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3 Reasons I Don’t Care That Pinterest Skims Links

This is a repost ”repin” of a response that I had to the news that Pinterest, the rocketing (invite only) social networking site secretly profits from user links that get pushed through the site with “repins”. +Keith Bloemendaal, the founder of Tilt Shift Marketing started a discussion about this Pinterest drama on Google+ between +Mike Stenger and myself in [Continue Reading]

10 Tips for Marketing Your Brand or Product with Pinterest

Pinterest is quickly becoming the “talked about” thing, well one of the thousands and thousands of talked about things. I’ve seen articles about Pinterest increase explode in my NetNewsWire over the past few weeks, and discussion about the “pinboard” site seems to be daily around my house these days. Being a marketing addict I couldn’t [Continue Reading]

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Follow Up: How Social Media Landed My Small Business on Reality TV

I hope everyone is having a great weekend so far. I’m going to try and get this post out so that I can say I’ve done something useful on my blog this week. All though I’ve been on a social media tear lately, I can’t seem to get the motor running enough to put together [Continue Reading]

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Weekly Link Dump 23: Fresh Ideas For Small Business And Product Launches!

This week we are working on a little re-structuring of the featured posts of the week so Saturday has now become the designated weekly link dump day. If you haven’t been here before the weekly link dump is a great way for you to catch up on everything that has been going on here at [Continue Reading]

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Real Managers Make the Biggest Impact When They’re Not There

I know it sounds kind of ridiculous at a glance, but if you look beyond the initial statement you will quickly see that it all makes sense. Sure, anyone that has increased skill sets can make an impact while they are live and in person (except maybe Mili Vanilli), but the real deal, heavy hitter [Continue Reading]

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If You Constantly Follow, You Will NEVER Lead

As many of you know I’m the founder of Extreme Tan and Smoothies a chain of indoor tanning salons located in the Tampa Bay, Florida area. Extreme Tan and Smoothies six locations currently service indoor tanning bed and sunless tanners, and over the course of the last seven years Extreme has managed to become the industry [Continue Reading]

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How to Remain Elusive in Business While Utilizing Social Media

Social media is a bear for businesses and all though not every small business owner has come to realize that truth yet, they will. Everyone can cry about the conversion numbers and how many clicks went to the trash while generating only X in product sales, etc. In the same fashion there are horror stories [Continue Reading]

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Sunday Smash: 17 Sweet Business, Blogging and Social Media Reads

Each week I try to post a few links to excellent blogging tips, business tips and information on social media sites that I came across during the week. I do this for a few reasons one of which is to share blogging information with newbie bloggers or business bloggers that are looking to create a [Continue Reading]

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Sunday Smash: 11 Killer Small Business, Social Media and Blogging Reads

Each week I try to post a few links to excellent blogging tips, business tips and information on social media sites that I came across during the week. I do this for a few reasons one of which is to share blogging information with newbie bloggers or business bloggers that are looking to create a [Continue Reading]

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