What is Shout-O-Matic? First it is the newly created product of Norm Levy, Michael Levy, Jim Robert and Chris Lawlor. This young team of developers learned a great technique for aggregating digital photos, videos, music and text with their LifeGoRound platform. Just over seven months old, ShoutOMatic it is already making a few waves on […]
Branding & Marketing
Why Every Small Business Should Go Online
Why a Small Business should go Online: Ways Your Offline Business Can Benefit from an Online Presence Although it may be hard for some of the ‘old timers’ regardless of age, to understand how much it can be of benefit, there is no doubt that it would be a very rare offline business that could […]
Social Media & Brand Monitoring Part 2: CoTweet, HootSuite, TweetDeck, TweetAdder
Being able to monitor what is said about your brand on the internet has become a very important part of doing business these days. Social Media has the power to make or break brand names, and web visibility should be monitored. Hand in hand with finding out who is talking about you and why, there […]
What is the Microsoft Cloud?
Although the Cloud sounds fluffy and inviting, it really is just another name for the internet. All of us are Cloud users in that aspect, as anytime we use Facebook, or log into Hotmail, we are on the Cloud. However, recently the Cloud has expanded its niche into an entire new range of different business […]
Social Media & Brand Monitoring Part 1: Radian6, Scout Labs, FlipTop
Social Media has, in many ways, taken the place of the generalized web search. Personal comments, posted by happy or disgruntled customers, can have a tremendous impact on the reputation of a brand. It doesn’t take long before a social comment creates a chain of complaints, and if it goes unanswered can damage any business. […]
Facebook Marketing Tool: Involver.com
Noah Horton and Rahim Fazal founded Involver.com in 2007 in efforts to provide a startup that can help brands begin to get a grip on managing their social media channels. Having grown from a company of a dozen employees to over sixty with many offices in areas such as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and […]
Location Trends: Checkpoints
“When was the last time you got a reward for just showing up? When did you get a prize for something you do every day? Now you can, with Checkpoints” is the catch-phrase of a new mobile app called Checkpoints. Founded by brothers/ entrepreneurs Mark and Todd DiPaola, who put $1 million of their own […]
Social Media Club
In March of 2006, Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells began Social Media Club. Their intentions were to provide a format in which to explore and offer solutions to common issues facing our society as technological advancements continued to shape the way we connected socially on many levels.Benefits of Social Media Club The global conversation on […]
Digital Marketing Trend: Microsoft Tag
Microsoft Tag is a new experience in connecting the digital world with the real world. By scanning a tag – a new kind of bar code – with your cellular phone, you can have immediate access to information, websites, videos, reviews and more. When you scan a Tag displayed on an establishment or product, […]
SmB Digital Trends: Groupon, Google Offers & Facebook Deals
Small Business Trends: Groupon, Google Offers & Facebook Deals Groupon burst into the scene of business client relationship in 2008, and changed the advertising model. It’s mindboggling rise in 2010 is proof they’ve hit the jackpot – an uncharted territory of local businesses and internet users. The virtual world and the physical world intersecting with […]