Archive for 'Social Media'
Alert – YouTube Displays Competitors in YOUR Videos
After all my touting of how great YouTube is of promoting your company online they go and get sneaky on me when I’m looking the other way.
YouTube has been great for promoting businesses online because it doesn’t take much effort and expense to produce a decent video that showcases a customer testimonial, a new product [...]
Stay At Home Moms Vs. Corporate CEO's – All's Fair in Love and Social Networking
Here is an interesting article I wanted to point out as it features two talented individuals that I have recently made acquaintance with via social networking – Michele Woodward and Liz Lynch. Michele is a successful life coach and writer who has an extensive background in various business endeavors. Liz Lynch is the author of [...]
Full StoryWho to Follow on Twitter
If you are new to Twitter, usually the first question that comes up is “who do I follow and how do I get followers myself?”
Well, if you are just starting out, I say follow everyone you can. You never know who will turn out to be interesting and you can quickly weed out the the [...]
Duck – Incoming!! Inbound Marketing Puts Your Site in Customer's Sights
Hubspot has a nifty article explaining inbound marketing that I wanted to share. If you are not aware of inbound marketing, it is a concept you will want to know more about as it will help put the value of your website’s marketing potential in perspective. Instead of seeking out customers with traditional methods of [...]
Full StoryThe Best Social Media Platforms For SEO
I saw an interesting poll on SEOmoz.org where they asked what social media platforms netted the best SEO return on investment. An informal poll, but the results are interesting none the less. Here is the results so far:
Social bookmarking websites, such as StumbleUpon, was the big winner followed by social networking websites and social news [...]
Twitter Cured My Hiccups
I had a bad case of the hiccups this evening – couldn’t get rid of them and my chest was really starting to hurt (I don’t get them often, but when I do, they’re massive). I was sitting at the computer and thought “I’ll send a tweet (post) out on Twitter about my hiccups”. Sure [...]
Full StoryBuild Your Network Before You Need It
I was reading an article by Jeremiah Owyang and read the following line that I thought was pure brillance:
Grow your network before you need them.
Now, Jeremiah was referring to building up a network of business contacts to protect yourself if faced with sudden unemployment in today’s economy, but I thought of it in a different [...]
Further Exploring of Twitter
I wanted to do a post on Twitter highlighting all the pros and cons and then remembered Chris Brogan has already written an excellent article on this very topic. Twitter is one of those social media tools that you can get a lot out of if you take the time to use it and get [...]
Full StoryAlert! Alert! Somebody Said This About You…
You have spent a lot of time building and protecting your reputation, but do you know what your online reputation is? Do you know what others are saying about you – good or bad?
There is a number of tools out their that let you find out what others are saying. At a minimum, be familiar [...]
Social Networking’s Influence on Your Site’s Traffic – Part 2
Two weeks ago I shared my website stats for all to see and demonstrated how different things I’m doing online impacted my traffic. Here is an updated look at my blog stats:
I’ve looked at a lot of website stats over the last 10-plus years, and although this is still a new blog at the low [...]
