Jared Beard - Social Media Speaker - Social Media IT Consultant

The holiday season is an especially critical time for local businesses. It’s when many get the majority of their sales, which can make or break ending the year in the black. The influence of the holidays on a business’s bottom line, coupled with ever increasing marketing budgets …

In a new Social Media Quick Tip post, Karen Yankovich demonstrates how you can use LinkedIn’s export profile as PDF feature, and why you might want to do so. 

As ratings drop for most cable news channels and tradition print newspapers continue to collapse, where are Americans getting their news today? For many, especially Millennials, the answer is social media. 

Leadtail is a social strategy firm that has built a panel of over 1,000 B2B and B2C CMOs and marketing executives located in North America and active on Twitter that develops social insights reports on CMOs and other decision makers. They recently released the results of analysis of over 60,000 Tweets during the month of […]

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by Joe Sutton for IndieReader We’re back in a time where serialized stories are in vogue: last year, listeners’ curiosity was captured by Serial, a This American Life-produced show that became a phenomenon; the most revered shows on TV today are riddled with intrigue that keep you watching over a season-long, drama-filled arc; and even […]

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I’ve spoken to literally thousands of women about intentional networking and always ask “How many of you have gotten a job, promotion, or large piece of business from a connection in your network?” Most of the people in the room raise their hands and this is consistent with surveys that say 65% to 85% of […]

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Robin Carey sat down with author Shel Israel to talk about his new book, ‘Lethal Generosity’ which looks at the way new technology is changing business practice. Here’s a re-cap of the conversation. 

Control of the Colorado Senate swings in the balance next year, with the Democrats hoping to pick up one itsy bitsy state Senate seat and the Republicans clinging to a majority of one itsy bitsy Senate seat. And that seat is most likely in Jefferson County. With this in mind, after last night’s uprising against […]

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Facebook has today announced its Q3 numbers, posting solid growth in users and revenue, with particular focus on daily active use and video view numbers.

Social media can seem like a free-for-all. And sometimes brands treat it like it is. Have you ever tagged a product in an Instagram photo? I have. The way that your photos on social networks are treated by brands is evolving. What rights do brands have to your images? And what rights do you have?

What can businesses expect from their social media efforts? If the bottom line is what matters, how does social media marketing fit into the equation?

Keeping up with small business social marketing techniques and trends can be time-consuming. There are thousands of blogs that you could follow, to get advice. The problem lies in deciding which ones best suit your needs. Here are nine blogs that I believe qualify as the …

ON OCT 11, 15 • BY TED RUBIN • WITH NO COMMENTS In order to set goals, and accomplish them, you need to have control over certain important controllable aspects of daily life. The bottom line is really your mindset and how you approach your business and life, in the first place. There are so […]

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Facebook is a social problem. It rewards shallowness and breeds a mentality that is seeping into the rest of society. And elections. Facebook users accumulate “friends” who are people they have never met, but who have clicked off that option. This hardly qualifies as real friendship, by anyone’s measure, but is actually a source of […]

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As of October 14, LinkedIn will make Groups private and will also be launching a standalone app. Read more about the changes coming to LinkedIn’s platform.

As of October 14, LinkedIn will make Groups private and will also be launching a standalone app. Read more about the changes coming to LinkedIn’s platform.

Social media customer service is no longer a choice – it’s an essential piece of your customer experience strategy. The challenge lies in the fact that social media is like a living, breathing entity, with its constantly evolving algorithms and consumer-driven trends. Building a successful social media customer service plan involves a number of considerations, such […]

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Twitter has named Jack Dorsey, one of the company’s original co-founders, as permanent CEO of the service. Dorsey has been the interim CEO of Twitter since Dick Costelo stepped down three months ago.