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6 Success Stories: Social Media Marketing for Local Business

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I love when people tell me social media isn’t for local small businesses… Sometimes I debate with them. Other times I smile and nod, knowing it’s a futile argument. Most often I point them to examples like the ones I’m sharing with you today: 6 real-life small businesses profiting from social media. Here’s an excerpt

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Website brings local knife sharpener 40% more business

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Master Grinding Service, a knife-sharpening business in Rockaway, NJ, recently added a new website, Knifespa.com, to their online marketing mix. Since then, they’ve seen a 40% increase in business in just two short years. Co-owner, Emilio Ambrosi, admits he resisted the idea at first. But when asked about being a business owner in an economic

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Twitter for non-profits: "Social media for social good"

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I found a cool video I want to share with you today about a local non-profit organization, The Blood Center of Central Texas, using Twitter to promote their cause. The Blood Center’s Austin location, which serves 10 counties and 34 hospitals, is responsible for supplying blood to over 1 million people. Using a “Tweet Up”

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Social Media for Upscale Retail Businesses & Marketing To The Affluent

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In a time when putting food on the table and gas in the car can be a weekly struggle, spending money on high-end clothing, jewelery and handbags seems low on a long priority list for most. So to what does local upscale boutique, Ginger, in Winter Park, FL credit its thriving sales? Social media. Watch

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Sweet Tweets: Restaurant Marketing With Twitter

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Restaurateurs may well be one of the fastest groups of business men and women adopting Twitter for marketing their local businesses. And with good reason. If you own a local restaurant and you’re looking for a cheap, easy way to get paying guests in your door every single day, look no further than Twitter. But

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Virginia Real Estate Agent Blogs His Way To Success

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Still wondering if social media like blogs, Facebook and Twitter are worth your time? Today’s social media success story highlights Danilo Bogdanovic, a Washington area real estate agent who, according to GrowSmartBusiness.com: … estimates that 75% of his current business can be directly or indirectly attributed to his two blogs (LoudounScene.com and LoudounForeclosures.com) and other

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Twitter Marketing: Dessert, Sushi, Antiques, Wine, and Day Spas (Oh My!)

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More proof that social media, and Twitter specifically, is a powerful tool for attracting customers no matter what your local small business … In the New York Times article, “Marketing Small Businesses With Twitter,” Internet analyst Greg Sterling observes, Small businesses typically get more than half of their customers through word of mouth … and

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How local business blogging = 850% increase in lead generation

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In 2008, Duncan Page brought his grandfather’s 117 year old company into the Web 2.0 era through his blog, Twitter and Facebook. Louis E. Page Inc, which is based out of a warehouse in Littleton, Massachusetts, sells wire mesh fencing supplies. Not exactly the type of industry you’d expect to profit from social networking. But

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