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?

It’s been gaining mainstream buzz this year, but Twitter has finally stepped into the bigtime recently with the Wired article about how Twitter broke the news about the Earthquake.  To be clear, “Twitter” the company didn’t break the news, but Twitter users were all tweeting about the earthquake before any major news site had published [...]

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?

Social media marketing gurus can be lumped into bunches - those that understand personal branding using social media, and those that understand how to translate that to business branding.  If you are currently interested in social media marketing, or are researching for business purposes,  you likely know that there are tons of self-proclaimed social media [...]

With business blogs it’s easy to think the blog will look the same as your existing site and you don’t need to worry about design.  Unfortunately, I see sites everyday that just don’t realize they are chasing away readers, or at least diminishing their credibility with a poorly designed blog (unfortunately they are often the same companies [...]

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 [...]