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Busines online networking with Twitter

Twitter is the biggest thing to happen in online social networking this year. It has changed the way that people interact online and has ushered in its own new world of apps – many of which can help you to increase the visibility of your business online. There’s a lot of buzz around it, and a lot of people who are curious but don’t know what use Twitter will be to them, or how to get started.

For this series, we’ve compiled more top expert advice from our Tweetathon with over 100 leading edge Twitter experts.

In this, the second episode in this series, you’ll find out the top 14 steps to take to get started with Twitter, and we give you some essential tips and etiquette so you can avoid making newbie mistakes!

Find out the best way to create your public profile, and how to make it look good. Then we’ll show you how you can begin building your network immediately, and how to start creating your own “tweets”. We’ll also show you how to listen to and engage in Twitter conversations, and how you can add value to those conversations.

If you’re looking for the best ways to get Twitter working for you - then don’t miss this show! Be sure to tune in for more in this new series, as we continue to show you how to formulate your own expert level Twitter campaign.

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Twitter for market inteligence

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Social Network Guru on the importance of intention

Top business advice from Penny Power, Founder of business social network Ecademy. In this show, she talks about how to identify and harness your intentions within social networks. By doing so, you’ll learn how to make the most of the networks you operate in.

When you’re engaged in Social Networking, you are looking to build large, deep networks within which. Find out from business expert Penny Power how, by identifying your businesses intentions within a given network, you can begin converting stranger into contacts, and then transform those contacts into customers. Penny Power explains it right here

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Rags to Riches - The PWC guide on it not happening to you!

Family businesses aren’t merely commonplace they are actually the most common form of business structure around the globe, making up more than half of all companies in the European Union, and over 95 percent in the US.

Unfortunately, it’s all too common for family empires to collapse within just three generations. We met with Paul George from the Business Families Team at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and asked him how to make sure family run businesses can avoid being another unfortunate statistic.

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Andy Lopata on why elevator pitches don't work

Elevator pitches are like business cards, everybody has one. Yes, they are a handy synopsis of who you are and how you can help, but with everyone reeling off their own little pitch, your story could get lost in the babble.

In this show, Business Networking Strategist Andy Lopata dresses down the elevator pitch, while providing food for thought about what you should be saying when you meet people at networking events.

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