The Pet Biz Helper

I recently got certified as a Social Media Specialist (Yayy!!) and I learned so much more about the big picture of social media.  One of the lectures gave me great insight on how a Tweet Plan can help us organize ourselves on creating quality tweets ahead of time and scheduling them using TweetDeck or Hootsuite.  [...]

So you jumped in the band wagon and decided to use social media as a marketing tool for your pet business. Yay!!!  Very smart on your part. Now, you want to include your regular customers to your Twitter account and your Facebook fan page. How can you do this?  There are a couple of ways [...]

Chances are that when you first start using Twitter you have NO IDEA on what to do next. You probably asked yourself questions like: Who do I follow?,  What should I tweet about?, How is Twitter going to help my business grow?, HOW DO I INTERACT WITH TWEEPS? (In the Twitter dictionary, tweeps stands Twitter [...]

Last year I wrote a post about the Social Media Revolution video that included crazy/amazing/unbelievable stats about social media. The stats have been updated. Here is the new video…
Enjoy!!!
Oh, you still don’t see how social media can help your business? Social media is not a FAD!!!!

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Mari, Mari, Mari…it is all about Mari when it comes to Facebook.  Who am I talking about?  I’m talking about Mari Smith!!! Mari Smith is a Relationship Marketing Specialist and Social Media Keynote Speaker, Trainer and Consultant. She helps independent professionals, entrepreneurs and business owners to accelerate their business profits using an [...]

One of the top questions that my clients asks is “How can I save time with social media and still see results?”.  My answer to them…”Easy!. If Deepak Chopra can tweet so can you.”  I also let them know that there are social media management tools out there to simplify the social media effort. I [...]

I ran into this guest blog entry written by one of my favorite online marketing gurus, Shama Kabani. Shama is the author from The Zen of Social Media Marketing, which  is now available on Amazon. Shama makes really good points on how you should NOT…and I repeat…should NOT quit Twitter if you want your [...]

I want to share a little secret with you guys that makes my life so much easier when it comes to social media. Are you ready? Here it goes…Ping.fm. Ping.fm is a FREE service that makes updating your social networks a snap. You can update your status in over 35 social networks with a touch [...]

Last week, I discussed the advantages and disadvantages on using a Facebook profile/fan page as your company’s webpage. Well, people can also do a search within Facebook and find your profile or fan page.  Optimizing your Facebook fan page can help increase the chances of this happening. Search Engine Land gives great tips for getting [...]

Nowadays everyone has a blog site. For this reason, you have to make sure you promote your blog effectively so that your rankings go up and people can find your website in the search engines. Darren Rowse from ProBlogger.com made a great video on how to he promote his blogs. It is a little [...]