How SMBs Can Start Using Facebook Places Now

Image via CrunchBase If you’re a business owner and you’ve heard the recent news about Facebook’s attention-grabbing new feature for location-sharing and checkins, you’re probably itching to find out what Facebook Places can do for your business and how it can help you reach out to would-be customers and loyal regulars in your community. While … Continue reading How SMBs Can Start Using Facebook Places Now

How I Find Time To Make Media

'Thought leadership' marketing takes time! Here's one man's perspective on taking that time to 'make media' as he says... This is a chicken or the egg causality dilemma for me: as I create more media, my media consumption has changed or my media consumption has changed, hence I’m able to create more media. I really don’t know … Continue reading How I Find Time To Make Media

My top picks for May 10, 2011

The truth about sitting down all day [infographic] May 9, 2011 STUDY: Facebook Has Fastest-Growing Brand May 9, 2011 GRASP Lab quadrocopters learn to follow the leader and fly in formation May 9, 2011 Apple Stores receive more visitors than Major League Baseball stadiums May 9, 2011 Facebook Places Don’t Grab Teens’ Attention May 9, … Continue reading My top picks for May 10, 2011

Ask Better Questions

Image by petermello via Flickr If you want better answers, ask better questions. I most recently heard that by listening to a Tony Robbins CD (wrote about that here), but I’ve heard it before. The thing is, with all good advice, if you don’t hear it often, it falls under the waves. So, I’m here … Continue reading Ask Better Questions

How and Why I Still Devour Blogs

Image via Wikipedia 2011 marks my eighth year of blogging. In that time I’ve logged over 2500 blog posts, acquired around 143,000 subscribers and had this blog named by the likes of Forbes magazine as their favorite for both marketing and small business. If this asset has delivered any measure of success I can tell … Continue reading How and Why I Still Devour Blogs

RSS readers in decline?

Image via CrunchBaseThis one really has me scratching my head..."One of the interesting trends of 2009 has been the gradual decline of RSS Readers as a way for people to keep up with news and niche topics. Many of us still use them, but less than we used to. I for one still maintain a … Continue reading RSS readers in decline?

Is your website a ‘billboard in the desert’?

In December of last year, I embarked upon an experiment to see if I could leverage a website with a blog combined with social media tools to increase traffic to a site. In that month, my sandbox site had a grand total of 670 pageviews. In the month that ended yesterday, I had a total … Continue reading Is your website a ‘billboard in the desert’?