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David Finch

David Finch

Creating “buzz” around your product, business or event is the demand from clients to all social media marketing strategists. The common question is, can you take or produce a piece of content and make it go viral?” Can you wave your social media marketing wand and make everyone want to read it? Can you also use the same trickery and create traffic for our website?

For many, these practices are this magical event that must be forced upon the viewer or reader so that everyone will talk about “their thing.” However, buzz isn’t an event, but a reaction to a process. That process doesn’t start with a video on YouTube, but with a marketing strategy that encompasses social media and word-of-mouth marketing both online and offline.

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The Social Media Trap: What’s the Next Big Thing?

February 13, 2009

When I was in elementary school my father took me to the most amazing display of creativity that had I ever seen. I was completely mesmerized by the lights, the acting and the way stories were made to come alive. As a young boy, what intrigued me the most was watching what I thought was [...]

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Five Blogs I Read

October 17, 2008

One of the subtle tricks of building good blog traffic is organic link exchange. This is very different from link exchange, which is where two website or blog owners agree in premeditation to add links to one another’s sites. Organic link exchange is where a blogger cites a post or a blog from another with [...]

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Make Signal From Noise With AideRSS

July 16, 2008

AideRSS gets some kudos today. Not just for providing a service that helps bloggers determine which of their posts are the most engaging. Not just for building out a Google Reader plugin (plus integration with Newsgator and others) that lets you weed out the less relevant or active posts and cut down the noise to [...]

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Stronger Signal, Less Noise

May 7, 2008

If there’s one social media tool, or more appropriately, one technological advancement which enhances social media I am beholden to above all others, it’s RSS. Really Simple Syndication redefined web surfing for me. I’m convinced it can do the same for the rest of the world, whenever they come around to it. I’m even happy [...]

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Spreading The Joy Of RSS

February 22, 2008

The day I took the time to sit down and learn RSS and RSS feeds changed my life. No, there weren’t angelic choruses accompanying beams of light breaking through Moses-like parts in the ceiling. But converting to feeds as a web hyper-user literally trimmed an hour and a half to two hours a day off [...]

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10 Steps To Manage Your Feed Reading Time

December 20, 2007

Two weeks ago I looked up from my feed reader and realized I’d been checking feeds for an hour and 12 minutes, non-stop. I was at work. There was a lot to do. And I wasn’t finished.
“Enough,” I thought. “I have got to get a grip on this. But how?”
RSS feeds can make surfing the [...]

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RSS Feeds: Who Are Your Must Reads?

December 14, 2007

I’ve popped a question on Twitter a couple of times this week asking folks for suggestions on organizing my RSS feeds. My current list includes 305 feeds and has become an overwhelming challenge from a time management standpoint. While there were some great suggestions, links and advice shared, I decided to try and solve the [...]

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Dumbing It Down: RSS Feeds For The Rest Of Us

November 2, 2007

About two minutes into a sales presentation for a recenlty-monetized feed subscription service, I looked around the room. Deers in headlights. Crickets chirping.
“Hold on!” I said, raising my hand. “Give me 60 seconds.”
I then turned to my clients and explained what an RSS feed and RSS feed reader were. The room lit up with it-getting [...]

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