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David Meerman Scott explains the New Rules of Marketing talks about tools we can use and how trust can be earned. This is the sixth in a series of videos conducted by Stacy Spognardi of Cisco focused on opening up a discussion about social media within the service provider community (and beyond).
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Social Media Marketing for Service Providers – David M. Scott: Tools & Trust. Part 6
With better economic conditions coming soon, there couldn’t be a better time to brush up on your sales skills. The recent downturn has made companies think twice about who they are dealing with and has made them potentially more likely to switch suppliers
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Turbocharge Your Sales
Consumers: RT @MasterCardNews: MC A /P Economist: Rapid urbanization in China boosts consumption-led growth http://bit.ly/ahbPTU 4:53 AM Jan 28th from Echofon A question of appreciation: CNY 4 RMB ??
The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. If possible, get some advice from your accountant regarding the level of pay you plan on taking from the business. Research the going rate for CEOs in your industry.
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Top 5 Tips for Paying Yourself
Elyse Tager shares her view on how businesses are using social media as an opportunity to get closer to customers. In this video with Cisco’s Zoya Fallah, Elyse discusses social media marketing techniques that can be used for business to business and business to consumer.
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Social Media Marketing for Service Providers – Connecting with Customers with Elyse Tager (Elymedia)
By Bart Spreister, VP/GM Digital Media Networks, Service Provider Video Technology Group It’s always gratifying to be part of a winning team, even (and perhaps especially!) as a behind-the-scenes contributor. I’m talking about the 61 st annual Technology & Engineering Emmys, put on by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in Las Vegas, during the recent Consumer Electronics Show .
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A View from This Year’s “Tech Emmys” in Las Vegas
We have seen a lot of China as the biggest in may areas, recently in gold . It has also been pushing for the top exporter (as reported here ). Now it has hit the top spot on autos and exports: Autos…China is big, and bits of it are getting ever bigger…- China the biggest… RT @billrusso: Business Week: China Ends U.S.’s Reign as Largest Auto Market http://tinyurl.com/yj9a93j 12:32 PM Jan 11th Bloomberg: “China’s 2009 vehicle sales rose 46 percent making it the world’s largest auto market, a title held by the U.S.
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China The Biggest…Double Bill Edition (Autos & Exports)
Twitter and travelling in China do not go well together (sadly), so apologies for the delayed news here on the blog. Our round-up of news from ChinaBlogTweets is below, but the staqnd-out stories must be the throwing down of Google’s gauntlet, and China’s year-end figures that include not only great growth, but also several more “biggest” and “second biggest” nominations. Google, censorship and business sense?: This is such a big story, it needs to be looked at from several perspectives
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Briefly…Top Ten Tweets (From Google’s Searching Questions, To Poorly Made Books, Bubbles & Biggest Things)
What follows is a message direct from China Greentech Initiative (see our original post here ). Interesting opportunities to participate in a very interesting, and important, project! “ The China Greentech Initiative would like to thank China Business Services for encouraging its readers to download and read The China Greentech Report 2009 .
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China Greentech Initiative – Seeking Exceptional Candidates
The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Look for someone with expertise in your industry so they will already know the relevant issues
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Top 5 Tips for Working With a Mentor
A very happy new year to you all! Today, we announced the Cisco Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution for service providers . Service providers are looking for new ways to enter the market for IaaS (providing compute-on-demand, network-on-demand and storage-on-demand for their customers) Cisco is working with Service Providers to provide them with the tools, design guides and advanced services to be able to “fast-track” the implementation of IaaS offerings. The benefit for our SP customers is that they are able to develop a service with greater confidence and are then able to realize revenues faster than would have otherwise been possible
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Announcing Cisco Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Solution for Service Providers
David Meerman Scott addresses head-on the topic of social media and whether it’s a fad or here to stay. In this fifth video of a multiple-part series between David and Stacy Spognardi of Cisco, David asserts that social media is, in fact, not new and has been in practice for a long time.
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Social Media Marketing for Service Providers – David M. Scott: Is Social Media a Fad? Part 5
The Nielsen Company reported that here in the U.S. market, time spent viewing online video is up 13 percent in December 2009. Some observers might be surprised by these results, but if you’ve been reading my prior commentary, then you will know that this is totally in-line with the unmistakable trend that’s been building for some time
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Swisscom Selects Cisco ASR 9000 to Prepare for the Zettabyte Era
As we enter a new decade in 2010, forward-looking communication solutions providers will continue to invest in building and evolving their IP NGN infrastructure.
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PAETEC: Evolving their Cisco IP NGN to Prepare for the Future of Business Services
One unmistakable glimmer underscored this year’s consumer-facing gadget-fest: The unquenchable thirst for high-speed, media optimized IP networks in support of rich media devices and applications – what we here at Cisco call “ medianets .” The big news for us at CES 2010 was a re-establishment of our partnership with NBC for the Winter Olympics by providing them with medianet technologies.
