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7 Personal Branding Lessons You Learn by Falling in Love

Personal Branding is not about creating a larger than life image; it is about aspiring to be as beautiful and large as life is. Like falling in love.

Sued in Six Seconds: Avoiding the Entanglements of Twitter’s Vine

Tips for marketers on how to minimize legal risks when creating and sharing videos using Twitter’s Vine app.

One thousand posts. No navel gazing.

It takes a lot of work to write one thousand posts, but it takes some amazing people to make it work. A tribute to the {grow} community.

The one core secret to social media marketing success

Trying to figure out social media marketing can be overwhelming, but it can be simplified by considering one core question.The one core secret to social media marketing success

Soup Or Bowl. A {growtoon}.

Join the growtoonists each Friday for a humorous take on marketing, social media, and current business events.

Dear Facebook. Please let me pay you.

Aren’t you weary of Facebook’s invasive monetization schemes? The solution seems pretty simple. Let me pay you.

Social Media’s Mass Attention Myth

The gurus tell you that you need to build huge audiences, right? A contrarian view. of mass attention myth

Five ways to be a more confident blogger

The biggest stumbling block to effective blogging may not be time or ideas. It might be having the confidence to make that leap and push “publish!”Five ways to be a more confident blogger

The Purchasing Department: The Next Frontier for Social Media?

Sales and marketing may be getting all the social media attention but applications to the supply chain may promise profound results for the purchasing department

Facebook Inception. A {growtoon}

Join the growtoonists each Friday for a humorous take on marketing, social media, and current business events.

Can social media personalities “scale?”

Can social media personalities scale? The author looks at the limitations. The irony of social media is, the more popular you become on the social web, the less effective you might be! Is there an answer?

There will be no social media apocalypse

Despite predictions of doom, there are more important considerations in business than whether you have an active Facebook page. No social media apocalypse