Mike McDermott to Present “How to Market your Business using Social Media”
Join Mike McDermott, President of Bash Foo a new media marketing agency that manages the online reputations of dozens of small businesses, brands and Non-Profits as he leads an entertaining and informative look at how to use social media to drive business goals and objectives.
read moreFacebook Etiquette: Friend Farming
If you have participated in Facebook for any length of time, you have been exposed to “Friend Farmers”. No, not those annoying people who post their Farmville updates to your wall, a friend farmer is someone who seeks to be friends with all of your friends for purposes of either to market their products or services to you, or they are simply curious and want to snoop into your collection of friends. Is the correct approach to then remove them from your friend list? Friend to All Manner of Beast Friends and friendships are vital to social networking site such as Facebook, without...
read moreShould Municipalities use Social Media – Chapter 2
Chapter 2 Back in July of last year (Should Municipalities use Social Media) I wrote about how city government could use social media to communicate with their residents. Since then, my little experiment with the City of Tipp City has been going full steam. The City launched their facebook fan page back in October, 2009 and now have 614 fans. The City Manager, Jon Crusey is the primary editor of the fan page and uses the resource to communicate to residents about: Snow Emergencies – Often during the winter road closures, troublesome potholes and trash collection day changes necessitate...
read moreTIME – Holiday gift giving
I don't notice many things in a jewelry story as there are too many bright and shiny things there that distract me from concentrating. As I browse season to season however I have noticed that watches (especially men's timepieces) rarely change. Why do jewelers always sell the same watch?
read moreArticle Alley’s Squidoo Service
So, you had your nephew build your small business website in exchange for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.... Now, let's just say that you didn't engage me to build you a search engine optimized site in the first place, and you don't want to plunk money down for a site rewrite. What can you do to increase awareness and site traffic to your site?
read moreWhen words are not enough
Much of the work that I do involves words. Making sure that words are crafted in such a way as to invite a reader to explore more, purchase something or get involved. This requires some understanding of the reader, the content involved as well as the level in which I want to connect.
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