Building Your Business With Social Media

August 14, 2009

Why do owners fail at promoting their business with Social Media? Because its too technically oriented, its time consuming, its a fad, its for kids, its for internet marketers, its not a proven marketing strategy, its this and its that…. A colleague and small business consultant of mine asked me to speak to a few [...]

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a Tiny Thread Woven by Tiny Birds

August 13, 2009

You may or may not know Joshua Schachter but you definitely know his web 2.o app Delicious that was sold to Yahoo awhile back.  Since Josh has joined the team at Google, he still pursues his creative innovations.  His latest gig is A Tiny Thread. A Tiny Thread is a (tiny) Twitter application with a [...]

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How to Get 1M Followers on Twitter

August 11, 2009

First I think getting one million followers on Twitter is a double edged sword.  Yes it may support the fact that you are very popular and people really want to hear what you have to say.  ON the other hand, how can you really pay attention to a million people, especially if your strategy for [...]

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Content is Not King

August 9, 2009

Listening to the quick 20 minute schpeel by John Alanis – I perked up pretty quickly when he mentioned that “Content is Not King”! What!  I paused the video and tried to think about what he was going to say next.  Was he going to talk about that there is so much recycled content out [...]

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The Day My Blog Died

August 9, 2009

OK one huge lesson, REMEMBER to back up your blog’s database.  I run WordPress behind the scenes of this fancy website and when I decided to upgrade to version 2.8, all hell broke loose. Yup… nothing more nerve racking than seeing or “not seeing” all your hard work suddenly remove itself from the webosphere. I [...]

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Best Friends Are Losing Their Home – Help

July 15, 2009

If it was your best friends that were losing their home?  Wouldn’t you do all that you could to help them? Will You Donate $5 to Help Save This Young Family’s Home? UPDATE:  Thank You For All Your Support.  We did all we can do and are no longer in need of donations. Thank You, [...]

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How To Find Interesting People on Twitter

April 13, 2009

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSPYD6adeC4[/youtube] How to Twitter Tutorial Video 2, How to Find People on Twitter In this video you will learn how to find people on twitter.  People within your profession, people that are conversing about and following a specific topic and people that are in your target market.  I will show you a few twitter applications [...]

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What is Twitter, The Best Answer

April 12, 2009

As some of you may know I am on the web everyday all day, either working on client projects, advising entrepreneurs or writing my own content.  I find it very rewarding to be of value helping folks out by answering questions and pointing them in the right direction. I believe the best way to learn [...]

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Make Your Blog Interactive

March 26, 2009

What do you do, to engage your readers? You hear a lot about driving traffic to your blog.  Making pretty permalinks, seo titles, keyword saturated posts, valuable content, knowing your market and of course a nice site design always helps.  So you do your research, implement all the tips and tricks and you start to [...]

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How to Setup Your Twitter Account

March 23, 2009

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQF5Y2qqPxw[/youtube] How To Twitter Tutorial Video 1 : Setup Account I originally created this video for some colleagues and clients on how to create and setup their twitter account.  Since I received such great feedback about it, I decided to make it the first tutorial in the series, How to Twitter. In this video you [...]

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