• Social media marketing

4 Strategies for Dealing with Negative Comments

There's nothing like a negative comment on social media to put a damper on your day, or business. Use the following strategies to manage the inevitable:

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11 years ago

• Small business marketing

Is Your Office Suffering from Bad Manners?

In an effort to remove barriers to working together and foster collaboration, many companies have taken down old-school cubicles in favor of more open spaces. Those cavernous, lofty work spaces sure look...

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12 years ago

• Small business marketing

Can Your Employees Push Back?

As the CEO of VerticalResponse, I’m actively involved in the day-to-day and right now I’ve got 12 direct reports. They span from coordinators to SVP level, so I’m dealing with a varied bag of...

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12 years ago

• Small business marketing

How Your Energy Affects Your Team

Have you ever considered how your energy affects everyone around you? Think about it from the vantage of being the CEO of a company. When you walk in the door, all eyes are on you and your employees’ antennae...

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12 years ago

• Small business marketing

3 Reasons to Lead from the Weeds

You often hear the phrase, “in the weeds,” in restaurants referring to a server who has fallen behind, but in this post I’m going to use the phrase to mean being involved in the day-to-day...

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12 years ago

• Small business marketing

Got Bullies? Here’s How to Deal with Them

There have been some great articles written about office bullies and even a book about it. And every company has one, you probably have one, and you may or may not even know about it. And bullies don’t come...

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12 years ago

• Small business marketing

Is Your Business Going to the Dogs?

In this dog-eat-dog corporate world of deadlines, stress and non-stop meetings, I got to thinking about the effect it has when I bring my pup Dwight (see below) to work. The minute he trots in the door, people...

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12 years ago

• Small business marketing

Don’t Aim to Be Popular, Be Effective

As the leader of VerticalResponse, I wear a lot of hats and do many things. The one thing I’m not down with is being in a popularity contest because this isn’t high school, it’s my business and my...

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12 years ago

• Small business marketing

Just Say No to Micromanaging

Micromanagement. It may seem like a little thing that’s isolated to a few managers, or staff in your company, but the effects of micromanagement could have a huge long-and short-term negative impact on your...

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12 years ago