Jamie Crager

Join me for Iowa Western Community College’s Business Conference: Defining Social Media

January 18, 2012 By Jamie Crager 2 Comments

Practical Social Media Training for your business. I am pleased to announce that I will be speaking and providing training for the Iowa Western Community College Business Conference: Defining Social Media starting in February. This conference aims to help business owners and professionals get the most out of Social Media so they can grow their [...]

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The Wizard of Oz & 3 Keys to Social Media Success

August 8, 2011 By Jamie Crager 7 Comments

Wouldn’t it be great if there were a “Yellow Brick Road” to Social Media success? *Update* Before you read this , I want to point out that my friend @JessicaNorthey wrote a post last week based on The Wizzard of Oz as well which you can read here. In no uncertain terms did I [...]

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Why Monkeys Are Better Equipped for Social Media Than Most Businesses

August 5, 2011 By Jamie Crager 7 Comments

Social Media and Monkeys? What? OK, so I was trying to think of something humorous to tweet and started thinking about monkeys doing Social Media better than businesses. As I was about to hit send on my tweet, I paused and thought this may make for a great blog post. So I went to answers.com to [...]

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Perform Twitter Hygiene with tweepi #SMQT

August 5, 2011 By Jamie Crager Leave a Comment

For today’s Social Media Quick Tip (#SMQT) I want to share a tool that I really like. Mainly because it provides additional tools that allow me to stay on top of my followers. What I like is that you can unfollow a large amount of other Twitter users at once, I’m a paid member so [...]

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Use tags in the delicious URL to find good content #SMQT

July 28, 2011 By Jamie Crager 1 Comment

This tip will be really quick. If you use (and love) delicious like I do, then this tip will be good for you. And if you don’t use delicious, maybe this will help you start. Instead of just going to delicious.com you can find topics by adding tags to the URL. So if I [...]

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3 Reasons Why a Social Media Marketing Strategy is Absent from Most Companies

July 22, 2011 By Jamie Crager 20 Comments

Missing in Action: A Social Media Marketing Strategy In a recent post from eMarketer.com “Executives Fail to Focus on Social Media Marketing Strategy”, some interesting findings show that while companies believe the future of their company is related to their use of Social Media, most are not making it a priority. While the [...]

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For Great Content to Share or to Keep Up on News, Use Alltop #SMQT

July 21, 2011 By Jamie Crager Leave a Comment

There are a number of sources to choose from, but this is a good start. Alltop is made up of some of the internet’s best content. You can search at the top for your niche and then go from there. This gives you great content to share on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, [...]

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Use You’re “Favorites” on Twitter to Build Credibility #SMQT

July 19, 2011 By Jamie Crager 4 Comments

If you goto my Twitter profile @JamieCrager and click on my favorites, you can see exactly how I use them. (or just look below, I’ve pasted the first few) If someone has complimented me in my niche or given me an endorsement, I’ve saved it as a favorite. What this does is give me a list of [...]