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Chris Brogan

Social Proof in Real Time

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Found on Chris Brogan’s feed this morning…an excel­lent exam­ple of how social media and Twit­ter specif­i­cally can be used by busi­nesses in the LA Times. Watch the video and read the arti­cle it is social proof that the opt-in/permission based tech­niques now being imple­mented work far bet­ter than the old ways. Con­ver­sa­tions work, engage­ment works, con­nec­tion works and the beauty of it is any­body can do it and any busi­ness that wants to suc­ceed from here on out will need to know how to use these and other tools not yet invented.

Also cool as Chris said is that the LA Times set up the video so it could be embed­ded in anybody’s blog or site just like YouTub not only does it spread the word about a very real exam­ple it also gets peo­ple to it’s site.

To read the whole arti­cle go to LA Times

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What 2009 will bring and how artists can lead the way.

2009 by Bill

Over the last few days I spent time scour­ing the web for fore­cast­ing trends related to small busi­nesses that could then be trans­lated to the world of artists espe­cially those rely­ing on art fairs as a major source of sales. What I found was a lot of hope (you read that right!) the catch is that hope will not be real­ized with­out a change in the way you do business.

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