, 2009 at 8:41 am This is so true.

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JULY 25, 2010

Staying Focused- Stand Out with Social Media Reply Nathan Hangen - Digital Emperor ( @nhangen ) July 26, 2010 at 10:01 am Interesting post. There's nothing quite like waking up to the smell of money in my email in the morning. But yes, this is a much-needed wake up call. Ed Han´s last blog. This thought leader stuff.

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JULY 17, 2010

I also added a Help and FAQ section. NOVA – Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance iPhone Review Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Previous post: 50 Ways To Start Fresh Next post: The 7 Links Challenge subscribe by RSS follow me on Twitter subscribe by email join me on Facebook Wanna Know How I Get Things Done? Loads of bugs.

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JANUARY 3, 2010

Alasdair McGregor: how to write non-fiction well Reply poch January 4, 2010 at 6:23 am This post reminded me of a wise advice from a site: Anticipate and watch social media trends. Poch – What’s funny is that I’ve never watched any social media trends at all. Maybe that’s a social media trend in itself…?)

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JULY 7, 2010

When training young people in ad agencies I always coach them to start with the positives, with the things they like and that are on target, then their comments will be better received and will have context. Use social media. Show up on sites and blogs and forums where your ideal target market hangs out. Reply Go ahead.

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DECEMBER 13, 2009

Ulrich ( @maryeulrich ) December 14, 2009 at 7:29 am Last week I listened to Dan Zarrella talk about the science of social media. My Social Media Experiment Reply Jodi Kaplan December 14, 2009 at 9:59 am The degree is partly to put your knowledge to work, and partly to teach you how to think and to apply knowledge.

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MAY 19, 2010

Limit your social media activity and try not to be omnipresent all the time. No matter how good you are at multi-tasking, you’re going to get a lot more done in a single hour of uninterrupted work than you would if you answered an email every five minutes and picked up the phone halfway through your 60-minute time frame.

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JUNE 9, 2010

It might just be that the person you think is making it is just very good at playing the social media game, but not at making any money. It is so easy to get caught up in comparing yourself with other people when you use social media. Best, s Reply Kathleen K. I just try to focus on my goals and ignore the commotion!

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DECEMBER 6, 2009

When their readers don’t actually know what they do, because they never visit the site, they simply open Google Reader or their email for the RSS feed. Another freebie, is to use your social media to spread the love about Men with Pens to your friends and colleagues. ’ Phil Simon´s last blog.

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MARCH 23, 2010

So for those of us that don’t do telephones, does the same thing work with emails? See a flash of something interesting in an email and by the time they get your reply, they’ve forgotten their train of thought. Is Social Media Marketing Right for Your Business? I would say that is being a teacher.

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