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Solutions Out Loud Podcast Episode #8 – The “Meetups and Promotions” Episode

Available now for your listening pleasure is Episode #8 of Solutions Out Loud, the Network Solutions podcast that covers news, business trends, tips for small businesses and anything else that is relevant to you our faithful listeners.

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In this episode we talk about the power of networking in person and online. We cover some great events we all attended and provide some great business tips on power networking. Liner notes are below:

Week in Review Segment:
Joe Loong:
More on companies using Twitter for customer service — beyond scalability. Twitter is the hip thing because of the immediacy, but don’t forget keeping an eye on blogs, photos, etc posted about your company and products.

Jill Foster:
Over at Women Grow Business, great and encouraging conversations have involved creating online community for your organization and even launching success from unemployment. One entrepreneur told her story on how leaving her day job and confronting tough challenges led to a fantastic new business, SundayCosmetics.

Business Tips Segment:
Jill Foster:
Social media meetups can be an apt forum to learn and test out new tech for your company-more on last night’s DC Media Makers meeting.

Joe Loong:
More free social media promotion tools and tips for your business (riffing on the blog entry planned on the same topic).

Steve Fisher:
Outsource to a Virtual Assistant to save money
Virtual Assistants, also known as VA’s, have been around for more than 10 years and in this day and age, utilize the technology era. They are highly qualified, experienced business owners who basically do the same work as a typical Secretary, Personal Assistant and Office Administrator combined. A VA completes your projects or tasks at his or her home office, using his or her own equipment, and carries out the work through email, fax, telephone and postal service. Therefore, the location of your VA is not important.

Week Ahead:
Steve Fisher:
More Business Plan and Marketing Plan Series chapters

Next week is Episode #9. You can subscribe to the feed on iTunes or RSS. We hope you listen in and keep listening!

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