For Women Who'd Rather Work For Themselves, Than Work For The Man

Gaining Traffic From Social Media

Social media is all the rage. Business owners are smart to tap into these tools to drive traffic to their sites, yet many are missing the mark. Here are some tips:

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Who Are You Really Listening To?

When I started looking for information on how to work from home and start my own business, there wasn’t any Facebook or Twitter. Back then, I had to go to message boards. You could ask a question, and people would reply back. The information was often from people with vastly different opinions. It could be [...]

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Twitter Party: Learn How To Connect With Your Customers

The next Indie Biz Chicks Twitter Party will be on Monday, October 26 from 9 – 10pm Eastern. We’ll be discussing tips on How To Connect With Your Audience.

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Social Media Divorce: Making Your Way Through It

Earlier today, I posed this question on my Facebook:  “If Facebook is my husband, is Twitter my boyfriend? Or am I just in a plural marriage?” Of course, that was meant to be a joke, but your connection to social media can be a lot like a relationship. You spend a lot of time with [...]

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Free Twitter Class!

Ah, Twitter. I’m sure you’ve heard of it… and you may have signed up for it… But do you know how to use it for business? If you’re having problems with figuring it out, I can help!

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Indie Biz Chicks To Follow On Twitter

If you know me very well, you know that I love Twitter. I’m on there a little bit every day… Sometimes I’m on there more than a “little bit”…. sometimes I’m on there a lot. I used Twitter to document my nephew’s field trips, road trips with my friends, and even to complain about the [...]

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Stuff I’m Into….

If you’re on Twitter, then you know that Friday is the day to give shout-outs to the people you think are cool, noteworthy, or worth following. This is done by tweeting their Twitter handle and the hashtag #followfriday. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, it means that you post something like this [...]

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Personal Branding: It Starts With A Nugget

Yesterday, Gwen Bell wrote an excellent blog post on personal branding. In The Chicken Bucket Personal Brand Theory: What’s Your Nugget?, Gwen compares the levels of personal branding to a chicken nugget, bucket of chicken, and the full course chicken dinner.

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Drawing The Line Between Business and Personal In Social Media

In the past, people left their homes in the morning, went to work, and at 5pm they clocked out and went home. Work was kept at work, and people were free to enjoy their home life on their own terms.

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Twitter: The Celebrity Takeover?

They’re in the movies, on tv, grace the covers of magazines, they’re blogged about constantly, and now… they’re on Twitter. Yep. I’m talking about celebrities.  For a bunch of people who are always crying about not having any privacy, they sure do want to make their lives public, don’t they?

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