I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). It has changed my emotional outlook. Best damn marketing tool by an order of magnitude. Both And it's free. Other thoughts on the value of blogging: Value of Blogging - Thanks Tracy , Common Questions and Some Thoughts Around Blogs and Blogging , Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog . But from a value perspective, it really comes down to the numbers I showed for my

Tags: Social Media Marketin Southern California is a hotbed of technology companies that are leaders in their sector. This includes MySpace, CitySearch, Ticketmaster, eHarmony, and thousands of lesser known technology companies. A

Editor’s note: This is part 5 in the series of Lessons Learned:  Easy tips on how to create and grow a social media program.   Create a Social Media Policy Grow your social media program and overall web presence This series includes a discussion on the following topics: Research your business

I'm hoping you can help me figure out who I should be connecting with on this. I find myself speaking at various venues in Los Angeles to tell people (most often service providers) about how I've used social media and particularly my blogs, LinkedIn, twitter and topic hubs as part of my own services business. What do they search for? So this person needs to understand how to quickly move through marketing analysis 101 type things. My perception is that most services professionals like this are not going to want to spend a lot of money on these things, but I've not market

There are several new marketing trends for 2010 that will have an impact on practically every marketing organization because of new trends in customer behavior, such as: Let's take a look at the major marketing trends for 2010 that will affect both business-to-business (B2B) and consumer (B2C) companies so we can update our marketing strategies for 2010. Spotting marketing Shift in consumer mentality from recession to recovery Changes in how customers make purchase decisions

Some social media techniques take too much of your time. So I asked Chris Winfield to teach us some easier techniques for using social media. Chris is the Co-Founder and President of 10e20 , a search and social media marketing firm. Do you have any other social media techniques? Here are some of the techniques he recommended: Message boards - With Facebook/Twitter/etc getting most of the attention, it’s easy to forget how powerful message boards can be.

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I asked Brent Csutoras to teach us how to grow our site’s traffic by using sites like Digg, Delicious and Reddit because he’s a marketing consultant who specializes social media. Bloggers monitor the top social media sites for ideas on what to write about. Some social media marketers might put a postive or negative spin on a story Download the interview to learn directly from Brent. Here are some of my notes from the conversation.

While the economy in 2009 looks challenging for most companies, the outlook of marketing executives is rather bright and upbeat. Deborah Kania and her team at Brightworks Interactive have just released results of their survey of marketing executives' plans for 2009. The survey covered both B-to-B and B-to-C companies, as well as a mix of large, medium, and small businesses, so the survey results represent a good cross-section of marketers. Here are nine marketing trends you can expect during 2009: Marketing Trend #1: Increased use of digital media and a decrease

Gideon Shalwick is an online video marketing entrepreneur and teacher. Gideon and I talked about several approaches to marketing online, but when I asked him about his most successful method, he said, “join up with someone else who already has a list that they built up throughout the years. 8220;If you want to take it to the next level and get access to a 72 page report that tells you a little bit more about how to pick your topic, how to get more traffic, and how to actually monetize your blog, and In a world where everyone assumes that content must be free online, how is Gideon Shalwick getting customers to whip out their credit cards to buy his online classes?!