Approximately 80% of small businesses fail within the first year. How many of the people you know who have started a business have truly succeeded? How many of them put on a happy face yet are still at every networking meeting looking for business?
50 Signs You’re Addicted to Social Media & Twitter
September 16, 2011 By 51 Comments
It’s Saturday morning. You wake up out of the fog. You manage to open one eye and reach for the iPhone. You push the little round button so you can say good morning to your friends. Since the rest of the family is still asleep you think “hmmm… I’ll just go into my office and send a few tweets, see what’s circlin’ on Google+ and upload the photos from the seminar this week to Facebook.
Well, that was at 7:00 am. It’s now 11:00 and you are still in your jammies with messy hair. Your significant other has made breakfast. The kids are watching cartoons & fighting and the house is a mess. The big plans of mowing the lawn, cleaning the garage and hittin’ the gym all before noon are history. You would much prefer to stay in the safety and quiet of your little tweet heaven just for one more hour.
Are We Forgetting to LOL IRL (in real life)?
June 25, 2011 By 1 Comment
ROFL, LOL, 
, 
, IRL, <3, Woot!, :0)
If you have spent anytime on Facebook, Twitter or texting you are guaranteed to have seen these characters. Chances are they usually make you smile, maybe even laugh (LOL).
It is important that we don’t let the online LOL’s replace the offline belly chuckles. Or let the smiles replace the smile on our kids face when we do something special with them.
Granny’s 40 Tips for Good Social Relationships & Twitter Etiquette
May 8, 2011 By 4 Comments
Granny has been busy since she last stopped by. She’s been tweetin’ and learning about online relationships. She dropped by recently to share some updated words of advice regardless if we want to hear them or not. Check out Granny’s 40 Tips for Good Social Relationships.
21 Tips to Get Your Tweet On!
April 19, 2011 By 16 Comments
So you have a Facebook business page, a LinkedIn profile, a blog, and maybe even a professional photo taken for your custom twitter background. However, something about that crazy bird and all those 140 character yappin’ peeps freaks you out. You want to be part of the conversation yet you aren’t certain how to start or what to say!
To this point you have made the choice to sit on the sidelines. Though when you lay your head down on the pillow at night you can hear the little bird saying “come on, tweet with me, you can do it!”
Get Real Time: 44 Signs Social Media Is NOT Working for You!
April 16, 2011 By 5 Comments
So you are a self proclaimed social media expert, guru, community manager, analyst or anything with the word social media in front of it. You have been doing social media for at least a year. You are doing all the right things.
You have followers. You have likes. However, nobody talks to you about business, reads your blog and your phone is definitely not ringing with leads wanting to buy from you.
A New Language Called Social Media Is Here Like it Or Not!
March 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It’s time for the next social media and marketing event. You pack your bag, charge your iphone or Android, grab the iPad, and your new business cards with the QRC code on the back.
You’re off, you’re ready and before you get to the airport your twitter followers know where you are going, what the hashtag is and what you’re excited to see and do when you get there. You tweet your fellow attendees to plan your first face to face get together. You’ve already planned the first tweetup that by the way use to be called “Happy Hour”.
Get Off The Hamster Tweet Wheel & Be Inspired – 20 Learnings from Social Fresh Tampa
March 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
Getting out into world, learning from new perspectives, enjoying the company of others is the spice of life.
So why in business do we find this so hard to accept? Why do we think we’ll accomplish more if we stay inside our corporate and virtual home offices as we fervently turn in our social hamster wheels of marketing strategies, business plans, engagement approaches, audience research, websites, Facebook pages and suites that hoot?
Yes, the economy stinks. However, that doesn’t mean we need to work the hamster wheel 24/7. It actually should drive the opposite behavior.
2011 Predictions: Top 12 Reasons Businesses Will Fail at Social Media
January 3, 2011 By 15 Comments
With the new year comes new budgets, projects and social media goals. Many new businesses will be hopping on the social train. The question is how long will they last? Will they make it to their destination? Bigger question is do they know their destination?
That Funny Little Thing Called Facebook “Like”
December 28, 2010 By 4 Comments
So we all know the cute little blue and white hand glove. The one that is the logo, often represented by the skinny blue rectangle. We look for it. We click it. But why? Why do you click the “like” button? Do you click it because you really like whatever content was on the page? [...]
There’s No Place Like Facebook for the Holidays
December 25, 2010 By 1 Comment
Oh the memories of the holidays. The moments that make the memories. From the busy shopping to the eggnog, the neighborhood party, Christmas Eve Service, presents unwrapped Christmas morning to the crazy box of nuts you received from Uncle Albert. What do we do to capture the memories? We take a photo with our iPhone [...]
Twas the Night Before Christmas with St. Twit
December 23, 2010 By 1 Comment
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through Tweetville
Not a tweeter was tweeting, not even the high Klouts.
The iphones were hidden by Santa’s little elves,
In hopes that the Tweeters would do something else.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of daddy without social media danced in their heads.
ENGAGE: It’s about life not just social media!
October 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Yesterday we spent a couple hours consulting with a local non-profit client that supports adoptive and foster families. From the minute we walked in their front office door I could feel the postive intensity. It was a calm energy. Their team of six was ready and waiting for us with creative and technical brains ready to rock out with FruitZoom in an intense two hour social media planning workshop.
Follow Your Dreams!
June 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
So it’s official! The word is out. As most of you know we have a couple very exciting launches coming up, two of which are book launches! So yesterday Mari Smith launched the official Web page, Facebook page, Twitter Account. More to come on this. Not a lot of time today so here is a short [...]
Pam Moore CEO & Founder Fruitzoom, Inks Publishing Deal with CelebrityPress to Co-Author Social Media Book with Mari Smith & Other Experts
March 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I Love My Twitter Tweeps! Poll: Why do You Love Twitter?
March 5, 2010 By 2 Comments
As I sit in front of my computer after a great week and excited to TWEET… part of me thinks…”have I lost my mind”? The other part thinks “am I dreaming?” The real self knows… “YOU ARE STARTING TO LIVE YOUR DREAMS”. I am surrounded by so many people face to face daily as well [...]
ZOOMUNICATION: where conversations become transactions!
January 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
where conversations become transactions When people connect with other people in the market place transactions happen. Social media is more than communication, a pretty website or a Facebook landing page Are you blasting noise to your customer? Or are you delighting them with a conversation based upon their need, want or desires? INSPIRE your customers [...]
happy new years eve 2010!
December 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Wow! As I look back a year ago, all I can say is “who would have thunk!?” From corporate walls of security to small company 24 hour work day and layoff to full turbo on entrepreneur land!! God never ceases to amaze me. He did what he had to do to provide me the determination [...]
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
October 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Ribbon Cutting. November 5, 2009. What a simply AWESOME day! Thank you to all who came or were there in spirit!
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