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<p>If people don’t know about you or your business, what good is it? When you take the time to set up your business, but don&#8217;t tell others about it, you are setting yourself up for failure. When planning your business success, remember to plan to market your business or service.  The place to market your business is, more and more, turning to social media sites specifically. Planning to hire a social media manager to create awareness of your product or service just makes good business sense.  Use the manager as one of your business tools, as a resource for creating awareness of your business.</p>
<p>If you have an “Online Brochure”, a Social Media Manager is able to assist in setting up your full social profile and maintain your following.  They utilize social sites including WordPress blogs, Twitter, <a href="http://bit.ly/ljdfacebook" target="_blank">Facebook,</a> and LinkedIn to keep your business in front of your target market.  They can help grow and maintain your business online, leaving you free to other tasks with your business.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s business customers are online savvy.  They are less likely to be reading newspapers or magazines, more likely to read online or blog. They may not watch TV nor listen to the radio; they may use their iPod, iPad touch or laptop to watch videos via YouTube or other video sites.</p>
<p>A social media manager can find targeted customers and direct them to your product or service.  They can monitor a business&#8217; reputation online, and can even, with the oversight of the business owner, manage the online reputation of the business.</p>
<p>They act on your behalf to reach out to the customers where they are found.  They go to forums, Facebook, Twitter and other social sites that are geared to your particular customer base.  They interact and engage with complete strangers via these niche market social outlets, pointing them to your business. Your potential customers are online, and a Social Media Manager brings them to your business and helps to keep them engaged with your business.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.cit.edu/v4/?p=1852">accutane online</a>  addition to building and maintaining your client base, a good social media assistant keeps up-to-date on the latest tools and trends in the social media arena.  The better social media assistants have writing skills as well as good social skills.   Most of them also have some partners in other areas like blog set up, site design, or graphics.  All social media assistants understand the intricacies of the various social networks and keep themselves informed on research and ongoing communication.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://bit.ly/ljdsocial" target="_blank">Social Media</a> industry can be your best business tool.  Contact me for pricing on social media packages.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media marketing is a form of Internet accutane mexico buy marketing. It involves the use of social media sites like blogging, Facebook and Twitter.  These sites are used to market your business, product, or service.  Basically, to market what you want to the internet community on a social scale.  Think of it as telling [...]]]></description>
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<p>Social media marketing is a form of Internet <a href="http://www.cit.edu/v4/?p=1735">accutane mexico buy</a>  marketing. It involves the use of <a href="http://bit.ly/ljdsocial" target="_blank">social media</a> sites like blogging, Facebook and Twitter.  These sites are used to  market your business, product, or service.  Basically, to market what  you want to the internet community on a social scale.  Think of it as  telling your friends online about what&#8217;s happening with you and your  business, and what products and services you would recommend to them.</p>
<p>An integral part of social media marketing involves content.   Relevant content is key &#8211; remember your friends want to hear your voice,  hear what&#8217;s important in your life today. Whether you add content to  your website and use bookmarking sites, tweet your followers about the  new content, or tell people via Facebook, you are promoting using social  media marketing.</p>
<p>Currently <a href="http://bit.ly/ljdsocial" target="_blank">social media</a> is where marketers, both offline and online, are choosing to market  their businesses. And the savvy ones are hiring a social media assistant  to maintain their online presence.  By hiring a social media assistant,  you are able to give over the task of setting up, and maintaining, your  online presence. The social media manager is there to take care of the  day to day tasks of social media. A social media assistant is a vital  tool to your business success.</p>
<p>There are many advantages to using social media managers.  They are  dedicated to promoting you and your brand.  Contact me for your social  media requirements today.</p>
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		<title>40 billionaires pledge to give away half of wealth</title>
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<p class="i1">A little over a year after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett began  hatching a plan over dinner to persuade America&#8217;s wealthiest people to  give most of their fortunes to charity, more than three-dozen  individuals and families have agreed to take part, campaign organizers  announced Wednesday.</p>
<p>In addition to Buffett and Gates &mdash; America&#8217;s two wealthiest  individuals, with a combined net worth of $90 billion, according to  Forbes &mdash; 38 other billionaires have signed  <a href="http://givingpledge.org/">The Giving Pledge</a>. They  include New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, entertainment executive Barry  Diller, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, energy tycoon T. Boone  Pickens, media mogul Ted Turner, David Rockefeller, film director George  Lucas and investor Ronald Perelman.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re off to a terrific start,&#8221; Buffett, co-founder and chairman and  CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, said in a conference call also attended by  Bloomberg and San Francisco hedge-fund manager Tom Steyer and his wife  Kat Taylor, founder of OneCalifornia Bank.</p>
<p>Buffett said he and Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, and Gates&#8217; wife Melinda made calls to fellow billionaires on the  <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/30/forbes-400-gates-buffett-wealth-rich-list-09_land.html">Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans</a> &mdash; in many cases, people they had never met &mdash; to try to persuade them to join the giving pledge.</p>
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<p>&#8220;We contacted between 70 and 80 people to get the 40. A few were  unavailable. We don&rsquo;t give up on them. Every saint has a past, every  sinner has a future. We&rsquo;ll keep on working,&#8221; Buffett said.</p>
