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We are excited to announce LinkedIn’s new company status updates, that will now let members receive further insights — breaking news about the company, employee moves, relevant job opportunities or the latest on their products and services including multimedia content — directly from the companies they follow.

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Linkedin continues to improve their Company Pages. You can share an update as a business now. The people that follow you will receive the update in their stream.

Within the Real Estate industry there are more Agents on this network than any of the others. As professionals the Brokers are now able to share information that is valuable to their Agents as well as the general public very efficiently.

Go out and join the conversations with your favourite companies today!

The evolution of SEO [infographic] | Susan Beebe's Blog

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Let us know if you need any help implementing good SEO practices.

The Art of Gift Giving

As the owner of a Gift & Incentive program I study people's reactions to gifts. I've made it my business to learn that as Linda Lynwander of NewJersey.com put it in this article;

" When I was a newlywed and even after, I'd try to get the perfect present for my in-laws. It never happened. Again and again, I'd wind up returning all those sweaters, slippers, hats. I never got it right.

Sometimes I'd try for whimsy (the gadget that instantly iced your cocktail glasses, the automatic card shuffler); at other times I'd get something kind of personal. It became a bigger and bigger challenge, and after awhile I began to take it personally. I mean, sure, sometimes you deserve to stand in a long line with your after-Christmas returns because whose fault was it in the first place that you thought that garish tie was kind of cute? But I'm talking decades of mistakes here.
Why did it happen year after year?...........

I've come to realize it's really a gift to have the gift of knowing what to give. Most of us can't get it right because we're thinking of what we personally would want when we approach the store counter. " click here to read full article.

Knowing what to give depends upon the knowing that person. My kids and I played a game called Apples to Apples over the Christmas holiday and once again winning this game depended on how well you knew the other players likes and dislikes.

My business thrives on the fact that we don't always know what our clients, family and friends would like so let's let them choose for themselves; hence the reason I started The Closing Touch - the ultimate gift - the gift of Choice!

Get the What Matters Now ebook (and spread it)

by SethGodin

We want to shake things up. More than seventy extraordinary authors and thinkers contributed to this ebook. It's designed to make you sit up and think, to change your new year's resolutions, to foster some difficult conversations with your team.

On this page you will find some links where you can find the ebook, along with a few of the books the contributing authors have written. (Download it here). All Squidoo royalties from this page go to charity...

The authors that have contributed to the freebook have written other books here is the list:

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Positive start for U.S. shopping season

Online retailers await ‘Cyber Monday'

"Online sales on Thursday and Friday, however, rose 11 per cent to $913-million, according to data released Sunday by comScore, an Internet research firm.

According to preliminary figures released Saturday by ShopperTrak, a research firm that tracks more than 50,000 outlets, sales rose 0.5 per cent to $10.66-billion Friday, compared with a year ago. That was on top of a 3 per cent increase last year."

Read full report from The Globe and Mail - The Associated Press

Presenting Gift Giving by The Closing Touch

A presentation on the innovative gift giving experience that is unique to The Closing Touch. We realize every touch with a customer/employee is an opportunity to create a special memory.

Tct Sept09

View more presentations from The Closing Touch.

Choosing the Right Social Media Tools for Your Business [Video]

Staying on top of Social Media tools is a huge undertaking and I prefer to watch those that are leading the way and read their reviews. Then I choose which to test for myself. It's been said that "experience is the best teacher"; while I subscribe to the school of thought that "wisdom learns from other's experience".

All parents hope their child would be willing to learn from their experiences, that is after all why we walked both ways uphill to school barefoot. I do believe we can save a lot of time and money from learning who to follow and allow to influence our decisions. Mashable.com has proven to be an invaluable resource time and again as I keep up on whats happening in the wonderful world of Social Media.

Enjoy this video and article I found on the Mashable site. It is a daunting task to filter through and determine which Social Media tools are best suited for your business.



I encourage you to get started...pick one venue and build your web footprint!

Happy marketing!