The Real Life Social Network

July 21, 2010

This is a fan­tas­tic look at the real life social net­work and the online social net­work. It’s a pre­sen­ta­tion done by a Google employee and has some very inter­est­ing insights. In par­tic­u­lar seg­ments and groups of friends and rela­tion­ships. I’ll be adding thoughts, bul­let point and addi­tional info for the post but for the time being here is the presentation. VN:F... Read more »

Promoting Your Facebook Presence

May 27, 2010

I’ll bet you have some great Face­book Strate­gies you’ve imple­mented like the ideas below. Add a com­ment below and the best sug­ges­tions will be added to this list with a link back to your site. I know social media mar­ket­ing is a hot topic these days and there are a lot of com­pa­nies attempt­ing to get their foot in the door with social net­works. The appeal of these net­works... Read more »

Facebook Is Creepy

April 22, 2010

I Like Me Face­book Told Me So. VN:F [1.9.3_1094]Rat­ing: 0 (from 0 votes) Read More →

Pepsi Cheer — Social Media Done Wrong

January 9, 2010

The Pepsi Cheer? Update April 21, 2010: Looks like I was quoted over at Media.asia in Five things you need to know about: Social media and brands by Andrew Knott. Nice to be ref­er­enced how­ever briefly. You’re prob­a­bly doing Social Media in your Inter­net Mar­ket­ing mix, most com­pa­nies and mar­keters have jumped on that band­wagon faster than peo­ple become Dal­las Cow­boys... Read more »

50 Twitter Tips for Conversion

May 22, 2009

So here it is: Twit­ter.  It’s every­where being hyped as the next great thing, but what can it do for your business? Like any emerg­ing tech­nol­ogy the uses are some­what open ended and there are still many ques­tions. A few things are absolutely certain: Twit­ter offers you an oppor­tu­nity to engage a large num­ber of peo­ple who are com­fort­able online. Which means they will... Read more »

Ashton Kutcher — Twitter Desperation?

April 16, 2009

Social Media Mar­ket­ing and Twit­ter in par­tic­u­lar is a great way for stars like Ash­ton Kutcher to gen­er­ate buzz. In fact it’s great for any­one and any busi­ness (when done prop­erly). Now I’m as open minded to all sorts of Inter­net Mar­ket­ing tech­niques but this one strikes me as a bit desperate. Ash­ton is basi­cally buy­ing paid adver­tis­ing on another social... Read more »

Using StumbleUpon Effectively

March 10, 2009

Social Net­work Mar­ket­ing is cur­rently a hot topic in the world of Inter­net Mar­ket­ing. Many peo­ple want to inte­grate a social media and social net­work­ing com­po­nent to their mar­ket­ing mix. The most com­mon prob­lem I see is Social Media Mar­ket­ing thrown together in an ad hoc fash­ion and poorly executed. The key risk from a mar­ket­ing per­spec­tive is this: poorly... Read more »