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The Scariest Blog: No Personality

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For me it’s a blog or website without any personality. Storytelling and personalization is the key piece in content marketing as I see it. But there’s always more to the story than that: Why did he personally spend considerable time, energy and money creating what he did? Contact me here or on LinkedIn. He had to care.

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LinkedIn Power Tips: Give Before You Receive

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If you’ve noticed, LinkedIn is quickly becoming the social networking site for professionals to connect and do business. Just wondering… I’ve invited Chris Buffaloe of SerenityVA.com to share tips on using the LinkedIn recommendations feature. Recommendations in LinkedIn are social proof.

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The Pros of LinkedIn vs. Facebook for Professionals

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But when it comes to using social media for your business, do you really want your professional network colliding with your personal life? There is, of course, the option of creating a Facebook page solely for business purposes, which is a good way to separate your personal and professional networks. Keep your personal life personal.

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9 Ways to Use LinkedIn for Smart Professionals

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How Business Owners Can Benefit From LinkedIn’s Features , this week’s featured guest post, by Carol Tice, Make a Living Writing blog. LinkedIn is a highly useful social-media site for business owners looking to connect with prospective customers, suppliers, partners, or other businesses in their town. The blog tool.

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Don’t Fall Prey to Auto-Feeds: Your Blog Posts Deserve a Personal Introduction

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The same is true for auto-feeds to LinkedIn, Twitter, and all the other social media sites. You cannot personalize the content. This goes hand-in-hand with personalizing your status update. While it may have saved time initially, there were costs in the long run. You cannot “tag” others in your status updates.

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Blogging with Personality and Tim Ferriss

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How much personality should you show on your blog without becoming an ego-blogger ? Apparently you can share a lot of personal stories and anecdotes, even become a little outrageous and contrarian, according to Tim Ferris , author of The 4-Hour Workweek and now The 4-Hour Body. Share this on LinkedIn. Email this to a friend?

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Why Use Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn for Content Marketing?

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alt=" Why Use Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn for Content Marketing?" />. But still, I am using Twitter , Facebook and LinkedIn and I think you should too. LinkedIn went from 2 to 40 million in May 2009 and 60 million by February 2010. An interesting user statistic for LinkedIn is this: “Senior Executives” (est.

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