Recent Posts Tagged With 'social media'

• Small Business Speaker Series at CES

  Posted on Tuesday January 5th, 2010 at 06:29 in social media, ces, duct tape marketing, openforum

  Small Business Speaker Series at CESThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing If you are planning to attend the Consumer Electronics Show (CES ) in Las Vegas Jan 7-10 make sure you check out the American Express OPEN Booth in the South Hall. They are s...

• 7 Reasons Why Small Businesses Should Take a Look at Foursquare

  Posted on Monday January 4th, 2010 at 11:32 in marketing strategy, social media, facebook, twitter, loopt, brightkite, location aware, foursquare, google latitude, gowalla

  7 Reasons Why Small Businesses Should Take a Look at FoursquareThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing In an end of the year prediction post I wrote for OPEN Forum, I listed location aware social media tools as something that would get big time atten...

• Is Social Media Killing Your Business?

  Posted on Wednesday December 30th, 2009 at 12:44 in social media

  Is Social Media Killing Your Business?This content from: Duct Tape Marketing I know today’s short post might come as a surprise to regular readers of this blog, but even though I promote the heck out of social media use for small business, I see a...

• Small Businesses Will Simply Become More Naturally Social

  Posted on Tuesday December 29th, 2009 at 09:03 in marketing strategy, web marketing, social media, facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, mindmeister, behance, biznik, hashtag, posterous, yammer

  Small Businesses Will Simply Become More Naturally SocialThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing This past year brands large and small rushed head on into social media marketing. They had to learn about all things Twitter, hire social media consultan...

• How Local Businesses Use Social Media

  Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 15:46 in social media, local search, amex openforum

  How Local Businesses Use Social MediaThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing So many local businesses assume social media is just for people wanting to reach the masses around the world – right, just like using email and having a web site used ...

• Yourl Very Own Branded Link Shortener

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 08:44 in google, web marketing, social media, facebook, twitter, tinyurl, link shorteners

  Yourl Very Own Branded Link ShortenerThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Google and Facebook both announced link shortening services this week – Google’s – goog.gl and Facebook’s fb.me (mostly used in twitter and mobile sh...

• Practical Guide to Social Media

  Posted on Thursday December 17th, 2009 at 11:56 in podcast, social media, amex open forum

  Practical Guide to Social MediaThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Marketing podcast with OpenForum (Click to listen, right click and Save As to download – subscribe now via iTunes The above podcast is an interview I conducted with OPEN Mic...

• How to Measure Social Media Like a Scientist

  Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 09:59 in podcast, social media, dan zarrella

  How to Measure Social Media Like a ScientistThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Marketing podcast with Dan Zarrella (Click to listen, right click and Save As to download – subscribe now via iTunes There are a lot of social media marketing b...

• Creating and Using Web Video Never Easier

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 09:10 in video, youtube, marketing strategy, web marketing, social media, screencast, camtasia, vimeo

  Creating and Using Web Video Never EasierThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Video on the web has simply grown to become an expectation. Sites these days feature video for every imaginable use and visitors and users have grown to anticipate this ...

• Real Time is Big Time

  Posted on Thursday December 10th, 2009 at 08:20 in web marketing, social media, google real time search

  Real Time is Big TimeThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing In this week’s article for AMEX OpenForum I wrote what I see as 5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2010 – #1 on the list was – Real time is big time At some point ...

• Introducing Social Media Pro

  Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 06:26 in social media, duct tape marketing, social media pro, ducttapeu

  Introducing Social Media ProThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Warning: A bit of a straight commercial post here. If you’ve subscribed to the Duct Tape Marketing newsletter or read this blog for any amount of time you know I use social med...

• Blogging – It’s Not Just For Breakfast Anymore

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 13:27 in wordpress, marketing strategy, social media, openforum

  Blogging – It’s Not Just For Breakfast AnymoreThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing You know I’m a huge fan of blogs for small business and an equally big supporter of the WordPress blogging platform. The wide adoption of WordPre...

• TweetDeck Adds Lists and LinkedIn

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 08:01 in social media, twitter, tweetdeck

  TweetDeck Adds Lists and LinkedInThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing The popular 3rd Party Twitter desktop client TweetDeck finally caught up with the recent Twitter add-ons with a significant update and I think they got it right. As all these ne...

• 7 Simple Truths of Social Media Marketing

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 12:58 in marketing strategy, Flickr, social media, facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, google alerts, biznik, openforum, batchbook, act2010

  7 Simple Truths of Social Media MarketingThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing The first truth I need to reveal is that the idea for this post is a bit of a response to a post by Sonia Simone of copyblogger titled – The 7 Harsh Realities of ...

• Will Customer Opinion Overtake Search?

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 14:00 in marketing strategy, social media, citysearch, yelp, insider pages, google social search

  Will Customer Opinion Overtake Search?This content from: Duct Tape Marketing Right now showing up on page one of the organic search results is the holy grail of small business online marketing. Any business that spends significant time consistently ...

