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The Top 4 Social Media Tools for Your Business—In Order

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Are you hoping to launch a successful social media campaign? The process can be overwhelming: between producing content on a multitude of platforms, publishing at the right times, interacting with followers, and more, it can seem like a full-time job in itself. Aren’t there tools to make it easier? Absolutely—but now the question is, which tools do what?  Some tools are channel-specific, and others can help you manage multiple accounts from one platform (don’t you think it would be convenient to be able to tweet and respond to Facebook comments all in the same place?). Because executing a social media campaign is not an overnight process, the order in which you take your steps matters, too; and some tools are best for helping you with particular milestones. Here are some of the best social media tools, in order from campaign launch to completion:  Hootsuite  Hootsuite is known as a scheduling tool, but it also offers social listening capabilities. If you are a fledgling ...
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8 Lessons on Money From Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary

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          Shark Tank has been a hit show now for years and I've enjoyed every episode. The six main investor Sharks have very diverse backgrounds, skill sets, and investment perspectives.While most people usually think of Mark Cuban as the biggest (and wealthiest) shark, I've always focused more on the miserly "Mr. Wonderful" Kevin O'Leary . This Canadian turned Bostonian is "the only disciplined investor in the Shark Tank" as he likes to say. He's almost the antithesis of QVC Queen Lori Greiner who is most often very encouraging and passionate about the presenting entrepreneurs.            He's usually the harshest critic and can be quite brutal and offensive when evaluating entrepreneurs, products, and businesses. He tells it like it is, no sugar coating, like a real life Gordon Gekko . When he was a young aspiring entrepreneur, a big moment in his life was the harsh advice of his step-father telling him that he needed to stop h...
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The Power Of Broke by Daymond John Book Review

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As you can imagine from a guy with a website titled "Frugal Business", I'm a big fan of the rags to riches Shark Tank star and fashion mogul  Daymond John . He started FUBU (For Us By Us) on the streets of Queens from the ground up by himself with almost no funds and turned it into a multi-billion dollar brand. He started selling clothes out of his car and now he owns more cars than you can imagine. He's currently a successful investor in dozens of businesses spanning a variety of industries. The Power Of Broke is a tribute to the success that can be achieved with enough hustle, creativity, resolve, resilience, and patience. Contrast his lean startup approach with tech titans Mark Cuban  and (often to a lesser extent)  Robert Herjavec . The core principles of his success in founding and growing FUBU are always prevalent when working with entrepreneurs he's invested in. He won't be stingy with money for the sake of being stingy, but to the point where his en...
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