Is Social Media a ‘Get Rich’ Scheme or Competition?

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5 Effective Tips for Avoiding the Email Spam Can

Email marketing is an incredibly popular marketing strategy–and for good reason. It works! Unfortunately, tougher SPAM filters mean more and more valid messages are winding up in SPAM folders.
Would you like to guarantee YOUR email campaigns are delivered to the in-box where they belong? Then you absolutely MUST implement these best practices. Because an email [...]

Top 3 Costly Email Marketing Mistakes

If you use email as part of your marketing strategy, deliverability is probably among your top concerns. After all, emails need to arrive in the inbox before they can effectively generate leads. Unfortunately, there are a few gaffes that can cost you when you send your next email marketing message.
Here of the top three mistakes:
1. [...]

Mirna Bard to Speak on Social Media Strategy in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico

Residents of Mexico are calling it a “Social Marketing Tsunami,” and I am calling it a well-deserved vacation, haha!  Tweet to be Heard, the international social marketing conference of the season will be held in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico from October 21 to October 24, 2010.
If you want to learn everything you need to know about [...]

6 Ways to Let Google Optimize Your Business

It’s easy to take the idea of search engine optimization for granted. Yeah, the marketing landscape is abuzz with all things SEO today, but did you even know what the term “search engine optimization” meant ten years ago? The term has no doubt covered a lot of ground in a short period of time.
But let’s [...]

5 Incredible Lead Generation Ideas

As an expert in your field, you’ve got a ton of really important information in your head. But you’ve got to get it out of your head and into some useful format for lead generation. Information is the heart and soul of marketing, so you’ve got to have some idea about the products you want [...]

Are You Engaged?

This is a guest post by Dr. Ivan Misner (Bio is below).
In engaged in the conversation, that is! OK, OK . . . now that I have your attention, let me explain.
In my book Truth or Delusion I bring up the point that word-of-mouth marketing is always working, it just may not be working in [...]

How Do I find Ideal Clients in This Economy?

It’s easy to find out who your Ideal Clients are, no matter what the economy is like. Here’s how.
How do I find ideal clients in this economy? That was a question one attendee asked in a recent panel I hosted, and it’s not the only time I’ve heard such a question. How can I survive [...]

The Visa Business Network Invites Mirna Bard to Help Mentor 100,000+ Business Owners

A couple months ago, Visa Business Network’s Outreach team discovered my blog and reached out by completing the form on my site to let me know that they find my blog to be very impressive and a valuable resource to businesses. They asked if they could feature my blog on the Visa Business Network as [...]

Do You Need to Gripe? Groubal Instead!

Have you seen the new brilliant free social network called Groubal? Groubal (gr.oo.bul) is “A powerful way to share your gribes that are grouped together to create change, group responsibility and group buying power.”  This unique social network was launched by Robert Doner to bring consumers together who have a complaint against a big company [...]

Are You a Carrot, Egg or Coffee Bean?

It seems everywhere I turn these days, there are people around me who are struggling in their business or personal lives.  Thus, this is the perfect time to share this post.  This inspirational story was first shared with me when I was mentoring with John Assaraf.  Then I saw my friend and mentor, Ivan Misner [...]

Social Media – The Newest Customer Service Tool

This is a guest post by Heidi McCarthy (Bio is below).
Being so ensconced in customer service, I look for every opportunity to praise good service and to offer constructive criticism when warranted.  In that regard, there is no faster, or cathartic, medium in which to speak out than social media.  Companies today do not [...]

Ask Mirna: Are there any sites that offer updates about Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter?

QUESTION:
Hi Mirna.  Are there any sites that offer updates about Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter? I would like to stay in the loop with new things that come out, etc.  I thought I would pick your brain about some of your favorites. – Dawn P.
ANSWER:
Thank you for the great question Dawn.  As you know there [...]

10 Instant Blog Post Templates to Help You Write Articles in 30 Minutes or Less

I am a natural born writer, so writing has always come easy to me. But, when I had to start writing articles everyday for my blog, for my newsletter and for article submission – I quickly ran out of article topics.
Then one day as I was reviewing all of my articles, I realized that there [...]

Case Study: Mompreneur Grows Business by Using Twitter to Build Relationships

“Social networking is still a luxury, and I don’t have time to use it for my business.” Does this sound familiar? This is the most common excuse I receive from entrepreneurs and clients. So, since we all have the same amount of hours in a day, how does Dawn Papandrea-Khan, a mompreneur [...]

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