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Posted on 16 June 2010
Facebook - Originally used as a social networking site for college students, Facebook has gained acceptance and influence for all ages. On Facebook, it is easy to post pictures, videos and personal information. Users connect by posting information on walls. You have to accept invitations from friends and choose what information to share. Facebook accounts are created by an individual, but you can make a company page linked to your personal account to promote your company. Use Facebook ads to promote your company by designing an ad and choosing the demographics that will view the ads. Ads can be pay-per-impression or pay-per-click. The fasting growing Facebook demographic is women over 55 years of age. Continue Reading...
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Posted on 03 June 2010
Imagine a whole network of people orbiting around your business, getting included in the processes and feedback of your ideas, providing free advertising for you through the phenomenon of word-of-mouth, making your company into a familiar brand. Now, it won't always work like this, but the opportunity is there. You can make a dent in your visibility and increase the stretch of your marketing campaign's arms by reaching the largest amount of customers possible through the various platforms of social media – a reach that is incomparable to what you have been doing before. Continue Reading...
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Posted on 02 June 2010
These are obsolete questions because everybody is now well familiar with the term social media networking and how businesses are being flourished all over the globe. With cost-effective, striking and focused social media networking, companies had brought great revival on virtual world as well as offline world because it directly affected traditional marketing styles. People now prefer online social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, MySpace, Friendster etc for the promotions of their goods and services and creating burly bond with the local as well as global world. Continue Reading...
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Posted on 29 May 2010
This is a great interview with Jennifer Bagley the CEO of Compliments International on Learning From Leaders TV show on Channel 34 in the DFW area. Jennifer and I talk about the Keys to converting your website into a Marketing Magnate for your company attracting prospects for you to convert to clients. This show is about 28 minutes in length and is worth the view. If you would like to visit about your site to see what needs to be done with your website to make it more attractive to the search engines and your future clients email me at pat@patrickdougher.com. Continue Reading...
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Posted on 29 May 2010
ShareWhat’s stopping you from including social media in your marketing plan? Is it a fear of the unknown? Many companies often react this way. It’s a common human reaction to things that are considered new or unfamiliar. Moving your brand into a space that enables direct conversation and engagement with your consumers can be a [...] Continue Reading...
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Posted on 26 May 2010
Share Your current marketing strategy should include a dynamic and socially connected web presence with unique and personal branding for your marketing. [...] Continue Reading...
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Posted on 26 May 2010
"Finding important and relevant information is not easy when you are unfamiliar with how to perform certain modifications," said a Hyundai spokesperson. “Having a forum and website where answers to important questions are laid out for you, would help with modifying your Hyundai to its highest potential." Continue Reading...
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Posted on 26 May 2010
ShareSocial media sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc. have become popular among the internet marketers. Most marketers hawk their websites, blog, affiliate links, list building URLs, etc. all day long to drive traffic to their web sites. Not only it is annoying to the network members, but also the effectiveness of such a strategy is [...] Continue Reading...
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Posted on 26 May 2010
Should StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Twitter, or other social media applications going to be your only source of market research? Of course not, but social media offers an abundance of honest conversation from which business can gather a wide range of vital information. Continue Reading...
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Posted on 26 May 2010
Blogs, play a major role in influencing the purchasing decision amongst women in particular, and in a recent survey in the US, 85% of regular female blog readers said they were influenced to make a purchase as a result of a review or comment posted on a blog. So with that in mind, if you’re the company that gets it right, you have a good chance of getting the sale, but what happens if you are on the receiving end of a negative review or comment. How do you protect your brand and how should you respond? Continue Reading...
Larry: Sure. We, for years, had done some placements overseas in Switzerland. Probably three to four years ago we constructed an actual program because we wanted it easy for an investor. You can invest as little as $10,000. It is held in a secured depository in Zurich, Switzerland. [...more]
This week, we’re going to talk about undisclosed fees that were in the news again. Investors, unfortunately, don’t know that the fees that they’re paying on their 401Ks are much higher than the human resources groups that their companies have told them.
That is because the brokerage industry has not been forced to disclose the fees to the participants. So, 50 million 401K participants who deserve to know how much they’re paying for their retirement accounts don’t really know. [...more]
What a nightmare. And that’s not the only problem. I always tell people, today it’s a lot more common for people to live together and not be married, but once again, I say if people really understood it, they would never do it. Legally, it’s a nightmare; they’re not protected, they don’t know what liabilities they have, they don’t know what kind of tax issues they’re facing. [...more]
Facebook - Originally used as a social networking site for college students, Facebook has gained acceptance and influence for all ages. On Facebook, it is easy to post pictures, videos and personal information. Users connect by posting information on walls. You have to accept invitations from friends and choose what information to share. Facebook accounts are created by an individual, but you can make a company page linked to your personal account to promote your company. Use Facebook ads to promote your company by designing an ad and choosing the demographics that will view the ads. Ads can be pay-per-impression or pay-per-click. The fasting growing Facebook demographic is women over 55 years of age. [...more]
Today at Business Blitz Jennifer Bagley talked about Social Media and website design for maximum results. [...more]
Warren testified to the US Government Inquiry Commission on the financial crisis. He said that municipal bonds are expected to go down and there are going to be record defaults. It’s primarily due to three reasons.
Overly generous retirement and health benefits promised to the baby boomers who represent over 40 – 50% of the government workforce, and all are retiring in the next 5 years. We see the same thing in the Post Office except the number is over 60%. Property tax collections are down 15 – 50% in all cities and states, and sales taxes are down 10 – 50%. [...more]
We are informing our listeners, the commissioner of the IRS has outlined some new information reporting tools. New added to their arsenal are some information. Basically payment by credit cards; those are going to be added to the IRS database.
So, payments by credit card, all those people. We talked about PayPal and the Internet people getting money on the Internet. Credit cards are going to be there, basis reporting. So, your stock cost. Before, you were kind of just coming up with a number. Now, they’re going to have the number because the brokerage companies are going to be required to give the stock basis. [...more]
Rex: Okay. Well, there are five key asset protection rules that if you understand these rules and how they work, you will know more about asset protection planning than most lawyers. Rule number one is what we call the property rule. You can always reach property that causes a liability. Rule two: you can always get to the owner of that property. Rule three: you can always get to what the owner owns. Rule four: you can always get to the operator of a property. Rule five: you can always get to what the operator owns. [...more]
ShareFinancial Fortress Radio with Richard Jordan RIA and Patrick Dougher Patrick: Welcome to Financial Fortress Radio. This is Pat Dougher. Richard Jordan, you are the Chief Investment Strategist for DFW, and it’s always good to hear from you and hear the things that we’re going to talk about. I know we’ve got a great show [...] [...more]
Jeff: Yes. It's easier to do it in the hedge fund example. So the hedge fund manager gets a bunch of people together and they put their money into this hedge fund. And the guy says okay, I'm going to get compensated based on however much the performance of the hedge fund does. So the hedge fund makes $100 million, the guy gets $15 million. And everybody's happy because he made $100 million; maybe he started off with $50 million. So, the hedge fund guy gets $15 million as capital gains. Well this law is going to change that so that he is going to have much of that be ordinary income, so he's going to be taxed at the highest rate. [...more]
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