Valuable Proven Business Strategies to Make You Succeed

If you’ve had a business for any length of time, it’s easy to muse about looking towards the future. Even when you’re successful, you wonder “I can be bigger, I can be better.” There’s a lot of soul searching for every startup and business founder.

Real Talk: The Online Customer Service Shift - SXSW Twitter

Our panel: Bianca Buckridee (JP Morgan Chase), Brooks E Thomas (Southwest Air), Carla Saavedra (Samsung Mobile US) and I at addressed 500 social media, brands and customer service enthusiasts.

The crowd responded with a ton of Tweets including comments, quotes and links that carried actionable insights. Before I post the deck online, I thought I'd share this valuable collection

SXSW Panel "Real Talk: The Online Customer Service Shift" Tweetstream from Marsha Collier

The Ultimate Online Customer Service Guide: How to Connect with Your Customers to Sell More (Google Affiliate Ad)

WIN! Possibly the Best Android Phone Yet Samsung Galaxy SII #Epic4GTouch & I'm Giving one Away!

I'll admit that I am a fan of brands who consistantly pump out good products that don't disappoint. Samsung is one, and with the Galaxy SII Epic 4G Touch for Sprint, they haven't missed the mark. Yes, it's a smartphone and does everything you expect one to do, but with incredible new features:

• 4.52” Super AMOLED™ Plus Screen: The brightest, most colorful screen I've ever seen. You see the deeper, richer color with unmatched detail and contrast. Blacks are impenetrable and the colors pop out at you. Great view from any angle.
• Camera: Samsung overrides the standard Gingerbread camera app with one with lots of options. Easily jump between the rear-facing 8 megapixel and front-facing 2 megapixel camera. It might replace your digital camera because you can set resolution, ISO, scene and shooting modes and adjustments like white balance, contrast and metering. There's auto focus, macro mode and face detection
• Voice Talk: Tell your phone what to do. You can make calls, play music, send messages, launch apps, browse the web, get turn-by-turn directions, and more, using just by talking to your phone.
• Motion Control: Just pan to organize your home screen, tilt to zoom, flip to silence. That's an amazing innovation.
• Wirelessly Connect with Your PC: No USB cable. Built in app, Kies Air lets you wirelessly manage contacts, music, photos, video, and more—all from your computer's browser over wifi.
• Super Fast with a 1.2 GHz dual core processor.

Now here's how YOU get a chance to win!

Visit and like (please) my Facebook Author page (you might even enjoy  the links I post and decide to stay). It will be more fun if you share with everyone with a short comment why a phone like this might help you at home or in your business.

If you are already a fan of the page,click the Sweepstakes tab on the left side of the page to enter!

Multiple Entries accepted! Contest runs October 1 through October 7

Other sites are participating in the giveaway over the next few weeks. They are listed below the rules.

Rules:

Sweepstakes is open to residents of the US and Canada over the age of 18.  Family members of Samsung and The Collier Company, Inc. are not permitted to enter. Competition entries are only accepted via the specified post; entries left in the comments section of any other post will not be recognized. Entries should be submitted before midnight pacific time on October 7, 2011.

The winners will be announced on Marsha Collier's Musings, Marsha Collier's Posterous and contacted via email; they will be expected to respond within 24 hours else their prize may be forfeit and another winner selected. Decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Winner agrees that their name and details of their entry may be used for promotional purposes by, but not limited to, Samsung and Marsha Collier.

Prize consists of one Samsung Galaxy SII Epic 4G Touch smartphone. There is no cash alternative.