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What if Search Engines Didn’t Exist?

March 9, 2010

The other day I was over at the great web marketing blog dosh dosh and read an interesting post on marketing your website without search engines. This got me thinking back to my early days on the web when I was in college (Does anyone remember those news updates?).  Basically, I would have to spend [...]

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Stretching Your Marketing Message to Fit With Social Media

February 25, 2010

Do you remember Stretch Armstrong?  Although I did not have the toy, I certainly found pleasure in trying to destroy it or stretching to its maximum capacity as a kid (and you could).
This reminds me of the current McDonald’s campaign “eat like an Olympian.” Here it is in a nutshell: create a sauce that is [...]

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Mandatory Social Media Marketing for Businesses – Implement NOW

February 6, 2010

Every online business must have the basics in place when it comes to social media marketing. If you are still not sure ‘if’ social media makes sense for your business, then you might as well delete your website from the Internet. This is not a pitch for using Mint Social. If fact, most companies we [...]

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Why You Should Pay Attention to Pepsi’s Decision to Pull out of Superbowl Commercials

February 5, 2010

About 2 months ago, Pepsi announced that it would not be advertising in the Superbowl for the first time in 23 years. Why, after so long, would Pepsi concede that large of a customer mindshare to rival Coca-cola? Their answer is, in my opinion the canary in the coal mine for a television dominated media [...]

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Duplicate Content vs. Content Syndication

January 27, 2010

If arguably 75% of all Internet traffic ends up in a social network, (Flicker for photos, YouTube for video to articles, press releases, audio, you name it) then it really is a Content Game. So how do you win the content game online? This always bring to mind the thing with have heard forever and [...]

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How to Create a Blog Post With Google Voice

November 11, 2009

There’s a lot of talk about social media and the need for individuals and businesses to get engaged with the conversation or relinquish control. Is this too harsh of a statement? Social media is a time commitment and keeping up with creating fresh content can be challenging. So here is social proof that with the [...]

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Promoting Your Agency with Social Media Marketing – Measuring ROI with 5×5 Strategy

October 18, 2009

I had the pleasure of presenting the following presentation at BOLO 09 last week. BOLO is the annual conference of agencyside that brings the best of digital into labs, in-person training, consulting and seminars designed for ad agency executives. They answer the question:
If there are well over 30,000 advertising, PR and marketing agencies across the [...]

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What are my “Archives” and Why do I Care?

October 3, 2009

Archives show you the posts that have been published on your branded social media marketing channels. This information is part of your message syndication and also helps you keep track of when posts on certain topics were published so that it can be compared with your Google analytics and find out what conversations your market [...]

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Mint Social Founder to Discuss 5 Direct Steps to Revenue with Social Media

July 18, 2009

Matt O’Brien explains the 5 basic ways to measure results with social media marketing and online
branding.

Does ROI Fit into Social Media Marketing for Businesses?
For those of you that have been in the Internet marketing business for a while, you more or less see social media as another search engine marketing tool that you can [...]

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Show Me the Money Seminar – The Direct Line to Revenue with Social Media

January 22, 2009

Seminar Topic: Show Me the Money –The Direct Line to Revenue with Social
Date and Location: February 11th @ SkySong Scottsdale, AZ
Registration: Click here
Description: A Live Event from World Webinar Network…
Show Me the Money
–The Direct Line to Revenue with Social Media
There is a lot of talk about social media tools.
Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogging, You Tube….
But what does [...]

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