How many underwater mortgages does it take to change the rules? The answer is north of 120,000. As of November 25th, that is the number of homes currently heading toward default that will be eligible for repurchase by the previous mortgage holders. The change in policy creates the opportunity for people to purchase their foreclosed […]
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The Basics: Four Simple Steps To Improving Your LinkedIn Profile
It’s easy to mistake social media for a semi-frivolous, Internet-based time waster and give it half an effort. After all, how can you be serious about your business and spend any part of your day tweeting? So, if you can’t yet bring yourself to try and reap business benefits from Facebook or Twitter, try […]
How To Keep Your Contacts Happy And Your Business Thriving
Like the holiday season, social media offers great promise but also a high risk of offending and angering the very people you hoped to gather together. If done incorrectly, your online fans and followers will turn on you and ruin your expectations of online success. However, with a few reminders, some forethought, and a focus […]
Three Winning Strategies For Social Media Success
Social-media success can sometimes seem like winning the lottery. After all, the potential payout far exceeds the cost to get started. But unlike the lottery, there are social-media strategies you can utilize that will increase your odds of success. Here are a few ways to increase your chances of winning big with social-media … Update, […]
Twitter Talk: Three Ways To Find Followers And Boost Benefits
Among social-media sites, Twitter has the least obvious professional application. It’s character limitation and cutesy lingo make it seem like a stretch for someone hoping to reap business benefits from social networking. Still, there are a number of inventive ways to use Twitter that will make it easier to find contacts, research your local market, […]
The Basics: Social Media And The Art Of Communication
At its core, social media is about communication. It’s about keeping contact with friends, family, clients, customers, and whoever else you’d like on the list of people you keep in the loop. For business purposes, that means staying close to your list of professional contacts. Sounds easy enough. But the trick is doing it in […]
How To Boost Your Social Media Presence Using Email
There’s a popular notion that Facebook created the idea of sharing and transformed the Internet into a purely social experience. But anyone with a memory – and an email inbox – can tell you that there was plenty of sharing happening over the web long before Facebook came along and made it possible for anyone […]
The Key To A Successful Social-Media Campaign
The key to successfully marketing your business through social media is to make it seem like you’re not. Which is to say, social-media marketing requires a little slight of hand, a lot of patience, and some faith. You can’t expect to put up some pages, upload a bunch of sales material, and wait for […]
The Basics: Building A Successful Social-Media Presence
A jazz musician needs to first understand the basic framework of a song before they can effectively improvise over its chord progression and melody. In other words, they need to understand the foundation of the composition before they can begin to build upon it. In much the same way, social-media success requires a basic understanding […]