Home bases and outposts…

Darren Rowse of ProBlogger has been reading my mail. Or attending my seminars. Or both. Seriously, he does a great job in this video of explaining some of the tactics that I use to drive traffic to my blog...

12 Ways to Keep Your Business Relationships Alive

Image via CrunchBase "Every businessperson leads a busy life. There are marketing meetings to attend, RFPs to reply to, and client projects to finish. With so much work demanding so much attention, many of us never make the time to keep our business relationships alive, and wish we did: 'What does he do again?' 'Does … Continue reading 12 Ways to Keep Your Business Relationships Alive

An important announcement from e1evation, llc

e1evation, llc announces that Todd Lohenry has been named the interim VP of Marketing, Sales and Technology at Jag, Inc., one of Northeast Wisconsin’s oldest and most trusted names in advertising. There are two objectives behind the move: Introduce internal systems and process improvements at Jag, Inc. Jag, Inc. has already migrated from Microsoft Exchange … Continue reading An important announcement from e1evation, llc

Posterous Co-Founder Garry Tan Leaves for Y Combinator

Image via Wikipedia Garry Tan has announced that he is leaving Posterous, the ultra-simplistic microblogging company he helped found in 2008. Tan wrote on his blog today that it was time to move on and that he would be taking an advisory role with the company in order to do what he was most passionate … Continue reading Posterous Co-Founder Garry Tan Leaves for Y Combinator

365 ways to build your personal brand

via thingstodoingreenbay.com There are few people I know that have leveraged the internet more effectively to build their personal brand than 'Green Bay Greg' Dallaire. The video is one that he shot for a client of mine, Tailwind Flight Center, and it demonstrates the quality of the work he's doing at '365 Things to do … Continue reading 365 ways to build your personal brand

Understanding online social behaviors

Here's a great presentation on 'Socialgraphics' I found online while researching for a speaking engagement tomorrow... Understand Your Customers' Social Behaviorshttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=socialgraphicsframeworkjan19final-100121000544-phpapp02&stripped_title=understand-your-customers-social-behaviorsView more presentations from Charlene Li. There's a recording to accompany the preso here.

How to Get the Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 from Tamar Weinberg

Image by Tamar Weinberg via Flickr Every year, I spend hundreds, perhaps thousands of hours reading articles on Internet Marketing for my annual Best Internet Marketing Posts blog post. The effort to find these posts, read them thoroughly, identify whether they meet certain criteria, and categorize them takes an incredibly huge toll on me, but … Continue reading How to Get the Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 from Tamar Weinberg

Using Social Media to Drive Offline Behavior

via ducttapemarketing.com John Jantsch says... "I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, social media tools are killer for the small local business trying to drive people offline and into their businesses and to build deeper relationships with existing local customers. For this episode of Local Color I met Scotty Wise an Indiana restaurateur … Continue reading Using Social Media to Drive Offline Behavior

IMNOTAWRITER

Image by kk+ via Flickr Whenever I present on the topic of 'practical, tactical social media' organizational leaders usually like what they hear about social media and how to implement it to build their brands online until they hear that in order to achieve maximum results, they'll have to post a thought every day for … Continue reading IMNOTAWRITER

2011 Trends Driving Rural Small Business

  Two of my favorite points from the author? "Small town people are carrying smartphones, playing location based games, and using Facebook even while out of the house. Visitors and travelers are using Google Local to find businesses in even the smallest of towns. Travelers and locals review small town businesses on sites like Yelp … Continue reading 2011 Trends Driving Rural Small Business