• Update of My Free Social Media Ebook

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 08:16 in blog, social media, facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, duct tape marketing, microsoft office live small business

  Update of My Free Social Media EbookThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Social media and online marketing tools and tactics are an evolving lot. What was true last month may have a new twist this month. With that in mind I am happy to report tha...

• Stop Wasting Your Time With Social Media

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 11:11 in marketing strategy, social media

  Stop Wasting Your Time With Social MediaThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing If you have no precise marketing strategy, or even a simple set of marketing goals, social media participation will only serve as a glorious way to highlight that your bu...

• What the Heck is Integrated Marketing Anyway?

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 09:07 in marketing strategy, web marketing, social media, integrated marketing, duct tape marketing

  What the Heck is Integrated Marketing Anyway?This content from: Duct Tape Marketing When I first started my business, several decades ago, I was determined to tell people that, mine was an integrated marketing firm. To which, I generally received po...

• 3 Tools to Make Twitter Lists Even More Useful

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 09:37 in social media, twitter, listorious, listiti, list widget

  3 Tools to Make Twitter Lists Even More UsefulThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing I’m a big fan of the newish Twitter List function. I wrote about it last week – 5 Reasons to Use the New Twitter Lists Feature Now that I’ve you p...

• Winner of the Social Media Library

  Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 08:02 in web analytics, social media, duct tape marketing, trust agents, new community rules, six pixels, cruchit, whuffle factor

  Winner of the Social Media LibraryThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing In case you missed my post on Friday I offered one signed copy of One these seven books: Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, New Community Rules by Tamar Weinberg, S...

• Win a Social Media Marketing Library

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 07:03 in social media, avinash kaushik, chris brogan, brian solis, duct tape marketing, mitch joel, tara hunt, beth kanter, tamar weinberg, steve cunningham, gary vaynerchuk

  Win a Social Media Marketing LibraryThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing In a fit of collaboration goodness I would like to gift one set of seven awesome books to the person that most creatively answers the following: I get the biggest return for ...

• Getting Bloggers to Write About You

  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 11:24 in social media, amex openforum

  Getting Bloggers to Write About YouThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing I get daily pitches from PR folks and business owners asking me to write about their news, launch, product, or survey. On one hand, I still think it’s awfully cool that ...

• Platforms Change, Marketing is the Same

  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 07:31 in marketing strategy, social media, lee odden, bma

  Platforms Change, Marketing is the SameThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing The video below, staged by the Business Marketing Association (BMA) during their annual conference, should be shown to every business marketer alive. It’s an update ...

• Twitter and LinkedIn Finally Sync Up

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 07:30 in social media, facebook, twitter, LinkedIn

  Twitter and LinkedIn Finally Sync UpThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing LinkedIn and Twitter announced an integration today that should be interesting. Starting sometime today, LinkedIn users can automatically feed their Twitter status updates to...

• 5 Reasons to Use the New Twitter List Feature

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 06:31 in social media, twitter lists

  5 Reasons to Use the New Twitter List FeatureThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Twitter added a new feature recently called Lists. I have to admit, at first I thought this was no big deal. I use desktop twitter clients like TweetDeck and Seesmic...

• Social Media Training Course Beta Testers Needed

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 07:03 in blogging, marketing strategy, social media, duct tape marketing, social media pro

  Social Media Training Course Beta Testers NeededThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing This whole social media thing for small business can be confusing, I know, I speak to groups of small business owner routinely and hear things like – “...

• Biznik Blends High Tech with High Touch

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 15:13 in marketing strategy, web marketing, social media, facebook, LinkedIn, biznik

  Biznik Blends High Tech with High TouchThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Fortunately, it’s starting to feel like the wave of social media hype has crested and small businesses can turn their attention to understanding social media “...

• Blogging Plugin Adds Rich Mutli-Media Content

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 07:49 in blogging, wordpress, social media, apture

  Blogging Plugin Adds Rich Mutli-Media ContentThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing There are a few plugins and services out there for blogs that automatically create links to content on the web. Some of these tools, such as Chitika are simply ways ...

• The Inbound Marketing Guidebook

  Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 07:53 in podcast, lead generation, web marketing, social media, hubspot, inbound marketing, dharmesh shah, brian halligan

  The Inbound Marketing GuidebookThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Hubspot co-founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah have synthesized, condensed and packaged what I believe is one heck of a book on the new reality of lead generation. Inbound Ma...

• The Inbound Marketing Guidebook

  Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 07:53 in podcast, lead generation, web marketing, social media, hubspot, inbound marketing, dharmesh shah, brian halligan

  The Inbound Marketing GuidebookThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing Hubspot co-founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah have synthesized, condensed and packaged what I believe is one heck of a book on the new reality of lead generation. Inbound M...