Why You Should NOT Participate in Social...

Tweet I was browsing around my about.me page this morning and came across this seminar that I gave to the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce earlier this year. It’s always fun to listen to yourself talk. ...

Did Google Stick a + in the heart of Fac...

Tweet Like others in the social sphere, I’ve been playing around with Google+ since its release last week (thanks to James Herbert). Like the Google Buzz experiment, I’ve been casually playing with it to see how Google envisions their second stand in the social sphere. So, I’m a bit cautious to make any predictions as to whether it is truly the Facebook-Twitter-All-Things-Social killer. If you can imagine the cosmic dust swirling around the big bang in the world of the social cosmos, you...

Are Twitter and Facebook Replacing Searc...

Tweet Sorry. All of that emphasis on page one SERPs of Google may not be the funky cold medina after all. Search Engine Optimization, which is a profession that didn’t exist a few years ago may not exist in a few years. Thus, the modern era of the Internet: professions that don’t exist today may be the top job in 3 years. [check this video for an interesting communication of this phenomena] In a recent  article, ClickZ likens the current environment to early paid search in  Social Media 2009 =...

New Rules in the Sales in the Age of Con...

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Social Media Marketing “Hub and Sp...

Tweet I was at an Entrepreneurs of Knoxville meeting last week talking about the interplay between social media sites and main sites (however you define “main sites” blogs, main pages, or otherwise). It reminded me of this slide that I threw together for a client a few months ago: Interaction of Social Media Sites for Marketing Strategies It is certainly not a new idea to describe online assets in this way, but I think “hub and spoke” is fairly fitting for the current web environment....

Blog is Dead? Blog remains Dead?...

Tweet Paul Boutin’s recent Wired article, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004, suggests that the blogosphere is  too crowded for a lone blogger to make a difference, and it it time to fold up shop on blogging: Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the...

Twitter Most Popular Social Media Tool...

Tweet According to my recent poll, it looks like Twitter is the most popular social tool. Although the respondents were a fairly limited set (only 10 because I am lame and no one really wants to take my polls), here are the results: 50% Twitter 40% Facebook 10%...

Facebook Mini-Feed: What the Crap?...

Tweet Why is Doug always friending himself? Weirdo! That freaks me out just trying to figure it...