I am once again very honored to have been invited to speak before my fellow members at the Sudbury Chamber of Commerce. Details: When: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 starting at
On occasion I like to leave my humble little cave and go forth into the marketing universe and meet real life marketers. Recently I had the opportunity to head down
We've all been there. Doing a little too much in the kitchen. Maybe not paying enough attention to some of the basics. And suddenly there is that feeling of helplessness as we watch a glass careen from the counter down to the floor followed by the unmistakable sounds. Up next of course is a pause (insert a few swear words here...) followed by the first few thoughts:
There has been some really strong recent buzz surrounding StumbleUpon and for good reason. I even including StumbleUpon in my Top 8 in this post about the 8 Most Important Social Media Buttons for Your Site.
in their own words:
StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click "Stumble!", we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of over 15 million other websurfers with interests similar to you. Rating these sites you like ( ) automatically shares them with like-minded people – and helps you discover great sites your friends recommend.
Everyone once and a while you see something that really makes you think. For me, that started today when I was starting to write a post on StumbleUpon and I came upon a great called the "Hands on Symphony" which is all about encouraging people to become aware of CPR by doing something totally different - making music with your web browser.
One effective strategy when putting together your blog posts is to incorporate what is "hot right now" on the internet and while I know that YouTube has always had a way to sort views by "Most Viewed/Comment/Shared" it appears that the second largest search engine (that's right - YouTube is #2 right behind Google) has also started to roll out a few updates on how to find content that is popular right now.
Recently I was approached by a representative of a company called Thumbtack telling me that one of my core spaces (social media marketing) is getting a number of requests from their network. Thumbtack has a very interesting business model in a fairly competitive space - their log line reads:
"Find and book trustworthy local services"Here is a rough review of their space along with some key considerations you should be employing when evaluating a service like this:
Small business owners have some very unique challenges when it comes digital identity management. In particular there is always the need to establish a proper balance between what you are doing online versus how you manage the rest of your business.
Here are five very focused ideas to help a small business owner with their digital identity.
When I logged on to Twitter this evening there was a pop-up over my Twitter account notifying me that they have rolled out a new photo sharing opportunity.
FourSquare, a leading social check-in service has just come out with a pretty big announcement that they are allowing any business or brand to create their own check in page. Up until now the only way to create a check in page for your business has been to go through the team at FourSquare.