Social Media, a Good List, and New Business Karma

Helping your network with no expectation of ROI
by Todd Knutson  |   published on October 05, 2009

karmaOne definition of karma is "actions that bring bring upon oneself inevitable results". I was intrigued by a recent conversation with Jane, a new business person, who claimed that this was the

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Todd, you may want to chack out the book titled “Love is the Killer App” by Yahoo CMO Tim Sanders. It outlines this exact theory and discusses how you can impliment it to expand your social & business network (the gentle way).

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Thanks, Abe, I will.

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A business that wants to track their ROI from social media should start with a baseline of your company’s current growth, website visitors, online transactions, telephone inquiries, etc. If you don’t have this information, start tracking it.
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This thing is more about others than yourself and it sounds a lot like leadership to me. Apply some common sense, this really works as in real life, if you start caring about others they might just start caring about you too…
The other factor that can’t be ignored is the touch of brutal honesty. Represent yourself as yourself.
“People should be impressed by who you are, not because you’re trying to impress them.”

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