10 Easy Steps to Get 5,000 Friends on Facebook in 90 Days!

As most of you already know, Facebook allows users to have up to 5,000 friends on their personal profiles, and once you reach that coveted benchmark, you will no longer be able to add more friends without deleting some first.  Many Facebook users that reach that limit then start focusing on building an unlimited following [...]

VIDEO: How to Use Facebook Events to Promote Your Business

This video is a basic tutorial showing you how to leverage the Facebook event tool to promote your business. I cover a few tips and tricks to help you to be more effective and targeted with your promotion efforts, so if your business has anything to do with events then this is a “must watch”! [...]

The Ultimate Business Card System For Entrepreneurs

I received a great question from one of my readers today and I figured I would take a moment to post about it. “Hey Chris, what do you use to scan business cards into your computer? Where do they sell them?” In a previous post I wrote about the many benefits of using Digital Business Cards on your iPhone or PDA. In that article I talk about the idea of keeping a database of every single person that you ever give a business card to. But what about everyone that gives you “their” business card? I believe that you want to go into every contacting scenario with that in mind. You want to get their business card or contact info so that you are in control of the follow up, and you also want to give them your digital business card so that their is a high chance that they will respond back to you. The problem with most entrepreneurs is that they get dozens of business cards every day, but they end up in the oddest places around their house in the most unorganized fashion. Believe me, this was how…

Facebook Usage Statistics 2009

On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched The Facebook, originally located at thefacebook.com.  Since then, the growth has been staggering.  The cool thing about Facebook vs many other social media sites out there is that they report their numbers very openly.  I hope to see everyone else follow suit and starting publicly displaying these stats for [...]

Facebook + Twitter + YouTube + WordPress = Social Media Success!

Social Media Marketing is taking the world by storm, and if you are a small business professional, you absolutely need to be in front of this trend to expand and grow your business in this new economy.  First of all, most social networking websites are FREE, which makes it very easy to get started, and [...]