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How Small Businesses Are Using Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

September 30, 2011 By Dan Ross 1 Comment

How SMBs Are Using Social Media [ Infographic ]

Social media gives small businesses a chance to connect with prospective customers and increase their visibility in the community. For many small businesses, this is a rich opportunity, as you can see in the following infographic. From the below infographic we can observe the following: 9% of small business owners said a social media expert [...]

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The Growth of Social Media: An Infographic (NOT A FAD!)

August 31, 2011 By Dan Ross 4 Comments

Think Social Media Is A Fad? Think again! I came across this amazing infographic yesterday and had to share it with everyone. The social media infographic highlights tons of facts / figures from various social media websites. Services included are: Facebook Twitter YouTube Flickr LinkedIn To Your Success, Dan Ross

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Social Screening: How Companies Are Using Social Media to Hire & Fire Employees [ Infographic ]

August 9, 2011 By Dan Ross Leave a Comment

How Companies Use Social Media to Screen Employees - Social Media Screening Infographic

Last Friday the U.S. released its employment numbers. In their numbers the government basically illustrated that the economic recovery from the 2008 financial crisis is very slow when compared to previous economic recoveries. While big corporations are seeing their sales and profits improve workers aren’t getting hired, unemployment remains high and the average duration of [...]

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5 Website ( SEO ) Tips for SMBs and Entrepreneurs

June 15, 2011 By Dan Ross 2 Comments

A few tips for new website owners. Below is a brief list that my wife helped provide a website customer of hers the other day. I thought the list would help others. SEO Keyword discovery – Google’s keyword tool will help you find words that people are actually searching for in Google. You probably want [...]

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Making 2011 a Year of Success

May 16, 2011 By Dan Ross Leave a Comment

As always, I am reading the papers, watching CNBC and trying to get a pulse on the economic recovery going on since the financial crisis late in 2008. Small businesses are slowly but surely recovering. Large corporations are exporting their way back to growth since the U.S. Dollar is cheaper than one or two years [...]

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11 Social Media Blogs Worth Following

February 28, 2011 By Dan Ross Leave a Comment

Over the last few years I have found that many new features from the various social media networks goes unreported on. In order to “keep in the loop” I highly recommend the following 11 websites if you want to keep abreast of the latest / greatest information happening in social media. Since the features in [...]