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Facebook Timelines: Getting Back to Personal?

If you have yet to convert your Facebook Profile to the new Facebook Timeline, it will be a matter of days before you are forced to switch by Facebook, so you might as well just jump in the water now! LOL

What is so significant about this new change? I’m still trying to figure it out myself. But as I uploaded my new Cover to my profile, I could not help feel a sense that I was returning back to a more fun and personal side. I keep my Facebook personal profile separate from my business page and lately, I’ve spent more time trying to build up that business page and less on “socializing” with my family and friends.
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Social Media Marketing: It Starts With a Plan

So, you have decided that you want to use social media to promote your brand, products and services. Looking around it seems like many of your competitors and peers have jumped in and are doing pretty good. But you don’t want to be just good; you want your time and effort to yield GREAT results. What makes the difference in doing good or great? – A well thought out strategy and action plan.

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7 Reasons to Use Social Media for Business

Unless you have been under a rock for the past several years, you know that social media has taken over almost every aspect of our daily lives. It started out as a way to communicate with our friends and families. But now businesses have placed a high priority on adding social media to their marketing plans.

Here are 7 reasons social media should be a part of your marketing plan as well:
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4 Simple Steps to Creating a Vision Board

A few years ago, I adopted the practice of creating a vision board at the start of a new year. A vision board helps me keep a positive view of where I would like to be with my goals by the end of that year. Normally, I have a collage of words and images that reflect goals I have written down on paper for my family and business.

A vision board is also a great way to surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where you want to live, take a vacation and any other changes you desire for your life. The idea is that if you surround yourself with these images, your life will change to match those images and those desires. I believe it stimulates a shift in mindset. I heard someone say that it does not matter if it is a new year if you still operate with the same old mindset.
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New Year, New Mindset

I had set high hopes and had great expectations for my business in 2011. Like many, I created a vision board, posted it on my office wall so that it was the first thing I would see as I sat at my desk every morning. My goals were set and my vision was clear.
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