What a deal? Facebook's new game changer?

Do you offer 'deals" at your place of business or online marketing service? Share your thoughts here.

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Facebook Deals is a new feature of Facebook Places. Deals was created so businesses can offer specials to the millions of people participating in Places. What can Deals do for you? Simple, it can help you get customers, spread the word about your brand and build customer loyalty.

First off there are 4 kinds of deals you can offer:

Individual Deals: If you’re looking to offer a one-time deal, create an Individual Deal. You can offer this type of deal to both new and existing customers

Loyalty Deals: To focus on rewarding your most loyal customers, create a Loyalty Deal. You have the opportunity to create a deal that can be claimed after no fewer than two and no more than 20 check-ins. Virtual Punch Cards!!!

Charity Deals: Show people that you care about more than just the bottom line. Create Charity Deals to make a donation in the amount of your choice to the charity of your choice each time someone claims your deal. This is a great way for your business to give back to the community. Please note that you must manage the donation process.

Friend Deals: People don’t always buy, shop, or eat alone. To offer a deal to a group of people, create a Friend Deal. Friend Deals allow you to offer discounts to groups of up to 8 people, when they check in together. These deals can build even more exposure for your business because in order to claim your deal, your customers need to introduce what you have to offer to their friends and family. Read more at www.atiattractionmarketing.com

 

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er as a day of gratitude for the nations’ harvest

Thanksgiving Day in the United States and – did you know – in Brazil is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November as a day of gratitude for the nations’ harvests

Advanced research at the Institute of HeartMath and elsewhere has provided evidence that gratitude is not simply a nice sentiment or feeling. Sustained feelings of gratitude have real benefits, including the following:

Biochemical changes

Increased positivity

Boost to the immune system

Emotional "compound interest"

Thankfully, gratitude and appreciation can create their own positive psychophysiological holiday in your body – without the necessity of a feast.

Appreciation Exercise

Take a few short appreciation breaks during the day. During each break take one or two minutes to breathe deeply through the area of the heart. While doing so, try to hold a sincere feeling of appreciation in your heart area

activating a positive feeling like appreciation literally shifts our physiology, helping to balance our heart rhythms and nervous system, and creates more coherence between the heart, brain and rest of the body.Read more at www.heartmath.org

 

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Follow Thirsty Fish on Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter (tough decisions)

When you are marketing, you have to be tough. That includes tough decisions, like to keep or not keep a blog running. I know a blog opens up search engine opportunities but I have had to look at my time and consider how to best use it to promote the Thirsty Fish mission and brand. Without going through the gory details, I have decided not to keep this blog running. Thirsty Fish will keep swimming along a sea of questions and answers but in new waters, so to speak.
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National Adoption Month: Foster Care Adoption Statistics

URL:  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/1...

Here are some alarming statistics on the number of kids WAITING in foster care today!

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It's national adoption month. Tell us your story of adoption here or on our Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=153708258000364 http://amplify.com/u/emfx

Do you love what you do?

I have to say I do. Why do I complain about it. I guess I need lots of attention. I will make an early (or late) New Years Resolution to shut and be grateful for what I have and do. How about you?

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Though it’s not impossible to hate what you do and be good at it, it’s rare. Not to mention, it’s not much of a life (which if I may remind you, is short and you only have one of). Read more at us1.campaign-archive.com

  

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Has your business tweeted, linked or liked yet?

I confess I can be slower than most but I am still an early adopter of new ideas, especially social media. I know there are folks still farther down the line than I am even...If you and your business have not embraced social media, NOW if the time for Revolution. Authors Jay Baer and Amber Naslund have written a book called the Now Revolution and listed 7 ways you can change how you do business or suffer the consequences.

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The social web has changed the way we do business forever.

The future of your company is not in measured, considered responses and carefully planned initiatives. Business today is about near-instantaneous response. About doing the best you can with extremely limited information. About every customer being a reporter, and every reporter being a customer. About winning and losing customers in real-time, every second of every day. About a monumental increase in the findable commentary about our companies.

Engineer a New Bedrock: Strip away silos and overgrown business process, and create a culture of NOW

Find Talent You Can Trust: Hire and empower a new type of employee who is adept at pattern recognition, human relations, and immediate analysis

Organize Your Armies: Assemble internal teams for maximum external impact, and empower every employee as a marketer, even if they aren’t

Answer the New Telephone: Listen at the point of need and answer the new calls your customers are making

Emphasize Response-Ability: Travel the Humanization Highway, and respond effectively and persuasively to customer inquiries

Build a Fire Extinguisher: Plan for, find and manage real-time crises

Make a Calculator: Redesign success metrics in a business world that’s increasingly instantaneous Read more at nowrevolutionbook.com

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• Is It Time for The NOW Revolution? (convinceandconvert.com)
• The Now Revolution: Jay Baer and Amber Naslund Give Business a Social Media Blueprint (blogworld.com)
• Video: "Social Media: The Bad and the Ugly" Panel at BlogWorld Expo 2009 with Amber Naslund, Robert Scoble and Wayne Sutton (managingcommunities.com)