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The Digital Happy Hour on USTREAM: Live Broadcast Thursday’s 5:30-7:30pm from world renowned Charlie Palmer at…
Sep 2nd
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Orange County Films LLC has announced that Executive Chef Amar Santana will serve as host for their new social media reality series,… |
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As a health care professional, do you long to integrate spirituality into your work but are unsure on how to do so? I’d…
Sep 2nd
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Easy Paycheck Formula, Begin Marketing Amazon Products
Sep 2nd
| This qualifies her as an early adopter within the Internet marketing business. Sara started out doing email marketing and as a website manager working… |
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Will The Samsung Galaxy Tab Be Priced Out Of The Market?
Sep 2nd
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The problem is, Samsung are unproven in the tablet market. Lets face it, all pretenders to the iPad throne currently are. When displayed… |
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White House expected to propose major tax breaks for businesses
Sep 2nd
| With the recovery faltering less… President Obama’s economic team is considering another big dose of stimulus in the form of tax breaks for businesses… |
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It’s About Time: 5 Tools to Streamline Your Social Media
Sep 2nd
Whenever I speak about social media, the biggest question I get is “How much time do you spend on it?” My response? Not as much as you’d think. I use a number of time management tools to help me streamline my activity. The 5 with the greatest impact are outlined here:
1. Hootsuite or Social Oomph
The beauty of Hootsuite and Social Oomph is that they let you manage all of your Twitter activity and relationships in one place. You can post-date tweets for another time. You can monitor direct messages and mentions as well as your Twitter stream. You can decide which posts will go to which social media platforms.
2. RSS Feeds and Subscriptions
These allow you to pull information to you. When you want to know about items of interest to you or your following, or find fuel for articles and blog posts, it’s easier to have the information come to your e-mail or dashboard than to go out searching for it. Whenever you find a blog, podcast or newsletter that you’d like to continue to read, subscribe via RSS feed or subscription box. Then the information will come into your e-mail box.
Another way to use RSS feeds is to pull your social media platforms to a dashboard like iGoogle or Netvibes. Like to answer questions on LinkedIn but don’t want to go there every day to find them? Great! Use RSS feeds to have the questions show up on your dashboard and make it easier to participate online. In the same vein, you can see all of your social media platforms so you can update your statuses in one place – saving you the time of going to each site individually.
3. iGoogle or Netvibes
These dashboards make it easy to monitor your social media platforms in one place. You can also send your blog there. If you make the dashboard your home page, it will come up every time you log on. I use both and keep them open while I’m working. That way I can take a look a couple of times throughout the day and see what’s going on. I can update my statuses easily as well. I have a couple of LinkedIn Question categories that I like to keep an eye on, so I’ve got them on my iGoogle page. They automatically update so I know I am seeing the most current questions.
I have my Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and blog links attached to my Netvibes page. I’ve also added some other blogs that I’d like to follow there. Both websites are very easy to set up and manage. And, once set up, they handle themselves. Imagine the time savings of not having to go to each website to update your status!
4. Google Alerts
Want to know what’s going on in your industry? Looking for interesting articles to tweet or use to write articles or blog posts? Using Google alerts is a great way to have that information come to you. You can put any words into an alert and choose how often you’d like to receive an e-mail with whatever Google found with those words. You can then go to the webpage and read the item for yourself.
This reduces the time it takes to participate online. Instead of having to search the Internet every day, you’ll have the information you need coming to you. The more you can pull information to you, the less time you’ll have to spend accomplishing your online goals.
5. Linking
So you have all of these great Internet profiles. However, having to post to each of them could take over your life. Solution? Link them. Let’s start with Twitter. You can link your Twitter account to your LinkedIn and Facebook accounts. Now when you tweet the post will go to Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. One post, three sites.
Next is your blog. You can link your blog to your Twitter profile by using Twitterfeed.com. When you post to your blog, the post will go to your Twitter profile and then to your LinkedIn and Facebook accounts. One blog post, four sites.
If you write articles and submit them to online article submission sites, you can link those accounts to your profiles as well. When you post an article, the news that you’ve posted will show up on your LinkedIn and Facebook profiles.
As a small business owner, you need to have and maintain an online presence. More than that, you should be building your brand online. The challenge is to do this without spending all of your time on it. Using these tips can help you streamline your activity so you have time to be active online and in your business.
It’s About Time: 5 Tools to Streamline Your Social Media
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RISE LIVE: Marketing, Social Media and Entrepreneu on USTREAM: Live Streaming version of The Rise To The Top with host…
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RISE LIVE: Marketing, Social Media and Entrepreneu @ USTREAM: Live Streaming version of The Rise To The Top with host David Siteman… |
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6 Ways to Avoid a Social Media Meltdown
Sep 2nd
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Brazilian-Owned 3G Capital Buys Burger King
Sep 2nd
Investment firm 3G Capital bought Burger King today for $3.26 billion. 3G Capital is backed by Brazilian tycoon Jorge Paulo Lemann, known in Brazil for founding the prestigious investment firm Banco Garantia and owning Brazilian brewing giant AmBev, which eventually merged with Belgium’s Interbrew to become InBev.
Burger King isn’t 3G’s first US fast food investment. The firm invested in Wendy’s in the past, according to the New York Times, which has more of the story:
3G views Burger King as a turnaround opportunity…Burger King has struggled lately. Last week it forecast weak demand in its new fiscal year amid high unemployment in the United States and economic weakness in Europe. It also cautioned that uncertainty regarding the costs of wheat and beef could affect its results.
The fast-food giant was last taken private in 2002 by three buyout firms — TPG Capital, Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs’s private equity unit — but since returning to the public markets in 2006, it has underperformed its biggest rival, McDonald’s. From its initial public offering until Tuesday, before reports of a potential sale emerged, Burger King’s shares have fallen about 6 percent, according to Standard & Poor’s. During the same time period, McDonald’s stock has climbed 111 percent.
Among 3G’s plans for the fast-food chain is building out internationally. Burger King already has 93 restaurants in Brazil and plans to open about 500 new franchises in Latin America over the next five years, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing.
3G expects to begin its tender offer no later than Sept. 17 and to close the deal in the fourth quarter this year. Burger King has the right to solicit higher offers through Oct. 12 under what is known as a “go-shop” period.
The Wall St. Journal has some analyst commentary on the situation:
BK, America’s second-biggest burger chain after McDonald’s, has been down this road before, having gone public in 2006, which is why some franchisees and investors are grumbling about the idea of going private again. As the WSJ’s Julie Jargon notes, some figure BK’s problem is its intense focus on die-hard Whopper munchers and a lack of menu creativity — not the ownership.
(Another analyst) figures that going private will allow Burger King to make more dramatic changes than it otherwise would, to “shake the boat a little more,” since there would be fewer cooks in the kitchen. With shareholders out of the picture, 3G Capital could help BK catch up to McDonald’s, which has impressed investors by offering everything from salads and snack wraps to smoothies lately. BK could also stop worrying so much about its debt.
Finally, $4 billion seems to be a pretty good price, according to Telsey Advisory Group analyst Tom Forte, who notes that BK’s shares were just $16.45 — near a 52-week low — before the buyout chatter heated up.
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Erik S. Syverson: The Coming Wave of Social Media Class Actions
Sep 2nd
| Until there is an adequate Internet regulatory system… will continue to be fought out in case law — lawsuit by lawsuit, social program by social program. |
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