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Welcome back!A solo edition of Southern Social Media today due to scheduling conflicts.  Wes isn’t going to be happy, but sometimes ya just gotta take the bull by the horns, ya know?
Today, I focused purely on a recent Omniture report that discussed the “Value of Social Media.” Among the sections covered:

Where people get information about [...]

 

 Southern Social Media 11-19-09: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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A later edition of Southern Social Media due to hoops conflicts. College basketball has officially started, and it’s practically religion around Kentucky & Indiana regardless of who you cheer for (Go Cards!)
Amongst the topics Wes and I chewed on tonight:

The southern definition of “beer”
Wes showed gay porn to his church? You gotta listen [...]

 

 Southern Social Media 11-17-09 [35:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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A rather abbreviated edition of Southern Social Media today by our standards, but it’s still a productive one.
Topics of discussion include:

Roger’s apology/clarification on StomperNet’s pricing practices (they have a good offer in place right now)
Avaya’s $250k Twitter Sale (it sure pays to listen these days!)
3 more social media case studies
How restaurants and salons can use [...]

 

 Southern Social Media 11-16-09 [42:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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A “salty” version of Southern Social Media is in store for you today . . . I went on quite the rant about some recent happenings in the Internet Marketing world and some of the scam artists out there.
Topics include:

The southern definition of “barrier”
Two social media connections that have figured this stuff out that aren’t [...]

 

 Southern Social Media 11-13-09 [52:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Over the past couple of hours, I’ve been doing some digging to get the “real inside scoop” on why Perry Belcher “decided” to get out of Internet Marketing Training and the truth behind Andy Jenkins exit from Stompernet.
I’ll get to the latter first . . . Andy’s exit from Stompernet wasn’t as amicable as they’ve [...]

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Wes and I just got done with another rendition of Southern Social Media.
Amongst our topics:

Perry Belcher’s exit from Internet Marketing Training & what we can all learn from it
Generating profits from social media instead of just winning the popularity contest
Growing a list even if you provide a service
Salon tips from researching review sites
Social benchmarking study
A [...]

 

 Southern Social Media 11-12-09: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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This is a shorter rendition of Southern Social Media due to “time constraints” and scheduling conflicts, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t packed with some good info and a few jokes. 
Amongst the topics:

How 1 company leveraged Twitter to grow their customer base by 840% in a year
Why strategy is so important to your [...]

 

 Southern Social Media 11-11-09 [21:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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