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5 Reasons Your Business Should Not be Using Social Media.

It’s fashionable to write these – ‘5 tips that will replace years of business experience and distal everything you need to know into less than 500 words’ – type blogs. They are often ‘retweeted’ by people who never read them, but like the headline because it somehow fits with something they think they should be saying. It seems to be a formula that people consume easily though, so here are my 5 reasons why your business should not be using social media. 1. Because it’s new and cool. Unfortunately there are a lot of people out there making social media pitches based purely on fashion. There’s a buzz out there. It’s new and improved. If you don’t have it, you are missing out. Every couple of years, something comes along that changes the way people behave. Just because something is

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Yacht Racing is Dead. Long Live Yacht Racing.

I read a blog this morning that just made me mad. I’ve written a bit over the last few months about sections of the sailing industry that believe their sport is somehow inferior. Perhaps its a UK thing to just find the bad news in order to sell more papers or magazines. Perhaps it is easier to play to the whingers than to look a little further for good news and optimism. Elaine Bunting, writing in a blog  for Yachting World headlined her piece ‘Yacht Racing – Dead or Alive?’ What annoys me more than the article’s premise is that YBW.com don’t allow comments on the site. Instead, in typical old fashioned magazine style, you can email the author and they can choose which comments to show or not. Well, since this is 2009, if they don’t want to let

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