Can you imagine being laid off the day after Christmas?  This is what happened to Forrest Graves in 2008.  Fortunately, Forrest decided that being laid off wasn’t going to be the end of the story.  Listen to Forrest speak about how making a $600 investment and jumping social media helped him rebuild his future.

Connect with Forrest Graves at Jumping Goat Coffee:

Jumping Goat Coffee – website

Jumping Goat Coffee on Facebook

Jumping Goat Coffee on  Twitter

 

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Interview with Brent Leary

by SMV Project on April 18, 2010

As information sharing increases via blogs, videos and tweets, small businesses  are increasingly competing against each other for the attention of potential customers.   Listen to Brent Leary,  small-business technology analyst, speak about how small businesses can penetrate the stagnant “Attention” economy.

Visit Brent Leary’s award-winning blog at http://brentleary.com or follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/brentleary.

 

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Interview with Ford Motor Company’s Gwen Peake

February 28, 2010

Gwen Peake is an extraordinary women.  A communications and marketing professional whose career spans a number of industries, including publishing, education, automotive, fashion, television, stage, film, and communications,  Gwen holds a BBA in Information Technology and dual-Masters degrees in Journalism/Mass Communications and  Television/Film Production. Her work in the digital space has directly influenced over thirty [...]

 
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Interview with Joe Pulizzi Author of “Get Content. Get Customers”

December 16, 2009

If you are a social media marketer, this is an interview you don’t want to miss!  Listen to Joe Pulizzi, author of Get Content. Get Customers, speak about the importance of content marketing and how businesses can position themselves as trusted advisers in their industry by creating compelling, relevant and consistent content. Share

 
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Interview with Dev Patnaik Author of Wired to Care

December 10, 2009

Listen to my interview with Dev Patnaik, co-author of Wired to Care , as he talks about what happens when businesses create widespread empathy and how social media marketing initiatives affect an organization’s ability to flex their empathetic muscles in the marketplace. Share

 
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Interview with Sandy Carter Author of The New Language of Marketing 2.0

November 2, 2009

Listen to our interview with Sandy Carter, author of The New Language of Marketing 2.0.  From tips on how to use Twitter, to strategies for leveraging Facebook, to solid advice on how to get started, Sandy provides some great information on how small businesses can leverage social technology. Share

 
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Welcome to the Social Media Voices Project

October 3, 2009

“When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past.   We look at the present through a rear-view mirror.  We march backwards into the future. . .” The Medium is the Message, Marshall McLuhan The Social Media Voices (SMV) Project exists [...]

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