Micro-blogging So as I grow more comfortable with blogging and micro-blogging, I've ventured out lately to post comments on platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter. Today's LinkedIn E-Marketing Group discussion interested me because the first post was written by a guy who...
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Bowling for Business: To Push or Pull, That is the Question
Since the nature of a blog is to point to valuable content threads, found anywhere on the web, I'd like to provide my readers and clients with information about the most common question I recently hear, "What exactly is social media and how can I use it? Should I use...
Bowling for Business: Big Game Hunting
Small Scale Hunting I've never been much of a hunter. I think the huge deer head that hung in our family room while I was growing up scared me. But, if I was a hunter, I would hire someone who knew what he was doing to show me when and where to score the big game....
Twitter Me Confused
So, at first, this whole social media thing was intriguing. I took some time to sign up for a few social media networking sites, in an effort to learn the medium so I could share my findings with clients. But no sooner had I started trying to locate these sites than I...
Social Media for Starters
So I keep having the same conversation with various clients. Everyone wants to know how to use social media to promote business. Basically, the best way to do this is to be who you are when you are meeting with people one-on-one, only do so on a larger scale. In other...
I Blog, Therefore I Am?
So welcome to my very first blog entry. At my Lake Arrowhead advertising and public relations firm, Mountain Marketing Group, lately I've been the Pied Piper of social media, sharing the importance of setting up blogs and the like. But, like the cobbler's kids who do...
Life in 3-D
I just got back from a PRSA seminar. For the uninitiated, that is a professional networking group for public relations' practitioners where people actually sometimes meet in the flesh instead of over bits of data on the Internet. While I was there, I ran into several...