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Marketing with Social Media: 10 Easy Steps to Success for Business
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Marketing with Social Media: 10 Easy Steps to Success for Business

by Linda Coles
November 2014
Beginner
224 pages
4h 2m
English
Wiley
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About the author

Who am I?

Hello! I’m Linda Coles, an international speaker and author with short spiky hair.

I run a small company called Blue Banana and mainly work from my home office in New Zealand. Paul is the love of my life, Stella and Monkey are my two cats and Daisy is my goat.

My background is mainly in retail management working for some of the UK’s biggest retailers, but life in the slower lane beckoned and so Paul and I moved to pastures green south of Auckland. The slower life never really happened, and I continue to work with some really great brands helping them to build relationships with their customers online.

I speak a great deal and write about building relationships, an important part of being successful in business, and I wrote the books Learn Marketing with Social Media in 7 Days in 2011 and Start with Hello in 2013. I also write regularly as one of only 500 LinkedIn Influencers, along with Richard Branson, Barack Obama and Arianna Huffington, which sounds very grand and I am very honoured to have been asked.

I hated English lessons at school, and never became interested in writing until about five years ago, when I started blogging and working with social media. I wrote my first book to share my knowledge with thousands of others in order to make it simpler for them to understand. Had I known at my very first job of delivering milk early on weekend mornings I would become a writer, I would have paid more attention at school. Now, I write content for others, ...

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