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22May 2018 by Mark Buckner No Comments

Tips To Turn Your Friends and Followers into Raving Fans and Paying Clients

When it comes to starting a successful business, many believe in the old adage: "It's not what you know, it's who you know." There is some truth to this, networking is essential to building a stronger business, but it isn't enough to just know people, they need to talk about you too. At a recent workshop, Barbara Caine gave some advice to help turn friends, family, and past clients into paying customers and raving fans for your business. The first step Barbara suggests is to make what she calls a 250 x 250 list, a list of 250 people that you know. Just think of as many names as you can, it's okay if you aren't close to everyone on your list. Once you finish your list, organize everyone into…

How You Can Expand Your Business Through Pinterest

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When you think about social media platforms suited for business use, you probably don't immediately think of Pinterest. A visual-based social media site, Pinterest is essentially an electronic pinboard where you can save pieces of multimedia to various themed “boards” (so you might have a board full of recipes, a board full of cat pictures, etc.). This might not initially seem conducive to business purposes, but Barbara is quick to remind people that if there is a user base, there is a potential audience, and Pinterest has a sizable user base. Doing business on Pinterest is one of the sites' best-kept secrets: many people don't realize that Pinterest even has business accounts. Thankfully it is quick and easy to set one up. The process should take a couple of minutes at…

How to Use Hashtags to Expand Your Social Media Influence

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Whether you are an experienced business owner or an aspiring entrepreneur, the ability to leverage social media to your advantage is an essential part of the job. As a freelance writer, a good deal of my business is going to be handled online, so I can use any help I can get to make things easier. Thankfully, I recently had the opportunity to attend a workshop with Barbara Caine dealing with Instagram and how using hashtags can help gain followers. She explained that hashtags were the way that social media users find like-minded people online, so just adding relevant hashtags to our posts would lead to more followers in no time. After making sure that everyone in the group had an Instagram account set up, Barbara tasked each of us…