Think you’ve posted your blog to every blog network there is, but you want to boost traffic?  Diversify your networks and add podcasts, youtube, and social networks.  Adding podcasts to your blog can open you up to a significant network, leading to new traffic, readership, subscriptions and leads.  Want to diversify further - add video [...]

With all the buzz about social media marketing, it’s often easy to overlook what social media has had the biggest impact on yet (other than teenagers looking for new ways to communicate with one another) - blogging and bloggers. Ask any professional blogger the best way to market your blog for free and you’ll [...]

There are myriad things you can do with social networks to promote your blog or your business. Creating a community on Twitter, Groups on Facebook, Linkedin Associations, FastPitchNetworks articles…
What have you found to work best for you?

Everyone wants results and the results come from failing fast then changing methods to fail even faster. It is learning from others failures as well as your own that enables you to reach any definition of success. However, as soon as you think you’ve reached success one thing is certain, you should look to fail yet again and if you don’t your success will be but for a nano second. Get it?

Linkedin recently released an update to their “user agreement” which expands their authority to “control” how people and businesses can use their network. The newly revised “user agreement” basically states that Linkedin has at their discretion the authority to deem if a users behavior and/or use of “their” network is considered inappropriate then they [...]

Brand equity refers to the marketing effects or outcomes that accrue to a product with its brand name.. And, at the root of these marketing effects is consumers’ knowledge. In other words, consumers’ knowledge about a brand makes consumers respond differently to the marketing of the brand.
Who Controls Brand Equity?
In Web 1.0 days brand [...]

Businesses will again chase the promise of gains in practices using all this social stuff as the new method. However they will likely fail miserably if they don’t change how they relate to the people first. The Warning Label says: Don’t install this technology unless you can relate to people. Get it?

The popularity of a web site is measured by traffic. The popularity of a product is measured by sales, traffic from consumers.In a world of information overload we rely on search engines to help us find what we’re looking for whether it be information, products, services and now people.
Popularity is also an influence of conversational [...]

The behavior of the markets is the new standard which continually shapes the markets behavior. Your behavior in communities and how you relate to others shapes your relations. As Kevin Kelly said: “a successful standard tends to remain forever”. And businesses dare ask, How long this “social stuff” will last? Go figure.

The adoption of social networks for business purposes will fall into five main segments of leadership attributes; innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority and laggards. Which leadership attribute will customers and employees migrate to most? Which best describes your business?