Mint Social is a social media marketing and online branding company that establishes a presence for businesses in the fastest growing segment of the Internet. The word empowerMint embodies empowering a business to understand why social media and online branding is critical to their online marketing initiatives and Mint represents the results; fresh ideas blended into traditional marketing channels. Mint Social is part of Tventure, LLC that was established in 1998 and is committed to evangelize social media marketing for businesses by providing the knowledge and tools that make online marketing work. We have been instrumental at assisting businesses with the achievement of their growth strategies.

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