In today’s economy, students and young professionals share a common fear. Their fear is whether or not they will find a job. With the presidential debate currently going on, the candidates for president are constantly promising to make new jobs. This does nothing but make the current students worry that there are no jobs […]
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The Corporate Social Media Summit
The Corporate Social Media Summit ends, and the real signal is not the panels, the hallway conversations, or the business cards. The real signal is that corporate leaders now treat social as operational infrastructure. The room does not debate whether social matters. The room debates who owns it, how it gets measured, and what gets […]
Group Commerce for Publisher-Based eCommerce Solutions: #SocialCommerce
Recently, I sat down to an impromptu interview with the CEO of Group Commerce, Jonty Kelt, to learn more about what publisher-based ecommerce solutions can offer to more traditional form of media that may be lacking digital presence. What is Group Commerce? Group Commerce is a platform for publishers who want to integrate ecommerce into […]
#SocialCommerce: Jonty Kelt Interview Transcript
Business Insider hosted the Social Commerce Summit on Feb 7th, 2012 at Chelse Pier, during that event I had a chance to sit with Jonty Kelt, the CEO for Group Commerce. Here is a transcript from that interview with a general article to follow on Feb 19th at 5pm, right here on dbmei.com. About the […]
What’s the key to a successful digital media strategy?
Websites, especially for Search Engine Optimization should defiantly be doing this. A successful Social Media campaign has this as a crucial characteristic. This one defining element or practice is an absolute must for anyone who wants clients and customers whorepeat business and develop long-term relationships. In fact you probably find this to be as true for […]
Customer Engagement for Small Business
Telling business owners that they need to have some plans for customer engagement is easy. However, once they have absorbed that tidbit of helpful information, many may be lost as to what customer engagement can actually entail. Most likely, there is nothing that you in particular are selling, that can’t be found somewhere else. So […]
Understand the Basics of SEO: Why Geo and Subject Domain Names Rock!
Search Engines are in the business of helping a user find the content they are looking for! If you keep this in mind you’ll start off with a great relationship with the Search Engines and the Visitors to your site. Websites have three main areas you’ll want to really pay attention to: Structure Content References […]
Time to Get on Google +: How to Set up Your Google + Brand Page
I think for many of us, when Google + came along that it also came with a bit of that new social network feel and its accompanying apprehension. Most smart networkers at least made their way there to grab their own vanity URL’s and at least get the virtual networking ball rolling in the right […]
Find A Lifetime of Success in 2012 by understanding “Time” & “Why?”
Ready to understand why some people are far more successful than others? Brace yourself! I am going to share my perspective on why 2011 was such a success for me and give you something to think about in 2012. Here’s the funny part, I made more money in 2011 than I have ever and that […]
Mobile Growth in Retail: Cyber Shopping 2011
What is known as Black Friday and Cyber Monday was extended this year to 10 days, with online retailers continuing their discounts throughout the week. What do the online shopping numbers for post-Thanksgiving sales tell us about the state of online shopping? It’s important to remember that the data is recent and fresh, many analyzers […]