Mike McDermott to Present “How to Market your Business using Social Media”
Join Mike McDermott, President of Bash Foo a new media marketing agency that manages the online reputations of dozens of small businesses, brands and Non-Profits as he leads an entertaining and informative look at how to use social media to drive business goals and objectives.
» Read MoreFacebook Etiquette: Friend Farming
If you have participated in Facebook for any length of time, you have been exposed to “Friend Farmers”. No, not those annoying people who post their Farmville updates to your wall, a friend farmer is someone who seeks to be friends with all of your friends for purposes of either to market their products or [...]
» Read MoreShould Municipalities use Social Media – Chapter 2
Chapter 2 Back in July of last year (Should Municipalities use Social Media) I wrote about how city government could use social media to communicate with their residents. Since then, my little experiment with the City of Tipp City has been going full steam. The City launched their facebook fan page back in October, 2009 [...]
» Read MoreTIME – Holiday gift giving
I don’t notice many things in a jewelry story as there are too many bright and shiny things there that distract me from concentrating. As I browse season to season however I have noticed that watches (especially men’s timepieces) rarely change. Why do jewelers always sell the same watch?
» Read MoreArticle Alley’s Squidoo Service
So, you had your nephew build your small business website in exchange for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2…. Now, let’s just say that you didn’t engage me to build you a search engine optimized site in the first place, and you don’t want to plunk money down for a site rewrite. What can you do to increase awareness and site traffic to your site?
» Read MoreWhen words are not enough
Much of the work that I do involves words.
Making sure that words are crafted in such a way as to invite a reader to explore more, purchase something or get involved. This requires some understanding of the reader, the content involved as well as the level in which I want to connect.
» Read MoreNewsvine.com – Poor netizens?
I recently bumped into one of the web’s newest bookmarking sites. Newsvine.com. Their site has a very newspapery feel to it, it navigates well and frankly I was looking to engage some new niche audiences (aka communities).
» Read MoreBing and Google to add Social Web Results
Enter today. Now the masters of information (not knowledge) have cobbled together a way to present search results assembled from twitter and facebook public streams of thought. How thinly veiled that barrier to entry to publish and share information is today.
» Read MoreTwitter Re-Defined
OK, I thought I never would do it.. In fact I have taught those in my marketing classes that you shouldn’t have to separate your business and personal persona’s online. This evening I created a business Twitter account @bashfoo separate from my personal twitter account @Delta40 (which has over 3,500 followers)
» Read MoreAvarice Killed the News Media Star
Unlike the technology enhancements that relegated radio to the “back of the bus”, I am afraid that it is avarice that has caused newspaper and television news media to fail miserably in beginning in 2008 and continuing today.
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