<p>Bloomberg, who made the bulk of <a href="http://www.cit.edu/v4/?cat=distinct">accutane generic</a>  his estimated $17.5 billion fortune  from financial news and information services company Bloomberg L.P.,  said it didn&#8217;t make sense to leave everything to his children and have  them go through life as members of &#8220;the lucky sperm club.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You don&rsquo;t want to leave them so much money that it ruins their  lives,&#8221; Bloomberg said. &#8220;You want kids who can look back and say, &#8216;Yeah  my family helped me but I did something on my own.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Added Steyer: &#8220;We need to support each other. I look at this as  replanting your garden so that future generations will have a full  bounty of crops.&#8221;</p>
<p>The United States has roughly 400 billionaires &mdash; about 40 percent of  the world&#8217;s total &mdash; with a combined net worth of $1.2 trillion,  according to Forbes. If they all took the pledge, that would amount to  at least $600 billion for charity.</p>
<p>The 40 names that have pledged to date have a combined net worth  surpassing $230 billion, according to Forbes. Several of them have said  they plan to give away much more than 50 percent of their wealth.  Buffett has promised to donate more than 99 percent of his wealth.</p>
<p>The pledge is a moral commitment to give, not a legal contract. It  does not involve pooling money or supporting one cause or organization.  It&#8217;s up to each person who signs the pledge how to divvy up their  wealth.</p>
<p>In letters on the  <a href="http://givingpledge.org/">givingpledge.org</a> website, the 40 billionaires explain what motivated them to follow in the footsteps of Gates and Buffett.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&rsquo;m particularly thankful for my father&rsquo;s advice to set goals so  high that they can&rsquo;t possibly be achieved during a lifetime and to give  help where help is needed most,&#8221; CNN founder Ted Turner said. &#8220;That  inspiration keeps me energized and eager to keep working hard every day  on giving back and making the world a better place for generations to  come.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;My pledge is to the process; as long as I  have the resources at my disposal, I will seek to raise the bar for  future generations of students of all ages,&#8221; filmmaker George Lucas  said. &#8220;I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving  education.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Gates and Buffett hatched the idea of a giving campaign in mid-2009  at a secret dinner meeting in New York with a few select billionaires.  The campaign went public this June.</p>
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<p class="i1">A little over a year after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett began  hatching a plan over dinner to persuade America&#8217;s wealthiest people to  give most of their fortunes to charity, more than three-dozen  individuals and families have agreed to take part, campaign organizers  announced Wednesday.</p>
<p>In addition to Buffett and Gates &mdash; America&#8217;s two wealthiest  individuals, with a combined net worth of $90 billion, according to  Forbes &mdash; 38 other billionaires have signed  <a href="http://givingpledge.org/">The Giving Pledge</a>. They  include New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, entertainment executive Barry  Diller, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, energy tycoon T. Boone  Pickens, media mogul Ted Turner, David Rockefeller, film director George  Lucas and investor Ronald Perelman.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re off to a terrific start,&#8221; Buffett, co-founder and chairman and  CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, said in a conference call also attended by  Bloomberg and San Francisco hedge-fund manager Tom Steyer and his wife  Kat Taylor, founder of OneCalifornia Bank.</p>
<p>Buffett said he and Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, and Gates&#8217; wife Melinda made calls to fellow billionaires on the  <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/30/forbes-400-gates-buffett-wealth-rich-list-09_land.html">Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans</a> &mdash; in many cases, people they had never met &mdash; to try to persuade them to join the giving pledge.</p>
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<p>&#8220;We contacted between 70 and 80 people to get the 40. A few were  unavailable. We don&rsquo;t give up on them. Every saint has a past, every  sinner has a future. We&rsquo;ll keep on working,&#8221; Buffett said.</p>
<p>Bloomberg, who made the bulk of his estimated $17.5 billion fortune  from financial news and information services company Bloomberg L.P.,  said it didn&#8217;t make sense to leave everything to his children and have  them go through life as members of &#8220;the lucky sperm club.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You don&rsquo;t want to leave them so much money that it ruins their  lives,&#8221; Bloomberg said. &#8220;You want kids who can look back and say, &#8216;Yeah  my family helped me but I did something on my own.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Added Steyer: &#8220;We need to support each other. I look at this as  replanting your garden so that future generations will have a full  bounty of crops.&#8221;</p>
<p>The United States has roughly 400 billionaires &mdash; about 40 percent of  the world&#8217;s total &mdash; with a combined net worth of $1.2 trillion,  according to Forbes. If they all took the pledge, that would amount to  at least $600 billion for charity.</p>
<p>The 40 names that have pledged to date have a combined net worth  surpassing $230 billion, according to Forbes. Several of them have said  they plan to give away much more than 50 percent of their wealth.  Buffett has promised to donate more than 99 percent of his wealth.</p>
<p>The pledge is a moral commitment to give, not a legal contract. It  does not involve pooling money or supporting one cause or organization.  It&#8217;s up to each person who signs the pledge how to divvy up their  wealth.</p>
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<p>In letters on the  <a href="http://givingpledge.org/">givingpledge.org</a> website, the 40 billionaires explain what motivated them to follow in the footsteps of Gates and Buffett.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&rsquo;m particularly thankful for my father&rsquo;s advice to set goals so  high that they can&rsquo;t possibly be achieved during a lifetime and to give  help where help is needed most,&#8221; CNN founder Ted Turner said. &#8220;That  inspiration keeps me energized and eager to keep working hard every day  on giving back and making the world a better place for generations to  come.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;My pledge is to the process; as long as I  have the resources at my disposal, I will seek to raise the bar for  future generations of students of all ages,&#8221; filmmaker George Lucas  said. &#8220;I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving  education.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Gates and Buffett hatched the idea of a giving campaign in mid-2009  at a secret dinner meeting in New York with a few select billionaires.  The campaign went public this June.</p>
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