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What’s Next In Social Media
Is Now And Mobile

February 26, 2010 · Comments

It seems like the one question I inevitably get from people around the country is, “What’s next?” There’s always an implication that they mean, “Which social network is the next Twitter or the next Facebook?” My answer is normally that I don’t know that there will be a next Facebook or Twitter. Sure, there might be, but I see the Web 2.0 boom settling down and becoming more about consolidation than more companies popping up to stake a claim on user’s time.

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What Inbound Marketing Is And Why You Should Have It

February 1, 2010

I spend zero dollars marketing my business. “Marketing” in its traditional sense includes advertising, baiting media outlets with press releases and, to paraphrase David Meerman Scott, buy, beg and borrow for leads and attention. The way people find out about my business is through two primary mechanisms: Word-of-Mouth recommendations and finding me through search engine [...]

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How Well Do You Know Your Audience?

January 27, 2010

I worked with a major consumer product goods company once that insisted that a particular product it offered was to be marketed to men. New to the fold and not afraid to ask the obvious question, I said, “Why not women?”
All the market research in the world told them women didn’t like their product. All [...]

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Join Me In Dallas For The 2010 Optimization Summits

January 15, 2010

One of my strategies for evangelizing social media in 2010 is to speak at events outside the social media bubble. My hope is to help educate business people on the world of social media marketing and social business to widen the appeal and acceptance of what we do and help people become more efficient and [...]

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Postrank Makes Online Media Relations Easier With Top Blogs Lists

January 14, 2010

One of the most tedious and frustrating facets of public relations in the new media era is identifying the best blogs to add to an outreach list. Postrank made that task a bit easier when they unveiled Postrank Topics in 2009. Now you could at least get a current snapshot of the top blogs in [...]

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How To Hire A Social Media Agency Or Consultant

January 11, 2010

I’ve tried to steer clear of the social media guru conversation. I think it’s petty and short-sighted for people to moan and bitch about some up-start blogger or right-out-of-college entrepreneur type claiming to be or help make you a social media expert. No, I don’t think these people are worth the time or money and [...]

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The Importance Of Being Earnest With Your Content

January 8, 2010

Being earnest, or sincere, in your efforts to provide content to you customers is perhaps your most important task. Until recent years, your “content” was advertisements, flyers, coupons and other promotional materials. Outstanding content today requires a new mindset and intent. You’re not selling your customers with your content, be it that from a blog, [...]

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One Pixel Of Separation With Twist Image’s Mitch Joel

January 6, 2010

There are people I’m a fan of and people I am friends with and then there are the rare combinations of people I’m a fan of who I’m lucky enough to be friends with. Mitch Joel is one of them. The author of the recently released Six Pixels of Separation is also the principal of [...]

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Five Things We Should All Do In 2010

January 1, 2010

If you haven’t seen a 2010 prediction post in the last two weeks, welcome back from your coma. If you don’t see a wad of New Year’s resolution posts this week, we hope you come out of yours soon. Nothing against those who have produced such entries. There’s some search and link value to those [...]

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Selling Your Product By Selling Someone Else’s

December 16, 2009

For years now you’ve heard advice from social media evangelists that is counter-intuitive to a traditional marketing approach. Don’t sell first. Relinquish control of your brand to your customers. Take your content to the customers instead of driving all activity to your own website. Build content around your customers, not your brand.
On Monday, we looked [...]

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How To Increase Your Business By Relinquishing Control

December 14, 2009

If you’ve been studying social media, or even half paying attention to it, for the last few years, you’ve heard some truisms proffered that are scary to most business people. One of the most recited is that in order to be successful in social media you must face the fact you no longer have control. [...]

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