Innovative Scottsdale AZ-Based Mint Social Wins Category in Fan-Voted Annual “Best of the Valley” Award by Arizona Foothills Magazine. (Newswire.net — February 5, 2019) Scottsdale, AZ — Mint Social has just been recognized as the Best Social Networking and Online Media Firm by AZ Foothills Magazine. One of the most innovative companies in Arizona, many of ...
Article appearing in Phoenix Business Journal With over 175 million users, are your prospects on LinkedIn? Better yet, are you getting inbound leads from your social media profiles? Are you the hunted in social media? “The Hunter and The Farmer” sales concept is no longer relevant. The top of the sales food chain is ‘the hunted’. ...
In the eco-system of the technology and startup community in greater Phoenix, several organizations stand out as committed, purposed, and supportive to the idea of growing businesses. One is GrowAZ, a volunteer-based online network committed to the idea of ‘entrepreneurs helping entrpreneurs.’ GrowAZ is Arizona’s small business marketplace, where entrepreneurs and small businesses list their ...
Are you a networking machine? I WAS… When Mint Social was started back in 2008, I was a networking animal. I joined, helped launch and attended many networking groups: AZIMA, AZIGG, Power Networking, North Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce, AZ Tech Council, AMA Phoenix and would add new events to the mix each week (referencing Networking Phoenix calendar to ...
Last month Facebook overtook Google as the number one online destination. In America alone, we spent 685,000 hours or 41.1 million minutes on Facebook in August, compared with 39.8 million minutes spent on Google, according to comScore. WOW. The last decade was about organizing information and using algorithms to rank it according to it’s “relevance”. ...
Networking Phoenix and MINT Social featured on Channel 3 – KTVK. This post has been updated to blend the original from 2009 with an update to what is going on in 2020. Networking Phoenix founder Gelie Akhenblit says “I have a few sites I use religiously”. Gelie uses social media to promote her business. Her ...
Now that I have my online profiles positioned properly and have grown my network in LinkedIn.com, Facebook.com, and Twitter.com , I have now become the new term in sales…the hunted. The traditional CONCEPT OF THE HUNTER AND FARMER no longer provides the full picture for all types of salespeople. Let’s introduce the top of the ...
According to the June 23, 2008 issue of Businessweek, “the average knowledge worker has the attention span of a sparrow,” reports Maggie Jackson, author of Distraction. It gets worse…28% of the average U.S. worker’s day is lost to interruptions. This amounts to $650 billion in lost productivity. Can we blame this all on social media? ...
