Those who organize events know that the success of the event depends on many things, least of them the weather. The amount of options and the connections the attendees create in an event will dictate if they will join you next time or not. In other words “What would I get out of it?” Even […]
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Inbound Marketing Summit NYC 2012 – 3 Important Tips to Take Home
If you had the opportunity to sit in on the panels at the Inbound Marketing Summit in New York this year, you likely took away a few vital lessons that you can carry to your business. The conference itself has evolved over the last few years. It has held a focus on social marketing strategies, […]
Is Tweeting the New Research Paper?
Over the years, writing has changed immensely. Not only in words, but in structure as well. When I was in school, regular 4-6 page essays and stories were common. Go back a few hundred years and plays were more in style (ex: Shakespeare). Quite a few more centuries and you see epic (read: really long) […]
Optimizing Your Landing Page for Better Conversions
Your Landing page is the heart of your site. Irrespective of whether you have a product or a service to sell, landing pages can provide a subsequent boost to the conversion rate. Optimizing them is not hard if you know when and where to tweak the various elements. However, the hardest part is to find […]
Did you try? A Look at the data from #SMWsmac [InfoGraphic]
What can you do in 16 days? Try! With just under a month before Social Media Week 2012, it came to our attention that NYC did not have a daylong event that was tailored to teach the small business owners and professionals how Social Media is and can be used. On Feb 1st, 2012 dbmei […]
Social Media Week Made Manhattan Move for #SMWsmac
An attendee at our event submitted a wonderful poem about his experience at the Social Media Week Social Media Action Camp event. #SMWsmac Social Media Week Made Manhattan Move By Serge Zenin Social Media Week made Manhattan move; Networking and negotiating, we never grew numb; Give out a business card and go with the groove; […]
Is Social Media the Cure for Writer’s Block?
The growing world of social media means that everyone is now a writer. There are status updates on Facebook that could rival a short story, and the creativity required in order to twist that status update into 140 characters on Twitter can rival that of a poet, indeed inventing a new phrase, “twaiku”. These new […]
New Facebook Ads Platform Goes Live on February 29th
Facebook plans to release a new ad platform on February 29th that may profoundly change the way business is done on this social media network. Peter Corbett of iStrategyLabs, a social media marketing firm, recently said the following, “The company expects the new ads to perform 40 to 8o percent better than its previous product” […]
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 […]
What Klout is Doing with User Data and #SocialCommerce
Over the last few years, we have all observed as friends and followers found themselves virtually up-in-arms about privacy issues on just about every social network. Each one seems to have gone through its own growing pains when it comes to sometimes questionable sources declaring user’s information is being utilized in a variety of suspicious […]