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CES 2010: On 3DTV, Clouds, and Cable
Portugal Telecom’s work to offer its customers an economical triple-play service, without having to worry about technological choices, and with the convenience of a single bill, has catapulted the provider toward significant subscriber and services growth over the past 18 months. Specifically, it now reaches 20% of all pay TV subscribers in the country; 50% of all ADSL consumers take TV services from Portugal Telecom
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Portugal Telecom Selects Cisco as Video/Telecoms Solutions Provider
The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Start getting into the habit of saving each week right now, at the beginning of the year. Add up all your monthly expenses so you can estimate how much money you will have left each month
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Top 5 Tips on Building a 6 Month Cash Reserve
A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognise them.” Ann Landers (1918-2002) US columnist, attrib. To view previous quotes, click here winweb.com – Software and business services online to start and run a small business – free trial and 100+ free business ideas
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Opportunity – Small Business Quote of the Week
With the proliferation of applications across the enterprise – LAN, WAN, and data center – the need to optimize applications across wide area networks is greater than ever, and performance becomes the new vanguard in network and service management. As the borderless enterprise takes hold, with distributed workers and branches collaborating over video, mobile, and other multimedia applications, enterprises are looking for service providers that can help improve the user experience with quality of service (QoS) guarantees
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T-Systems Creates Innovative Managed Service Based on Cisco WAAS and NetQoS
A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” Edith Lovejoy Pierce (b. 1904) poet To view previous quotes, click here winweb.com – Software and business services online to start and run a small business – free trial and 100+ free business ideas
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New Year – Small Business Quote of the Week
As we close out 2009, recall that in one of my blogs, March 11 2009, I wrote about teleportation . It was no surprise for me that one of the top 50 inventions for the year 2009 cited by Time Magazine , Inc., was Teleportation, in the context of quantum information processing itself.
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Looking to 2010: Video to Immersive Participatory Networking
The holiday season is always a time of excitement, anticipation, and good will. Clearly, mobile is at the heart of all three! I just spent $300 on new smartphones for my family and upgraded our plans to 1200+ minutes, 500+ text messages, and tens of mega bytes per month. That does not even include everything I do with my business phone! If this is any indication, the mobile data traffic will far exceed the projections from the Cisco Visual Networking Index in many markets! With this backdrop, the Cisco Mobility team is doubly excited because today, as part of our ongoing efforts to enable the mobile Internet transformation, Starent Networks is now a part of Cisco
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Starent Networks is Now a Part of Cisco: Introducing Cisco’s Mobile Internet Technology Group
Gazing into crystal balls, technological or otherwise, can be hazardous to your health! But the temptation is irresistible, and we all succumb from time to time. After all, the experts can surely discern underlying technology trends and market forces, so the future should be reasonably predictable. The only caveat being that sometimes new technologies can emerge unexpectedly, to upset the best made plans of mice and men.
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The Genesis of medianets
Yesterday, I had a chance to take part in a seven city Global TelePresence session that Cisco and AT&T conducted in association with The Nature Conservancy .
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Jewel Attends The Nature Conservancy’s COP 15 Update via Cisco TelePresence Technology with AT&T
A quarter of a century is a colossal milestone for any company. For Cisco, it marks an historic journey that began with simple curiosities that helped create the Internet and ultimately position Cisco as a global leader in the technology industry. The road has had challenges, certainly, but our commitment to changing the way people live, work and play remains steadfast
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Celebrate Cisco’s 25th Anniversary by Playing Cisco myPlanNet 1.0
Gabriel Garcia of Podcookie.com gives an overview of podcasting and how companies can leverage this tool to extend their marketing brand.
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Social Media Marketing for Service Providers – Podcasting with Gabriel Garcia, CEO of PodCookie
Here is our review of last week’s top news from our Twitter feed, ChinaBlogTweets : Made in China…: As suggested, not positive! RT @JoannaDodd: Consumers react to China’s attempt to rebrand “Made in China” http://snurl.com/tncij 6:08 PM Dec 11th from HootSuite Comment: Despite gaining plaudits at home, China’s ad campaign does not seem to have gone down well (Sound of 1 hand clapping?
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Briefly…Top Ten Tweets (From Made in China, PR & A Peaceful Rise, To Myth-Busting, Spending & Shifting Sands)
Best wishes to all our clients, partners, readers and friends for a very happy holiday season, and for a prosperous 2010! As is our tradition, we are not mailing Christmas cards (doing our bit for the environment!), and are again sending e-cards. We hope you got one…(but if not, register here for future festivities, and for our quarterly newsletter) We are also continuing to support Chinese children’s charities (instead of the post office…): the Peach Foundation, and Mothers’ Bridge of Love. Details of both can be found below, in case anyone would also like to offer some seasonal support!.
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Happy Holidays!
Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from around the world. Free tax help for small businesses : Thomas P. Ochsenschlager, vice president of taxation for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, will offer free, year-end tax planning and preparation tips in a Small Business Administration Web chat on Wednesday at 10 a.m.
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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/15
Ok I am visiting Australia, and in between meetings thinking about that notion of the Internet of Things or IoT. At the IETF 76 held in Hiroshima, Japan , one of the Birds of a Feather sessions I had attended was on Smart Grid co-chaired by Fred Baker, Cisco and Tim Polk, NIST . The question to answer is “Where should the Smart Grid standardization occur and what role will the IETF have in its standards development?” The topic is still open, and the Internet Society published a great list of hotly debated issues at IETF 76.
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From IETF 76 Japan to the Internet of Things!