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My friend Barry had been unemployed for more than a year when he came to one of my LinkedIn workshops to maximize his site profile. Shortly thereafter he was tapped by an overseas firm for a very lucrative project. My brother Chuck had been at home “playing” with social media. …
Q: Who needs a social media policy?
A: Any person with employees, independent contractors, and visitors who may use your business computer.
With more than one-third of the world’s population now online, it makes sense to have guidelines and procedures for cyber citizens to turn to — and if you are a …
Now that 106 million Twitter accounts have been set up, it’s a great time to distinguish yourself from the rank & file. Building an online presence — whatever the platform — is, in fact, under your control. People using the “Global Whiteboard,” i.e. the Internet, must keep in mind that …
When I heard the title “The zen of social media marketing,” I knew I had to read this book by Shama Hyder Kabani. Her chapter on Facebook was really detailed with lots of tips, so I thought I’d offer many of the items on Shama’s list of Do’s and Don’ts …
Bay Area Consultants hear SOCIAL MEDIA TIPS from popular speaker Patrick Schwerdtfeger
Back by popular request, Patrick presented more detailed online marketing tactics — building from his earlier talk on social media basics delivered last fall.
Author of Webify Your Business, Patrick spoke at 127 events around the globe in 2009. He …
A few weeks ago, I participated in a social media webinar that unfortunately went “over the heads” of most of the other attendees. So I invited many of them to contact me for answers to some of their basic questions.
Bob asked me:
“What do Newbies typically do wrong?”
Putting on my …
Today ten new Tweeple will be fluttering around the Twittersphere — at least that’s my hope.
In the next few days, you’ll read about some of the things they learned, but a few people left without their “cheat sheet,” so I’m posting it below . . . as well as the …
A few weeks ago, I felt like I’d died and gone to Heaven.
That’s the sensation one has when a passion is being filled to the brimming [tipping?] point.
For a student of the Social Media Revolution, nothing could be more gratifying and fulfilling than to hear a panel of highly …
From Engage by Brian Solis
Here is a list that will help businesses embrace the methods now available for their marketing efforts through social media platforms, especially via Twitter and Facebook. [This was originally posted on my blog How To Do Social Media by the book.]
Five incredibly talented and deeply entrenched social media THOUGHT LEADERS fielded questions about “How to get the word out” and win more business now that there’s so much FREE stuff out there.
THE VENUE: Grand Hyatt in San Francisco
THE SPONSOR: San Francisco chapter of the American Marketing Association
THE “WHY”: …
If you don
Where do I WANT to go?
NOT
Where am I going?
I’m remembering the quote I often tell students: “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.”
Back on July 1, I started to think about “managing” my online presence, i.e., putting some routine in place …
Catch up. Become a FAN of Performance Social Media and start to Make Sense of Social Media/Internet Marketing
Grow your business with social media strategies, tactics, and tools,
Forget the OLD Rules of PR.
Read below for David Meerman Scott’s NEW RULES for Marketing AND PR:
1) Marketing is MORE than ads.
2) PR …
So, once again, is Facebook a waste of time?
Not many of us live this way — anymore
Last post we tried to address the responses of naysayers — the “non early adopters,” the social media non-initiates.
Common challenges in any evolutionary cycle.
But the fact remains that life does change, and so do …