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‘Google My Business’ Listing Hijackings Are Increasing
Spammers are attacking businesses by accessing the “claim this business” link in the Google Local Knowledge Panel. Anemail is then sent to the business owner from Google My Business notifying them of a request to gain control over thelisting.If you ever receive one of these emails for your business, don’t assume it’s your webmaster or…
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Lessons I learned the Hard Way
Lessons I learned the Hard Way You may have seen that Stripe cancelled my account. And what became clear to me was something others have tried to tell me but I didn’t grasp. We are playing in someone else’s sandbox. I’ve seen it about Facebook because Facebook makes the rules and could suddenly deny us…
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The secret of Amazon (not what you think)
According to USA Today, Amazon is creating more financially independent online businesses than any other digital opportunity. But that doesn’t mean any old approach on Amazon will work. Quite the contrary. Amazon can be a ruthless dog-eat-dog world if you play it the way most “supposed experts” teach. Here’s an example. While “go big or…
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Credit Cards and Cell Phones
Are you a person that keeps your credit cards in your cell phone case. It definitely can be more convenient and could reduce the amount of items you carry around. But you may want to reconsider the practice after reading this story. The risk may outweigh the convenience.
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What Happened to my Facebook Likes?
Do you run a Facebook page? …and have you noticed a big drop in page likes? Well, I did, big time. At least it seemed that way. It hurts when page ‘Likes’ drops by about 2.5% overnight. Apparently Facebook is clearing out Likes from ‘fake” and abandoned pages/profiles.
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Use Social Media to Handle Customer Complaints
Businesses are resorting to social media to resolve customer service issues. Customers want to know that the business cares about their problems and they respond favorably. With proper care offended customers can be retained and even become a fan of that business Disgruntled customers can likewise cause the offending business a huge amount of grief.…
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Monitor Your Competition using Follow.net
Would you like to see what your competition is doing online? I’ve been using Follow.net. It installs on both Chrome and firefox and alerts you whenever the site is mentioned on the web. https://via.intercom.io/c?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffollow.net%2F%3Fref%3Dusr-b08660e4e6959573&h=5b794cd7aa164d375b0e3573a8415ce435cc0738-300367971
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Never Forget! Never Surrender!
Never Forget! Never Surrender!
