Get Your Name Out There with Social Media
Sunday, January 31st, 2010 Posted in Social Media | 3 Comments »Unless you're the President of the United States, not everyone knows who you are. So, if you're not Barack Obama, I've got some damn good advice for you and your business. Search engines are great, and sites like Google can ...
Is a Google Wave Invite Worthwhile?
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Posted in Mobile Commerce, Social Media | 2 Comments »In September 2009, 100,000 invites were extended for Google Wave. Those invited were then allowed to invite twenty or thirty additional users. Just a few days ago another batch of invites was extended. "... another batch of invites was extended." Everyone is ...
Social Media: The Future of Branding
Sunday, November 1st, 2009 Posted in Branding, Social Media | 10 Comments »Branding, in essence, is developing a plan of action that will make your product or company the ONLY solution to its targeted problems. Instead of making you stand out among the crowd of other products and having your product ...
Miley’s Twitter Account Canceled: Save the Cat!
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 Posted in Social Media | No Comments »Miley Cyrus canceled her subscription to Twitter recently, causing an uproar amid her nearly 2 million fans. Despite the innumerable (and somewhat ironic) tweets, fan letters and videos, Miley has yet to reactivate her account. Miley's reason for canceling her account ...
Will Newspapers Survive? Future of Newspapers Dangle by a Link
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 Posted in Social Media | 1 Comment »In the era of the 24-hour news cycle, print media is at a disadvantage, publishing information an entire day after radio, TV, and Internet sources have covered them in depth and moved to the new events transpiring today. Some news ...
Avoiding Narcissism in Social Networking
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 Posted in Social Media | 2 Comments »Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the greatest social networker of all? The threat of carpal tunnel induced by excessive status updates and wall posts, inane blog posts and comments, and the over-use of other social networking tools is ...
The Retweet
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in Social Media | 1 Comment »The Art of Retweet. Want your Twitter posts to be viral? Everyone does. The point of Twitter is to be heard so take advantage of it. Providing quality content in a strategic format will help increase your chances of being ...
Is Google enough for Social Media Marketers?
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in Social Media | No Comments »For successful social media marketers, a ticket to success is working on search engine optimization, or making a site and its content highly relevant for both search engines and searchers. Google is one of the most popular search engines used ...
The Big 4 Marketing Issues to Avoid
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 Posted in Social Media | 1 Comment »As every job seeker knows, first impressions are extremely important and little things, such as a misspelled word in a cover letter, could cause you to be overlooked for a job. Social Media the Future of Branding shows that social ...
Social Media in Marketing: You Must Give to Receive
Friday, September 18th, 2009 Posted in Social Media | No Comments »The Web is quickly becoming the marketplace of the business world. Consumers are weighing their business options through site comparisons and blog comments rather than television and radio advertisements. Therefore, social media is essential for establishing a relationship between marketers ...