Kevin from KidsDesk.net asks: Do Twitter Giveaways work? While it’s hard to get actual numbers from Twitter giveaways and contests, they do seem to work for most of the businesses that use them. Here are some guidelines and tips to avoid breaking Twitter’s terms of service and to make the giveaway work…
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Understanding Facebook Page Insights
Facebook provides some pretty interesting statistics for business pages. You’ve probably seen a little box on your page (viewable only by page admins) titled Insights with a number (and some stars) for Post Quality, the number of Interactions this week and the most active country. Cool. But what does it all mean?
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Achieve Better Results By Targeting a Niche
This is a guest post by Chris Horner, a freelance photographer.
Over the years I’ve had the privilege of talking at length with many business owners, executives, and aspiring entrepreneurs. It seems that identifying a target market is one of the hardest tasks for these folks to accomplish. I believe it’s because they try to market their wares to anyone with a pulse. (Yes I was actually told that once – word for word – from a bank executive) This results in wheel spinning, poor sales, and the business owner/exec scratching their head trying to figure out what exactly happened as they’re driving to bankruptcy court.
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