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Social Media PR – Risks and Rewards
A number of years ago, I discovered the benefits of on-line PR as a way of extending exposure for my clients. In addition to submission to established news sites, I created my own site – Indy-Biz, as a way of sharing good news stories about clients, friends and the local biz community. For more than two years the site has…
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Fishing in a Million Lakes
The other day I was having lunch with a group of people who primarily worked in advertising agencies, pr and marketing firms. Douglas Karr, founder of the Martech Zone, was speaking to the group about social media and its’ uses as a marketing tool. One of the things he said really struck a cord with me. I am going to…
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Twitter Brand Faux Pas
There’s this one guy on Twitter who unfollows and follows me on what seems like a weekly basis. I think he believes that I’ll suddenly follow him (since I haven’t the last 27 times he’s tried.). He must imagine that I’ve automated my account or that I’m a sheep that will click follow on anyone who follows me. I didn’t…
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Video: How Social Media Works
It all starts with one… then it’s unstoppable.
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Chris Brogan Rocked BlogIndiana
“Now I know why you want to hate me!”, chanted Chris (ala Limp Bizkit) at one point in a panel discussion. The question was referring to what brings out the haters in the social media world. The fact is that, as online personas build their own brand and develop their own voice and expertise in the industries… some folks will…
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Deadbeats on Display? Twitter – New AP Managment Tool
I was in a bad mood yesterday because I was chasing overdue invoices from three clients. I was grumpy, and needed to vent, so I put un an innocent comment ( well not so innocent) on Twitter. I asked: When a client doesn’t pay a bill and dodges your phone calls, it is bad form to mention them by name…
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Judge Name Ideas From Audience’s Perspective
When judging naming ideas, keep in mind the real world experience, not the pseudo-experience of creative presentations. Here’s the thing, when you say or show a name idea to someone with the intention of getting her buy-in or feedback, she doesn’t have the same experience that the consumer in the field will have. When you present the name ideas, your…
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I’m Right Behind You…
How would you modify your content if the person browsing your website were in a different country? A different state? A different city? Across the street? In your store? Would you speak to them differently? You should! Geotargeting has been around for quite a while now in the direct marketing industry. I worked with a database marketing company to work…
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Why Aren’t You Leveraging Mobile?
No, I don’t mean people driving billboards around town. I mean reaching consumers and clients via mobile phone. This is typically referred to as Mobile Marketing but I have seen a number of people calling it Mobile Advertising lately. There are a number of different forms of Mobile Marketing; SMS/Text Message marketing, mobile optimized web pages and mobile applications are…
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PhoneGap: Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development
If you’ve had any experience developing in multiple languages, aside from objective C, you’ll probably get the same reaction that this guy did: I bought the book and read it, watched the movies, installed the IDE and I still can’t bluff my way into an app that simply states, “Hello World!”. Thank goodness that there are some incredibly intelligent developers…
