Webinar 9/23 – Using Social Networking & Social Media to Grow Your Business

By Scott Allen, on September 21st, 2009 | One comment

This Wednesday, 9/23, I’ll be conducting a 90-minute webinar on how to use social networking and social media to grow your business.

Most of my recent webinars have focused on a particular tool (e.g., LinkedIn) or a particular business function (e.g., recruiting). The primary focus of this program will be how to do more with . . .
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People Use LinkedIn Differently Than Other Social Networks

By Scott Allen, on September 18th, 2009 | 3 comments

Elaine Fogel has written one of the best pieces I’ve seen about LinkedIn recently. She explains the background behind it:

On August 25, 2009, I created a blog post on Marketing Profs Daily Fix entitled, “Help! I Have Social Media Rejection Syndrome!” I had intended this tongue-in-cheek piece to stimulate discussion on an experience I . . .
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Business.com Conducting Social Media Benchmarking Survey

By Scott Allen, on September 1st, 2009 | One comment

Business.com is running a survey about how businesses are using social media. Survey participants get early access to the results to help benchmark social media efforts and are entered into a $2,000 drawing.

Take the survey

Disclosure: I’m the Sales & Marketing Community Manager for Work.com, Business.com’s sister site. We’ve got several good articles on . . .
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