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When You Know Your Target, Social Networking Gets Way Easier If you’ve been operating your website and business for a while, you probably have a good idea who your target market is. But your social media audience could be considerably different. Plus, each network is unique, so how you approach each one might be quite …

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We’ve all seen pages on Facebook with thousands…even millions of followers. We’ve seen the same with Twitter and other social networks. It may seem a little overwhelming if you’re starting with a small following and it may feel like you’re just not going to get anywhere if you don’t have a huge following. But the …

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Facebook has more than 901 million active users!  This week, we are going to discuss how we can tap into those users to build our blogging community and increase our traffic! This week during our weekly G+ Live Hangout, we had two guests to help us teach you how to use Facebook… Susie at Susie …

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UPDATED 02/18 – The next G+ hangout RSVP page is here:  https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c59vcj8pd1jcmv860ijlh6j8kq0  be sure to follow me to stay informed of each week’s. We had a great G+ hangout yesterday discussing the ways to use pinterest, great tools for helping to maintain it, linkies you can use to get your name out and more.  Because …

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On week six of the Homemaker Handbook Series, we are going to take a step back.  I don’t want anyone overwhelmed with their new-found clean out or organized schedule.  So, now that we have cleaned the main common rooms, let’s make a plan to keep them clean before we move on to the rest of …

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Last Tuesday, I co-hosted a G+ Live Hangout with Crystal and Company.  Several of you guys attended and I think it went extremely well.  This week we will be discussing Pinterest and giving you some suggestions to make it work for you.  So, On Tuesday February 12th at 10 am Central (11 EST, 9 MST, …

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Social media is one of the most important business communication developments in a long time, but it’s also one of the biggest sources of distraction and is often a time suck for otherwise productive business owners. Learning to manage your own social networking time will help you leverage all those great benefits and help you …

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If you’ve ever looked at Wikipedia’s “list of major active social networking sites” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites), you’d see they list over 200. That’s  a lot of social networks to potentially get involved in, but of course, you can’t be in al those places. Nor, do you need to be. You may find that some of those networks …

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Last week we talked about how I clean up my inboxes and I alluded to my email templates and such.  This week, we are going to actually discuss all the items that I have drafted and saved.  I don’t just copy and paste and hit send for the most part, but I will discuss it …

Read More about Getting Organized: Drafts and Templates (Tackling Email part 3)

Last week, I showed you how I organize my incoming email and discussed my different boxes. Today, I want to discuss my typical email handling per day!  I haven’t done much in the way of email for a couple days – it was the weekend, then a holiday, then I was sick.  So, I have …

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It is a new year and that means it is time to get ourselves organized again (or for the first time ever).  Upon going through my blog statistics, I find that to do sheets, master to do lists,  organization, and homemaking are very popular topics on my site.  So, I am working on starting a …

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