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Using Social Media To Deal With Customer Trolls

InfoChachkie

You operate your business from a small boat in the remote waters of northern Fiji and your customers are spread across the globe, residing in the US, Europe and Asia. How can you protect your company''s reputation when a rouge customer unjustly flames your startup? Bipolar Reviewers. This pattern holds true for Tui Tai Expeditions.

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How Pinterest, Tumblr, HootSuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly and Mashable Rapidly And Repeatedly Hire Great People

InfoChachkie

The company launched its social media management system in 2008, growing to over 4 million users by the start of 2012. According to Ambrosia Humphrey, the company’s Director of Human Resources, “We had a jobs@ email in place, but it was hard to manage once we decided to move forward with the hiring process.”

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

InfoChachkie

Along the way, they created a supportive community of emotionally attached stakeholders that would be the envy of any Social Media Manager. You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

The company posted a Show HN entry entitled, " We built a better solution for customer analysis and support.". Although social media news sites can be effective market validation tools, they are not without their downsides. The posting resulted in 40points and about 30comments. You definitely have a nice start. Hacker Downside.

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How To Pull Customers To Your Website With Real Value

Startup Professionals Musings

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Refresh it often. Skip the Flash videos. Marty Zwilling.

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

socalTECH

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

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Entrepreneurs Should Forget ROI And Focus On Return On Life – The New Measure Of Wealth

InfoChachkie

I became acquainted with Tige, when I was researching examples of exemplary online customer service. In the resulting article , I describe Tige''s deft handling of online trolls via the deft use of social media. I would have been less impressed with this approach if he were running an unprofessional, second-rate company.