PLEASE: DO NOT SPAM ANOTHER LINK UNTIL YOU READ THIS!

PLEASE, DO NOT SPAM ANOTHER LINK UNTIL YOU READ THIS!   In our current economy, the urgency to sell our product or service can overtake our ability to do most anything else. Financial obligations don’t just disappear the way many of our jobs, or prospects for business, have. Bills and taxes wait for no one.…

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VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA YOU SHOULD BE USING NOW

VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA YOU SHOULD BE USING NOW   I was lucky enough to be one of the 600+ people who attended the first (I’m sure to be annual) #OCSMS aka Orange County Social Media Summit this past Friday (see RachelintheOC.com blog for details).   I’d like to focus on some of the cool stuff…

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WHY I WON’T RETWEET YOU

WHY I WON’T RETWEET YOU.     There are two main reasons I won’t retweet you.   1)    Are you presumptuous? 2)    Are you rude?   If you want a RT of your article or book link, and send it with a link on my stream or in DM, chances are I won’t.   (On…

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HAS TWITTER LOST ITS MOJO, BABY?

HAS TWITTER LOST ITS MOJO, BABY?   Or have you?   If you’ve read my last few posts or heck, read your stream lately (or listened to anyone on Facebook), it certainly seems so; what with the hackers, spammers, automation, and, as someone (whom I greatly respect) said recently in an article, ‘branding is ruining…

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NO THANK YOU On Twitter, Please! 5 Better Alternatives

Before you freak out, read the post. (Don’t worry, my mama raised me right.)    Michael Brenner talked this week about thanking people on Twitter and was kind enough to mention me personally and the article I wrote for Jorgen Poulsen and his site, Catalyst Partnership.   A nice fella commented here on my BadRedheadMedia…

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