“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 Brand Visibility
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 […]
Sneak Peak: Digital Brand Marketing 411: Educate, Embrace, Brand
So, the internet is flooded with 101 courses, be it Social Media 101, SEO 101, Digital 101, SEM 101 and so on. The shocking part is that we are well beyond Freshman year, perhaps now it’s time for an advanced course. This is a book in progress and the purpose of this post is to […]
Google’s Social Search
A few days ago Google changed the way the company is dealing with social media. Since the launch of its Social Search in 2009, Google’s social media was kept a little hidden from the general public. You had to know about it and opt-in through Google Labs. Once you did, Google’s search results page would […]
News and Social Media: The “New Media Press”?
Social media has, without a doubt, changed how the established news media is handling The News. It has changed traditional media in the most important aspects; news gathering, news reporting and news distribution. Factitious Example not a real press pass or any real affiliation. News Gathering One of the biggest benefits of social media is […]
Lessons in Social Marketing and PR Disasters
While it is true that smart social marketing can increase your business, it is just as easy to make mistakes that can cost your business in customers and reputation. It is important to learn from mistakes done by others and try not to repeat them. Mistakes by small business owners frequently go unnoticed by the […]
Social Media Analytics
Social Media Analytics – Can They Be Measured and Tracked Accurately? Since social media is one of the toughest things to justify in terms of ROI, current analytics simply are not well suited to measure this data accurately. There are many tools available that all propose to offer the most accurate results, better than any […]
Foursquare – Location Marketing and Check-in Technology
Although the knowledge of location marketing may be old news to some, to those who are just tuning into the usage of Smartphones and as well as other advanced mobile digital equipment, it may be an entirely new concept to others. I did an article about FourSquare a few months ago, but in review I […]
Facebook Success Stories
We have heard and read a lot about Facebook, about its 500 million users, about it overtaking Google as the most visited site per day. But what does it have to do with your small business? Those businesses who don’t have a department for social media? Can Facebook help small businesses expend above and beyond […]
Twitter: A five year review
Here is what everybody is talking about: Twitter. Twitter is a free social network, which enables its users to write what’s on their mind, at any given moment, at any given place, and share it with a group of their friends. It is called micro-blogging because the “tweets”, as the messages are called, have a […]