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Are You Hiding from Your Customers?
You may have a website, billboards, and radio ad spots, but do you really want more business or are you hiding from your customers? Sometimes we can hide in plain sight simply because we are doing everything right – we’re not “rocking the boat” so to speak. Our hope is that if we keep out…
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2010
As a fellow business owner I can understand that it’s been a wild ride over the last couple of years. Since I created Erich Stauffer back in 2007 we have seen markets rise and fall, businesses start and fail, and entire economies collapse. Next year promises more of the same, or worse, but we have…
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Twitter API Not Available – Twitter Over Capacity
Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again I use both Tweetdeck and Twitter itself to post messages, or tweets, to update both my account, the accounts of my businesses and brands, and the accounts of my customers. It’s really frustrating when the Twitter API (the connection between third-party…
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What if Microsoft Bob Was Released Today as Microsoft’s Social Network
I am one of the 58,000 Microsoft Bob users from 1995 and to celebrate 15 years I thought I’d write a fake news article imagining what Bob would be like today if released as a social network. Microsoft Announces ‘Bob’ Social Network Based on Microsoft Bob Could this be a Facebook killer? Microsoft Bob, the…
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Introducing a Brand New Way to Market Your Business
Grow Your Business Organically A lot of SEO companies market how they will promote your business online using Internet marketing and online advertising techniques, but Erich Stauffer noticed a gap between where promotion stops and business begins and so we used social media management to not just promote your business, but grow your business. Digital Marketing…
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Twitter Deactivation
I just got a little scare when I clicked, “Sign out,” at Twitter and got the message, “Your account will be deactivated, Bye!” I logged back in successfully, but am still unsure of what is going on. Hopefully it’s just a glitch at Twitter and will be fixed soon.
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Microblogging Social Networks
Twitter is the golden rule of microblogging services, the social network that all other microblogging platforms are compared to. Find out what the other four most popular microblogging services are.
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What Happened to CollegeClub.com?
Why did CollegeClub.com fail and others succeed? CollegeClub.com was registered on April 4, 1996 and by 2000 had around 3 million registered users. I was one of those users who used it to find friends at other colleges online. On August 22, 2000, CollegeClub.com announced bankruptcy and said it would be acquired by Student Advantage,…
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Getting the Right Marketing Mix Using Social Media
Currently there are many social websites that have created a platform for you to speak directly to and with your current and future customers. There are also many tools that help manage this relationship, pushing the same content out to all platforms at once, or changing it slightly using built in rules. There are no…