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How to Use Twitter Hashtags and Search to Make your Twitter Experience More Valuable
Twitter has grown very quickly and it seems like people are talking about it everywhere. Twitter is up to about 6 million registered users. With all of these new users there is that moment - they sign up because they want to know what the fuss is abo...
Coffee and Tweeting at Social Media Breakfast Maine
Yesterday, Amanda and I attended the Social Media Breakfast Maine at Costa Vida Restaurant in Portland. This was the very first installment of Maine’s Social Media Breakfast and the meetings will continue each month covering different topics a...
Social Media is opening up communication - even with your local bank!
This month Fred and I had the pleasure of speaking at the Maine Bank Expo in Portland, Maine. We had the early bird session at 8:00AM and I was immediately surprised at the large turnout. These very busy professionals got out of bed early to come joi...
SEO Audio Voices: Doug Haslam on Social Media and PR
Our guest this week is Doug Haslam (@DougH), a PR veteran at SHIFT Communications. Doug recently commented on how his gung-ho use of social media has caused him to seen as a social media guy, though in reality social media is just one part of his j...
Does it Pay to Be Popular? Applying Gary Vaynerchuk to B2B Marketing
photo credit: James Cridland I love it when great minds mesh. Over on Copyblogger (a favorite blog), Sean D’Souza (a favorite blogger) has a guest post talking about Gary Vaynerchuk (a favorite social media celebrity) and his “Secret In...
Business Owners Need to be More Involved with their Marketing Strategy
Shifting Some More…. As I discussed last week, traditional marketing is dying and as the power shift to buyers takes place - another power shift is also occurring. This is the shift towards the businesses’ owners being forced to become m...
Beware of Social Networking Security Threats
According to Facebook, they have seen five different security threats within the past couple weeks. These security threats are attempting to steal the identity of the friends, fans, and other groups within the social networking site. One of the threa...
Facebook Changing Layout Again
Here we go again. Facebook announced today that they are changing their layout (again)… The change is set for next Wednesday and I am expecting it to take about a month for me to get used to it again. The new layout will be in real time, will h...
Real World use of Social Media – Link Bait
It is time to start thinking seriously about your social media campaign and how it can partner with your organic search efforts. Search engines see inbound links as a vote of confidence in your website and with Social Media you can actively take a pa...
Cheerleaders and What’s Hot in Social Network Marketing
I was recently asked to speak at a business group about business to business internet marketing and “the new hot topic called social marketing.” There is enough discussion about different elements of social network marketing and about ...
Microsoft Internet Explorer Security Flaw
Over the past couple days a very serious security flaw has been discovered with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web Browser they are now calling the “Zero Day Exploit” (Read more about it here, here, and here) All versions of the b...
ROI of Social Media AND Putting Your Pants On
This morning I attended Social Media Breakfast 10 at the Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge Massachusetts. The room was full of really smart professionals who all got together to discuss the ROI of Social Media, a topic that often can get even the best Soc...
New Webinar: Getting the Most For Your Vote… on Digg!
Hope you aren’t burnt out by election fever yet! In this very fun and semi-tongue-in-cheek webinar we - er - “dig” into social media news sharing sites like Digg and explain what they are to the novice user and provide some tips on ...
Bring Some Life To Your Blog! (Do it for us — your readers!)
You have seen them. Empty, forgettable blogs just put up to beg for a comment, a digg, a stumble but not giving you much as the reader. You’re not going to Digg or Stumble it without an incentive, right? Here are some suggestions to help your b...
What Your Business and an Island Community Should Have in Common
I grew up on Peaks Island, Maine. Peaks is a small island off the coast of Portland with an average population of about 800. Last week I spent the whole week on Martha’s Vineyard, and while larger than Peaks, it’s an island community all...
Your Business for President!
Did you know we are in an election year? No matter what your stance is on the issues, everyone must respect that this is one of the most interesting races we have ever seen. More than just exciting, it is history making. You might be sick of the con...
SEO Audio Voices: David Meerman Scott at Inbound Marketing Summit
Well for those who missed our Twittering, we had a heckuva fun time at the Inbound Marketing Summit in Boston this past Monday meeting cool people from other web firms and switched-on companies, as well as people who are brands in and of themselves s...
SEO Audio Episode 44: 3 Snazzy Ways to Juice up Your Social Media Exposure
Lists… who doesn’t like lists? Here’s one more for the internet-o-sphere, our 3 Snazzy Ways to Juice Up Your Social Media Exposure, as well as a disclaimer that starting next week (well, the week after) SEO Audio will start being pu...
5 Ways to Promote your Social Media Profiles
You’ve finally embarked into the world of social media and have profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn & Twitter. Now what? You’ve got to get the word out! How do you promote your use of social media? Follow these five tips and you will be ...
How to Teach a Dinosaur New Tricks
Having a hard time convincing your dinosaur of a boss that Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization is the path to modern day business success? We hear it time and time again, “Our CEO doesn’t want to spend money on Internet Mar...
Weezer continues to rock the Geeks
While most of you were out enjoying the sun and cooking up some BBQ over the Memorial Day weekend, 3 million of us geek-y types were busy LOLing (laughing out loud) over Weezer’s new video, “Pork & Beans“. (Weezer is the band th...
Internet Trend Report: Social Media is NOT Going Anywhere Soon
Morgan Stanley has just revealed last month’s Internet Trends Report which has some very intriguing statistics regarding Social Networking sites. Here are some of the highlights from the 72 page document: 6 out of the TOP 10 Most visited site...
Zappos gets it right: Shoes, Social Media & Customer Service
Last week, I wrote a blog post about Twitter, the fast growing microblogging platform that allows users to blog 140 character ‘tweets’ to their closest friends, followers and yes, even strangers. Twitter, although, originally created to k...
