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• Tips for Launching a Successful Networking Event
  There's more to social networking than just chatting online. Sometimes, you'll want to actively promote your great work live—all while courting new clients and making useful new contacts! Andy Lopata provides ...
  Marketing Tips, Networking, Social Networking, Tradeshows/Events
• LinkedIn Audiences Highly Engaged, Active in Groups
  LinkedIn continues to dominate the executive corner of the social media universe with a highly-engaged member base: 61% of registered LinkedIn users say LinkedIn is the social site they use ...
  LinkedIn, Networking, Research Summaries, Social Media
• Four Tips for Non-Obnoxious Networking
  If you want to step up your networking activities, but you're not quite sure how, Rohit Bhargava has some advice. "The challenge isn't how you can find more opportunities to ...
  Marketing Tips, Networking, Small Business
• Job-Market Secrets: How to Build Your Network in 12 DaysDebra Feldman
  Networking is the best job-search method and generates more than 80% of new hires. Constantly nurturing your relationships and strategically developing new contacts puts you on the inside track to ...
  Career Management, Job Search, Networking, Personal Branding, Referrals
• Partner With Peers for Profit
  More and more tech vendors are incorporating technology and service specializations into their channel programs, promising stronger partner benefits—provided specific training and business requirements are met. Meanwhile, IT customers are ...
  High-Tech Marketing, Networking, New Media, Sales
• What I Did Right: How I Averaged 80 Comments and 135 Tweets in My First Week of BloggingLisa Petrilli
  My first-ever two blog posts have received 159 comments and have been tweeted 272 times. I'm simply stunned. But my foray into blogging has shown me that it can be ...
  Blog Comments, Blogging, Market Research, Networking, Twitter, Writing
• Are You the Missing Link?
  "Without some of us even noticing," writes Brian Carroll in an article at MarketingProfs, "[LinkedIn] has developed into a useful lead-generation tool for marketers and salespeople who are looking to ...
  Lead Generation, LinkedIn, Networking
• Peter Shankman: Email, Social Tools, Musings on a Web 2.0 Washing Machine
  In a fun but informative short video, Ann Handley talks with PR guru/gadfly Peter Shankman about how he turned a natural gift for schmoozing into a successful business, why his ...
  Community, Networking, New Media, Public Relations, Small Business, Social Media
• Come in From the Cold
  Hard, cold fact: Few B2B sales reps relish having to make cold calls. And Laura Ramos could not agree more. "I believe marketing should strive to put sales out of the ...
  B2B Marketing, Networking, Sales
• The Three Most Popular Social Networks for Business (and Why You Should Use Them)Paul Chaney
  An ancient proverb states that a "cord of three strands is not easily broken." By way of analogy, I hypothesize that the more individual connections to a particular person you ...
  Facebook, LinkedIn, Networking, Social Networking, Twitter
• Ten Steps for Creating a FANtastic Facebook Fan PageMari Smith
  The following 10 elements of dynamic Facebook fan pages will set you head and shoulders above the rest (and keep your fans coming back for more).
  Advertising, Facebook, Landing Pages, Networking, Targeting, Twitter, Writing
• Trust Agents: The New Digital NativesChris Brogan, Julien Smith
  What are so-called Trust Agents? Trust Agents have established themselves as non-sales-oriented, non-high-pressure marketers. They are digital natives using the Web to be genuine and to humanize their business. They're ...
  Blog Comments, Collaboration, Community, Customer Behavior, Networking, Social Media, Social Networking
• Help! I Have Social Media Rejection Syndrome!Elaine Fogel
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  Content, Facebook, LinkedIn, Networking
• How to Survive the Tough Times, Personally and ProfessionallyMichael Beck
  There's no one-size-fits-all solution to survival during challenging times. But there are some strategies that will help no matter what situation you and your business are in.
  Career Management, Creativity, Economic Crisis, Marketing Inspiration, Networking, Personal Branding
• Pew Report: Internet Use in the Recession
  Nearly 7 in 10 Americans (69%), or 88% of US Internet users, have used the Internet to cope with the recession, according to a new report from the Pew Internet ...
  Customer Behavior, Economic Crisis, Job Search, Networking, Recession, Research
• How to Bridge the Marketing-Staffing GapEva Wu
  If the company you work for is like many companies in today's economic climate, it isn't hiring too many people and its marketing budget has been cut. Employees are being ...
  Hiring Outside Resources, Management, Marketing Smarter, Networking, Recession, Social Media, Word-of-Mouth
• Community MattersBeth Harte
  When you joined MarketingProfs did you ever consider yourself to be part of a community of over 320,000 marketers? Well, you are! I know it's a huge number of nameless, ...
  Community, Content, Networking
• How Do I Love Thee...? Ten Tips for Using Web 2.0 to Give Back to Your Professional NetworkWilliam Arruda
  Effective networking is all about giving. One of the best ways to give to your network members is to help them build their personal brands. And if you help them ...
  Blogging, Community, Economic Crisis, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Networking, Personal Branding, Social Media, Social Networking, YouTube
• My So-Called Marketing Life: How Do I Extend the Reach of My Brand?Sue Duris
  Although she has been successful in promoting and extending corporate brands, the author entered into another chapter of her life a few years ago: re-energizing an acting career. Eventually, she ...
  Brand Positioning, Branding, Networking, Social Networking, SWOT, Thought Leadership, Website Design
• Put a Bug on That WOM!
  Clearspring Technologies, which has helped everybody from WaPo to UCSF bring their branded wares to the mainstream, has put out a new tool that tells you how popular your widgets ...
  Interactive Marketing, Networking, New Media, Social Media, Word-of-Mouth