Is Your Brand Helping Or Hurting Your Small Business? Chat Recap

By - May 17, 2012
Is Your Brand Helping Or Hurting Your Small Business? Chat Recap

Didn’t get a chance to participate in the FedEx Office Twitter chat on May 15? No worries – we have a recap of the highlights below.

The topic was branding:  Is your brand helping or hurting your small business?  Let’s take a look at some of the responses and comments on this topic.  The Twitter handle of the person who said them, follows:

1.       What ...

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