Being a Social Creature, I love social networking.  O.K, so  I love networking and meeting new people and although it takes time, so do business mixers and generally developing business relationships.

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This is Part 2 of my 7 part Podcast series…..

Mari Smith is a Relationship Specialist, Internet Marketing Consultant, and Facebook Business Coach. Mari’s specialty is helping entrepreneurs to develop information products and systems, and to strategically grow their businesses using no and low cost online marketing techniques.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Mari a couple of weeks ago and she shared some wonderful information about using Facebook to develop your business. She also provides some very practical tips on how each of us can use Facebook in our own businesses.

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A blog post by John Mariotti yesterday, stated that REAL business people don’t use (and won’t use) Social Media Marketing. The article goes on to provide 10 reasons why Mr Mariotti won’t use social media and whilst some of his points have merit, I was left quite flabbergasted as to his main reasonings.

An interesting point of view, that REAL business people don’t use social marketing. Really? In the offline world, I wonder what would you call Conventions, Seminars, business mixers and the like? Certainly, there is an aspect of social marketing there, isn’t there?
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I am a member of ZenZuu, the new Social Network that shares 80% of its advertising revenue with its members. Up until now, I have struggled with the benefit of ZenZuu as a network. In it’s favour is the fact that it is still young and in beta (due to launch for real in August) and, as such, I have been building my social network there to see what transpires.
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I “met” Diane Corriette online through the Womens Internet Marketing Social Network (part of the Womens Internet Marketing Alliance). Diane is a mother of 3 who makes her living from the Internet.

Over the last couple of months, Diane has impressed me with her approach to Internet Marketing and how she supports other marketers.

Diane released an EBook last week, in response to a number of requests for help that she had received. This EBook is not only in electronic printed format, Diane has taken the time to record it to an audio as well. There is no excuse for not “reading” it.
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