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.

Don’t panic. We spend hours at the drawing board, literally, crafting and creating our product. It doesn’t matter if your product is one that you hold or a service there was still countless hours put into the design. Now, couple that with all of the time spent thinking about ways to get the word out about your product and what it does. You may have envisioned commercials where your product is used and...

Dear Moxie Maven I keep getting requests from people I know to join networks that I have never heard of in the past. How many of things do I have to belong to anyway? At this rate I would doing far more joining than I ever would participating. Filling Up Time Dear Filling Up Time, I know that I have really only focused a few select social media sites up to this point, but I can tell you there are thousands...

Dear Moxie Maven Alright, I have been hearing a lot about Twitter, and to my understanding Twitter is about talking to people from all over the world. So how is that supposed to help my store that is here local to Grand Junction? I just don’t see the connection. Always Buy Local Dear Always Buy Local, A funny thing happened in my own Twitter experience that my actually help you understand how it can help...