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Hey everyone, here is an awesome little trick that can help you grow your fan pages, groups, and events exponentially. We’ve all been through the tedious work of adding hundreds of friends one at a time. But thanks to a little nifty javascript manipulation you can suggest or invite your entire friends list all with a few clicks. Watch the video below!

Here is the code you will need to paste into your browser’s URL bar:     javascript:fs.select_all()

Enjoy this little trick courtesy of the Black Card Marketing Group!

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Social media is reinventing marketing, communications, and the dissemination of information. While businesses now have access to these rich channels, the true promise of social media lies in the direct connections between people who represent companies and the people who define markets of interest.

Today, many businesses approach this with the establishment of social media guidelines and policies. This is indeed an important step, and not one worth economizing. But it’s also not enough. I highly recommend establishing official procedures that remind representatives of the importance and privilege of engagement.

The openness of popular networks is trivial. Any business can join and create a profile. It’s the devices we employ, the intentions that motivate engagement, and the value we offer that dictate the significance of the brand-specific social graphs we weave. It’s a simple investment in either visibility or presence. In social media, just like in the real world, presence is felt.

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Brian Solis is the author of Engage and a leading authority in digital branding and marketing. Connect with him on Twitter or Facebook. What follows is a modified excerpt from Engage, the complete guide for businesses to build, cultivate, and measure success in the new web.

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The latest changes to Facebook have seen their fair share of criticism, with many users examining more closely the definition of “public vs. private.” Some users have been turned off enough by Facebook’s envelope pushing when it comes to privacy to go so far as to contemplate a mass Facebook exodus.

Whether or not the changes become the final blow to Facebook’s tenuous relationship with privacy remains to be seen. However, protecting your privacy is important on any social network, so while you’re still on Facebook, here are a few important privacy tips to keep in mind as you navigate the site’s newest incarnation.

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Adam Rosenberg is the Online Community Manager at Salsa Labs. Most recently, he was the New Media Manager at the Center for Democracy & Technology where his work focused on Internet privacy, data protection, cyber security and open government issues.

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Managing your online network is critical, whether you’re looking for a job, trying to advance in your career, or you’re starting a business. Think of the Internet as a global talent pool that has more contact information than the White Pages. In fact, 80 percent of available jobs are never even advertised, with more than half of all employees finding their jobs through networking, according to BH Careers International.

Social networks have connected and exposed us to more people than ever before. With all the online friends and followers you’ve accumulated, it’s become increasingly complicated to make sense of your social graph and use it to your advantage. It’s also never been more important to build your contact database, organize it, and then put it to work for you. The old adage “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” is true, so consider your rolodex more valuable than your wallet when it comes to achieving success in business.

Here is how to create a basic contact management strategy, stay connected and organized from your desktop to your phone, and give you some insight onto how to expand your network.

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Dan Schawbel, recognized as “Personal Branding Guru” by The New York Times, is the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, LLC, the #1 international bestselling author of Me 2.0, and owner of the Personal Branding Blog.

There has been a debate recently over who owns the customer. The debate has lurked in the shadows of company board rooms and around the water coolers. Truthfully there is no one right answer the question. This is because, realistically every department, team and employee in the company has ownership of the customer. All of these people take part in creating a positive environment and experience for the customer.

Customer service is no longer an area to triage customer complaints. It’s about anticipating customer needs at the right time and place. Organizations must relearn how to interact with their community, shed some of the heavily automated barriers, and get back to the basics of customer service.

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Cisco Systems has predicted that Internet networking traffic will have quadrupled between 2009 and 2014 in its Annual Visual Networking Index Forecast. It also predicted that online video will be the primary driver of that growth.

Cisco’s report says that 767 exabytes of data (one exabyte is the equivalent of one billion gigabytes) will be transferred online in 2014, and that 91% of consumer traffic will be online video, which will include both traditional web video and video-on-demand provided by television providers.

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One of our DIFY members, Emma Soy and her company Nursing Shepherd(http://nursingshepherdblog.com/) has their videos at the number one and two spots on Google Video rankings. This is what can happen when you have DIFY working for you!

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Have a Linked-In account but don’t know how to use it as a marketing tool? Well then read on as having an idle account will do no good and you will miss out on the opportunity. As we all know Linked-In is a professional networking site that brings together entrepreneurs and professionals from various fields. With most people logging for job related information and updates, this sites works as a good platform to advertise and market your business.

Creating an impressive profile counts on Linked In. Profile gives an identity to you on the site. This identity makes a difference as people choose to link with you only depending on what they get to know about you from the information uploaded.

Networking is the key for success on Linked In. Add people to your network to build a list of potential clients. For better business prospects, you can always find people or companies working in the same lines. Keep updating your connections frequently.

Join and be a part of group discussions. You can choose to join groups that are relevant to your business. Being a part of groups helps you connect well with other members. You can contribute and share your ideas initiated by the group. There are good numbers of topics for discussions everyday. You should also choose to answer questions put up by other users as it will not only help to connect but also get visibility.

What is advertising? Wikipedia states it as follows – Advertising is a form of communication intended to persuade its viewers, readers or listeners to take some action; it usually includes the name of a product or service and how that product or service could benefit the consumer, to persuade potential customers to purchase or to consume that particular brand. Hence, the purpose of advertising is to persuade customers to buy the product or service advertised, right?

Now, what do you mean by “being a creative director”? First of all let us understand the meaning of creativity – Creativity is a mental and social process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. Thus, being a creative director in advertising means trying to come up with new ideas for advertising, correct?

Think of it – can you have new ideas but still not be able to persuade customers? Of course yes! If we take the analogy of films you would understand better. Almost all critically acclaimed films are creative, but many of them just bomb at the box office without even a trace. Why? It is because just as films and advertising is more than being a creative director – you need to connect to the audience in the first place.

Think of it, you have a well set business that can offer best of merchandise to large number of masses but no one is informed about it, will your business work? Obviously not, thus steps in marketing strategies that help you let masses become aware about your enterprise. Marketing is a technique that lets you reach out to the potential buyers. With right allocation of available resources and time you can grab potential buyers and that is a skill to develop.

There are thousands of people running business out there but not all of them are successful. Not that they do not market their services or products but despite the technique they fail to make an impact in the market. Most of them fail because they do not make correct use of available tools. With many networking and bookmarking site come up, one can benefit the most from these free sites if they know the right way to use it.

Despite the fact that there are numerous sites to market your business, it fails as there are incomplete profiles, partial information and once in a while log in. One also has to build the list of potential readers and one who fails to do this is certainly going to fail in his online marketing strategies.

Remember people don’t simply buy the product; they buy it because they know how it will benefit them. If your marketing tool fails to speak about the benefits your organization or products can bring to them, they would hardly be anyone wanting to be your customer.