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Business.com Social Media Survey - Are You Running 7 Social Media Campaigns?

November 5th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Business.com just released the results of a study on social media usage by business professionals. The big data points that stuck out for me:

The average company in this study was planning, developing or running seven(!!!!) different social media initiatives

Facebook is the social media [...]

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Tags: Reputation Management · Social Media Optimization

Yellow Pages v. Social Media Marketing: A Rebuttal To The Lazy, Lying Mainstream Media

July 28th, 2009 · 38 Comments

From the Couldn’t Resist Department:
Tara Nelson of the Examiner.com, “the insider source for everything local”, wrote an article today called “Yellow Pages v. Social Media Marketing” on the subject of shifting your budget from print yellow pages advertising to social media marketing.  Now readers of this blog know I am all about positivity and sunshine, [...]

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Tags: Social Media Optimization · Yellow Pages

Will You Be My Store’s Facebook Friend? Pretty Please?

April 11th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Just saw this on the front door of a kid’s clothing store in Rye, NY.
The number of online “friends” your business has may be a good indication of its health. The storefronts next to Sasha’s were empty. Must have been using Yahoo 360.

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Tags: Facebook · Social Media Optimization

Bay Area Photographer Seeks Reviews & More Customers

February 16th, 2009 · 9 Comments

Recently we hired a great bay area child photographer to do some shots of our children.  While I loved the photos, I was even more impressed with the follow up email I just received from the photographer.  Check out this excerpt:
I was wondering if you would be able to write some reviews for me on [...]

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Tags: Google · Online Reviews · Small Business Marketing · Social Media Optimization · Yelp

Are You Using Meetup To Market Your Small Business?

December 19th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Back in January I posted about how small businesses could use Meetup to market themselves.  Today I got a reminder in my email via my East Bay SEO Meetup about how creative marketers are using Meetup to get the word out about their businesses.  Check this out:

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Tags: Small Business Marketing · Social Media Optimization

Microsoft Offers Social Media for Small Business e-Book

December 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments

It’s entitled “Let’s Talk“.
I don’t know anything about it but the graphic makes it look ginormous.
Tip o the hat to Tad Chef

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Tags: Small Business Marketing · Social Media Optimization

Twellow - New Social Media Based Yellow Pages Launches

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Just discovered Twellow, a new kind of online yellow pages that uses Twitter profiles to populate business listings. I haven’t spent much time poring through it but it sparked some initial thoughts:

This is an interesting strategy to aggregate business listings, particularly of those small businesses that would not show up in a standard yellow pages [...]

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Tags: Social Media Optimization · Twitter · Yellow Pages

BLVD Status Launches - Web Analytics Wednesday

July 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments

My good friend Chris Bennett over at 97th floor just launched a public beta of his cool new web analytics tool, BLVD Status.  Here’s his blog post about it.
I have checked it out a little and it’s got some pretty interesting reporting, particularly for those interested in social media performance.  It’s sort of like Mint [...]

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Tags: SEO Analytics · Social Media Optimization

Social Media Marketing Is Hard Work

June 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

I am heading up to Seattle this afternoon for SMX Advanced. One of the main reasons I am going is because a lot of the SEO/SEM social network is converging there. When I started this blog, these guys were the ones who helped me get it off the ground by welcoming me into the 24/7/365 [...]

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Tags: Social Media Optimization

I Am So Trendy & So Is Everybody Else

May 16th, 2008 · No Comments

No sooner do I join the Twitter revolution then Sebastien P. comes out with this.

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Tags: Social Media Optimization · Twitter

Twitter & Local Search

May 16th, 2008 · 12 Comments

Twitter’s value just went up ever so slighty - I just installed their widget on the right-hand column. After much encouragement by Brian Wallace I have decided to try and make Twitter a regular part of my routine. I have been trying to think about how Twitter could be of use to local businesses and [...]

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Tags: Local Search · Social Media Optimization · Twitter

The Perfect Sized Image for Social Media Optimization

May 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Tim Nash has a great post on social media image optimization. He has figured out the image sizes that produce the best results on social media sites. This makes a huge amount of sense. If you are trying to maximize your posts’ power you could do worse than follow Tim’s lead.

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Tags: Social Media Optimization

New Social Media Blog

May 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I just discovered a new social media blog, Social Media Influence. You would think I would have known about it because it was started by my friend, Matthew Yeomans of Custom Communication.
Maybe Matthew needs to work on his social media marketing skills.
The blog is full of interesting stuff. This post about the top [...]

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Tags: Social Media Optimization

What’s Your Major & How Big is Your Network?

May 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I was having a conversation today about the importance of social media marketing with a guy who has a very big social network.  He’s all over Twitter, Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, etc. And it occurred to me that the size of your online/wireless social network and the influence you hold over it is and will continue [...]

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Tags: Social Media Optimization

Best Viral Idea I’ve Seen In Ages

April 18th, 2008 · 9 Comments

Under the “Why Didn’t I Think of That Category” check this out:
These guys deserve a link for this one.  Check out their social media marketing blog.

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Tags: Small Business Video · Social Media Optimization