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Content Curation – Hot Marketing Strategy For Small Business!

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Dean Mercado in Marketing Strategy, News, Social Media 1 Comment

Hey… I firmly beleive content curation is going to play a huge role in successful marketing campaigns for small businesses going forward… I see it in action already… As a matter of fact, I use content curation quite a bit in my business!  This blog post is an example of me doing just that!

So What Exactly Is Content Curation?

The easiest way to explain it is to watch this excellent video I came across through the content curation efforts of my Social Media friend Michael Q Todd.  That means Michael didn’t create the video, he curated it!  The video was created by the folks over at idio.

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The Long Tail of Social Media

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Dean Mercado in Social Media Leave a comment
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One thing I can say with all certainty… there is no shortage of social media sites out there! Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, and we can go on and on probably for the better part of an hour rambling them off… and that would be only the ones we know about. Now I don’t know the statistics however it seems that several new social media sites are showing up daily… some with sticking power and several without. Read more


Who Me… A Twitter Snob?

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Dean Mercado in Social Media, Success 5 Comments

“You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn

Twitter Snob?To this day, I still remember Mom saying to my brothers and me “I don’t want you hanging around with that kid… he’s nothing but trouble!” Of course back then we didn’t see it that way however many years later, now a Dad myself, I understand where she was coming from. She believed that our peers significantly influenced who we would become in life.

Fast forward to the modern day, Mom’s message still resonates. Until recently, on Twitter I’ve for the most part operated under the premise of follow me and I’ll follow you back. I never understood what harm it could do by just following anybody and everybody. Was I being ignorant? Unfortunately if I wanted to increase my results online I was. Read more


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