Five Tips For Using Linkedin To Initiate Connections, Sales, Partnerships etc.

1)    Fully develop your profile. Include your work history, industry, photo, references, and even the books you’re reading. All of this validates who you are when prospects view your profile on Linkedin. Also, when you’re going through your settings, remember to make your profile available for the public viewing, so prospects who aren’t on Linkedin
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FastPivot's Jonathan Poston Honored To Serve As A Key Speaker For Ecuador Government Hosted Technology Innovation Conference

FastPivot’s Director of Social Media Communications, Jonathan Poston, was honored to serve as a “Key Speaker” at Ecuador’s Ministry for Coordination of Production, Employment and Competitiveness’s tenth InnovaEcuador Innovation Forum in Quito, Ecuador.¬† This Government of Ecuador hosted¬† conference was organized by RoadMak; A sincere thanks to everyone on the RoadMak team: Steven Wille, Julio
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How To Use Twitter for SEO

To demonstrate an effective way¬†of using Twitter for SEO,¬†I’ve searched Google for my name “Jonathan Poston”.¬†As you can see from this YouTube in the first page of¬†Google’s search results, the first mention of my name appears to¬†be on Facebook, but just below that, there’s an entire Twitter search window¬†scrolling recent Twitter search results for: Jonathan
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How To Use Google Trends And Twitter To Promote Your Business

Google is especially good about indexing live Twitter posts occuring in response to new product launches or¬†at conferences, shows, events, etc.¬†If you can find a way to¬†associate with a trending topic in your Twitter posts,¬†it’s likely that you can ride that wave of popularity¬†all the way up to the shores of temporary famedom on Google’s
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A 140-Focus Is A Selfish Way To Tweet

Those who know Twitter know what the magic number is: 140. That’s the maximum number of characters Twitter allows in a tweet. So when you’re posting big news to the world on Twitter, your entire tweeted message must squeeze uncomfortably into a thimble sized container before Twitter will let you pull the pour lever. There
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Is LinkedIn Worthless?

Just the other day, a fellow LinkedIn connection’s posting popped up on our social media radar. It was complaining that LinkedIn just wasn’t helpful. We posed a question to several LinkedIn groups asking whether there was any real value in having a LinkedIn account or not. Out of the dozens and dozens of pro-LinkedIn responses
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Five-Ingredient Secret Recipe For Social Media Jugglers

Seasoned social-media-lites are the circus jugglers of the internet; forever tossing multi-planar social media posts, sidestepping noisy crowds, and scanning the sky for incoming mail. Meanwhile, these social media stars are expected to engage bleachers full of social media fans that have seen it all. Without a secret recipe for success, these social media sprites
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