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Brand strategist Hajj Flemings is the founder of Brand Camp University, which runs one of the premier personal branding conferences in the Midwest, and the author of The Brand YU Life: Re-thinking Who You Are Through Personal Brand Management, a Fast Company magazine 2008 Readers Choice Business Book of the Year. As the program ambassador for the Michigan Tech Online MBA program, Hajj recruits and manages the social media content for the program. He has been featured on Fox 2 News, ESPN.com and BusinessWeek.com and travels nationally speaking on business and personal branding, social media and career development. In his own words, Flemings shares how he uses social media to achieve his business objectives.--Alfred Edmond Jr. There is a tremendous amount of value in social networks, but most people get caught up in trying to get as many people to follow them as they can without a clear strategy on why and what they will do with them once they have them.  I am active online for the following six reasons: 1) build brand awareness, 2) engage potential customers, 3) build my network before I need it, 4) listen to others, 5) share my ideas and 6) to demonstrate expertise in my niche.

Social Media Connection: The Pros & Cons of Doing Business Online

Entrepreneurs and professionals on social media and how they connect

This week’s Social Media Connection is brand strategist Hajj Flemings, the founder of Brand Camp…

By Alfred Edmond, Jr.

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Getting Started: Turning Your Blog into a Business

How one enterprising woman went from blogger to entrepreneur

Hays tells how she went from blogger to businesswoman
From entertainment to politics to fashion, fascinating…

By Arlice Nichole

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BE Tweets of the Week: #BEHolidayGifting

Six holiday gifting tweets BE couldn't ignore and neither should you

BlackEnterprise.com will now curate the tweets throughout the week that staffers think were worth taking…

By Janel Martinez

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Want to weigh in on BE Tweets of the Week? Start a new conversation using our hashtag #BESocialMedia on Twitter and let your voice be heard. We're listening! For more on social media, read: BE Tweets of the Week: #BEPolitics  Why We Can't Ignore Social Media  3 Simple Ways to Shine on Social Media  5 Twitter Mistakes You Should Never Make

BE Tweets of the Week: #BESocialMedia

Six social media tweets BE couldn't ignore�and neither should you

BlackEnterprise.com will now curate the tweets throughout the week staffers think were worth taking note…

By Janel Martinez

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The Only 5 Social Media Sites You Need

Tired of keeping up with all the social networks? If you�re a professional or an entrepreneur, stop wasting time and focus on these essentials

Tired of trying to keep up with all the social networks? If you’re a professional…

By Alisa Gumbs

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3 Simple Ways to Shine on Social Media

You know you need to be on Twitter and Facebook to promote yourself or your business, but you dont know what to do when you get there. Heres a plan

It’s easy to assume that just because you have a profile on a site and you…

By Alisa Gumbs

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The Twitterverse is constantly buzzing with an outlined play-by-play on the latest in news, entertainment and trending topics—to name a few on the long list of online conversation starters. Twitter users are, in total, sending an average of 55 million tweets a day, according to a Twitter study released last April. Of course, with all that chatter it's easy to block out a lot of it, but within all the noise there's still a large percentage that catches your attention in one way or another. In an effort to make sure you're not missing out on the valuable commentary and comments online, BlackEnterprise.com will now curate the tweets throughout the week staffers think were worth taking note of, whether an expert, celebrity or or even you masterminded the tweet. With all that went down on Capitol Hill this week, this BE Tweets of the Week package is all about the GOP, Dems, and good ol' politics. --Janel Martinez

BE Tweets of the Week: #BEPolitics

Six political tweets BE couldn't ignore�and neither should you

BlackEnterprise.com will curate the tweets staffers thought were worth taking note of, whether an expert,…

By Janel Martinez

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Exclusive: What Motivates 50 Cent to Get Rich or Die Tryin’?

And why he refuses to accept any excuses from YOU

“I’m from the bottom, so you got to find another excuse,” asserts Jackson, referring to…

By Tennille M. Robinson

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Exclusive: 50 Cent Responds to Criticism Over Flaunting Money on Twitter

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson talks his celebrity and trouble with tweets

50 puts his money where his mouth is
For our January 2011 issue, rapper Curtis “50…

By Tennille M. Robinson

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When Employees Tweet

Four ways to manage your workers on social media (and all the reasons why you should)

There is no need to be afraid of what your employees are saying about the…

By Marcia Wade Talbert

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