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Business Networking at the Oregon Food Bank Was Most Excellent!

Published in January 29th, 2009
Posted by Michael in Networking
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Our business networking event at the Oregon Food Bank last night turned out to be a great idea. There were some good business relationships built and I got to meet some lovely folks. There is definitely an advantage to getting to know people while doing something worthwhile. In our case there were groups of [...]

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Reflections on the Great Twitter Challenge

Published in January 28th, 2009
Posted by Michael in Business tools, Marketing Strategy, Social media, Technology
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My fellow blogger Phil Bernstein has posted about the results of the Great Twitter Challenge. As many of you know I was one of the sponsors. His conclusion was tha t Twitter is not yet primetime for driving traffic to websites. I myself did not see many hits to my target page but I [...]

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The Great Twitter Challenge

Published in January 19th, 2009
Posted by Michael in Social media
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Blogger and Clear Channel Media Rep, Phil Bernstein is holding the first (as far was we know) Great Twitter Challenge. Here’s how it works:

On January 23, Phil will send out one trivia question per hour as a “tweet” on Twitter. The tweet will contain [...]

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Business Networking that also Benefits the Community

Published in January 7th, 2009
Posted by Michael in Networking
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If you would like to network with other business owners and benefit the community then you won’t want to miss our business networking event at the Oregon Food Bank on January 27th.
Most business networking takes place in restaurants and bars. While there is nothing wrong with that, we thought it might be a great [...]

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Announcing an Affordable New Marketing Program

Published in January 5th, 2009
Posted by Michael in Marketing Strategy
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I am excited to announce that we are launching a new marketing program which will be of great help to those with marketing responsibilities but who could benefit from marketing support.
Business owners, professional service providers or commissioned sales reps will find this invaluable. It could also be great for people in companies who have little [...]

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