The Moxie Maven is having a Halmark holiday, maybe while you are busy celebrating can something go dreadfully wrong? If you don’t know about social media have you tasked an employee with putting your social media presence together? Listen in this week and find out how to safe guard your social media as a business owner.

Are you ready for the holiday season? Social media does not have a holiday season. Your consistency continues to be important even during the holidays. Opportunities are there all throughout the year, and when you have the mindset that you are too busy, then you will be!

Showing thanks to those that have been paying attention to your social media this past year. As we head into Thanksgiving, this is really a time to evaluate where you are adding value and thanking those that have been engaging in conversation with you.

Dear Moxie Maven I put my company on Facebook.  Now how do I get more people to pay attention?  It really doesn’t do much when all the people I’m connected with are employees! Fan Free Dear Fan Free, Before we go too far, I want to clarify something.  Facebook expects that you will create a personal profile and then you will create a fan page for your business based on your personal profile.  I have...

A surprise and a delight. The Moxie Maven is going to unleash the surprise of where you should put your social media links. How do you tie everything together for your customers? Should you use one link in your email signature or twenty? Do you happen to be stuck in contemplation and therefor not doing anything at all?

Dear Moxie Maven A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting you on my screen. You helped me set up a blog but I haven’t done much with it. My real concern is making money off my writing (not a new concept.) I have had freelance writing on my mind for some time. In your article titled “Started a blog, now what should you write about?” you mentioned in the article a business should go to an...

Dear Moxie Maven I know about six months ago I started a blog, I just don’t know where it is now, can you help me find it with the little bit of information that I do have? Surely Lost Dear Surely Lost, In this case I would have to say that Google is my friend! Whatever information that you do have can be typed into a search engine in order to try and find your blog. Use the quotes as a tool to narrow your...

Dear Moxie Maven I have been using HootSuite like you suggested, but when I schedule my tweets they just keep getting sent immediately – what am I doing wrong? Tweet Challenged Dear Tweet Challenged, Wonderful question! Actually, this is the one area that I would say that HootSuite.com is not as intuitive as it should be. So let me take you through the process. First fill in your tweet using the box at the...

Dear Moxie Maven Is there anyone that I can pay to do this social media thing? I’m just so busy I can’t even imagine even adding the 15 minutes a day that you talk about. Not to mention the time it would take to learn everything! Time Sensitive Dear Time Sensitive, Time… Even the thought of time can be overwhelming, especially when you feel a shortage as it is. A very good friend of mine forwarded...

Face to face networking strategies that apply to your networking online in the social media space. The Moxie Maven is going to walk you through finding referral partners online. A referral partner to your business is someone that knows about your customer before you do.