July 27th, 2010 Social Media | No Comments »
Building an Effective Social Media Marketing Strategy:
1) Get executive management buy in and support – much more challenging if you try to develop your strategy and then sell up into the organization.
2) Develop a Social Media Policy and Procedure Doc; this doesn’t need to be a huge document, you should be able to map this [...]
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July 16th, 2010 Social Media | No Comments »
Social Media Trends are finally starting to emerge from the primordial soup we call Web 2.0. Are they easy to identify? Hardly! Like nailing jello to a wall that is sliding faster than a Speeder Bike in Return of the Jedi. Here’s our short list of Social Media Trends.
1) Budgets are morphing to finally include [...]
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July 12th, 2010 Social Media | No Comments »
Add your business to Google Maps is not exactly an eye catching title – it’s about as exciting as taking third place in the World Cup.
Bu, using and optimizing Google Maps is a foundation marketing process we utilize for any Social Media Marketing or Search Marketing Campaign.
It’s free, takes 1-3 hours to optimize properly, drives [...]
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July 8th, 2010 Social Media | No Comments »
Social media is not a panacea for businesses! It seems as if each day another expert/guru is jumping on the Social Media Marketing bandwagon or VCs are funding some new wizz bang technology company that will save the world through social media.
Don’t get us wrong, we love Social Media Marketing and believe it is an [...]
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July 7th, 2010 Content Development | No Comments »
We can’t decide which major portal has the worst Interface Design Yahoo or MSNBC’s latest updated design.
At least the MSNBC index page is not as bad as the interior pages. The latter have perhaps the greatest mashup of Content we’ve ever seen – Ads, Social Bookmarking and Text and Video Content are all squashed together [...]
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July 7th, 2010 Social Media | No Comments »
Clearly brands all over the world are embracing Social Media Marketing. But, many companies don’t understand how to identify and enforce standards, practices and social media platforms for new and existing employees. Here are some background items to weigh coupled with a Social Media Policy outline.
1) Social Media Policy will vary widely depending on the [...]
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July 2nd, 2010 Social Media | No Comments »
LinkedIn Marketing has rapidly become an important global Social Media Marketing Platform for any company or professional seeking to build a presence with and engage others around the world.
With 60 Million plus members and adding a new member every second of the day, you want to establish as Social Media Marketing and Engagement presence with [...]
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June 30th, 2010 Social Media, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Is it time to put a fork in the poor old SEO (Search Engine Optimization) bird that’s been maligned all these years by posers, wannabees, hucksters who wanted to make a fast buck.
Lets face it, telling people you were in the SEO biz was a short cut to either dumbfounded looks (“what’s that?”) or instant [...]
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June 25th, 2010 Social Media | No Comments »
Today’s always on Social Media driven world does have some hidden and not so hidden Social Media Etiquette rules of the road. Here is our take on Social Media Etiquette you want to be aware of:
Social Media Blurring Lines
You have a “self” that you use on any Social Media Platform, albeit Twitter, Facebook, YouTube [...]
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June 23rd, 2010 Uncategorized | No Comments »
At this juncture we are grizzled SEO Veterans and have the click scars to show for it! We were recently responded to a LinkedIn Question about “best of breed SEO tools” that are indispensable to us all. Here’s our short list – check back at a later date for a longer list.
1) Aaron Wall rocks [...]
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