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Small businesses are applying social media to marketing efforts in many creative ways, but perhaps nobody thinks out of the box more than Nathan Dube! This explores some of his guerrilla marketing ideas.
Humble PowerPoint slides can go a long way if you use them creatively on the social web. Here are seven ideas to get the most out of your slides.
By Stanford Smith, Contributing {grow} Columnist I’m morbidly fascinated by failure. As of late, I’ve been scouring the web looking for failed social media programs.
In a blog post almost two years ago about the best business idea for social media marketing, I made a prediction that I think stands up.Â
A guest post from {grow} community member Taryn Erickson A perpetual ‘go-getter’ by nature, when I jumped into the Social Media scene it was a
It’s all about the conversation. Have you heard that a thousand times? It’s a ubiquitous mantra of the social web to the point where sometimes I think

Google Plus won’t be the Facebook killer gurus predict because the psychological switching costs are too high.

Social media marketing progress in a developing country
Now here is a neat trick. Precisely as your read this exciting guest post from the brilliant Jon Buscall, I will be meeting him for
It’s time to step up and address one of the great myths pervading the social web — that an essential best practice is decentralizing social media
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