What you’re learning by “renting” your pages on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Blogger, WordPress.com, LinkedIn, and Google+, is portable, which is to say that everything you’re doing, experiencing, and learning…
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Why you too should be social media slutty
If you call yourself a social media marketer and you’re not completely promiscuous about it, you’re not serving yourself, your boss, or your clients. If you’re not constantly downloading new…
Read MoreBe a persistent social media parent
They always say that the parents who put in all the boring, taken-for-granted time are the very best. That it’s not even about quality time, it’s about persistent time, time…
Read MoreYour followers care about you, but do you care?
Over the course of a couple days, my Klout score went from 65 to 67 because my mother died. Not because I had some sort of amazing Klout-gaming strategy but because…
Read MoreDon’t roll your eyes at social media influencers
I experience a lot of contempt for bloggers and social media influencers. From agencies and marketing firms as well as from self-professed social media experts and social media gurus. Bloggers and…
Read MoreWhy can’t I share to Google+ from my apps for that?
Now that I have my iPhone wired for sound, I do a majority of my tweeting and facebooking through the apps that I use. I use Instagram, which connects to…
Read MoreTips for next gen digital marketing and PR pros
What’s the future of digital media marketing and social public relations? What trends are we, as seasoned digital media marketers, seeing in the marketplace? What advice can we give the…
Read MoreWhy Pinterest matters to us social media marketers
If you use images or photos on any of your sites, you’re already on Pinterest, whether you’ve registered on Pinterest or not. So, what’re you going to do about it?…
Read MoreExtended Video “How to Use Google+ for Business” Tutorial
I really felt like I needed to rush it through our recent free 30-minute How to Use Google+ for Business Webinar and that made me sad–there is so much there–so…
Read MoreGet over social media writer’s block
We’ve all had it. Writer’s block. You need to write something and there’s nothing there. No idea. Nothing seems like the right approach. Why does it happen? There are six…
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