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How Businesses Can Succeed at Social Media: Provide Value

Posted in Articles, Internet Marketing on Thursday, May 19th, 2011 at 12:53 pm No Comments

Social media, when you think about it, is inherently a selfish medium. Users post statuses talking about what they are doing that day. I find videos on YouTube that make me laugh, so I post them so my friends can see how obviously funny I am since I found…

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Why Twitter will never be mainstream

Posted in Articles, Internet Marketing on Friday, May 13th, 2011 at 1:40 pm No Comments

Don’t get me wrong… I love Twitter. I like reading tweets, connecting with others in the social media industry, and seeing links to really great content. It’s because of this that I put up with the “Fail Whale” frequently yet continuing using Twitter. For someone to yet “see the…

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Sitting at your desk could kill you! [INFOGRAPHIC]

Posted in Articles, Observations on Life on Monday, May 9th, 2011 at 6:08 pm No Comments

A recent study came out talking about the affects of sitting for long periods of time on humans. The results were pretty bad!  According to medicalbillingandcoding.org, “from increased risk of heart disease and obesity in the long term, to sharply hampered cholesterol maintenance in the short term,…

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May silly social media rest in peace…

Posted in Articles, Internet Marketing on Thursday, May 5th, 2011 at 9:31 am No Comments

CMOs need to discover new ways to do the old things that still matter: Offer products and services that someone truly needs, admitting that you want to sell stuff to them, and then properly serving them after they’ve given you their business. Sounds so easy as I type it…

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What Are The Best Social Media Monitoring Tools? [Infographic]

Posted in Articles, Internet Marketing on Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 at 3:00 pm No Comments

This is an infographic provided by OneForty that gives a lot of good information after surveying 150 social media professionals about the monitoring tools they use. Covering items like average cost and making suggestions as to which tool to use for individual situations, this is a great…

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When 5 Facebook Likes are Better Than 5,000

Posted in Internet Marketing on Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 at 12:53 am 2 Comments

As I work with clients on developing their digital marketing plans, one of the most common questions I receive is “how many ‘likes’ should I have on my Facebook page?” I always find this question a good opportunity to…

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How Threadless display ads could go from #fail to sale

Posted in Internet Marketing on Friday, December 31st, 2010 at 5:00 am 5 Comments

I love novelty t-shirts. Always have. Always will. Whether it has some kind of clever text, funny image, logo from an old video game… I love ‘em. For someone like me having websites like shirt.woot.com, bustedtees.com, and snorgtees.com readily available with some amazing designs…

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Impressions of RockMelt

Posted in Internet Marketing on Monday, November 22nd, 2010 at 7:48 am No Comments

RockMelt social web browser

When I first heard about RockMelt, the “social browser”, I was intrigued. When I found out that I could test a beta copy of it, overly excited would probably be a good measure of…

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Why Free Internet Services Suck… Or Shouldn’t Be Taken for Granted

Posted in Internet Marketing on Thursday, October 14th, 2010 at 12:19 am 2 Comments

There are some pretty amazing tools available on the Internet. One of the great things about them are many come completely free. This includes services like Google Docs, instant messenger, WordPress hosted blogs, and social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. Of course, one of the biggest problems with…

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Want to sell to Millennials? Connect with them where they are.

Posted in Internet Marketing on Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 at 11:58 pm No Comments

I’m a child of the 80′s… well, to be specific, 1980. Being born that year puts me on the edge of two distinct groups. The first is Generation X and the second is Generation Y. Depending on who you talk to, I fit into one group or the other….

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